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There are five options on the specials menu, and it’s hard to go wrong with meat or vegetables when they’re dripping with melted cheese and spices and encased in a batter-fried poblano pepper. The chiles rellenos de pollo mole ($13.95) is where chocolate puts in an appearance. (Quick tutorial for those who haven’t had mole: it’s a sauce made with chocolate that gives the dish a smokily sweet undertaste—and like cilantro, you either love it or hate it.) The verdict—well...
...Mio’s specialty pizzas are unusual and generally successful, and while they won’t break the bank, they certainly come at gourmet prices. A 20 note will buy you an 18” Pollo Diablo and the right to dictate the level of “Diablo” that you receive. The colorful pizza is smothered with grilled chicken, jalapenos, pineapple, Monterey Jack cheese and a chipotle barbeque sauce that certainly packs a punch. The heat is manageable, but there are too many competing flavors and the chipotle eventually becomes overpowering. The specialty Shrimp Scampi...
...heard another term for pesco-pollo-vegetarians: beady-eyed vegetarians. Basically, they'll eat things with beady eyes (lobster, fish, chicken) but not with big, sad, Bambi eyes (cows, lambs). This definition sounds flaky, but a friend of mine explained it by saying he would eat only things he thought he could kill himself. He figures he can kill a fish but not a cow. That seems like a more honest and consistent rationale than some of the others I've heard. ROD STEPHENS Boulder, Colo...
Like any country, vegetarianism has its hidden complexities. For one thing, vegetarians come in more than half a dozen flavors, from sproutarians to pesco-pollo-vegetarians (see box). The most notorious are the vegan (rhymes with intriguin' or fatiguin') vegetarians. The Green Party of the movement, vegans decline to consume, use or wear any animal products. They also avoid honey, since its production demands the oppression of worker bees. TV's favorite vegetarian, the cartoon 8-year-old Lisa Simpson, once had a crush on a fellow who described himself as "a Level Five vegan--I don't eat anything...
...true believers--who refrain from meat as an A.A. member does from drink and do a spit-take if told that there's gelatin in their soup--a semivegetarian is no vegetarian at all. A phrase like pesco-pollo-vegetarian, to them, is an oxymoron, like "lapsed Catholic" or "semivirgin." Vegetarian Times, the bible of this particular congregation, lays down the dogma: "For many people who are working to become vegetarians, chicken and fish may be transitional foods, but they are not vegetarian foods ... the word 'vegetarian' means someone who eats no meat, fish or chicken...