The Food thread

Discussion in 'Politics & Current Events' started by Deadtigers, Jan 7, 2024.

  1. soccernutter

    soccernutter Moderator
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    Tottenham Hotspur
    Aug 22, 2001
    Near the mountains.
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I'll do a burger here and there, but never stake. Otherwise, this is pretty much where I am.

    This is probably how I would do it if I had kids. And the bold is why I can't stand anybody who proselytizes that we need to eat meat, or need to be vegan. Eat healthy for you, and follow your doctor's recommendations.
     
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  2. yossarian

    yossarian Moderator
    Staff Member

    Jun 16, 1999
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  3. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
    You would never have been able to complete your 25+ missions! :whistling:
     
  4. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    Apparently they're hard to get. Either pay big bucks or go to the Iowa brewery. Which means you purposely have to go to...Iowa.
     
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  5. spejic

    spejic Cautionary example

    Mar 1, 1999
    San Rafael, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
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  6. yossarian

    yossarian Moderator
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    Jun 16, 1999
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Gotcha, like a Pliny the Younger situation, which I have had----helps having several family members in and around Santa Rosa.
     
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  7. Auriaprottu

    Auriaprottu Member+

    Atlanta Damn United
    Apr 1, 2002
    The back of the bus
    Club:
    Atlanta
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    You and DT need to drop the voice to text

    Exactly.

    That said, I pretty much eat for taste these days, with health a secondary consideration. I don't get into food convos with my doc anymore. He knows that, at my age, I'm going to opt for comfort and enjoyment of the meals over a few extra days of life.

    I've encountered several vegans or vegetarians who worked really hard to push their agenda on me. I already told you about the singer. But what I haven't told you is that I've encountered two people who ate ONLY meat. I wanted to ask them if they disliked every vegetable they tried, but did not get the chance. I think they were right wingers who saw all vegans as liberals and decided to alter their own diets to troll us.

    The worst food folks I have run into were the ones who, without asking, recommended oat or soy "milk" and tried to play word games like using "cow's" before "milk". To a one, they were Black religious nuts, or edgy Whites who never faced racism a day in their lives and so have the luxury of time and money for a vegan lifestyle. Milk as our cultural default is whole and comes from a cow. I don't care what people eat or drink, but when they try to normalize their little agenda/fetish thru pseudoclever phrasing, I'm on that shit like spots on dice. Ask me first if I'm lactose intolerant. If I say no, your alt.diet peptalk needs to end right there.
     
  8. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    Jotting this down...so that's a "No" on the kale-infused tofu burger for the BBQ.
     
  9. rslfanboy

    rslfanboy Member+

    Jul 24, 2007
    Section 26
    If I bring that to the BYOBBQ, why wouldn’t you throw it on the grill for me?

    If I insist that it doesn’t touch any part of the grill or spatula that has meat taint on it, then yeah, kick me out.
     
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  10. Auriaprottu

    Auriaprottu Member+

    Atlanta Damn United
    Apr 1, 2002
    The back of the bus
    Club:
    Atlanta
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    #2136 Auriaprottu, Jun 12, 2025
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    I eat kale and tofu. But tofu isn't a sub for meat. For folks for whom meat consumption is some kind of sin, why simulate the taste? It cracks me up when people won't answer that question. Cowards and hypocrites.

    I'd cook it if I did that sort of thing. But I wouldn't host a BYOBBQ to begin with. BTW, I'd eat your cooking without bringing meat to your home. Unless you were medically advised away from meat, yes, it's the same thing.

    That just seems weird, having a bunch of people bringing their own shit because nobody can bond over the food that the host is preparing. That's not even a pot luck- it's an agendafest. I would much rather provide for everyone, and I will happily provide vegetarian for you. I'd probably contact you ahead of time for details. I'll say this, tho. I'm particularly sensitive to the actual physical/medical needs of others. but if your diet is faith-based, I'd prefer you just stay home. I dated an Adventist woman once who brought her own food to a dinner hosted by my parents. Her geechee ass was out of my life within 48 hours. I do not tarry with folks who deny food based on religious dogma.

    First day teaching ever was a teacher work day. Met some folks and one teacher offered to take us for lunch. follow him! We ended up at this Indian place eating vegetarian, which was fine, but I had to grab a Whopper on the way back because not eating enough veggies to offset the lack of meat. Guy tried to make a joke about Alabama and I ended up telling him to take his pseudoarrogant stupid Banana Slug ass (for his cutely named West Coast alma Mater which has probably never won anything- it was on the wall in his room) away from real people.

    Moral of the story? When you know you have an alt.diet, don't try to act like it's mainstream. Nobody else wants to be in your lane.

    What's funny is that after 61 years of living, I know four vegetarians and one pesca (two of the vegetarians are you and nutter). The numbers are really too small out there to concern me.

    Those people deserve to be mocked. They got Biblical issues with meat but want the taste. Subhumans. They need to be told to ******** ALL the way off and go die with a bellyful of hay
     
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  11. RafaLarios

    RafaLarios Member+

    Oct 2, 2009
    Medellín
    Club:
    Atletico Nacional
    Nat'l Team:
    Colombia
    I'd eat anything that tastes good to me and doesn't hurt me. Meat, veggies, insects, (sea and land), Fungi... whatever.

    In my humble opinion, if you can decide what kind of food NOT to eat because of moral reasons, you have it good. A lot of people doesn't have that oportunity to discern.
     
  12. YankHibee

    YankHibee Member+

    Mar 28, 2005
    indianapolis
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  13. Auriaprottu

    Auriaprottu Member+

    Atlanta Damn United
    Apr 1, 2002
    The back of the bus
    Club:
    Atlanta
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    Like Stanford's band. If I were the president of that school, I'd do everything in my power to force them into being a band instead of a comedy troupe. Including not having a band until they got their shit togethering, firing the director(s), whatever it takes. I will laugh when I have time and energy for comedy. I want to see your band in serious DCI mode, not VK DCI mode (so glad they're not contenders)
     
  14. rslfanboy

    rslfanboy Member+

    Jul 24, 2007
    Section 26
    Scarcity sells.

    My brewery was a victim of palate fatigue in beer comps. Now being almost 4years removed, it is amazing just how intense hops are compared to how I perceived it when I was swimming in actual hops and hoppy beer daily.
     
  15. chaski

    chaski Moderator
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    Mar 20, 2000
    redacted
    Club:
    Lisburn Distillery FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Guam
    Stanford band’s finest moment

     
  16. YankHibee

    YankHibee Member+

    Mar 28, 2005
    indianapolis
    I geeked out homebrewing and trying everything for many years. The rise of IBUs and the stupid IPAs ruined the whole thing. Dickheads standing around talking too much about the ingredients and overemphasizing uniqueness. I guess I went the opposite direction of most people. I’d rather have a Banquet or a Bud now, but I’ve been doing the california sober thing for a bit.
     
  17. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
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    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I’m not a vegetarian but one obvious answer which occurs to me is that they love the taste of meat but have strong objections to industrial food production methods which they believe are cruel and/or environmentally destructive and/or have high food safety issues.
    There’s a reason humdrum lagers and Pilsners are so popular. That’s pretty much all I drink now.
     
  18. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
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    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    100%. My wife and I spend extra on meat so we can get it locally sourced so it’s organic, pasture-raised, and slaughtered by a professional butcher. That’s a privilege of being upper-middle class and living in an area where that option is readily available.
     
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  19. Sounders78

    Sounders78 Member+

    Apr 20, 2009
    France
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    France

    This topic comes up a lot in my family. Mum doesn't eat mammals, one sister is pescatarian, brother is vegetarian, other sister is vegan. All of that is by choice. I don't have that luxury as it is difficult enough for me to eat because of my autoimmune disease (celiac, so no gluten), allergies (crustaceans) and intolerances (tomatoes). I couldn't imagine imposing more restrictions on myself that I don't have to - it's hard enough as it is.
     
  20. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I have some dietary restrictions which really cramp my style—particularly on vacation when my GI tract is already unsettled to begin with. It really sucks.
     
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  21. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    I had an allergy scare recently with shrimp cocktail. Broke out in a rash. But then I tried it a few weeks later and all was good. Phew! :thumbsup:
     
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  22. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    The algo gives me these workplace articles so not sure how accurate they are. But I've worked with some wackos so I could definitely see these things happening. One guy I worked with could not take a dump in the office bathrooms (they were very clean bathrooms). So he'd take the elevator down, walk to the parking garage, hop in his car and drive down the road to a steakhouse :D

    New hire reserves office microwave for 30 minutes every day for dietary reasons, ends up getting banned by HR from using it after unplugging it to keep others out: 'But... the microwave was free'

    https://cheezburger.com/40913413/ne...every-day-for-dietary-reasons-ends-up-getting
     
  23. yossarian

    yossarian Moderator
    Staff Member

    Jun 16, 1999
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Ah, don't give up there's good stuff out there that's not triple-hopped and 9.8 percent ABV. I love finding session IPAs and the rare American attempts at ESBs.

    And hell, just last night I came across a style I had never heard. Now, I'm not a brewer or way down in the weeds, but I feel like I do know a thing or two about beer styles. Went to a brewpub about 2 miles down the street to meet some friends. They always do a lot of interesting stuff but they had a "Kentucky Common." I had never heard of such a thing. Learned the history of it, etc., and it was really good. Think (if you haven't already had one) sort of less toffee than an ESB with a bit of the bite of an English brown. Really good.
     
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  24. Pittsburgh Ref

    Pittsburgh Ref Member+

    Oct 7, 2014
    da 'Burgh
    While I would quibble with the word "humdrum," I am of your drinking entirely.
     
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