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Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 10:55 am
by fable
Originally posted by dragon wench
Whatever happened to the kinder and gentler image? 
I am sorry, but when confronting friends who are eating carrots, only tough love is possible. You have to say to yourself: I'm doing it for them, even as you place those carrots in orifices where no vegetable has dared to go, before.
If that makes me sound like an anti-vegan de Sade, well, so be it. I shall live with the reputation, secure in the knowledge that I am winning back souls from chlorophyl hell.
I will become the Scourge of Lettuce, the Torqemada of Tossed Salads!
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 11:31 am
by dragon wench
ROFLMAO!
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 12:28 pm
by fable
...On a slightly less bizarre note, I really have grown to like vegetables over the last decade, after being a meatatarian much of my earlier life. Growing up in a 1950s American home, my mother bought canned veggies, heated them, and served them. Salt was on the table. That was the only spice. (My father hated spices.) She served corn, peas, carrots, or cold beets. You ate them, or you got slapped repeatedly until you left the dinner table and fled to your bedroom.
It really wasn't until my thirties that I discovered how very good fresh vegetables can taste, especially when prepared with a light sauce or some added spices. We regularly include plenty of onions, peppers, zucchini, broccoli, eggplant, spinach, etc, in the dishes we make.
My wife got me off red meat years ago. Does that make me a vegan?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 12:36 pm
by Scayde
Originally posted by fable
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My wife got me off red meat years ago. Does that make me a vegan?
No my dear fable...but you are leading a very high risk life style and should reconsider your eating habits before you fall into the abyss of veganism .
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 12:49 pm
by fable
Originally posted by Scayde
No my dear fable...but you are leading a very high risk life style and should reconsider your eating habits before you fall into the abyss of veganism .
How very true! I should go out and buy ten pounds of ground beef, add an egg on top, and eat it all raw. That will reaffirm my faith.
Incidentally, when I was in Holland back in the 1970s, they were selling raw beef as a pre-packaged luncheon meat like salami. You simply took a couple of ounces, and added it to a sandwich. I was horrified at this, but told it was a tradition, there, and nobody ever got sick from it. Any comment from you fanciers of tulips, Vermeer, and Pijper?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 12:55 pm
by dragon wench
My wife got me off red meat years ago. Does that make me a vegan?
lol! Reminds me of something a friend of mine used to say about seafood, "my favourite swimming vegetable."
No my dear fable...but you are leading a very high risk life style and should reconsider your eating habits before you fall into the abyss of veganism
Indeed, any time soon, we will discover that Fable is slowly being engulfed by a gigantic spaghetti squash and that even Grunt's pantless marines won't be able to rescue him
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 12:59 pm
by fable
Originally posted by dragon wench
Indeed, any time soon, we will discover that Fable is slowly being engulfed by a gigantic spaghetti squash and that even Grunt's pantless marines won't be able to rescue him
Oh! I'm fond of a seasonal squash we get here in autumn, that tastes just like corn.
Do you think it's too late to save me from the vegan indoctrination hordes?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 1:20 pm
by dragon wench
Originally posted by fable
Oh! I'm fond of a seasonal squash we get here in autumn, that tastes just like corn.
Do you think it's too late to save me from the vegan indoctrination hordes?
Hmmm... well you have already confessed to a fondness for vegetables, you don't eat red meat...
You know I think Scayde is right... you are teetering on an extremely slippery slope, at the end of which are alligned hoards of militant, foaming at the mouth vegans, all armed with pitchforks, and intent on claiming the very last vestiges of your carnivorous soul.
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 1:51 pm
by fable
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 7:14 pm
by fable
Originally posted by Scayde
@fable....I agree.....so well written it borders on prose
.......but on to your immediate peril.........
*Slides fable a medium rare porterhouse steak*
......I don't think it is too late if you act quickly
Can I have some AI steak sauce with this...?
...and maybe some baigan bhurta? It's a great eggplant dish! And possibly some onions and green peppers...
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 7:16 pm
by Scayde
Originally posted by fable
Can I have some AI steak sauce with this...?
...and maybe some baigan bhurta? It's a great eggplant dish! And possibly some onions and green peppers...
Of course......I'll jhave the kitchen whip it up.....care for a glass of Mouton Cadet' to go along with that
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 7:18 pm
by fable
Well, only if you insist. I mean, we mustn't let good wine go to waste.
And if you want me to help you lighten that container of Glenfiddich that weighing down your arm, don't hesitate to ask. I'm always willing to help out a friend.
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 8:11 pm
by dragon wench
Fable, and Scayde
thanks
Reading the last few posts recalls to mind a wonderful meal my partner and I had in Quebec City recently....
We were celebrating...being together... and we planned our special meal at a restaurant specialising in rabbit...
The first course consisted of escargots presented in a filo pastry cornucopia... with an amazing sauce...
The second course was two rabbit legs, one accented by a rosemary sauce, the other by a Dijon sauce....
Quite heavenly... Oh, and I think there were vegetables too, but I can't remember what type they were
Desert was a type of raspberry cake along with coffee..
And of course, an amazing bottle of French red was involved too
lol! we could barely move
Some twisted person had stuck a stained glass panel depicting Rabbit from Winnie The Pooh in the restaurant window
No doubt that would have sent my vegetarian friends into a frenzied rage
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 9:08 pm
by fable
Originally posted by dragon wench
The first course consisted of escargots presented in a filo pastry cornucopia... with an amazing sauce...
The second course was two rabbit legs, one accented by a rosemary sauce, the other by a Dijon sauce....
Quite heavenly... Oh, and I think there were vegetables too, but I can't remember what type they were
Desert was a type of raspberry cake along with coffee..
My wife and I have put in a reservation this weekend at Philly's poshest buffet, to celebrate a bonus check of hers. It's hideously expensive, lavishly serviced and ridiculously ornate, with so many kinds of meats, salads, omlettes, waffles, deserts (and a veg or two) that we'll probably roll away from the thing, replete for a month or so. Can't say I've ever seen them serve rabbit legs, but their Beef Wellington (yes, we'll indulge--this once) is good, and they've got some French triple-layer fish-with-cheese dish that's great.
Then, it's back to munching onions. Yum!
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 9:46 pm
by Chanak
@DW: Ah, sounds delightful. Little wonder you don't recall the veggies...
@fable: Onions, my good sir, are fabulous when sauteed and served with like-minded mushrooms perched atop a New York Strip, medium rare.
Or, if your tastes are closer to home (the back porch, to be precise), then they find a place nestled between two toasted onion kaiser buns, hanging out with the sirloin burger you grilled using mesquite chips...
This is making me hungry.
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 10:11 pm
by fable
Originally posted by Chanak
Or, if your tastes are closer to home (the back porch, to be precise), then they find a place nestled between two toasted onion kaiser buns, hanging out with the sirloin burger you grilled using mesquite chips...
Gods, you're reminding me of a Chili Trip. I doubt you ever at a Chili's when it was a true Texan experience, but they used to serve these incredibly anti-PC 1/2 pound burgers loaded down with fried onions and a very large covering of genuine chili. The whole thing was so greasy that they served it wrapped heavily in wax paper.
And now that they've become a national chain, you can get a standard thin patty with no onions and chili. That's progress!
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 10:17 pm
by Chanak
Originally posted by fable
Gods, you're reminding me of a Chili Trip. I doubt you ever at a Chili's when it was a true Texan experience, but they used to serve these incredibly anti-PC 1/2 pound burgers loaded down with fried onions and a very large covering of genuine chili. The whole thing was so greasy that they served it wrapped heavily in wax paper.
And now that they've become a national chain, you can get a standard thin patty with no onions and chili. That's progress!
No, indeed, I did not eat at a Chili's at that time. However, your description of their burger sounds very much like one I had at a place here in town called "Jucy's"...
That came wrapped in wax paper, too. 1/2 pounds of Texas burger. Still had some alfalfa in it...
What was interesting about the place (besides the burgers) was that each table came equipped with it's very own bottle of Tabasco, and two pots near the drink machines were filled with complimentary barbecued beans. Hell, even the guy behind our table was wearing a big hat.
That was an interesting experience.
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 10:20 pm
by dragon wench