One of my dearest online friends, who we'll call "Susan," put up a long post on social media last week. The gist of her diatribe, boiled down to one sentence: "my mother-in-law insists on adding bacon to every potentially vegetarian item she makes." Susan and her son are strict vegetarians.
Green beans? With bacon. Mashed potatoes? With bacon. Dinner rolls? With bacon.
For Susan, this was pretty much a declaration of war. After trying to speak to her mother-in-law about it unsuccessfully, Susan turned to her 3,000 followers. "I just don't know what to do anymore — what do y'all think? Should we start boycotting her dinners?"
