Good Times, Bad Times *Long*

[Fungus]

There are two people I don't mess with: the ones who know where I live and those who deal with my food.

I'll never understand how people can be such jerks. They should trade places and try doing your job.

Very true. I have a lot of respect for people in the food service industry and I treat and tip them well because of the experience I have with food service and my understanding that it is a thankless job at times. Funny how I always get good service and always have friendly waiters/waitresses. Could it have something to do with the fact that I am always nice to them and thank them and appreciate that they are WORKING for a living?

Nah. What am I thinking?

I think some people are just nasty to food service people because they have a bad job and always have to answer to the boss and here is a chance to turn the tables and boss around and humiliate someone else so this is what they do to compensate for it. I think it really sucks when people do that.

[LadyAndreca]

Not even the tomato sauce is necessary. I've had awesome pizza before that had some sort of garlic butter sauce instead of tomato sauce.

[VeganButterfly]

A Vegan goes into a PIZZA restaurant and complains about their not being Vegan food???? What do you think the primary ingrediants of pizza are? Meat & Cheese!!!!!

No, the primary ingredients are dough and tomato sauce. The toppings are options.
MANY pizza places have vegan options (Pizza Hut and Panago for example). Many places do not put eggs or cow's milk in the dough, and almost all pizza places offer various vegetables as toppings.
It's not a big surprise a vegan is asking for vegan pizza options (though she doesn't have to be rude about it, if she was).

[Canarr]

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[mikoyan29]

The really serious ones won't even wear wool. They'd never survive in a world without plastic.

Interestingly enough, plastic is probably more damaging to the planet than animal byproducts.

[wagegoth]

Not only that, but they probably won't use anything else that animals were involved in the making of.

They won't wear leather shoes, they won't use certain kinds of cosmetics or soaps that are made from animal byproducts, etc.

The really serious ones won't even wear wool. They'd never survive in a world without plastic.

[jjllbb]

I hate to cry in public and I never thought i'd let it happen at work, but I recently found out that once you cry, suddenly people realize you're human and they're either downright nice to you or they at least struggle to be as mean and vicious as they originally intended to.

[raw456]

A Vegan goes into a PIZZA restaurant and complains about their not being Vegan food???? What do you think the primary ingrediants of pizza are? Meat & Cheese!!!!!

I was once "lectured" by a wanna-be Vegan I knew who insisted on trying to ruin my lunch (a hamburger) by telling me the horrible things they do to cows etc......

After listening to her for about 5 mins I calmy pointed out that for someone wearing Doc Martins, a leather belt and holding a leather bag, she really shouldn't tell me how bad it is to eat meat.

[Andara Bledin]

Maybe your "vegan" was like my cousin: she claims to be a "relaxed vegan" because she's okay with dairy products as long as she can find out what company produced them and can confirm that the cows are not being mistreated there.

Ethical vegetarians that drink milk are amusing. It takes baby cows to make a cow give milk. What do they think we do with all those baby cows?

They won't wear leather shoes, they won't use certain kinds of cosmetics or soaps that are made from animal byproducts, etc.

I once ran into an article that cited the animal byproducts used in a leather shoe versus a fully synthetic shoe (that is glued as opposed to stitched). The most common glue (at the time, and possibly still) was animal based, so a glued synthetic shoe ended up using animal byproducts like any leather shoe.

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[Nohbody]

In the case of pizza workers, they're usually both!

As a couple of jerkasses found out the hard way, when I was a delivery driver. Most days there aren't that many drivers on duty at any given time, so regular customers tend to get seen... well, regularly.

"Oh, sorry about the soda blowing up in your face. The shocks on my car are just about shot, and the roads around here are like the moon." (The former wasn't true, and the latter is exaggerated, but not so much as to get blown off as all-out fantasy.)

As for dietary choices, like AD said, more meat for me. OM NOM NOM NOM *Tim Allen pig grunt*

[AccountingDrone]

10% of the population are vegans? Yeah right.

maybe 10% world wide, which includes many third world countries where people are vegetarian [and using vegan when they mean vegetarian, lacto-ovo vegetarian, L-O pesco vegetarian]

Isn't it more of a popular option for budhists of varying sorts to tend towards vegetarianism? I know a lot of indians who are vegetarian, and more than a few vietnamese and thai that I met at a retreat for meditation that were varying levels of vegetarian.

Im omnivore, but very vegetarian and vegan friendly, it takes all sorts and the more vegans the more meat for me =)

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

What the hell is a vegan? Is that a person that will eat absolutely no products that come from an animal?

Not only that, but they probably won't use anything else that animals were involved in the making of.

They won't wear leather shoes, they won't use certain kinds of cosmetics or soaps that are made from animal byproducts, etc.

[jerkface11]

10% of the population are vegans? Yeah right.

[HawaiianShirts]

Maybe your "vegan" was like my cousin: she claims to be a "relaxed vegan" because she's okay with dairy products as long as she can find out what company produced them and can confirm that the cows are not being mistreated there.

There are two people I don't mess with: the ones who know where I live and those who deal with my food.

In the case of pizza workers, they're usually both!

[mikoyan29]

What the hell is a vegan? Is that a person that will eat absolutely no products that come from an animal?