Comments | dar205: Vegetarians and Soap (or the Joys of Eugene)

dar205

Vegetarians and Soap (or the Joys of Eugene)

Aug 08, 2011 15:54

While out today, I decided to stop at a restaurant called "Holy Cow" or some such. I walked in and looked at the menu. After a bit, I got tired of looking and just asked, "Do you have any dishes with meat?" I easily found the "we have vegetarian dishes and many are vegan" line, but nothing to indicate that actual food was present. The showed me ( Read more... )

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rhonan August 8 2011, 23:35:52 UTC

Vegetarians tend to be pretty good cooks, from my experience. It's the vegans are usually the horrible cooks. I've been to a couple of vegetarian places here in Seattle that had very good food. Now, granted, all of those meals would have been improved by garnishing the plate with a nice grass-fed rib-eye steak, but they were still tasty for what they were.

BTW - I thought you loved being surrounded by hippies?

dar205 August 8 2011, 23:53:06 UTC

Why would I like that? I bathe regularly and I have a sensitive nose.

rhonan August 9 2011, 05:19:40 UTC

One has to expect being surrounded by hippies when one is in Eugene.

dar205 August 9 2011, 06:13:13 UTC

I love studying Japanese Culture, which I can do at UO, but not OSU, PSU, WSU, SOSC, EOSC et al.

Expecting something and being happy about it are not the same thing.

dictator88 August 9 2011, 00:45:19 UTC

It seems that vegan/vegetarian may be shorthand for "hates food". The vast majority of them that I have known hate vegetables as well as they hate meat. They spend a lot of time trying to find fake food substitutes (Fake chicken fingers, fake chicken patties, fake ice cream...). They should call themselves Americans, or McDonald's lovers who won't eat meat. All of that is disgusting to me. I like all food.

rhonan August 9 2011, 04:08:05 UTC

My partner's other partner is a vegetarian, and it is a frequent item of discussion as to how my diet is more solidly based on what one would assume a vegetarian would eat, as my diet is mostly fruits, fresh vegetables, whole grains, and legumes, and I avoid processed foods whenever I can. Yet I'm the one who eats meat and loves going to the Brazilian grill for all you can eat meat. He, on the other hand, eats a diet made up of cheap pasta and that heavily processed soy crap they sell as fake meat.

katikhu August 10 2011, 23:56:57 UTC

Sorry you ate at Holy Cow - that's a truly terrible & over-priced restaurant. My mom & I tried it once when it first opened. Yuck. For a cheap, tasty, carnivore-friendly meal in the same area, try El Super Burrito right across the street. Soon you'll get get used to Eugene again and be able to spot a den of bad food and stinky soap w/o ever having to set foot in the place! 93s.