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@no-quarter I didn't read the whole article, but the first review in it made all this mention about how it looks and the texture....and nothing about the taste.
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@bones said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@no-quarter I didn't read the whole article, but the first review in it made all this mention about how it looks and the texture....and nothing about the taste.
Except the word "delicious".
But yeah - I hesitate to admit it, but I actually tried some "vegan duck" at a festival earlier this year - mainly because the queues for everything else were fucking atrocious, and it was in a burrito-sized sushi roll, which just looked like the perfect thing considering the heat/hangover.
The taste, texture, look - were all "realistic". But... there really was something missing, which I could only put down to the lack of subconscious satisfaction that only comes from knowing that something died for my culinary enjoyment. -
@bones said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@no-quarter I didn't read the whole article, but the first review in it made all this mention about how it looks and the texture....and nothing about the taste.
Ha... I actually read the entire thing (slow work day), and the reporter eventually summed it up pretty well...
- After watching nearly a dozen vegans devour the dish, I decided to try it. < ... > I wanted to love it, but after years of eating succulent cod fillets my palate could not quite adjust to the thin and rubbery texture of the blossom flower. (The whole experience made me crave fish, and for dinner I had a meaty chunk of North Atlantic haddock.)
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@nepia said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Vegans can actually make some decent food - as long as it's not trying to fake meat/dairy stuff.
And obviously you have to have a side of meat with it.
This. Vegetables can be tasty and interesting in themselves. If you want to be a vegetabilist just eat the bloody vegetables. If meat is so horrific why try and replicate it?
Due to a complete balls up (Mrs Cato and the two Ms Catos being even later than usual) I found that the only option for a late lunch in a sleepy Devon town yesterday, was a vegan cafe (and believe me I looked bloody hard for an alternative). I had the Lebanese chick pea and lentil soup and it was very nice. Tofu, vegetarian sausages et al though you can stick up your arse.
I did have to have a large bowl of chilli con carne for dinner though.
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@catogrande said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Tofu, vegetarian sausages et al though you can stick up your arse.
There's some deviant stuff in this world, and then there's vegan sex
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When you think you're a bit awesome......
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...but you break it...
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.....and you crack your head...
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...and end up in hospital..
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...and the police are now on to ya...
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...and what you broke cost 300k -
@hooroo said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
When you think you're a bit awesome......
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...but you break it...
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.....and you crack your head...
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...and end up in hospital..
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...and the police are now on to ya...
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...and what you broke cost 300kand you get your face all over the country in the media
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I may have found this funny if I wasn't careful...thank God Stuff.co.nz is there to let me know I should be offended instead.
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@mn5 said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
I may have found this funny if I wasn't careful...thank God Stuff.co.nz is there to let me know I should be offended instead.
Her comeback was pretty good I thought.
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Nadia Lims kid is going to be stoked the world knows it was the result of a pounding Nadia took on the bedroom floor . No word on the actual position used or whether her or the dad got carpet burns , some things are best left to the imagination I guess.
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@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@mn5 said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
I may have found this funny if I wasn't careful...thank God Stuff.co.nz is there to let me know I should be offended instead.
Her comeback was pretty good I thought.
The author of that article is a fucking moron.
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It’s difficult to read the herald these days with all the pop up ads and other crap you have to wade though to get to the “ stories” and when you do you kind of wonder why you bothered .
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=12139347
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@jegga at least clicking on that lead me to see this....
https://www.nzherald.co.nz//nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12139451&ref=clavis
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@taniwharugby yeah , is that the last appeal he gets? Be nice if he never got out of jail .
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here's a good 'un...enough internet from me today.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12139410
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@taniwharugby I'm impressed they included the macron (haven't clicked on the article though).
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@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
here's a good 'un...enough internet from me today.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12139410
is it named that because you have to pay for it?
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Man some people are easily triggered.
I do struggle with why a Belgian Brewery would name a beer Maori Tears, particularly in this age of greater appreciation of the dangers of cultural appropriation.
As for Sofitel - well I guess there is gender stereotyping but it seems pretty tame to generate the level of fuss and outrage.
I mean to be accurate - who wears their dressing gowns to bed? He should be scratching his balls, farting and secretly reading porn inside the paper.
His eyes are saying "you know you want to" and hers I wish he'd go have a dump so I can breathe
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@dogmeat said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Man some people are easily triggered.
I do struggle with why a Belgian Brewery would name a beer Maori Tears, particularly in this age of greater appreciation of the dangers of cultural appropriation.
As for Sofitel - well I guess there is gender stereotyping but it seems pretty tame to generate the level of fuss and outrage.
I mean to be accurate - who wears their dressing gowns to bed? He should be scratching his balls, farting and secretly reading porn inside the paper.
His eyes are saying "you know you want to" and hers I wish he'd go have a dump so I can breathe
they would be nude. both would be on their phones, him on the Fern, she on instagram.
