seeing not-vegan recipes..
Posted by veganhippie on Feb 15, 2009 · Member since May 2008 · 5810 posts
is soooo weird!! my dad wanted to make some dead animal and asked me to print the recipe and i saw ingredients like shrimp and milk and im like "what?! those aren't ingredients!!" it was a different experience to say the least. ::)
I don't want to hijack your thread, but this is kinda related. Aside from facebook, vegweb is really the only forum that I use to talk to people online. Recently, I started visiting an online meetup forum, and I was suprised at first when most of the profiles listed seafood and chicken as their favorite foods. Ha. I was like "oh yeah, this isn't vegweb" :D
I think that too!!
First i wonder why some one would put like chicken in something, and then think of how to sub it. even if i just see it ::)
me too!! haha. i love veg*ns. we're so cool. :)>>>
Course we are ;)b
I'm even like that with people eating meat now, i get really confused forgetting people actually eat it.
yes!! im so used to my vegan stuff that when i go into the fridge to get something i just grab for stuff and then once its in my hand im like "oh yeah, they eat animal". and also at other people's houses.. i get really confused when i dont see tofurkey.
Haha, yep, i assume everything IS vegan. I have had so many close calls to me almost eating something thinking it was vegan (which is really stupid, like cheese off a pizza, steak.. blah blah) and then i freak out for the fact that i somehow got close to eating it.
we're like twins, i swear! teehee ;D
This is sort of related to something that has been bothering me lately. When people refer to meat as "protein", as in "I have to figure out what I'm going to have for my protein" it makes me sick. Like, an animal suffered and died for you and you just look at it as a nutrient. I don't know...it makes me sick... that's all.
This is sort of related to something that has been bothering me lately. When people refer to meat as "protein", as in "I have to figure out what I'm going to have for my protein" it makes me sick. Like, an animal suffered and died for you and you just look at it as a nutrient. I don't know...it makes me sick... that's all.
Absolutely. And it drives me crazy when I hear people complaining about the price of meat. I feel like going up them and saying, "Hellooo... a life was taken for this 'food'... respect it, bitches."
I forget where I was but there was meatloaf and for a second I just assumed it was a Neatloaf. HA! :o
I still can't believe people actually cook whole birds and place them on their tables. Seems so weird at this point.
I get that sometimes. I used to use omni recipes and vegetarianise them, now all my recipes are from VegWeb so seeing meat in a recipe seems odd. My boyfriend's been vegetarian since September now - attaboy - and he's just started dropping the 'vegetarian' from sentences e.g. "I had the best curry yesterday" rather than "the best vegetarian curry". I'm not sure if he realises he's doing it, but it's sweet, it's like he's adapting in his mindset as well as his eating habits. :)>>>
I do that all the time too.
I call all my food just what i call it, and someone will say 'that's not vegan'
then i have to explain how it is... like my version of chili or pizza or something.
I hate hate hateeeee explaining how my food is vegan ::)
I'll say steak if i'm making tofu steak, pizza, burgers, i'll even say chicken tenders. just to try to avoid the whole, ew thats gross thing from people. Usually wind up in that anyways after my explination
Though, i do think some peoples reactions are amusing when i say i'm going to have a burger for dinner ;D
I guess I have been a vegan so long, probably before most of you were even born, that it never occurs to my mind that an animal is actually used for food. When I am going to work out in the bush with a truckload of meat eaters it always strikes me strange when they see some sort of wild animal, a moose or a deer and talk about how good it would taste to eat! Then I remember "Oh yeah some people eat those things". I have always wanted to do this and am just the type who would, that is print up some small stickers which say something like dead animal, and stick them on the packages of meat in a grocery store. It sounds like something PETA might do but people I think don't realize what they are eating when the buy their tidy packages of meat labelled pork instead of pigmeat, beef instead of cowmeat etc. has anybody ever done something like this, or is it a little crazy?
hehe, of course i haven't done something like that, hehe...
I refer to veganized ingredients as by their plain name - cream cheese, cheese, sour cream, etc, but i still call soymilk soymilk for some reason. When I'm talking to my boyfriend/mom/sister/someone who knows I'm vegan, why bother calling it imitation/soy/vegan? They know.
I've unconsciously assumed things are vegan too. Like for a reaally long while my boyfriend and I were just going out to vegetarian places (trying to try out all the veg restaurants in our neighborhoods), and eventually I went to somewhere not vegetarian. It was weird opening up the menu, taking in all the dish names, and then going "oh, wait. i can't have any of this. do they have fries?" It's like the opposite reaction of when I first went to a vegan restaurant (with the astonishment that I can have ANYTHING on the menu).
And yeah, with recipes too. I went vegan when I was 12 and so I learned to cook only as a vegan. I equate recipes in general with how to make vegan food then, and seeing a recipe with something else in it is weird. It's the same type of reaction reading a vegan recipe with some odd, unknown ingredient to me (like diastatic malt in a bagel recipe the other day) - "Huh?"