Apparently my religion is a phase AND not good enough!

[dalesys]

I pick mine off the cackleberry bush, so they're a fruit!

[TheRabbi]

Ye Gods, those are horrible stories. One of my good friends is a vegan just because she wants to be and she had to deal with people asking her why all the damn time.

As a note: though chickens cannot, turkeys can undergo parthenogenesis and spawn without sexual reproduction.

[lordlundar]

Piece of cake: make your own frozen yogurt, frozen custard (in a practical sense ice cream which includes eggs) or ice cream from that milk. You can easily burn up a search engine looking for such recipes.

Very true, and if you do it right, it can match (or even be better than) those self labelled "premium" ice creams. (though they aren't exactly low-fat, but then again, low fat ice cream is an abomination if you ask me.)

Ahh... The Denny's Grand NON-Slammed Breakfast!

So thankful that I aimed down or I would have broke rule #1.

[artcurmudgeon]

As a card carrying pagan for many years myself, I have found that after 25 years I don't care to explain, because most people are just idiots...

Last time this happened it when like this....

SC:Oh you don't have enough points on your star of David, I have a friend who is Jewish and they are supposed to have 6 points.

me:That's because I am only 5/6 Jewish and I need to pass the final test before I get the last point.

No one ever says a thing after that....

[Victoria J]

People really believe that you are Jewish but got sold an incomplete Star of David ?

I don't know whether to or

Piece of cake: make your own frozen yogurt, frozen custard (in a practical sense ice cream which includes eggs) or ice cream from that milk. You can easily burn up a search engine looking for such recipes.

Definitely try this !

I love icecream and enjoy good icecream. I do try the more expensive brands and I think I've eating some pretty good icecream over the years.

The absolutely best chocolate icecream I've had - I made it.

I'm not an impressive cook but I bought good quality ingredients and made it fresh. The chocolate recipe was a simple custard then poured through an icecream maker (bowl frozen in the freezer and an automatic churning motor). Fresh bananas with cream, milk and sugar also had great results.

So easy. Most desserts you need to know what you are doing to make but icecream seems to be largely just wonderful if you buy good supplies and eat it soon after making it.

Simply being a vegetarian OR a vegan is not, by itself, mean a healthy diet or lifestyle.

True. I'm an unhealthy vegetarian. It's pretty hard to be a vegan and have too much fat, though you need to work hard to balance all the other nutrients. But for those of us who do eat dairy products it's pretty easy to have a fatty diet.

It's not just icecream ! I like cheese and butter. I eat too much fried food. My diet is bad, but I never claim it isn't. I don't choose to eat animals. I'd like to start making some more healthy choices, and putting some more thought into the other moral aspects of food but that doesn't just come as part of the package of being a vegetarian. (I'm also vegetarian from birth).

I work with someone who is vegan ( and not at all obnoxious about it). He is also fairly health conscious. He has thought about what he eats and made choices about both cruelty and health. He sometimes tries to persaude me about vegan products but he never pushes other people, and only tries to "sell" to me when we do discuss vegetarianism and veganism.

Victoria J.

[Slynka]

Wooooow, really? Why support something if you're not even sure why you're supporting it? (Talking about the guy, not you. You obviously know why you believe what you do) And if the basis of your lifestyle is upon misconceptions, you shouldn't live that way. This guy obviously needs to brush up on his chicken and cow knowledge before condemning people who consume their bi-products. :/

[LillFilly]

I had scrambled chicken menstruation for breakfast this morning!

I...was drinking coffee. Now my paperwork is!

I'm now picturing PMSing chickens running around wearing little maxi pads on garter belts....

[Elspeth]

I'm now picturing PMSing chickens running around wearing little maxi pads on garter belts....

Thank you for that mental image!! aaaaaahhhhhhhhhh

[Andara Bledin]

I've been a ovo-lacto vegetarian for 12 years, don't eat any meat/poultry or fish/seafood, since it conflicts (in MY opinion) with "harming none" like my religion says.

I'm just curious, so please don't take this the wrong way: But if you're a type of ethical vegetarian, why would you drink milk when you know that cows have to breed to produce it?

I remain confused though. Did he REALLY think chickens are asexual?

He's a moron, no doubt.

Already been beaten (no pun intended) to the best comments.

^-.-^

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I guess what this all boils down to is, the OP dealt with a couple idiots whose brains were fried and made some rotten comments.

[Mr Hero]

The second SC's just mad because he accidentally drank some coffee with half and half and had the Vegan Police revoke his powers.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

As a card carrying pagan for many years myself, I have found that after 25 years I don't care to explain, because most people are just idiots...

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I"m a card carrying Atkins following carnivore for about ten or twelve years and I don't care to explain, either, mainly because most people are just idiots.

I think they're just idiots regarding many, many subjects. And their name is legion.

Really, I don't know why people get worked up over the lifestyle choices of strangers, be it their religion or what they choose to eat. I guess it's easier worrying about the perceived shortcomings of strangers than it is to worry about what needs fixing in their own lives.

[taxguykarl]

I love icecream and enjoy good icecream. I do try the more expensive brands and I think I've eating some pretty good icecream over the years.

The absolutely best chocolate icecream I've had - I made it.

I'm not an impressive cook but I bought good quality ingredients and made it fresh. The chocolate recipe was a simple custard then poured through an icecream maker (bowl frozen in the freezer and an automatic churning motor). Fresh bananas with cream, milk and sugar also had great results.

When you use fresh fruit, just watch the proportions--I unwittingly made a strawberry sorbet b/c I used too much chopped strawberries and not enough dairy goodnees. Taste was fine, the problem was the texture.

[Captain Trips]

I recently caught the same speech from a psychiatric nurse who was doing my intake interview when I had to sit a spell on the psych ward. (long story)

I told her how I had moved to Salem so I could get the fortune teller's lisence, so that I could do tarot readings for profit. Her instant reaction, accompanied by a sad and "what an idiot" inflection was, "Do you believe in God?"

Just gotta love people who can't go the day without respecting another person's belief system.

Uh, any psychiatric care giver who brings their own personal beliefs into the treatment should be at the least reported. They have no right telling you how to believe, for all they know that will only aggravate your particular situation. If this were recent, I'd suggest that you report her to her superior.

Since when does a belief in any particular deity enter into mental health? (In my opinion, it can only make it worse - particularly if you worship a deity out of fear instead of understanding. "Fear God" as opposed to "Blessed Be.")


BTW, I tell people I'm a "Born Again Pagan, but Jewish by culture." They get REALLY confused - if they can think at all, the begin to wonder how a Jew can worship Satan! (I love to keep people on their toes, it's not my fault if they lose their balance!)

[Victoria J]

When you use fresh fruit, just watch the proportions--I unwittingly made a strawberry sorbet b/c I used too much chopped strawberries and not enough dairy goodnees. Taste was fine, the problem was the texture.

I almost mentioned the same problem.

My first attempt was banana. I made it one Christmas day, taking my new icecream maker to my mother's house. I had a recipe. I had bananas, Things looked good.

Until I found out my mother didn't have a set of scales.

The recipe only mentioned bananas by weight. I had no idea what bananas weigh.

I couldn't even guess. My mother couldn't guess. When I was on the phone to my father wishing him happy Christmas I asked him if he knew.

It must be a man thing because he said to use a certain number of bananas.

It sounded like he knew what he was talking about. My uncle apparently agreed.

The icecream tasted wonderful. However it was frightenly dense, after eating a spoonful you felt bloated and it had a scary amount of fiber.

When I later made the same recipe with scales I had used 5 times the number of bananas.

My father claims that he never pretended he knew what he was talking about, but also doesn't admit he was wrong.

Victoria J.