Unpopular Opinions Society

[Alice-Bee]

Thankyou! I think I love you now rabbit

 

[hungryraccoon]

Coconut is so gross. I've grown to like most food that I used to hate, but not coconut.

 

[FortyTwo]

Coconut water is just coconut water. Coconut milk is either the blended coconut meat that's thick in a can (for cooking) or thinned down in cartons (for drinking) or especially thick in a bag in a box or something (for cooking also).

No one should be calling coconut water coconut milk.

As if it weren't confusing enough! :grr:

Coconut water=delicious
Coconut milk in foods=delicious
Coconut milk for drinking=

Where I am they market coconut water in both cans labeled "coconut milk" and "coconut water" and then make products using coconut water and call them "coconut milk" products, as well as marketing coconut "milk" made from modified coconut water.

 

[kazyeeqen]

Where I am they market coconut water in both cans labeled "coconut milk" and "coconut water" and then make products using coconut water and call them "coconut milk" products, as well as marketing coconut "milk" made from modified coconut water.

That **** ain't right.

 

[FortyTwo]

To top it all off, there are two kinds of coconut milk. The first kind is actually coconut water, the liquid from inside the coconut, which is clear. The other is coconut milk, the traditional kind, made from the pressed "meat" of the coconut. These are both labeled "coconut milk" and both come in cartons or cans, unless coconut water is labeled coconut water, in which case it comes in a can.

I personally think they're all pretty gross to just be drinking.

 

[kazyeeqen]

Coconut water is like liquid angels it's so goddamned good.

 

[FortyTwo]

Blegh. Coconuts in general are kind-of bad.

And- oh, great. I smell cat crap. There goes Karma again.

 

[kibbleforlola]

I like coconut if it's fresh. I've never tried coconut milk. Shredded coconut is the devil's dandruff.

 

[thefadedone]

I haven't tried coconut water or cooked with coconut oil, but I love everything else coconut. Yes, even the devil's dandruff.

So Delicious makes a coconut milk based ice cream that has shredded coconut flakes in it which is amazing. And this stuff is also pretty incredible:

It's the perfect pairing.

 

[thefadedone]

Popular desserts often rely on something like dairy or eggs to bind it together, so it's harder, but not impossible to make them vegan.

I don't think it's that much harder. There are many alternatives to dairy/eggs.

 

[FortyTwo]

So Delicious makes a coconut milk based ice cream that has shredded coconut flakes in it which is amazing.

Never tried this kind, but I love their chocolate chip cookie dough coconut ice cream.

 

[Blobbenstein]

I wonder if some 'hard core vegans' people will be eating foie gras in ten years talking about their 'foolish youth, caring about dumb animals'...

I think maybe they are the ones who don't like satirical humour involving animal cruelty, as with Onion articles sort of thing....It is because they don't know how to respond, and they don't like it.

not talking about anyone on this website.

 

[Alice-Bee]

There have been plenty long time veg*ns on certain forums that went back to eating flesh.

 

[Blobbenstein]

I find it worrying that the veggie movement could end up being constantly represented by people who go back to eating meat, in a few years....they might be the most vocal, yet they aren't really good examples of long term change.

 

[Alice-Bee]

I often hear people saying things such as 'I was veggie but I was always hungry/bored of the food/ill because of it' I rarelyhear people say 'I havent been veggie long but I feel great' (apart from on the forum)
Complaints get more airtime than praise.
Veg*nsism isnt bad, some people are just bad at it.

 

[Muggle]

Yeah, people who go back to eating meat after years of being veggie (I personally know two people - one went back after 11 years, the other after 20 years) terrify me.
But then I think of the awesome old lady I met on the bus one day. She told me that she'd been veggie since she was 22 and she's now 86.

 

[Envy]

I always thought I would have an easy time going back to eating meat if I so wanted - but recent events may prove that may not quite be the case.

 

[Alice-Bee]

Are you an ethical or health veggie?
I think its easier to go back if youre only in it for thehealth aspects.
How anyone can return to eating meat after stopping for ethical reasons baffles me.

 

[hungryraccoon]

I have no respect for vegetarians that go back to eating meat.

 

[Moll Flanders]

I think it's quite understandable that some people go back to eating meat, especially those people who were influenced to go veg or vegan by their partners or friends in the first place. It must be a minority of people though? Someone in my hub's family went back to being veg after being vegan but he still ate the vegan meal at the wedding I went to last year, because I was nosy and checked that he hadn't gone back to eating meat. It seems like I hear about people going vegan more and more lately, on a British forum I'm on it seems like a few people are going vegan as a New Year's Resolution, I hope it sticks.