That’s like a dog and a cat’s reaction

Brownie Bun eating Pringls is one of the cutest damn things I’ve ever seen.

@Background Pony #A5D1  
except lacto-ovo vegetarians. they’re just omnivores who decide not to eat NOTHING BUT MEAT ALL THE TIME EVERY DAY

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@Tragiclady
 
The human diet has changed from pre-history. Note what I was talking about with milk. Setting aside the extraordinarily low possibility of an herbivore (less, a herd herbivore) actually gaining the intelligence required to create a society, societies do change diets. This is why Native Americans and Africans in the US have a much higher obesity rate than Europeans and Asians have a much lower obesity rate. High-glycemic foods were added into the diets of these populations at different times. Even the Native American tribes that did farm ate relative low-glycemic corn (compared to sweet corn and other modern grains) and squash, which is higher-glycemic than common hunter/gatherer foods, but once again lower-glycemic than quite a bit in our modern diet.
 
There’s also a town in… Africa, I BELIEVE, that drink the local water. No visitors can drink it, however, as it’s highly toxic. Only those native to the region can do so.
 
The point is that evolution happens much faster than people tend to think. Equines have trouble with theobromine, but remember that that’s without the thousands of years of society-induced evolution. With it, it’s entirely possible that equines would be able to tolerate it at the least.

@Background Pony #A5D1  
The ponies in the show eat a lot more cake, cookies, and other baked goods than is probably normal or healthy though. Chocolate is definitely toxic to equines, and cavities would also be an issue too if you ignore how unhealthy all that other stuff is.
 
I guess it would be boring if in the cartoons they just ate hay and grass all the time?

@TJPones
 
There is a difference between herbivorous and vegetarian. Herbivorous is natural, vegetarian is an omnivore pretending that they’re an herbivore and not understanding that the tradeoff to being an omnivore is an inability to convert nutrients efficiently.
 
Ponies are herbivores, not vegetarians. Also, herbivorous diets are not necessary only vegetation. This sounds counter-intuitive, but horses can eat meat and wolves can eat berries. It’s VERY rare for them to do so and is probably the result of a nutritional deficiency, but ponies eating eggs is certainly not out of the question.
 
As to milk, herbivorous mammals have the same barriers to drinking milk in adulthood that all mammals do, so thousands of years of drinking milk in adulthood, through the process of evolution, should make it so that drinking milk isn’t an issue (the same way this happened for certain human populations). And, of course,

@Background Pony #1E08  
It was not the show, but a Pinkie. Know the difference, it can save your sanity!

A pony with Pringles cans stuck on her legs?
 
Jimmy Carr agrees!  

@TJPones  
Guess not… I thought I saw a picture in your style of a pony eating meat, preferably ham.

@Cyborg_pony  
That’s news to me.

@MaxosEternal  
Horses and other equines haven’t evolved quite the same fermenting system in their digestive track as bovines have, and as such retain a more ‘general’ digestive system. Some theories pertaining to this think that some early horse ancestors may have been omnivores. Considering how small they were, a more opportunistic diet would have made sense.

Too fricken adorable! XD

@MaxosEternal  
I’ve seen my horse eat a ground pheasant.

What’s awesome is horses in real life have the ability to digest meat. But only the weird ones would eat say a hamburger because they have a craving for it. horses, or ponies, are very picky eaters, but they can eat more than you think.

Actually now that I think about it, didn’t TJPones draw a comic of Brownie eating a ham?

@Cyborg_pony  
Nothing wrong with that.

@Pagan  
Meat is a sometimes food.

ipone. XD
 
@Background Pony #1E08  
And yet we have scenes like this.  

 
I’m also pretty sure I’ve seen shrimp cocktails at the larger events on the show.

I see a Griffonwife picture on the fridge.
 
Who gets to explain what now?

@TJPones  
Especially when the show explicitly calls their diet vegetarian in Over A Barrel.

@A-T-S
 
eyes widen as ‘a stranger’s plate!’ echoes while everything goes fubar

@Dirty Bit  
That wasn’t onion paste, you shouldn’t eat food from a stranger’s plate!