Your "sweeps" are not uncommon in Europe and Australia. The northern Europeans, for example, will typically use lard instead of butter (lard is probably better for you) and the Australian "bread and dripping" was a common pre-seventies dish.
As for ending up a vegetarian make sure you read Peter Singer's latest contribution..
"lard instead of butter"? I'm confused - neither lard nor butter is used in the sweeps I know about. It's just...taking a piece of bread and soaking up juices from a roast.
I read that Salon article and was amazed (and amused) by this question: "But surely there's a significant difference between a Jew, for instance, and a chicken. These are different orders of beings."
Yes...but for some reason it's a little sickening for me to think of butter as animal fat.
Although one of my favorite death-inducing snacks is a fresh loaf of savory bread from Wright's Dairy spread liberally with butter and microwaved just long enough to melt the butter into the bread.
Come to think of it, I don't use butter for that - I use margarine. Hydrolyzed vegetable oil. So I'm good.
Well, actually that's WORSE for me than butter is, I'll bet, but at least...oh, I don't know.
Sometimes I think of milk and all dairy products as being a tangible representation of love, since the sole purpose of milk is for a mother to nourish her offspring. But that, too, is somehow a bit sickening.
We're stealing the cow's mother-love!
And what's worse, I just made a typo and corrected it. Originally, the line above read "We're steaking the cow's mother-love!".
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Your "sweeps" are not uncommon in Europe and Australia. The northern Europeans, for example, will typically use lard instead of butter (lard is probably better for you) and the Australian "bread and dripping" was a common pre-seventies dish.
As for ending up a vegetarian make sure you read Peter Singer's latest contribution..
http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/05/08/singer/index_np.html
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I read that Salon article and was amazed (and amused) by this question: "But surely there's a significant difference between a Jew, for instance, and a chicken. These are different orders of beings."
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Which is what? Animal fat. And what's lard and butter?
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Although one of my favorite death-inducing snacks is a fresh loaf of savory bread from Wright's Dairy spread liberally with butter and microwaved just long enough to melt the butter into the bread.
Come to think of it, I don't use butter for that - I use margarine. Hydrolyzed vegetable oil. So I'm good.
Well, actually that's WORSE for me than butter is, I'll bet, but at least...oh, I don't know.
Sometimes I think of milk and all dairy products as being a tangible representation of love, since the sole purpose of milk is for a mother to nourish her offspring. But that, too, is somehow a bit sickening.
We're stealing the cow's mother-love!
And what's worse, I just made a typo and corrected it. Originally, the line above read "We're steaking the cow's mother-love!".
I need a vacation. :D
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Isn't the "meat juice" the "au juis" stuff you dip French Dip sandwiches in?
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For what it's worth.
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