"I avoid carrots where possible" - that's the sort of line you hear in the street from a passer-by, and you spend the rest of the day making up weird conversations in which it would fit.

Vegetarians are handy to have around, because they ensure that there is tasty stuff to eat when some food scare puts you off eating dead animals.

(And the Bovril's with the Gravy, but the Marmite's with the Jam...)