New fiver not suitable for vegetarians.

cafcdave123 said:

iainment said:

RedArmySE7 said:

I was in one those trendy hipster east London boozers a few months back. Some feller came to the bar as I was getting served and said to the barman "excuse me mate, my vegan beer tastes funny". I nearly pissed myself laughing, what did he expect?!

Stella is vegan.

you'll be pleased to know that i am doing more than my share in supporting vegan lager, i'm probably doing a few peoples share!

Yes, I can confirm this

To pick potatoes, you have to mercilessly kill the whole plant

Which is the reason why we get so few chips at The Valley

iainment said:

sam3110 said:

Is Jagermeister vegan?

Yes it is vegan. Almost all spirits are.

DaveMehmet said:

i_b_b_o_r_g said:

......drink a pint of red wine vinegar if you think you got the worms. works on out chickens

Out chickens? You live in a strange country mate.

I want to know why it doesn't work on closeted chickens and heterosexual chickens.

Anna_Kissed said:

AddickFC81 said:

Vegitarians and even worse Vegans are a pain in the arse.

I'm a vegan and have been for nearly twenty years. A really huge pain in the arse, then.
Why am I a pain in the arse to you? I've probably never met you!
The spelling is 'vegetarian', by the way (as in that odd and startling phenomenon, the vegetable).
Am glad that you spelt 'vegan' correctly. It's a word that's becoming more commonplace as our number grows and grows....

Well you do annoy me with the horse racing death threads and complaints.

Croydon said:

Anna_Kissed said:

AddickFC81 said:

Vegitarians and even worse Vegans are a pain in the arse.

I'm a vegan and have been for nearly twenty years. A really huge pain in the arse, then.
Why am I a pain in the arse to you? I've probably never met you!
The spelling is 'vegetarian', by the way (as in that odd and startling phenomenon, the vegetable).
Am glad that you spelt 'vegan' correctly. It's a word that's becoming more commonplace as our number grows and grows....

True to form, a vegan has appeared and told everyone that they are vegan.

On a thread about vegetarianism as well! The narcissist

iainment said:

It has tallow in it.

So it's coins and notes from £10 up for me now.

You are going to eat £10 notes and coins?

For some reason that seems really Charlton.

As per usual, as soon as someone mentions veggieness, the meat eaters come with their pitchforks...

As usual, people post their views on the Internet and some bastard comes along and disagrees with them.

Why can't we all have the same view - my view?

iainment said:

Wheresmeticket? said:

@Iainment. You knew this was going to happen when you started this thread, didn't you?

I have to say when I was a veggie I didn't mention it unless I couldn't avoid it as inevitably some pompous twat would have to point out all the things I was doing / wearing that didn't fit their definition of being a veggie.

The pompous meat-eating twats wanted to make me out a hypocrite.
The pompous vegetarian twats wanted to be a more authentic vegetarian than I was.

I thought it was something worth a chat about really. It's more about the law of unintended consequences and as such probably more fundamental to Hindus, Jains and Sikhs who absolutely cannot handle these fivers.
As someone mentioned above there was a war about the use of tallow in India.

I hope they never use pavements or roads then.

iainment said:

Wheresmeticket? said:

@Iainment. You knew this was going to happen when you started this thread, didn't you?

I have to say when I was a veggie I didn't mention it unless I couldn't avoid it as inevitably some pompous twat would have to point out all the things I was doing / wearing that didn't fit their definition of being a veggie.

The pompous meat-eating twats wanted to make me out a hypocrite.
The pompous vegetarian twats wanted to be a more authentic vegetarian than I was.

I thought it was something worth a chat about really. It's more about the law of unintended consequences and as such probably more fundamental to Hindus, Jains and Sikhs who absolutely cannot handle these fivers.
As someone mentioned above there was a war about the use of tallow in India.

As mentioned on R5 this morning, McDonalds changed the coating on their fries from one containing animal fats to one containing wheat. So making lifestyle-choice vegies happy but putting two fingers up to those who can't have gluten!

i_b_b_o_r_g said:

Wheresmeticket? said:

@Iainment. You knew this was going to happen when you started this thread, didn't you?

I have to say when I was a veggie I didn't mention it unless I couldn't avoid it as inevitably some pompous twat would have to point out all the things I was doing / wearing that didn't fit their definition of being a veggie.

The pompous meat-eating twats wanted to make me out a hypocrite.
The pompous vegetarian twats wanted to be a more authentic vegetarian than I was.

I've gotta say that when anybody presents themselves as a Veggie or Vegan to me, I don't batter an eyelid. I've cooked for Veggies many times and I'm quite happy to do so. BUT there are militant Veggies and Vegans in particular (my sister in law), who are happy to go on about how much healthier they are than meat eaters and then sometimes you get the 'meat is murder' bollocks trotted out.

I personally love meat and love animals at the same time. We try to rear as much of our own meat as possible (Poultry mainly, but sheep are on the way and maybe pigs further down the line) and I also like to go out into the countryside and get the meat meself. Being a massive advocate of ethical farming, if and when we do buy a bit of meat, it'll be direct from one of the farmers we know locally.

My Mrs was a veggie for 8 years and when we first come to France, the only thing she would really enjoy would be chicken breast out the shop, now she is content eating our own birds (as long as I 'deal with them') and she'll also eat the odd bit of rabbit and even boar.

What made you go back to eating meat btw?

I should bloody hope not too.

Hex said:

iainment said:

Wheresmeticket? said:

@Iainment. You knew this was going to happen when you started this thread, didn't you?

I have to say when I was a veggie I didn't mention it unless I couldn't avoid it as inevitably some pompous twat would have to point out all the things I was doing / wearing that didn't fit their definition of being a veggie.

The pompous meat-eating twats wanted to make me out a hypocrite.
The pompous vegetarian twats wanted to be a more authentic vegetarian than I was.

I thought it was something worth a chat about really. It's more about the law of unintended consequences and as such probably more fundamental to Hindus, Jains and Sikhs who absolutely cannot handle these fivers.
As someone mentioned above there was a war about the use of tallow in India.

As mentioned on R5 this morning, McDonalds changed the coating on their fries from one containing animal fats to one containing wheat. So making lifestyle-choice vegies happy but putting two fingers up to those who can't have gluten!

See, this doesn't actually make people happier, if anything it makes them more miserable.

Veggies were perfectly happy to eat at Maccy's until they found out the fries were coated in animal fat.

Veggies were perfectly happy to use fivers until they found out that a trivial part of the process includes using a by-product of animal slaughter.

Veggies are quite happy to eat veggie sausages but they might get annoyed if they find out they were cooked in the same oven as the meat products ("the animal fat could splash on them!"). It takes a certain kind of sociopath to be annoyed at someone for feeding you.

Ignorance truly is bliss. I make a conscious effort to shop ethically and to avoid products from countries with questionable political or human rights or employment issues, but if I buy a box of cereal and find out that the glue used to seal the box lid involves a compound from one of the countries I am trying to avoid, how annoyed am I going to be? Not very, certainly not enough to boycott that brand since probably every other product on the shelf will have the same issue. It's almost impossible to be an 100% ethical consumer unless you source everything directly from the producer. If you get annoyed by trivial parts of the manufacturing process then just be thankful you have nothing else to worry out if that's what sets you off.