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I hate when they do that too. My parents do the same thing.

BY GUM, YOU'RE RIGHT! (How much do you want to bet it will have bacon, creamy dressing, and/or cheese - because who ever heard of a salad made of vegetables, right?!)

sorreh, double post

BARF BARF BARF BARF

NB: there is a Giada joke in here somewhere, i'm sure.

I vote either potato, macaroni, or jello variety.

I noticed when I was shopping yesterday that they added a new label on the front that says "vegan- with daiya cheese." At least I think it's a new label. Regardless, it was very helpful.

That is always a plus.

My new peeve was that the Paleo cookbooks are now mixed in with the vegetarian cookbooks at Barnes and Noble. Really?

I do think it's new. I got some last week and noticed this when trying to figure out which of the five was actually for me.

I noticed this too! But at mine there were only a couple, so I thought it was either a mistake or someone thought it was funny, so I moved them. Don't sully the vegan section, jerks!

Amazon does this, too, on their bestseller lists. Drives me crazy.

Ha! My father is in that club, too. I think we should just accept that our omnivore parents are much better at vegan dining than we are.

I was telling my sister that I was feeling really depressed and anxious lately and she offered, "Eat more protein". Yesterday someone else told me the same forking thing. I get plenty of protein, dammit, and that is shitty advice.

I don't even understand how that could make sense in anyone's brain.

Marketing by the cattle industry has convinced everyone from birth that protein is essential to all things and that it is only found in flesh.

Same way that the dairy industry convinced everyone that the only place that humans get calcium is from milk...

Because protein is always the right answer to any ill. I thought you knew.

I saw this too when looking at the Forks Over Knives cookbook, right next to Paleo Pud Robb Wolff. And Amazon? They have Dr. McDougall's new book, The STARCH Solution on the low carb best seller list. Folks, starch means carbohydrate. When they put Anthony Bourdain in the veg section, I quit.

My dad often says "I know you don't want to hear this" then goes on about his dead animal meal in detail...Why tell me?

Amazon also have "vegan" books with milk in in the Kindle store, so they clearly don't really check anything. Which is understandable, given their size, I suppose.

Similarly when people are telling you about a meal and they say, "....and I had - SORRY! - steak. It was - SORRY! - so good." Who are you apologizing to? And if you think you need to apologize, why tell me about your steak at all?

Because it was so GOOD it must be spoken of, and "sorry" makes everything better.

Really, though, it is bizarre to acknowledge the person you're talking to has no interest in what you're saying and then continue on with it in great detail. Kinda makes me want to counter with "I know you don't want to hear about the crepe I took this morning, but...." (obviously you're not talking to the PPK if you begin a sentence that way)

Oh, have we had this one yet? When someone tells you how they tricked another vegan into eating something non-vegan. One of my colleagues told me how she put butter into something she made for her son, and he ate it all up and enjoyed it! I don't know what she expected me to say to that.

"Wow, that is so awesome that your son can't trust you at all! You must feel pretty good about yourself right now."

"Really? Because I like to put my penis in things people expect not to have had my penis in and then bring them into work."

Brian and I do this all the time, he tells me about video games and I leap out of my chair and reenact cliffhangers from whatever tv show i'm watching.

QFT. How does anyone ever think this is okay, let alone something to brag about?!

New/old pet peeve: I didn't have time to pack a lunch for school yesterday, so I ended up hitting the salad bar. The good news: they had chickpeas and edamame for vegan protein, and you actually get a pretty decently-sized salad for five bucks. The bad: my salad was less "ingredients that I wanted" than "ingredients that were furthest away from the cheese," since the employees just kind of let it sprinkle over into the adjacent vegetable compartments. Gross.

i just wish everyone would eat what they wanted and that's it; it's really not that complicated. of course, being vegan is a huge part of who i am, but unless we're having a conversation specifically on the hows and whys, what i eat is simply what i like to eat and what makes me feel good and has nothing to do with anyone else.

and mixed salad bars are so gross; ingredients always get strewn everywhere. and cheese on a basic salad? even as an omnivore, i don't think i enjoyed that. it's so irritating.

or when you're reading an ingredients list and everything looks great except right at the bottom, squished between some other stuff, is 'honey' (i'm thinking certain kashi granola bars).