Heineken’s a funny beast. I thought I hated Heineken until I had it in the Netherlands. It wasn’t even from the tap. It was bottled Heineken, but it came in a brown bottle, not a green one. Unlike the stuff in the US, it tasted really good. No, I wasn’t high or anything when I drank it.
MGD is meh. I thought it was my cheap beer of choice until one night at the bar, after drinking three of these, I decided to have an Old Style. After several MGDs, the Old Style was an explosion of flavor. PBR is quite the same. It seems to be the trendy beer among young urban hipsters, but for a cheap beer, it actually isn’t all that bad.
OMG, are you my long lost twin? I hate that. What’s worse is, that in the midwest, they aren’t pretending, they actually BELIEVE that american cheese is the same as cheddar, and that that individually sliced and wrapped white american cheese clone is the same as swiss.
Shudder. Right up there with people who eat dogs with ketchup.
I don’t like the flavor of regular. I really do drink diet coke, “just for the taste of it”. I do like mountain dew and 7up type drinks regular, but none of the dark drinks, they’re just too overwhelmingly syrupy.
Near iCopy? Denali and Fireweed?? I think it’s still there. Although, the Government Hill “chinese greasy spoon” has the best kimchee, both delicate in texture AND burn your nose hairs spicy, and no bokchoy (that’s why I like the cucumber kimchee, never was a fan of the bokchoy kind).
I know, I know weird kimchee at a chinese restuarant, but you know Alaskans, “We don’t GIVE a damn how they do it outside”…hell we also have “cajun” mexican food
They must be burnt. No mooing, no death throes. I LOVE the little crispy bits, I’ve never known any chef (and even I’ve learned to do it right) who hasn’t managed to cook well done, just as tender and tasty as the “appropriate” doneness.
Real coffee vs. instant coffee.
Caffeinated beverages vs. non-caffeinated – this works both ways.
Squishy cheese – I love cheese with taste, and can’t imagine why someone would buy orange plastic, but always feel intimidated that I like brie or stilton only in extreme moderation.
Off topic:
But explanations don’t work like that. What if someone asked you to explain theft, and when you said you thought it was unfair to the person who’s property was taken they said “I don’t want to talk about some sort of karma, what’s the scientific explanation?”
You might be able to explain why evolution produces people who think theft is wrong. You might be able to exlpain logically why everyone would be better off if no-one stole. But even if you couldn’t, you would still think it was wrong, and probably say something like “I wouldn’t do it because I wouldn’t want someone to do it to me.”
If you’re vegetarian for health reasons you could explain that, but if for moral reasons, no.
You called? (he asked, straightening his Elvis glasses, which he wore with a bowling shirt and wingtips.) As much as I love Guinness, I really developed a taste for Pabst Blue Ribbon, and I’ll take it over any Anheuser-Busch or Miller product any day. It’s hard to find in Florida so it’s still a bit of a novelty and has that “hipster” connotation, but whenever I find a 12-pack and share it with skeptics and nonbelievers, they usually end up agreeing that it does the job and tastes pretty damn good.
Exactly–nailed it in one, milroy! Which is why I live in awe of your intellect.
At the risk of further degrading your opinion of me, I don’t believe you. As I stated before, I’m guessing you very much care whether people are eating foods obtained in certain ways (via theft or murder, for example), and you would take action to prevent people from eating such foods.
The difference between you and militant vegans is that your moral system coincides with the moral system of society at large: society at large objects to eating foods obtained through theft or murder. Society at large doesn’t object to eating foods obtained through the slaughter of animals. So when you speak out against the cannibal, society supports you; when the vegan speaks out against the carnivore, society doesn’t support her.
I don’t lecture people on their meat-eating habits. But I can understand what motivates a vegan to do so, and it’s incorrect to dismiss it as self-righteousness.
Count me another in the camp that gets diet coke at a fast food place (or anywhere, unless I get tea or water). Usually I get a pretty decent sized drink. I’m already eating a pound’s worth of calories. There’s no sense in getting regular coke and making it TWO pounds.
Plus, aside from that, I’m trying to cut out corn syrup from my diet in any easy ways I can, and cokes are probably one of the biggest sources of it. Too much trouble to avoid it completely, but the stuff ain’t really good for you, and there’s no sense in drinking it when there’s a perfectly suitable alternative. If I’m lucky enough to go to a place that has serve yourself drinks, and they also have tea (which means a bin of lemons), I’ll load it up with some real lemon too.
I am not a food snob. I will eat damn near anything, provided:
-If it has tomato, it must be completely pureéd and thoroughly cooked.
-If it has onions, they much be very small pieces, and NOT crunchy or raw at all, and
-I like how it smells.
Granted, I don’t like everything I try, but I have a few bottles of top shelf liquor and still like Mike’s Hard Lemonade, I have eaten at fancy French restaurants in Québec, but I can still appreciate a box of McDonald’s french fries. Variety is the spice of life after all.
Did we just enter a world in which fish didn’t have to die in order to be eaten? Or does the killing of fish en masse not equal murder?
Some of us also have no moral objection to cannibalism when the eatee died of natural causes, or when he or she consented to be eaten.
Because they might bring up the fact that fish and bratwurst both come from animals?
As for the ketchup on hot dogs, I eat them that way because I despise mustard. In order to eat mustard, it must be heavily disguised inside the deviled eggs or potato salad. Why does the mustard clan look down on ketchup on hot dogs with such high and mighty superiority?
Vegans are against dogs and cats? Cause that’s the only carnivores around my neighbourhood. Humans are omnivores; I know of no humans in my circle who eat only meat. If you’re going to be tendentious, you should probably get your terms straight.
catsix, are you trying to out-dumb milroy? Cuz you ain’t gonna give him a run for his money. I can dismiss your post by repeating what I said before:
“I don’t lecture people on their meat-eating habits. But I can understand what motivates a vegan to do so, and it’s incorrect to dismiss it as self-righteousness.”
So pointing out that I can’t lecture people on their meat-eating habits is kind of irrelevant.
I can never guard against willful misunderstanding. You’re correct, of course, that “omnivore” is a more appropriate term above; feel free to substitute it.
