Reply #14: Well, I really hate beets. Always have. Don't remember "learning" it, either.

[MADem]

But I'll defend to the death the right of others to eat them, so long as they don't try to cram them down my throat.

They can eat them right next to me, too. They can tell me to my face, with beet-smelly breath, how much they enjoy their beets. They can even show me a picture of themselves eating beets, and swap beet recipes in front of me without my getting upset. They can put announcements about beets in my newspaper, open beet restaurants, or even put beet dishes on the menus of restaurants I frequent.

I think beets should have equal rights in the world community of food, so that anyone who likes them can enjoy them freely, without pain, shame, or hiding in the back room to furtively consume them. I just don't want to eat them myself.

I don't think I'm a beetophobic, in this instance. I just don't embrace the full measure of the beet lifestyle, is all.