Week Long Vegetarian Challenge

[haff]

Originally Posted by DriZzLe

My wife is a vegetarian, therefore, I am a vegetarian(not by choice). It is not really hard . What you are describing is Vegan, though. That, my friend is a p.i.t.a.

My gf was vegan but reverted back to being a vegetarian. Personally, I would NEVER give up my Steak&Beer Fridays. Anytime she cooks me any vegetarian food, no matter how tasty it is(and there are plenty of tasty veggie choices) my taste buds scream NEEDS MEAT to taste complete and whole as a food. Veggie food can be great but it lacks the texture that animal flesh has no matter how authentic it might taste.

And while we are on the subject, does anyone else HATE the term 'fake-insert-real-meat-product-here'. How can a fake beef burger/hotdog/chicken/etc be anything other than tofu, its BEANS people, its a bean curd burger/bean curd tube (sausage)/bean curd whatever. /rant

[DriZzLe]

What I don't understand is this: If you don't want to eat MEAT, why would you eat something that LOOKS & TASTES LIKE MEAT! I mean, really!!! I never understood that...fake turkey, hamburger, hotdogs, whatever....if I are opposed to eating the real thing the last thing I would want is something that tastes like the thing I am against.

[DriZzLe]

Originally Posted by melleaux

mmmm.... deer sausage poboys......

mmmm...... pork tenderloin w/ mashed potatoes ........

for that veggie diet-- tons of caesar salads! and fruit and nut breakfast bars!

For your info, Caesar dressing contains ANCHOVY & CHEESE.

[leegund]

I'm a vegetarian, just not a strict one - as in I eat fish.

And chicken.

And beef, lamb, pork, turkey etc...

[OneEyed]

The thing that gets most people is that egg is in EVERYTHING. Some people think egg is not meat, they are delusional. Say good bye to noodles!

[melleaux]

drizzle,

i am not a vegetarian or vegan, and i did not claim to be. But we've already seen that both 'vegetarian' and 'vegan' mean different things to different people. If eating cheese (absolutely in every caesar salad i've eaten) equates to 'non-vegetarian' or 'non-vegan' for his class/assignment, then he shouldn't eat them. Excuse me for trying to answer his question/help him out.

And i suppose that is good to know that anchovies crept into caesar salad dressings...wait, you said just one anchovy. ...Would an ordinary, everyday Wendy's restuarant have that on their packaging? Because I'm fine with eating anchovies and cheese, but ANCHOVY & CHEESE, well, that's another thing.

[Gritz]

Originally Posted by DriZzLe

What I don't understand is this: If you don't want to eat MEAT, why would you eat something that LOOKS & TASTES LIKE MEAT! I mean, really!!! I never understood that...fake turkey, hamburger, hotdogs, whatever....if I are opposed to eating the real thing the last thing I would want is something that tastes like the thing I am against.

i always felt that stuff is for like bbq's so you dont feel left out... lol atleast you can have something that looks like whatever everyone else is eating and not just like a salad or square of tofu

[rayder]

Originally Posted by DriZzLe

What I don't understand is this: If you don't want to eat MEAT, why would you eat something that LOOKS & TASTES LIKE MEAT! I mean, really!!! I never understood that...fake turkey, hamburger, hotdogs, whatever....if I are opposed to eating the real thing the last thing I would want is something that tastes like the thing I am against.

Maybe you like the taste of meat, but don't want to eat meat.

[Drudge]

Just don't eat fried chicken after 3 months on a vegetarian diet! Strongly ill advised.

[MomawNadon78]

Heh, an old vegetarian friend would ask me to either cook her veggie burger first or clean off the grill after I cooked all the other meat in order not to get her veggie burger cooked with meat grease. I often gave her a hard time about it.

Then one day I finally convinced her to put bacon on her veggie burger. She fell back in love with meat at that moment.

[Alfred_E_Neuman]

Originally Posted by MomawNadon78

Then one day I finally convinced her to put bacon on her veggie burger.

Thats like convincing a pacifist to add a machine gun to their hugs. Good job Momaw.

[Si|ver]

Originally Posted by Drudge

Just don't eat fried chicken after 3 months on a vegetarian diet! Strongly ill advised.

Bathroom. BATHROOM!

[pipski]

vegetarians don’t like oxymoron

It occurs to me that if you choose to be vegetarian because you are against the slaughtering of cows/sparrows/donkeys and what ever else they put in hot dogs. Then you are obliged to go the whole hog and choose a vegan lifestyle. A vegetarian that still supports the production of livestock for the fat cat dairy industry is gonna have their milk tainted with the blood pudding of a lot of spare little boy-cows.

Traditionally the dairy, shoe, dartboard manufacturing, and meat industry have worked in concert. Without meat production, what are we to do with all the shivering blind skinless cattle? Sage like wisdom suggests that it might be thyme to introduce a law forcing any vegetarian that drinks milk or gets fat on cheese curds to have a steak in these unwanted animals future.

It’s therefore my suggestion that we can no longer be sheepish and must go at the sauce of the problem, demanding that any household harbouring a vegetarian must rear two poor cast off bullocks in their back yard, its the only way to stop all this crap.

Otherwise America, we are in for a hare raising time, with some grave years ahead for the stock market. If left to run wild we'll have these bulls hitting cars on the freeways, making our discos even more crowded and over stuffing the church pews that are supposed to be fur God fearing flocks.

Incidentally, while we are talking about the big guy; if God didn't intended for us to eat animals he would have surely evolved them to be made of something else other than meat (Like he did with chickens!)

[DriZzLe]

Originally Posted by melleaux

drizzle,

i am not a vegetarian or vegan, and i did not claim to be. But we've already seen that both 'vegetarian' and 'vegan' mean different things to different people. If eating cheese (absolutely in every caesar salad i've eaten) equates to 'non-vegetarian' or 'non-vegan' for his class/assignment, then he shouldn't eat them. Excuse me for trying to answer his question/help him out.

And i suppose that is good to know that anchovies crept into caesar salad dressings...wait, you said just one anchovy. ...Would an ordinary, everyday Wendy's restuarant have that on their packaging? Because I'm fine with eating anchovies and cheese, but ANCHOVY & CHEESE, well, that's another thing.

Well, by definition, VEGAN is a diet restricting ANY & ALL product coming from an animal, including honey & casein (a by-product of milk used to make cheese).
As far as Vegetarian, there are many different tiers: Lacto-Ovo, Pesco-Ovo, Strict...you get the point.

[melleaux]

where's that "the more you know..." poster?

thanks, drizzle. I hope his prof. clarifies his boundaries, as a vegan diet seems like the big stinker to me.