Vegan pet peeves

ashley · **Posted:** Tue Jan 29, 2013 12:46 pm

She's also the person who adds extra sweetener to vanilla soymilk, so yeah.

jogirl · **Posted:** Tue Jan 29, 2013 2:27 pm

ndpittman wrote:

Those calories saved by using Splenda actually make the baby Jesus cry.

I am going to have to sig this.

Gulliver · **Posted:** Tue Jan 29, 2013 2:30 pm

ashley wrote:

My mom puts jello powder and Equal in her fruit salad. I've never eaten it, but it looks NAAAASTY. And it's always a big hit with the omni crowd, so there you go. People are gross.

As someone who, in the past, regularly put marzipan on muesli*, I can happily say yes, yes we are.

* AKA mueslipan.

mrsbadmouth · **Posted:** Tue Jan 29, 2013 2:33 pm

Sugar free jello powder is really popular with People Who Diet All The Time. They put it on everything, usually with Splenda. Just eat the fruit, dudes.

linanil · **Posted:** Tue Jan 29, 2013 2:43 pm

wait, like just the powder? No jello itself?

I used to eat sugar free jello cups occasionally because they were basically no calories and something slightly sweet to snack on. I couldn't imagine sprinkling the powder on stuff. Also, I never have eaten one of those fruit salads in jello but I think I've seen them on tv? I don't know, they look gross.

vixki · **Posted:** Tue Jan 29, 2013 2:47 pm

linanil wrote:

wait, like just the powder? No jello itself?

I used to eat sugar free jello cups occasionally because they were basically no calories and something slightly sweet to snack on. I couldn't imagine sprinkling the powder on stuff. Also, I never have eaten one of those fruit salads in jello but I think I've seen them on tv? I don't know, they look gross.

I'm pretty sure I've heard of people sprinkling jello powder on cupcakes etc as sparkly decorations!

karichelle · **Posted:** Tue Jan 29, 2013 2:53 pm

The powder was a pretty decent companion to alcohol, but I can't imagine sprinkling it on fruit.

dropscone · **Posted:** Tue Jan 29, 2013 2:54 pm

Gulliver wrote:

ashley wrote:

My mom puts jello powder and Equal in her fruit salad. I've never eaten it, but it looks NAAAASTY. And it's always a big hit with the omni crowd, so there you go. People are gross.

As someone who, in the past, regularly put marzipan on muesli*, I can happily say yes, yes we are.

* AKA mueslipan.

Why have I never thought of doing this? I don't see why anyone would think this was gross, it sounds great! (ETA: I'm talking about the idea of mueslipan here, although actually I don't think the jello powder on fruit salad has to necessarily be bad either, depending on the flavour and the fruits used.)

ndpittman · **Posted:** Tue Jan 29, 2013 3:05 pm

linanil wrote:

wait, like just the powder? No jello itself?

I used to eat sugar free jello cups occasionally because they were basically no calories and something slightly sweet to snack on. I couldn't imagine sprinkling the powder on stuff. Also, I never have eaten one of those fruit salads in jello but I think I've seen them on tv? I don't know, they look gross.

Jello salads are an abomination. I hate them with fruit. I hate them with miniature marshmallows. I hate them when the jello is mixed with Cool Whip. I've never tried it (thank God) but my father has had one (lemon or lime jello) with corned beef in it. This is probably one of the only things that if there were a vegan version, I would not try.

kimba · **Joined:** Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:44 pm **Posts:** 1920

ndpittman wrote:

Those calories saved by using Splenda actually make the baby Jesus cry.

Poor baby. He cries a lot.

karichelle · **Posted:** Tue Jan 29, 2013 6:57 pm

So apparently 1.2 BILLION chicken wings will be consumed on Super Bowl Sunday...according to Live with Kelly, anyway. Doesn't anyone bother to do the math on how many chickens that takes?

Mind boggling.

Butternut · **Joined:** Thu Feb 17, 2011 10:13 pm **Posts:** 1594

Just to add on to the fruit salad discussion...my grandmother liked to put mayo on fruit salad. She would scoop on enough to coat every piece of fruit. She couldn't get me to try it even before I was vegan. Yuck

Desdemona · **Posted:** Tue Jan 29, 2013 7:46 pm

karichelle wrote:

So apparently 1.2 BILLION chicken wings will be consumed on Super Bowl Sunday...according to Live with Kelly, anyway. Doesn't anyone bother to do the math on how many chickens that takes?

Mind boggling.

UGH. That is horrifying. Another "special occasion" that requires the massacre of millions of sentient beings in order to be "festive"!

ashley · **Posted:** Tue Jan 29, 2013 8:02 pm

linanil wrote:

wait, like just the powder? No jello itself?

I used to eat sugar free jello cups occasionally because they were basically no calories and something slightly sweet to snack on. I couldn't imagine sprinkling the powder on stuff. Also, I never have eaten one of those fruit salads in jello but I think I've seen them on tv? I don't know, they look gross.

Yep, just the powder. It soaks up the fruit juices and forms kind of a glaze.

fatcat · **Joined:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 6:11 pm **Posts:** 1375

Quote:

One day XXX, you will eat a hamburger. I understand that bad hamburgers are out there and could turn even the most devout carnivore into a vegetarian. You just have to find "The One".

Facebook comment from a stranger on a mutual friend's post about a vegan dish. I was good and hid it from my feed.

DEG · **Joined:** Wed Oct 03, 2012 1:00 am **Posts:** 237

fatcat wrote:

Quote:

One day XXX, you will eat a hamburger. I understand that bad hamburgers are out there and could turn even the most devout carnivore into a vegetarian. You just have to find "The One".

Facebook comment from a stranger on a mutual friend's post about a vegan dish. I was good and hid it from my feed.

That sounds like a paraphrase of the forked up shiitake people say to gay people, so I'm hoping it was meant ironically.

Tofulish · **Posted:** Tue Jan 29, 2013 9:01 pm

Does the poster know that people eat hamburgers, they don't marry them?

fatcat · **Joined:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 6:11 pm **Posts:** 1375

I wanted to kindly suggest that she back off, but I figured it wasn't worth it.

baps · **Posted:** Wed Jan 30, 2013 6:18 am

Gulliver wrote:

As someone who, in the past, regularly put marzipan on muesli*, I can happily say yes, yes we are.

Marzipan on muesli sounds amazing though. I love marzipan.

LisaPunk · **Posted:** Wed Jan 30, 2013 8:27 am

DEG wrote:

fatcat wrote:

Quote:

One day XXX, you will eat a hamburger. I understand that bad hamburgers are out there and could turn even the most devout carnivore into a vegetarian. You just have to find "The One".

Facebook comment from a stranger on a mutual friend's post about a vegan dish. I was good and hid it from my feed.

That sounds like a paraphrase of the forked up shiitake people say to gay people, so I'm hoping it was meant ironically.

how on earth would you know if you've met the right hamburger if you havent tasted it?
i live in MA so maybe it's legal to marry hamburgers here.

vijita · **Posted:** Wed Jan 30, 2013 8:28 am

I've made dressings for tropical fruit salads, but they are really light. I made a tequila-lime juice dressing with cayenne once that was insanely amazing on mango and papaya.

lepelaar · **Posted:** Wed Jan 30, 2013 9:36 am

vijita wrote:

I've made dressings for tropical fruit salads, but they are really light. I made a tequila-lime juice dressing with cayenne once that was insanely amazing on mango and papaya.

I think I just had an orgasm.

Tofulish · **Posted:** Wed Jan 30, 2013 9:37 am

lepelaar wrote:

vijita wrote:

I've made dressings for tropical fruit salads, but they are really light. I made a tequila-lime juice dressing with cayenne once that was insanely amazing on mango and papaya.

I think I just had an orgasm.

I'll have what she's having.

Fee · **Posted:** Wed Jan 30, 2013 9:41 am

Last time I went to a family get together my grandma had two bowls of strawberries - one with sugar over them and a vegan one for me with splenda.

choirqueer · **Posted:** Wed Jan 30, 2013 9:42 am

Tofulish wrote:

lepelaar wrote:

vijita wrote:

I've made dressings for tropical fruit salads, but they are really light. I made a tequila-lime juice dressing with cayenne once that was insanely amazing on mango and papaya.

I think I just had an orgasm.

I'll have what she's having.

Do I need to go get the mop?

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