Comments | finnigan_geist: all the ham is for me

finnigan_geist

all the ham is for me

May 04, 2011 01:09

A while back I had a conversation with a friend about being vegetarian, which I am, which doesn't come up very often because I don't tend to bring it up very often. It's kind of a touchy thing sometimes, because a bunch of vegetarians are jerks about being vegetarians, and lots of people who aren't are jerks, too, and it's all very silly. So anyway ( Read more... )

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glass_houses May 4 2011, 13:35:27 UTC

MOAR MEAT FOR ME

jk obvs. What I don't understand is someone being a vegan. Or, like I saw on some show, a raw vegan. Like, they had no microwave or stove or anything. HOW DO THEY EAT?

finnigan_geist May 4 2011, 15:04:26 UTC

Yeaahh being vegan sounds like too much work to me. Vegetarianism has been super easy, and really the only times when it's been kind of annoying is when I've gone out to eat at places that have meat in everything and one stupid pasta dish without it or like sandwich places that think "lots of cheese and iceberg lettuce and one tomato" is actually a thing someone would want to eat on a giant hunk of bread ( ... )

glass_houses May 4 2011, 16:09:16 UTC

I confess my ignorance for veg(itarian/an)ism. I have no idea what I would serve someone (vegetarian only). My first thought is a pesto dish, which I would totally eat right now if I wasn't suffering acute intestinal issues, buuut your eyes are probably rolling out of their sockets at me.

finnigan_geist May 4 2011, 16:16:12 UTC

Not at all? I don't expect other people to have a load of vegetarian dishes ready for me when I come over or anything and I - well, first, I don't tend to eat over at people's places often except for with family, who are all super accommodating and make way too much food so I'd be perfectly fine living off the side dishes even if they didn't make me an alternate main dish, which they always do - I only tend to get annoyed with restaurants, whose job it is to have food, and who sometimes are like "hey ask about our vegetarian menu!" and I do and they're like "it's one pasta dish and five fish dishes!" which is... that's not... super helpful. I don't eat out a whole lot, though, either, because I am cheap as hell. I tend to eat a lot of homemade bean burritos. Oh my god I eat so many bean burritos.

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these are amazing and so are you <3 newfoundgirlie5 May 4 2011, 16:59:12 UTC

i think it's awesome how the first and last ones are like polar opposites but yet probably the most common things i hear about!!! like really! who CARES what someone else is eating?!? i just dont get it ( ... )

no you! <3 finnigan_geist May 5 2011, 14:48:25 UTC

ohmygosh you don't like mushrooms? MORE FUNGUS FOR ME. I love mushrooms ahhh. Anyway.

No, I know. I'm not sure what it is about saying "hey, I choose to not eat meat" that makes people think you're judging the everliving hell out of them. I suppose some people do, but I really really don't care if other people eat meat. And I remember reading in a blog that I really enjoy someone saying that if you don't eat meat for personal/ethical reasons, you can't possibly not judge people who do eat meat, which is just so backwards and assumes that nobody is capable of believing that their personal lifestyle choice is just for them and shouldn't apply to the rest of the world. Even when I was a much more religious person, I never bought into the "I feel strongly about my beliefs and therefore you should believe my same beliefs and if you don't that's an insult to me and also stupid and wrong," and not eating meat is a much smaller deal to most people than religion. But I guess most people really are like that about a lot of beliefs - see most ( ... )

heron_advocate May 4 2011, 23:15:00 UTC

oh my God I love your drawings. So. fucking. much. You own ms paint.

finnigan_geist May 5 2011, 14:39:38 UTC

:D thank you so much

gg_83 May 6 2011, 05:55:42 UTC

Oh man, do you have any good vegetarian/vegan recipes? (If not, that's cool too; I just figured I'd ask. I have some vegetarian friends, one of whom is vegan, and I've been surprised when trying to cook for them to find out how many things are not vegan or vegetarian. Like Jell-O, say. Or most margarines.)

finnigan_geist May 6 2011, 14:37:27 UTC

DO I?!?! Answer: not a lot! But some! Although I get kind of confused with the vegan thing also (like, caramel: not vegan. Oreos: yes vegan)

Some of my favorite things though:

Freezer burritos!, although I just use regular rice instead of the cilantro-lime, because that takes too much effort and the burritos are super good with the spices and things on their own (I have never found adobo seasoning, so I wouldn't worry about that SHRUG). I'm not sure what's in most tortillas, but I think there might be lard? So that's potentially the trickiest non-vegan thing in the recipe, but it's really easy to leave the cheese out of some of them. And you can make them on the spot or reheat them later and they're still really really good! I have like five in my freezer still right now nommmm

Mostaccioli Bake which is SO GOOD, MY GOD. I recently made this for Brian's birthday and left out the parsley, added chopped portabella mushrooms and a thing of arabiatta sauce from Trader Joe's and it was amazing. Brian keeps saying it's one of his ( ... )