Silly/Annoying/Funny Things Omnis Say

I hate having to listen to the 'yummy meat' talk all the time. Sometimes I just can't shut up.

The other day at lunch, a coworker held up piece of pig meat on her fork and said, "Look at how odd this pork looks." I looked at it and said, "Probably either the pig's snout or perhaps a slice of his curly tail." Dead silence, then she actually laughed. (In the US it is considered gross to eat certain PARTS of animals, like the snout.) I wanted to say testicle but decided against it.

Most people don't know that Frankfurters are made with all the cheapest parts of a pig including, nostrils, eye lashes, intestines etc.
 
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My son went veg at about 9 years old, dragging me and my husband with him. He is now 22, and extended family members still call it his "veggie phase". He offers to arm wrestle or spar with any of his cousins who think he needs more protein. (He's close to 6' tall, very strong, and a martial artist.)

They also try to get him to "try" beer and other drinks with alcohol. Last time his cousins pressured him, he said he would prefer not to test the theory of alcoholism being a inheritable tendency.[emoji38]

My lord, I guess I shouldn't complain if he's been veggie 9 years and it's still called 'Just a phase.' Ah, how I wish I could turn my who family veggie. I've gotten my mom into eating veggie burger, so I guess that's something lol. I've been taking martial arts class for 6 years, maybe I should start sparring people who ask that. :p Besides my big brother...he's like 6'4 180 lbs and been doing karate twice as long as me. I would turn into a pancake xD

Way to go for him resisting the beer. :jump:
 
I hate how everywhere I go on the internet there are people talking about how great bacon is as if the love for bacon was universal and who doesn't love bacon? And people who don't are idiots and of course THAT opinion is supposedly universal, too.
 
^ But bacon is great...;)

I am looking at veggie and vegan recipes for Christmas and it is amazing(ly annoying) how many are fish recipes, if you are a vegetarian who eats fish of course.:rolleyes:
 
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It. Happened. Again.

So two things actually *ahem* ticked me off last night while at dinner. (We went to Garbanzos)

So the waitress noticed I only had plant life on my plate, and said quote, "So you're going through that vegetarian phase." I politely said yes when she snapped back, "Don't do it. I tried to go vegetarian once, and every time we had pepperoni pizza I wanted some soooooo bad. You're still young, don't do it; you need to eat your protein." Wtf. I'm sorry. But no. You're here to serve me, not criticize me. I can eat in front of other people eating meat because I'm happy not eating a living creature, thank you very much.
 
Strangers who do that are being incredibly rude. It's especially frustrating when they have no medical, dietary or nutritional training whatsoever, but the minute they encounter a veg*an, all of a sudden they're a dietary expert. And they base it all on anecdotes ("My cousin's husband's barber's wife went vegan and nearly died") and stuff they read on the internet, because everything on the Internet is ALWAYS true. :p
 
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Lately, I'm coming across, and having a hard time with, quite a few people who, on the one hand, are opening their eyes and seeing the benefits of giving up meat, dairy and eggs, but who, on the other hand, are not willing to give up on the "but we need meat to survive" garbage. [emoji45]

Off topic...wow, that's a lot of commas...did I use them correctly? I'm ocd about it, sometimes. Depends on if I'm in a hurry or not, whether or not I try to get it right. Lol
 
^^^ I think it's because they just enjoy foods of animal origin and don't want to give them up. I definitely take issue with the idea that when you crave something, your body is giving you a signal that you're deficient in some nutrient which that food contains. I crave things that I KNOW would cause me health problems if I were to chow down on them regularly.
 
I was reading a discussion where people were saying what their hobbies were and some were saying that they like butchering animals. They were saying how they find it interesting how the animal changes from being a living being into meat.:|
 
Garbanzos is a chain of Mediterranean restaurants, right? (I looked it up.) Mediterranean cuisine has a lot of by-default veg*an choices (practically every Mediterranean/Middle Eastern restaurant has a Vegetarian Platter on the menu), and I'm sure Squiggy wasn't the first customer to order all plant foods. So that waitress must not know a thing about the food she serves if she freaks out at someone eating only plant foods.
 
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We have a bacon situation here now. Three Comfort Hotels removes bacon and sausages from the breakfast menu, and people are going crazy....
 
I never liked bacon much, even when I was still eating meat 25 years ago.
But then, I was always a strange one...
 
What was the given reason ?

Health and inviroment. It's a test project only, on a few hotels. But people getting really angry about this, and want to boycott. Luckly there is quite hard to get hotels in Oslo often, so they will not have any choices from time to time. :P

This hotel chain doen't serve several things on the menu. Like foie gras, endangered species etc. It's not perfect, but it's better than a lot of other places. :)
 
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