Eating healthfully is the “right” reason (one of several) for anyone to choose being vegetarian or vegan. In which case, hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated anything should count, for all practical purposes, as “toxic poison”. In which case, one needn’t worry about about how many dead cows are in the mix as well. And, for health purposes, trace amounts of “beef extract” or animal contaminants shouldn’t matter much.
If one chooses to be vegetarian or vegan for ethical reasons (about not wanting to kill animals, or over concerns how they are tormented at the factory farms), then the logic is different. You might or might not care if your food has “trace amouts” of animal in it. Unless, as suggested by a few posts above, you want to NOT patronize a restaurant that serves dead animals. You might, or might not, choose to eat dairy products, or eggs, or fish or other “lower” animals.
If one chooses to be vegetarian or vegan just because one’s heartthrob boyband teen idol does it, but he eats McFries so she’s gotta eat McFries too, then one might hope it’s just a temporary affliction. If she survives to adulthood, she will likely grow out of it.
Anyway, are vegetarian (or vegan?) heartthrob teen idols allowed to have oral sex?
so you don’t like her, and the best you could do is bitch and nitpick her food choices on the internet? how about you post your own picture and tell us about your own hobbies and lifestyle decisions?
You are making erroneous assumptions. None of what you say is remotely in the OP. All that is mentioned is a disagreement about a factual matter between friends. This happens all the time. There is not even a hint of the idea that the OP doesn’t like said friend.
I hope whatever is causing you to feel bad gets better. I definitely understand misinterpreting things because you are in a bad mood.
Huh? So you insist on eating only in restaurants that do not use animals products of any kind in the food, but you object to pubs that prevent you from being exposed to tobacco smoke. That’s interesting.
Not quite. I insist that the food I consume does not use animal products; what others consume around me has no interest.
Pubs, and other places, traditionally allowed — actually, encouraged — moderate smoking; the smoking ban ( amongst other reasons ) has been knocking pubs down in Ireland and the UK at an amazing rate since it came in: if one goes somewhere to drink and smoke, then removing one option means one may as well drink at home where one can do as one likes.
Exactly.
Well, although I escaped, through absolutely no merit of my own, a family tendency to alcoholism, one went to pubs to socially drink with others. There was a time, far back in the past, before my time, when they didn’t actually serve meals in British pubs other than small doleful packets of potato crisps ( American = chips ) and maybe some fly-blown meat-pies captive in a glass display case on the counter.
This was not correct for the McD’s I worked at for 4 years. The french fries and hash browns used one set of fryers and the chicken nuggets, crispy chicken fillets, and fish fillets were done in their own fryer.
am i being whooshed here? would your friends criticise and ridicule your faults behind your back on the internet, calling you out as a liar and posting your picture as a helpful frame of reference? or do you do that to them? do you speak ill of your friends behind their back? what might be ok between friends is not once you put it online.
McD’s UK site seems to confirm they are veggie in the UK at least:
Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (Sunflower, Rapeseed), Dextrose (only added at beginning of season). Prepared in the restaurants using a non-hydrogenated vegetable oil. Salt is added after cooking.
Please note our Fries can be cooked in the same oil as the Spicy Veggie Patty which contains: Chickpeas (30%), Batter (Rice Flour, Maize Flour, Maize Starch, Potato Starch, (Stabiliser (Xanthan Gum)), Breadcrumb (Rice Flour, Gram Flour, Maize Starch, Dextrose), Onion (10%), Yellow Split Peas (7%), Potatoes (7%), Vegetable Oil (Sunflower, Rapeseed), Water, Dehydrated Potato, Herbs & Spices (Cumin, Coriander, Garlic, Garlic Powder), Sugar, Salt.
I am OP. I must say, sometimes I want to break my friend’s neck when she is blabbering about her boyband or about the iPhone and blackberry she made her dad buy or about all the 68 (yes, she counts!) guys she kissed (notice that she is 18), but… yes, I like her, and I think it would be better to point out to her that the fries are not vegetarian before she finds out by herself.
