This here's a recipe for unpleasantness.

Mal ,'Objects In Space'


Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Hil R. - Nov 05, 2010 2:14:44 pm PDT #7566 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

According to comments on a NY Times blog post, I am living an unhealthy, aberrant lifestyle. Woo!


Laga - Nov 05, 2010 2:15:59 pm PDT #7567 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

What's the alternative? Quiet desperation.


brenda m - Nov 05, 2010 2:21:32 pm PDT #7568 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Well, I'm sure you're in good company. Link?

(Is it the hippie/commie veganism? Or maybe just believing in things like "math" and "science"?)

ETA:

What's the alternative? Quiet desperation.

Hey, you can do both.


Hil R. - Nov 05, 2010 2:31:29 pm PDT #7569 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Is it the hippie/commie veganism? Or maybe just believing in things like "math" and "science"?

It's the veganism. This happens all the time on the NY Times Health Blog -- they publish a post of vegetarian or vegan recipes, and people freak out in the comments, getting all defensive about how they're not going to go vegan, and they like their meat, and vegans are all weird and unnatural, so there. This is the second year in a row that they've done a lead-up to Thanksgiving with a series of vegetarian recipes that they say could be full meals for vegetarians or side dishes for meat-eaters. Last year, I remember a few comments along the lines of "Anybody who came to my Thanksgiving table and wanted to eat stuff like this would be kicked out of my house."

Things like this make me really appreciate my family. I know several vegans who won't go home for Thanksgiving, because they've got family members who yell at them and tell them they're ruining the holiday by not eating turkey. At my house, every dish except the turkey is vegan. (Most of this is because I cook almost everything.) And since the time I started crying when I saw them cutting into the turkey when I was 13, my dad carves the turkey in the kitchen so that I won't have to look at it all dismembered.


brenda m - Nov 05, 2010 2:36:49 pm PDT #7570 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Sometimes people are so WTF. I come from a clan with *strong* feelings on thanksgiving food. We still talk about the Stuffing Wars of '82, or the year someone bought unsalted tortilla chips. But there are now a couple of vegetarians in the mix, and we just...add some dishes. I'll admit the year they were doing the raw thing was a little eye-rolly, but basically everyone just said "we can do crudites, but otherwise you're on your own to make what you need". And reserved the right to give them shit, but everyone gets shit about everything in this group. I really can't fathom the kind of mentality you hear about in those kinds of stories.


Laga - Nov 05, 2010 2:44:16 pm PDT #7571 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

How can people not see the ridiculousness of being rude to your family on Thanksgiving?

This year I'm using facon in the sweet potatoes when 1/12 of our guests are veggies.


Sue - Nov 05, 2010 3:01:35 pm PDT #7572 of 30000
hip deep in pie

How can people not see the ridiculousness of being rude to your family on Thanksgiving?

Wait. What? Isn't this an essential part of the holidays? Usually though, it happens after dinner.


brenda m - Nov 05, 2010 3:04:17 pm PDT #7573 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Oh sure. But not over stuff like that.


Cass - Nov 05, 2010 3:04:54 pm PDT #7574 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

This happens all the time on the NY Times Health Blog -- they publish a post of vegetarian or vegan recipes, and people freak out in the comments

Ugh. I much prefer their (I think) food section where articles on meat have a link where you can go discuss vegan/carnivore/omni/only eat purple food issues because it's NOT allowed on other articles.

I know several vegans who won't go home for Thanksgiving, because they've got family members who yell at them and tell them they're ruining the holiday by not eating turkey.

Ruining it by not eating the turkey? I can see families having issues if they were told they couldn't serve turkey or have turkey around but just not eating it? Weird.


Barb - Nov 05, 2010 3:07:26 pm PDT #7575 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”

Oh my... look what just landed on my doorstep, y'all.

The real, honest-to-Murgatroyd finished product.

And it's sooooo pretty.

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