The Grapevine (OFF TOPIC CHAT) Part II

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

5 years vegan today :cool:
15 including vegetarian.

Well done!

We didn’t note a date when we acknowledged we were following a vegan diet in 2005 because we’d prepared vegan food ‘accidentally’ - unintentionally, simply because we were buying the very occasional cheese on and off for possibly a year or more.

But next year, 15 years defo. plus the preceeding 13 veggie.

thesandeman wrote: »

That vegetarian white pudding that Aldi or Lidl were trying out last year is now available in my local SuperValu. It's kept in the same fridge as the Happy Pear stuff.

While I think it's lovely I'm still torn about buying it as the manufacturer is also a butcher and I don't want to be supporting that side of his business.

Tbh for myself I be more concerned about mega corporations and helping support an independent and local food sector. The likes of Unilever and Danone are rowing in on food trends and pushing out small local producers. And they dont care who the sell to or where they source their ingredients from:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/dec/19/unilever-joins-meat-free-revolution-after-buying-the-vegetarian-butcher

davidjtaylor wrote: »

Fair play to ya!

Thank you David.

Before I turned vegetarian in Xmas 2015 - I ate meat very rarely anyway (about once every few months) for a good few years. Being vegetarian was simple. After going vegan, I did miss the cheese & tomato pizzas but don't anymore - there are now some excellent vegan pizzas around. I just wish so many crisps didn't contain whey.

I’m just reading Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature. Utterly riveting (all 841 pages of it).

Take heart, Doozer: “Self-control has been credited with one of the greatest reductions of violence in history”. Also: that “Self-control is physical effort turns out to have a kernel of neurobiological reality”.

Risk factors for violence include selfishness, insults, jealousy, tribalism, crowding, hot weather, maleness etc. We’ve all (well, 50% of us in the last case) encountered those feelings but we usually exercise self-control when they occur.

It’s all fascinating stuff and too complex to go into here, but there are strategies which I’m sure you’re aware of. Here’s another Pinker quote about self-control: “In addition to being modulated by Ulyssean constraints, cognitive reframing, an adjustable internal discount rate, improvements in nutrition, and the equivalent of muscle gain with exercise, self-control might be at the mercy of the whims of fasion. In some eras, self-control define the paragon of a decent person…in others it is jeered at.”

Gosh.

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

I see the whole flora range has gone vegan, and they seem to be only posting vegan recipes these days. Nice to see such a large company make that move.

They're living up to their name now!

McDonalds do have 2 veggie options, they are dairy free and vegan except that the wrap passes through the same toaster as their buns which contain milk.

https://www.independent.ie/life/food-drink/mcdonalds-launches-a-vegetarian-and-dairyfree-happy-meal-in-ireland-37675653.html

All ingredients in the two new vegetarian items are dairy free and vegan.

However, McDonald's said: "The tortilla wraps pass through the same toaster as our buns, which do contain milk."

My eight year old tried the veggie happy meal, he did not like it, I tried it and really did not like it either. Pity they don’t offer plant “milk” as I found their coffee ok.

Mea culpa, I misunderstood your post.

Might try the adult version next time.

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

I see burger king are bringing the impossible burger to their stores in the US, trialing it in 60 or so in in the US atm before moving it to the other thousands of locations. Called the impossible whopper.

• https://www.reddit.com/r/vegan/comments/b8bfeh/just_tried_the_impossible_whopper/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/vegan/comments/b8dpo9/i_got_to_eat_the_impossible_whopper_at_burger/

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

I see burger king are bringing the impossible burger to their stores in the US, trialing it in 60 or so in in the US atm before moving it to the other thousands of locations. Called the impossible whopper.

Serving it with egg based mayo thought unless you ask for it without.

Which I find quite annoying. Would it really be that hard for them to serve it with a vegan mayo. Nobody wants a dry burger!

lads...ladies...does lidl stock tofu ?

loveisdivine wrote: »

Just saw that this sv3rige guy is supposedly planning an anti vegan protest outside the Belfast Veg Fest this Sunday. Don't really know much about him. We will just ignore anything like that and hope others do too.

Maybe Fine Gael might organise a protest outside the next Sinn Féin meeting. Good idea? :D

sv3rige, what a complete loon. He eats rotten raw moldy meat and stares at the sun among his other batsh1t crazy activities.

Unearthly wrote: »

He also thinks the earth is flat and that there should be no law in society. People should be allowed to kill and harm who they want.

Nice guy

There's a lot of crazy people holding crazy views out there tbh. However laughing about anyone being assaulted or attacked is not good whatever you may believe tbh.