That’s why it isn’t green!
I have never understood the idea behind wanting vegetarian versions of the lowest forms of meat. Hot dogs aren’t even that great a food. I’m not a vegetarian, but there are probably dozens of delicious vegetables (even though I consume huge quantities of fatty meat, I’d wager I eat more vegetables than most “vegetarians”) and other non-meat things that in no way resemble processed-meat and are much more delicious. If I opposed eating vegetables, I wouldn’t make vegetable-free meatified versions of brussells sprouts. I would just eat meatballs. Or a nice steak.
I was vegetarian for a couple years. It’s not that I didn’t like meat in all it’s forms. Just ethically wouldn’t/couldn’t eat it for a while. Lots of vegetarians loved meat back when they ate it, and miss it. Hence the fake versions. Hot dogs may not be that great, but when everyone else is grillin’ ‘em up at the cookout, ya kinda want one, too. That hankerin’ for chicken nuggets and riblets and such is still there sometimes, it’s nice when there’s even a remotely acceptable substitute is out there. Most veg/vegan people I know eat lots more tofu and fruit/vegetables than they do the substitute stuff, that’s a treat not a staple.
I grew up eating meat, but I’ve been a vegetarian for about 24 years. SeaDragonTattoo says pretty much what I would have said were I not writing on a teeny tiny screen.
Snopes put up an articleabout this yesterday. They call the claims “Unproven” and raise some of the same questions raised in this thread:
OMG! You mean 1/3 of my hotdog is alien!?
No no no. Not 1/3 of a given hot dog. One out of 3 hot dogs is alien. Any given hot dog is either alien or not.
I’m vegetarian. My username is extra relevant!
Oh, that’s a relief. And it should greatly improve my odds should I test if it responds to "Na-nu Na-nu’ before I tuck in.
I thought those were the humanitarians…
sheet ya cant eat anything these days!
Spit, urine, skin flakes/dandruff, etc.
But is it free range human?
Was this human killed by hand with a sharp knife?
Well, the problem with human meat is that the taste varies from person to person.
That’s only necessary when trying to keep kosher. Most are killed by small caliber gunfire. Sometimes bystanders are killed when supplies are low.
Who knows. In this world you could probably keep up a small supply killing only people who not only want to be killed, but are capable of saying so clearly and distinctly.
Or “We form this fake company, send out a press release, get investors for our proprietary technology, then split.”
Reminds me of the company that claimed to have located MH370 by detecting trace elements through satellite imagery. Their technology was proprietary and operated solely on the power buzzwords too.
I had two vegitarian teachers. One didn’t like meat. He didn’t eat meat substitutes, because they tasted sort of like meat, which he didn’t like.
The other didn’t like abatoirs. He done some work in an abatoir, and decided that he didn’t want to eat anything that had caused that much suffering. He ate meat substitutes, some of which tasted kind of like the lowest form of meat product, so making the stuff up into hotdogs kinda worked.
Learned a new word. Is this a fancy word for slaughterhouse, or just one that isn’t used around here?