Militant anti-vegetarianism

[marmar]

[quakerboy]

1. makes me think back about a story I was told

One of my sisters was once being babysat by her Grandma. She had a vegetarian friend over, and grandma decided she was cooking for everyone. After it was explained the friend was vegetarian, she was a little irked, but agreed to cook something friendly for everyone, deciding on soup.

She was amazed, really shocked, that split pea and ham was not well received, and more than a little offended that the food was not eaten.

[Kali]

2. must be in cattle country

:rofl:

[Chan790]

3. The most-absurd vegetarian stories I have all involve Texas.

Mind you, I've only spent about two weeks in TX in my entire life, on work-trips.

From the vegetarian entree I was served with bbq beans with a big hunk of fatback on top to the place where the "helpful" waitress suggested the Penne Alfredo with Crayfish (fresh from Tres Palacios Bay caught same-day!) to my vegan gf. (Note: these restaurants were chosen by my employer, not me.)

Then there was the Mexican place that threw us out (en Espanol!) for being vegetarians...in fact, the only two accommodating restaurants the entire time were a steakhouse and a BBQ joint.

God Damn Houston, TX.

[CBGLuthier]

4. Curious about the BBQ joint

Mexican or TexMexican veg is easy enough but I have yet to think of any vegetarian fare worth putting BBQ sauce on. I am open for ideas as I have three ears of corn on the cob that really need an accompaniment.

[Chan790]

5. Oh they offered a side-plate...

of four side-dishes and were kind enough to point out the un-obvious landmines...like the Pork in the Fried Okra and bacon in the mac and cheese, as well as make some off-menu substitutions.

As for decent veg. BBQ? Some sort of braised seitan. Make or buy seitan, then prepare according to your favorite BBQ recipe keeping in mind that it only needs to cook for about 30 minutes on low heat if that...the eight hours needed to cook brisket would reduce it to jerky. (Though seitan makes some dandy jerky, it's not what you're going for.)

If you want to get really fancy, make a braising liquid to cook the seitan in first. Braise the seitan making sure to keep it as moist as possible, then make BBQ. The extra moisture will allow you a slower cooking time for the BBQ to develop, possibly an extra 10 minutes.

[Kali]

7. they might be accostomed to dealing with people like this female I tried to room with in college

dumbass swore up and down she was a vegetarian, of course she would order steak when a guy took her out and at our apt. she would sit around and eat a whole boiled chicken on the arm of the couch. This, among MANY, MANY other things she did were almost enough to make me push her off the balcony. Fortunatly I fell in lust with some guy and moved out before I killed her.

[ElboRuum]

6. A line from My Big Fat Greek Wedding?

How is this fail? Failblog must be running out of failfodder?

[xmas74]

8. That's what I thought when I read the line.

It's a Greek restaurant, the movie was very popular a few years' back, and this was a line that people did remember from the movie. John Corbett's character stated to his fiance's aunt that he was a vegetarian and she said that was ok, they had lamb.

I think people just didn't get the line.

(edit-been years since I watched it. It was Toula's aunt, not her mother. I linked to the scene in another post.)

[petronius]

16. Guess that makes it a meta-fail...

:rofl:

[xmas74]

9. It's from My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnjWZT3yWWc&feature=related

Here's the scene it's from.

[RebelOne]

10. We got lamb? Is that not meat? n/t

[flvegan]

11. I thought this was going to be a thread about GD.

:hide:

[marmar]

12. LOL.....

nt

[jmowreader]

13. Time to pull out my favorite vegan story...

I was eating in a place called "Great Plains Cattle Company" once--it was good, but WAY overpriced. A place with a name like that may as well put on the sign "everything we serve has meat in it," and in fact it did--the salads had meat, the vegetables had meat, probably even the desserts had meat. The two women at the next table were sitting there complaining at the top of their lungs about "the lack of vegan options on the menu."

I mean, come on: I know when DU's vegan contingent goes out to eat, they ALWAYS look for a restaurant with the name of an animal in its title. Okay, they probably DON'T, but come on: one would generally not think of a place with "cattle" in its name as somewhere that caters to vegans.

[flvegan]

19. I can't speak for all of them, but

most of us (thank you, internet) find out beforehand if a place has stuff we vegans can eat. That said, Bern's Steak House has one of the best, most ample steamed organic veggie platters. Their asparagus is simply to die for.

But the Great Plains Cattle Company? Unlikely. The smell alone would be overwhelming, at least to me.

[Redstone]

14. Why the fucking blazes should anyone be "militantly" against vegetarians?

I'm an omnivore my ownself, but if someone else chooses to not eat meat, what business is it of mine?

None, that's how much. People do what they want to do, and as long as it doesn't affect my life, why should my opinion matter? It should not.

It's not for me to judge anyone else about anything (unless they're Republicans).

Redstone

[MicaelS]

15. Because the "Militant" national face of vegetarians is PETA

And PETA angers and disgusts a lot of Americans.

And people find when they eat out with their vegetarian friends or family members, they location they often have to eat at has to accommodate the vegetarian. Why should one person decide where several have to eat? If the vegetarians are that picky they shouldn't eat out.

Finally, it's reactionary to what is perceived (even if the perception is wrong) to be an attitude of smugness and superiority by vegetarians, that they have chosen to stop eating meat. Thus they are more spiritually enlightened and "looking down their noses" at the neanderthal meat eater.

[kwassa]

18. PETA angers and disgusts a lot of Americans?

Bullshit.

Provide some proof.

[Systematic Chaos]

22. PETA can be silly and even outlandish at times, but the main reasons for giving up animal foods...

...have NOTHING to do with PETA and everything to do with health.

[AlienGirl]

24. Who is deciding that the restaurant has to accomodate the vegetarian?

Is it the vegetarian saying, "Oh, by the way, find me somewhere that serves a specifically vegan menu, or I won't go?" Because in my experience, it is the family tying itself in knots trying to find someplace that will accommodate what it considers an outlandish "diet plan" and, often, being given bad information in the process.

I have been veg for more than two decades. I can count on one hand the restaurants where I truly couldn't cobble together a meal out of side dishes. And I don't have hands enough to count the number of angst-filled, "will they have anything at all she can eat?" conversations I've had to defuse by saying I'd pack a little something just in case.

Also, family, when the vegetarian invites you out to their favorite veg restaurant, why not be adventurous and go? Eating one non-meat meal won"t kill you, you can always pack a little something in case you hit Acute Meat Deficiency before the end of the evening, and you might even find you like your veg friend's restaurant.

Tucker

[dimbear]

17. Recommended reading list:

Day of the Triffids John Wyndham
LIttle Shop of Horrors some hack
The Seed from the Sepulchre Clark Ashton Smith

Take those, vegans...........

[rurallib]

20. So I go to the home office to do some computer testing

and one of the guys i am working with spends all morning talking about being a vegan and how healthy he is etc., etc.
So we go to lunch and he has a chicken sandwich.
Tuesday, he has fish.
I said nothing because even hearing this a*hole speak drove me up a wall.
So I am a vegan, too by his standards. A cattle vegan.:eyes:

[csziggy]

21. Right next to the mashed potatoes!

[AlienGirl]

23. I notice a foal in your avatar; how's foal meat taste? Always been curous about that...

[csziggy]

25. Never tried it - but horse meat is supposed to be very good

A little sweeter than beef.