Silly/Annoying/Funny Things Omnis Say

[Freesia]

The study I saw which examined vegetarian health, I thought it was great but I bristled a bit when I realised "pesco-vegetarians" were included in the study. No. Not scientific.

 

[peacefulveglady]

Bacon talk makes me sick

 

[mary1]

Bacon talk makes me sick

Maybe we need to come up with a new name for culinary creations that are salty, crisp, and smoky.

 

[Amy SF]

I made eggplant bacon, it was great. It wasnt exactly like bacon but it was still pretty nice and definitely something to put in a sandwich. Some of the pieces remain soft and other pieces crisp up like chips.

When I did my lasagna on Monday I put the last noodles on the top and then smoothed the cheeze sauce on top and then sprinkled breadcrumbs. It made a nice crunchy top, it wasnt exactly like cheese but it was a nice top.

Sounds great!

But I think you posted this in the wrong thread.

 

[Kittendumpling]

In a magazine:

"You are 33% more likely to be depressed if you don't eat red meat at least 3 times a week."

I call ********.

 

[Blobbenstein]

In a magazine:

"You are 33% more likely to be depressed if you don't eat red meat at least 3 times a week."

I call ********.

even if that were true, it would still, I assume, only be a correlation, and probably not a causal link. Maybe people who eat red meat 3 or more times a week, are more well off, eat more socially.....or who knows.....

 

[Amy SF]

In a magazine:

"You are 33% more likely to be depressed if you don't eat red meat at least 3 times a week."

I call ********.

What magazine was it?

Was this a real scientific study or just some alleged nutritional expert spouting nonsense?

I once read somewhere that a "study" showed that being vegan during pregnancy resulted in having a baby with deformities and/or health problems. How many subjects were involved in this alleged study? Two. That's right, two women who were vegan during pregnancy had babies with deformities and health problems.

Next up: Two people will get sick eating veggieburgers and all of a sudden veggieburgers will be the next evil food because OMG TWO people got sick eating them! *sarcasm*

 

[FortyTwo]

If you look hard enough and know how to read graphs you can find a link between literally any two things.

 

[Kittendumpling]

What magazine was it?

Was this a real scientific study or just some alleged nutritional expert spouting nonsense?

I once read somewhere that a "study" showed that being vegan during pregnancy resulted in having a baby with deformities and/or health problems. How many subjects were involved in this alleged study? Two. That's right, two women who were vegan during pregnancy had babies with deformities and health problems.

Next up: Two people will get sick eating veggieburgers and all of a sudden veggieburgers will be the next evil food because OMG TWO people got sick eating them! *sarcasm*

It was in Men's Health. I think it was a study from a US University. I suspect it didn't take veg*ans into account.

 

[Freesia]

The following conversation in a cafe:

Me: "I will have it vegetarian, with just the spinach and the mushrooms."
Girl at counter: "No salmon with it?"
Me: "No, I want it vegetarian."
Girl at counter: "So no salmon?"
Me: "No, vegetarian with only spinach and mushrooms. No salmon."
Girl at counter: (writing on a piece of paper) "Ok so just the vegetables and no salmon. Ok."


Why do so many people think that salmon goes in a vegetarian dish? It was really hard convincing her not to put it in and when it arrived I half expected it to be there.

 

[Mr Crunchy]

 

[Amy SF]

Nice.

 

[Danielle]

"I'm a pesco-pollo-vegetarian but I make exceptions"
"Vegetarians eat fish, vegans don't"

 

[thefadedone]

FB status of a friend:
Some random internet pic about being Against Animal Cruelty

15 mins later another status update:

"Enjoying a big, fat juicy cheeseburger from Outback. "

Yeah so much for being again animal cruelty..

 

[Clueless Git]

In a magazine:

"You are 33% more likely to be depressed if you don't eat red meat at least 3 times a week."

I call ********.

That one could be true if you don't eat red meat at least 3 times a week because you know the how/why/where red meat comes from.

The extra depression factor would probably drop to 0% if 100% of the population had the brains not to eat red meat at all, though.

 

[Fromper]

Idiot coworker of mine posted a picture of Hitler with some caption about Hitler being vegetarian and a teetotaler so everyone should eat more meat and drink more alcohol. I posted "that would be funny if it were true!" and thought he would chuckle and that would be the end of it. But instead he decided to prove me wrong by linking to wikipedia, and discrediting non-Wikipedia sources as biased. I tried to blow it off again (because I don't really care to argue with him about it) but now he's all into being defensive about it.

I suppose i could post "hey toolbox, I was joking get over it," but I just stopped replying because he's stupid and is entirely missing all my attempts at humor. Too bad I have to see him at work tomorrow.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. The best response to "Hitler was a vegetarian" is "Osama Bin Laden was a meat eater".

In a magazine:

"You are 33% more likely to be depressed if you don't eat red meat at least 3 times a week."

I call ********.

I wonder how that compares to the numbers showing that people who eat beef two or more times per week are more than twice as likely to get certain types of cancer.

--Fromper

 

[Danielle]

"Even if I go vegetarian, I'm still going to eat fish" Something like that anyway
I still eat fish, too. Just vegan fish. Like Match. Or Sophie's Kitchen.
Also I had some vegan salmon at Karyn's Cooked And "fish" tacos from Chicago Diner

 

[Amy SF]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. The best response to "Hitler was a vegetarian" is "Osama Bin Laden was a meat eater".


--Fromper

That also works with Stalin. I'm pretty sure Stalin was a meat eater.

 

[Blobbenstein]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. The best response to "Hitler was a vegetarian" is "Osama Bin Laden was a meat eater".

I don't think that is really effective.

Vegetarians are like 5% of the population. If vegetarians were 95% of the population then saying Mr X is a meat eater would mean more in discrediting meat eating.

What ever the mechanism, it doesn't seem to work. They would just say that that was just something that person got right, as we can say about Hitler, if he was a vegetarian. And also using their argument against them, may just reinforce, and legitimise that argument's 'logic'.

 

[Fromper]

I don't think that is really effective.

Vegetarians are like 5% of the population. If vegetarians were 95% of the population then saying Mr X is a meat eater would mean more in discrediting meat eating.

What ever the mechanism, it doesn't seem to work. They would just say that that was just something that person got right, as we can say about Hitler, if he was a vegetarian. And also using their argument against them, may just reinforce, and legitimise that argument's 'logic'.

The whole point is to point out the absurdity of their statement. I think most people will get it, even if they were dumb enough to make the comment in the first place.

--Fromper