As a young man, Benjamin Franklin tried to be a vegetarian along with his employer at his printing shop, Samuel Keimer. Franklin claimed to adjust to the new diet easily, but after about three months, his boss had had enough. As Franklin wrote in his autobiography:
I went on pleasantly, but poor Keimer suffered grievously, tired of the project, longed for the flesh-pots of Egypt, and ordered a roast pig. He invited me and two women friends to dine with him; but, it being brought too soon upon table he could not resist the temptation, and ate the whole before we came.
Eventually, though, Franklin began supplementing his vegetarian fare with the occasional dish of fried cod.