"I've been a vegetarian for so long, I forgot how much I missed meat. You know you don't realize how important meat is to you until you don't have it for long time"
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The intent feels less like a dietary manifesto and more like a candid reset of persona. Celebrities are routinely pressured into "clean" choices that read well on a red carpet: disciplined, enlightened, optimized. Daniel punctures that aspirational script with something more relatable: deprivation doesn't always produce clarity; sometimes it produces nostalgia for the thing you banned. Her phrasing, "you know", invites the listener into a shared secret, as if everyone has a private version of this backslide, whether it's food, alcohol, social media, or a relationship you swore off.
Subtext: virtue can be exhausting, and abstention can blur the real question, which is not "What should I eat?" but "What does my life feel like when I can't have what I want?" By saying she "forgot", she also sidesteps shame. Forgetting is innocent. Missing is human. In a culture that turns diets into identities, her remark reclaims appetite as mood, memory, and comfort - messy, temporary, and stubbornly unbrandable.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Daniel, Brittany. (2026, January 16). I've been a vegetarian for so long, I forgot how much I missed meat. You know you don't realize how important meat is to you until you don't have it for long time. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-been-a-vegetarian-for-so-long-i-forgot-how-131582/
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Daniel, Brittany. "I've been a vegetarian for so long, I forgot how much I missed meat. You know you don't realize how important meat is to you until you don't have it for long time." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-been-a-vegetarian-for-so-long-i-forgot-how-131582/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I've been a vegetarian for so long, I forgot how much I missed meat. You know you don't realize how important meat is to you until you don't have it for long time." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-been-a-vegetarian-for-so-long-i-forgot-how-131582/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.









