McDonald's introduces "Deep Fried Curried Pork Hummus Gefilte Fish Wrap" for southern Jewish Muslims

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Yeah, it even made ME gag to think about posting that.

No, it isn't from the Onion. I just sucked it out of my ass and that's probably where it should have stayed.

traumatized colon

On the other hand, even if I WASN'T vegetarian, I wouldn't eat the crap fast food joints push off as food. :puke:

see what it's like...since I really can't give up dairy so I couldn't do vegan

I rarely eat red meat or poultry anyway, but I do like flounder and salmon

Is there a name for that, HopeHoops? You got any pointers? My sister recommended going this route

Deep Fried Curried Tofu Hummus Gefilte Fish Wrap

No meat, just fish.

Mmmmmm, and by some coincidence, it's lunch time.

:hi:

What got us thinking was the book "Diet for a New America" by John Robbins, the heir to the Baskin-Robbins empire. He grew up with an ice cream cone shaped swimming pool and turned down the entire estate because he felt it was wrong.

I know vegans, but it is a very hard diet to follow for primarily nutritional reasons, especially with young children. The book is split pretty evenly between medical/scientific issues and moral/ethical matters. It is a good read even if it doesn't change your mind on anything. We read it in '89 and haven't done red meat or poultry since. I know we did fish for a while because my eldest (19 1/2) had tuna at some point in her early years. Eventually, fish just stopped being "food" and even the smell made me think "cat food". Curiously, I will still buy albacore for the cats.

The issue with fish wasn't really moral, ethical, or even medical. It was more about the toxins in it. If you eat farm-raised tuna or shrimp (U.S. farms that is), you're pretty much getting the best there is. I wouldn't trust anything from China, even if it is marked "farm-raised". There are too many damn heavy metals and farm-runoff poisons in the seafood now.

Living in Maryland, I grew up with the summer tradition of blue-fin crabs and corn. The last time I remember eating crabs, I didn't get very far into one. My dad got them from a crab house he had been going to for years. One smelled like a photography dark room (which I spent a lot of time in), another like ammonia, another was almost black inside, and one pretty much fell apart - it wasn't a dead crab that was cooked, I've seen those - this was just gross. I think that went a long way toward changing my opinion of seafood.

If you have a problem with "well what the fuck do I COOK then?", try Mollie Katzen's books ("The Moosewood Cookebook", "Enchanted Broccoli Forest", and "Still Life With Menu") and "Laurel's Kitchen", which has a lot of nutritional information in the back.

As for magazines, "Vegetarian Times" is a staple. I don't get it anymore because we've been at the "just throw it together" stage for over a decade. My wife just made two pot pies from scratch (other than the crust - Betty Crocker "just add water") and guessed at the proportions, filling, sauce, etc. My eldest daughter's boyfriend is a serious meat eater but he snarfed it down. I can't remember the last time I used a recipe for anything, well, other than a box/package mix.