Every Thanksgiving, my family makes me the butt of the same old joke.
My family has a Thanksgiving tradition."What's that?" someone will ask me as I sit at the table with my plate of tofu and kale with nutritional yeast. These words come naturally, not out of genuine curiosity, but with an expression on my face that suggests I dropped a stink bomb. Then, in keeping with the Christmas spirit, someone else will make a joke about how they're glad they don't have what I'm having and, like a Hollywood movie, hilarity ensues.I am not alone. Countless people who don't, or can't (or both), eat traditional Thanksgiving foods like turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes,…
