Silly/Annoying/Funny Things Omnis Say

[Amy SF]

Doesn’t Know Beans About The Menu, Part 2
Fast Food, Restaurant | CA, USA | At The Checkout, Employees, Extra Stupid, Food & Drink
(I’ve placed a lunch order online to pick up at a popular chain fast food Mexican restaurant.)

Me: “Hi. I’m here to pick up my order. It’s under [My Name]. I placed it online.”

Employee: “Oh, yeah. We couldn’t make it because you didn’t say what kind of meat you wanted.”

Me: “Um, I ordered vegetarian tacos.”

Employee: *blank stare*

Me: “Vegetarian? As in no meat?”

Employee: “Oh! So did you not want rice or beans either, then?”

Me: *forehead slap*

This was not me, btw.

 

[Katrina]

"if you're going to eat fake meat then you may as well not be vegetarian."

my brother said this last weekend. I've heard someone else voice that opinion too. I don't understand why they would think that. It's the same thing as telling a diabetic that instead of eating sugar-free sweets they should just go eat the real thing . . . ..

 

[Danielle]

"if you're going to eat fake meat then you may as well not be vegetarian."

my brother said this last weekend. I've heard someone else voice that opinion too. I don't understand why they would think that. It's the same thing as telling a diabetic that instead of eating sugar-free sweets they should just go eat the real thing . . . ..

It's not the same thing! How the hell do people not understand this? I like vegan meat because it tastes really good (Not all brands tho) and no one has to die for it. It's like I never really given anything up, just changed to a less cruel diet.
I get angry when I'm hungry, lol.

 

[Blobbenstein]

 

[Amy SF]

Oh Blobby you always crack me up.

 

[Mr Crunchy]

This was not me, btw.

And this one from the same blog.

Doesn’t Know Beans About The Menu
Restaurant | MI, USA | Employees, Extra Stupid, Food & Drink
(My brother and I are both vegetarians, so we tend to make sure that items like soup are vegetarian.)

Me: “What kind of soup do you have?”

Server: “Minestrone.”

Me: “Do you guys have meat in yours or make it with meat stock?”

Server: “It doesn’t have any beef in it, but it does have beans. Are beans meat?”

(Pause.)

Server: “… It’s been a long day.”

 

[Ann Chovie]

" you can't make a hotpot with mung beans! Hotpot has to have lamb in it"

" What the hell are mung beans anyway?"

 

[peacefulveglady]

I just seen a beef recall and this out of TN news channel i still get on my Facebook, well i seen someone post that she knows of a store that her beef is fine that if you trust in the Lord with everything you will be fine… Wow, trusting the Lord with something that gets people sick? people will be fine?

 

[Amy SF]

Every Saturday the Los Angeles Times runs a section of the newspaper called "Saturday". It's a "Living" section: Food, wine, decorating ideas, etc. There is usually a column in this section called Culinary SOS in which readers ask for recipes for menu items they really liked and want to recreate at home. This week a reader asked for the recipe for the carrot-lentil soup served at Sally Lunn's in Bath, England. The columnist, Noelle Carter, responded: "Rich and full of deep flavor, you might never guess this soup is vegetarian."

Why, because it tastes too good?

(Actually, judging by the ingredients, it looks like it's vegan. I'd post the link to the recipe, but I think you have to register on the LA Times website to access it. If you really want to see it, go for it.)

 

[shyvas]

Every Saturday the Los Angeles Times runs a section of the newspaper called "Saturday". It's a "Living" section: Food, wine, decorating ideas, etc. There is usually a column in this section called Culinary SOS in which readers ask for recipes for menu items they really liked and want to recreate at home. This week a reader asked for the recipe for the carrot-lentil soup served at Sally Lunn's in Bath, England. The columnist, Noelle Carter, responded: "Rich and full of deep flavor, you might never guess this soup is vegetarian."

Why, because it tastes too good?

(Actually, judging by the ingredients, it looks like it's vegan. I'd post the link to the recipe, but I think you have to register on the LA Times website to access it. If you really want to see it, go for it.)

Here you go :

http://recipes.latimes.com/recipe-sally-lunns-carrot-lentil-and-cumin-soup/

 

[Amy SF]

Thanks. For some reason I had trouble accessing it on Mozilla, so I switched to IE and had no problems.

 

[peacefulveglady]

Here you go :

http://recipes.latimes.com/recipe-sally-lunns-carrot-lentil-and-cumin-soup/

Thanks I will try it in the autumn ,i booked marked it and going to print it later.

 

[peacefulveglady]

Your cannot afford being Vegan, pasta , bread and other stuff isn't vegan, plus you need meat because your always anemic…. I told this person that I still tested anemic when i was a major animal product consumer that i ate loads of it and still was anemic.

 

[Mr Crunchy]

Thanks. For some reason I had trouble accessing it on Mozilla, so I switched to IE and had no problems.

Same here. I think it has something to do with the pop-up window it's trying to display to get you to register. The LA Times just annoys me.

But I have to say, I've heard a vegan on more than one occasion declare, "this can't be vegan, it tastes too good." I think we all know where they're coming from, but hopefully that is changing.

 

[Danielle]

Same here. I think it has something to do with the pop-up window it's trying to display to get you to register. The LA Times just annoys me.

But I have to say, I've heard a vegan on more than one occasion declare, "this can't be vegan, it tastes too good." I think we all know where they're coming from, but hopefully that is changing.

Seriously like vegan food can't taste good. It sucks when they aren't even willing to try it, yet state their meaty food tastes better.

 

[FortyTwo]

It's true that's annoying, but I think it's also important to acknowledge that a lot of vegan food (fake meats and such) on the market is crap rather than blindly clinging to the idea that all of it is going to be good/quality.

It shows potential future vegans that their bad experiences with vegan food items in the past were most likely with one of the bad ones and not one of the really good ones, but more importantly, it pressures companies into making actual quality products. We are a small enough demographic where we can put a lot of pressure on manufacturers like that.

 

[Danielle]

I actually like most vegan meat products, some more than others.. Nothing can be liked by everything.

 

[Dropkick]

I haven't actually had any purchased vegan meat products that I've liked. That's why I learned to make my own.

(disclaimer: I didn't try a lot of different products before I quit looking)

 

[Danielle]

I loved the first vegan meat I tried, it was Trader Joe's soyrizo. Back when it was still vegan

 

[Dropkick]

I loved the first vegan meat I tried, it was Trader Joe's soyrizo. Back when it was still vegan

The closest Trader Joes I know of is about 230 miles away. I keep hearing of neat things to buy there but it's a bit of a commute.