The Greatest Living Englishman had a health scare last week, requiring emergency surgery to embed a stent in his heart valve. Fortunately for all of us, he’s doing okay and is no doubt back in at least early-season form.
Of course, the International Vegan Set had a field day:
And the quick response:
I’m SO glad he’s recovering.
Here’s his take on the operation:
“Now, thanks to all those tremendous people at the John Radcliffe in Oxford and all of their extraordinary machines, here I am wondering what water tastes like and if it’s possible to make celery interesting.”
Well, water tastes like shit unless added to Scotch, and the only way to make celery interesting is to use it as a dildo on a vegan.
I’m probably the least GAF person on the planet regarding what other people think. I refer to meat collectively as “backbone” and I strive very successfully to eat some backbone at every meal. Seriously, every meal I prepare, starts with the backbone and everything radiates outward from there.
The idea of some how starting with a “support food”, which is what vegetables and starches are, and then radiating out from that is beyond my comprehension.
Maybe this has something with how you are raised? My dad was heavy on the backbone thing and my stay at home mother supported him unquestioningly. All 5 of us kids are the same.
I don’t know of, nor would I get along with, people that do not make backbone the center of the meal. They are probably either criminal, demented, or communist. shrug
there is a very good reason no one tries to make beef or any other meat taste like carrots or some other vegetable while the reverse is routinely done.
Cows stand around and fart much like vegans, vegetarians or whatever new word they adopt to describe their weird diets. If that’s what you want to do, then go for it but don’t preach your nonsense to me. I’m not interested in a vegetarian lifestyle.
Ghost is right about meal planning.
I grew up in a town heavily influenced by a nearby religious college, the members of which were vegetarian. The majority of the groceries and restaurants provided for the vegetarian community, to a greater or lesser extent, long before the practice became as commonplace is it is now. All that to say, I distinctly remember becoming aware of the glaring hypocrisy of all the meat-flavored products provided for the vegetarian customers. Working as a bag-boy at the local grocery I saw tons of beef-, pork-, and chicken-flavored “meatless” products. Look, I don’t give a hoot about your dietary choices or why you do it. Just don’t preach to me (as so many are apparently compelled to do) about how righteous it is as you stock up on your “real beef flavor” tofu burgers.
They never stop preaching, do they?
When they do that, I ask them if they eat any of these over-processed fake meat products.
Then I tell them that if they craved that, if the taste satiated them, what their body wanted was meat and they were faking it out.
” . . . and the only way to make celery interesting is to use it as a dildo on a vegan.”
Actual laughing. Also almost certainly true.
It’s always important to start one’s meal with the dead animal group. Lots of dead animals will do; I prefer beef, most of the time, but others will do as well. As we are about to enter winter, that means chili, and that means venison. Yum.
GMC, mmmmm good chili is delicious any time of day or day of the week. It’s doubly good on a chilly or outright cold day in the Autumn or winter.