Yeah, there was an article a little while ago about meat products found in "vegetarian" meat substitutes in Taiwan, which made a bunch of people start thinking about where the fake meats at restaurants came from. And the answer was frequently China or Taiwan. (I haven't bought processed food that I know is from either of those places for a while, but I have no idea what's going on in restaurant kitchens. I know that certain of the pricier vegan restaurants make all of their stuff in their own kitchen, but the cheaper ones will buy the premade fake meats.)
I get confused. I remember everything. I remember too much, and... some of it's made up, and... some of it can't be quantified, and... there's secrets.
River ,'Safe'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
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.
Hil R. - Jun 30, 2009 5:47:40 am PDT #26637 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
tommyrot - Jun 30, 2009 6:49:30 am PDT #26638 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
World's Ugliest Dog competitions
Not only is this dog ugly, but it looks insane as well: eta: pic# 8.
eta: Umm... this ain't right: eta: Pic #21.
Barb - Jun 30, 2009 6:57:36 am PDT #26639 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Tommy, all the links default to the first picture in the gallery-- Pabst, the winner. Who I actually think is cute. Lewis suggested that with so many of the entrants being Chinese Cresteds, they needed the Mutt category, the Pedigree category, and the Chinese Crested category.
He's right.
billytea - Jun 30, 2009 7:00:05 am PDT #26640 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Tommy, all the links default to the first picture in the gallery-- Pabst, the winner. Who I actually think is cute. Lewis suggested that with so many of the entrants being Chinese Cresteds, they needed the Mutt category, the Pedigree category, and the Chinese Crested category.
Yeah. Let me just say that the dog in pic 8 (a Chinese Crested) was totally robbed.
tommyrot - Jun 30, 2009 7:02:15 am PDT #26641 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Let me just say that the dog in pic 8 (a Chinese Crested) was totally robbed.
Yeah, that's the one I thought looked insane.
tommyrot - Jun 30, 2009 7:04:09 am PDT #26642 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Gus, a one-eyed, three legged Chinese Crested dog walks around the stage after he was named the winner of the 20th Annual World's Ugliest Dog Competition.
God. To be a Chinese Crested dog is bad enough, but one-eyed and three legged?
They should have called him "Lucky."
sumi - Jun 30, 2009 7:12:22 am PDT #26643 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
You know - there ought to be a separate class for dogs that AREN'T Chinese Crested - given that Chinese Cresteds are so gifted in the ugly dog area.
billytea - Jun 30, 2009 7:25:12 am PDT #26644 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Yeah, that's the one I thought looked insane.
I think it looks like an aye-aye.
Gudanov - Jun 30, 2009 7:27:16 am PDT #26645 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
given that Chinese Cresteds are so gifted in the ugly dog area.
Yeah, it's really not fair. I also think the wrong dog won in that contest.
Theodosia - Jun 30, 2009 7:28:29 am PDT #26646 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
A friend of mine has a 'Powderpuff' -- a Chinese Crested that is fully haired (they're quite fluffy -- think a miniature poodle with hair relaxant).
The hairless gene, like the tailless gene for Manx cats, is a defective gene, and teeth/skull deformities are quite common with it. So there are a lot of 'reject' Cresteds out there, even if you back-breed them with the healthy non-hairless Cresteds to ensure some better genes.