This girl at school? She told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet and that every time you eat Jell-O there's some cow out there limping around without any feet. But I told her that I'm sure the cow is dead before they cut its feet off, right?

Dawn ,'Never Leave Me'


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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Jesse - Mar 31, 2008 1:36:16 pm PDT #8471 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

first, certain kinds of meat cooking (like bacon) just smell disgusting,

Yeah, the last time I was in Vegas with my girls, some of us were in the process of cooking and eating a pound of bacon when one of the vegetarians came down begging us to open the door to dissipate the smell. We were like "????" but I guess I can see it being nasty.


Hil R. - Mar 31, 2008 1:40:57 pm PDT #8472 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Cooking meals with various restrictions seems limiting at first, but after a while, you barely think about it. (Just glancing in my kitchen now to come up with meals for the week, I've got noodles with seitan and peanut sauce, cauliflower-lentil curry, tofu-watercress stirfry, black bean chili with cornbread, and split pea soup. And that's just from a vague sort of "What can I see from my couch or remember I have in the fridge?" I think the noodles with seitan and the tofu-watercress stirfry will be the stuff I actually make -- the first because it uses up stuff I can't use on Passover, and the second because that watercress is going to get gooey if I don't use it in the next day or two.)


Sean K - Mar 31, 2008 1:40:59 pm PDT #8473 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

I know more than a couple vegans who are just fine with dating meat eaters.

And I've had plenty of delicious vegan food.


Hil R. - Mar 31, 2008 1:42:13 pm PDT #8474 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Yeah, I don't think the bacon smell thing is really related to me being vegetarian, actually -- I've always thought the smell was gross.


Glamcookie - Mar 31, 2008 1:45:03 pm PDT #8475 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

I wonder if people who deeply love music would break up with someone who listened to music they hated?

Hmmm, I don't think I'd even date someone that didn't mostly mesh with me musically. I love music and love to see bands. GF and I are as one on this issue, fortunately.


sarameg - Mar 31, 2008 1:46:38 pm PDT #8476 of 10001

I really don't like the smell of raw chicken. However, I really like cooked chicken so I just suffer. I can tell when someone has just started to cook chicken in the over because of the disgusting smell.

I do like the smell of raw beef though. And I like my cuts rare, so it's good I do!


Jesse - Mar 31, 2008 1:50:49 pm PDT #8477 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yeah, I don't think the bacon smell thing is really related to me being vegetarian, actually -- I've always thought the smell was gross.

See, that's just weird, because bacon is the most delicious thing ever and smells delicious!!

...I mean, of course that's a reasonable opinion.


bon bon - Mar 31, 2008 2:07:20 pm PDT #8478 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

This is a dumb story not at all on-topic, but for the last couple months I've been mentally thinking in my head, "what happened to X financial services company? They must not be in business anymore. I never hear about their products." And just now I was looking at the lit windows of the building across the street (literally like 30 feet away) and was like "I wonder what kind of business they're in? Not lawyers. Maybe financial services...wait, I remember what building that is, I see the sign all the time. It's X financial services company!" I can see their computer screens from here. I am an idiot.


Atropa - Mar 31, 2008 2:12:38 pm PDT #8479 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

X-posted from Bitches! Photos from the Vampire Ball: [link]


Allyson - Mar 31, 2008 2:20:40 pm PDT #8480 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Hey Jilli! I saw this and thought you should totally have one!

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