Preserved Topic: Vegetarianism (Page 2 of 2)

You all do realize they make some very tasty meat substitutes out there, right? I know I know, they're not like the real carnage, but they really are quite satisfying if you give them a chance. For that matter, haven't any of you eaten Indian cuisine? You can eat an entire vegetarian meal at an Indian buffet and be totally satisfied and go away never even thinking of dead animal flesh.

Suho
This is really developing into a insightful thread..learning lots
about very fundamental issues relative to human nature and diet.
Tons of redeeming social value here.

But some critical questions still beg answers. For example,
can a vegatarian still break wind? I've heard dogs let loose
but never have I witnessed a cow with flatulence (but again
i'm a city boy)

Also, can a vegan ignite his farts, to entertain his frat
brothers for example? what's better a lighter or a propane torch?

Are veggie farts composed purely of natural gas and derivative hydrocarbons
or do they also possess the semi-lethal sulfides of hydrogen that are so characteristic
of meat eaters?

Can anyone answer these questions?

I was very surprised recently to find out that
Vegetarian leather exists!
Yep, apparently it is used in furniture and
households, cars, etc. they call it vinyl.

I'm a big fan of the MorningStar brand of 'meat substitutes'.
They have all different kinds:
breaded chicken patties
breaded chicken nuggets
hamburgers (4 different flavor varieties!)
hotdogs
breakfast sausage (patties and links!)
bacon
spicy buffalo wings
bags of 'ground beef'
...I can't even remember all their products.

Vegans be warned, some of their products do contain egg whites and / or whey. As usual, read the label.

For the full vegan menu I go with a homemade recipe...very tasty.

mobrul

ShootingStar...for the record, yes, cows fart...enormously. Don't ask how I know this...

WS:
Yes, but can the volatile odiferous bovine emissions be ignited?
if so, what is the chemistry behind it?
methane?

which reminds me of a story.
a guy has to bail out of a plane (see the thread in ozone forum)
he's out of the plane, pulls the ripchord, nothing happens
damn! he drops and drops and all of a sudden he sees this
guy going up!
wtf?

the guy with the faulty parachute hollers at the guy going UP:
hey, do you know anything about parachutes?

the guy going up, hollers back:
NOPE...you know anything about gas barbecues?

a true story, honestly

edit: joke reads better with protagonists going in the right directions.


[This message has been edited by ShootingStar (edited 05-09-2002).]

Lady: We call it Underworld. That's where Bartertown gets its energy.
Man: What, oil? Natural gas?
Lady: Pigs.
Man: You mean pigs like those? Bullshit!
Lady: No. Pig shit.
Man: What?!
Diffrent Man: Pig shit. The lights, the motors, the vehicles, all run by a high-powered gas called methane. And methane cometh from pig shit.

ShootingStar, I believe methane also cometh from bull shit. And vegetarians produce more methane than carnivores and thus contribute more to the so called green house gases. LOL!

. . : newThing

[This message has been edited by Bugimus (edited 05-09-2002).]

Ok Bug.
But what if Mad Max had a cow, and he wanted to ignite
any blasts of wind and....

nevermind.

quote:

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Wednesday October 25, 2000; 12:25 PM EDT

Gore Proposed $2 Mil to Fight Cow
Flatulence

Everyone knows that if elected, Vice President
Al Gore plans to pull out all the stops in his
fight against air pollution.

But Gore surprised even President C*****n with
his enthusiasm and his "leave no stone
unturned" approach to the problem, according
to an anecdote in George Stephanopoulos' White
House memoir "All Too Human."

Stephanopoulos wrote:

"'I know you've been worried about the
credibility of Reinventing Government,'
[C*****n] deadpanned. 'Now I'm really worried
that the vice president has gone over the
line.' Smiling, [C*****n] handed me the
folder, which contained a Xerox copy of 'REGO
Action #39,' a $2 million government project
to clean the air by cutting bovine flatulence.
Two million bucks to fight the cow-farting
crisis. I left the Oval laughing, convinced I
wasn't crazy to keep an eye on REGO."

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after reading this, there is NO WAY in HELL i'm ever going to eat veggies.
http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1993-01.html

I remember an episode of south park where stan wouldn't eat meat and his skin was breaking out in vaginas.... Pretty much meaning he was a pussy. But it's in our nature to eat meat which is why I chose to eat meat. However I dont discriminate vegetarians at all, in fact I admire their strong will not to eat real food just kidding, but it would take a lot of self disaplin for me to convert to eat in that diet, which again is why I admire people like Bugs even though I admire him anyway for his artistic ability, his perception, his DHTML skills, and his taste



[This message has been edited by InSiDeR (edited 05-10-2002).]

Insider:
If i were you i would NOT be playing with
fire around this thread...BOOOOOOMMMM

Bugs: Actually, there's a vegetarian restaurant here in Seoul (run by some cult, I think ) that serves a lot of different meat substitutes. They have this stuff that tastes so much like sandwich ham (you know, the processed stuff) that I can't really tell the difference. Obviously they also make a lot of stuff out of tofu (tubu) here as well. In fact, I've seen vegetarian fish made out of tofu. It's amazing what a little seasoning can do.

ShootingStar: Despite the fact that I call myself a dyed-in-the-wool (what the heck does that mean, anyway?) carnivore, I don't actually eat a whole lot of meat, and I usually don't eat any meat before lunch. My first breakfast (before I go to the health club) consists of something called seonsik, which is basically a powder made from all sorts of grains and fruits and stuff. I mix about 50ml of it with 250ml of milk and honey. Let me tell you, I let rip like a machine gun when that stuff goes through my system. It's all healthy, though, of course .

Well, except for your underwear...

Green skidmarks...hahahah!

I'll have you know that I, at least, change my underwear. Unlike some people around here...

quote:

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green skidmarks

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lmao@ws

Suho:
I would be weary about eating any "meat" substitutes. We all know
that hot dogs are nothing more than "chicken lips and assholes" but
what else can you find in that tofu burger? How about a kidney, lifted
from a tourist who found himself lying in an alley dazed and confused
with a large scar down his back and side? Now suppose that kidney
didn't match any donors on the black market? Talk about a substitute
for vegetarian steak and kideney pie.........gross.

p.s. wasn't there a poem called green skidmarks and ham?

Maybe you should change your name to fallingstar...

Nurse! Shootingstar needs more meds...and another series of shock treatments...

I just love yelling that down the corridor...

ShootingStar: you are obviously a very disturbed person. I'm glad you have found your way here before you seriously hurt yourself or others.

As for what else is in the tofu burgers... um, tofu. I think you went off the deep end on that last one.

WS: Shock treatments are not going to cut it anymore. I think we need something... stronger.

Where is the nurse?
i could use some dilaudid
the horror the horror