# Vegetarian dinner guests. Aaaaaaaaaaaah. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 3, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-dinner-guests-aaaaaaaaaaaah/398584 "2007-04-03T17:03:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-dinner-guests-aaaaaaaaaaaah/398584/141 "2007-04-06T02:48:47Z")
[QUOTE=Hogwash] If you can’t beat 'em, eat 'em. I wonder what vegetarians taste like. [QUOTE=wring] chicken. Don’t ask how I know. [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE] Look, dammit, we all know that adult human flesh tastes like [SPAM®](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_229.html), alright not SPAM® exactly, pork and corned beef, babies taste of chicken! CMC fnord! I went on a vegetarian diet once, lost 20 lbs, them fuckers are hard to catch, damn can they run! ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-dinner-guests-aaaaaaaaaaaah/398584/142 "2007-04-06T03:09:49Z")
[QUOTE=crowmanyclouds] Look, dammit, we all know that adult human flesh tastes like [SPAM®](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_229.html), alright not SPAM® exactly, pork and corned beef, babies taste of chicken! CMC [/QUOTE] and babies don’t eat meat. Q. E. D. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-dinner-guests-aaaaaaaaaaaah/398584/143 "2007-04-06T03:55:44Z")
[QUOTE=wring] and babies don’t eat meat. Q. E. D. [/QUOTE] Ahh, if I’d been able to catch one I’d have learned that firsthand! (so to speak, lady fingers anyone?) This leaves me only one question, what do cannibals taste like? CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-dinner-guests-aaaaaaaaaaaah/398584/144 "2007-04-06T04:29:41Z")
[QUOTE=crowmanyclouds] This leaves me only one question, what do cannibals taste like? [/QUOTE] Long pork, of course. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-dinner-guests-aaaaaaaaaaaah/398584/145 "2007-04-06T04:56:05Z")
[QUOTE=crowmanyclouds] This leaves me only one question, what do cannibals taste like? CMC ] [/QUOTE] Tastes like an Egyptian ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-dinner-guests-aaaaaaaaaaaah/398584/146 "2007-04-06T11:31:16Z")
[QUOTE=vetbridge] Rather than “friends” why not use “acquaintance”. [/QUOTE] I had a coworker who had a daughter who, when she was nine, put two columns on a sheet of paper. One was labeled ‘Freinds’ and the other was ‘Not My Friends’. Put her on your ‘Not My Friend’ list. ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-dinner-guests-aaaaaaaaaaaah/398584/147 "2007-04-06T13:21:49Z")
[QUOTE=Do Not Taunt] Of course other people can eat the lemon spaghetti, but it was made _for_ the vegetarian former friend. [/QUOTE] I think it is fair to say that the VFF was a “but-for” cause of the lemon spaghetti being made; absent her presence it would not have been made. But it was also made _for_ everyone, in the sense that more than one portion was made, I am assuming. But I do see what you mean by that, certainly. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-dinner-guests-aaaaaaaaaaaah/398584/148 "2007-04-06T13:57:53Z")
[QUOTE=aruvqan] \ You could always have a baconade - an older sort of fun, a dinner where all the dishes are somehow pork based 😃 Hm, a nice ham broth based creme potage of beans, a salad with bacon crumbles, a between course assietes volounte of the chicken livers wrapped in bacon, and the water chestnuts wrapped in bacon and perhaps canteloupe wrapped in prosciutto. A really nice bourbelier of pork with pommes landaise [diced potatoes and westphalian ham sauteed in goose fat] and stuffed artichokes … i can feel my poor capillaries screaming in terror at the thought of it… :eek: Dont know any pork based desserts unless you want to try to make gelatin out of pigsfeet and make a jello construct out of it :dubious: [/QUOTE] Lard makes great piecrust. Traditional mincemeat was made with beef–but you could experiment with prok! ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-dinner-guests-aaaaaaaaaaaah/398584/149 "2007-04-06T13:59:31Z")
[QUOTE=villa] I think it is fair to say that the VFF was a “but-for” cause of the lemon spaghetti being made; absent her presence it would not have been made. But it was also made _for_ everyone, in the sense that more than one portion was made, I am assuming. But I do see what you mean by that, certainly. [/QUOTE] This omnivore would have been elbowing the vegetarian out of the way to get at the lemon spaghetti. Sounds wonderful. And I’d have no hard feelings about elbowing \*that \* particular vegeterian. ---
**Author:** ![Alma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Alma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alma)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-dinner-guests-aaaaaaaaaaaah/398584/150 "2007-04-06T14:03:17Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Factually correct on both counts. However, let’s not confuse vegetarians with vegans. There are many many flavors of self-described vegetarians. [/QUOTE] When I mentioned this at post #31, that’s why I asked how strict a vegetarian she was. I didn’t get an answer, but I was thinking this would be a good this to hit her back with when she complained. ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-dinner-guests-aaaaaaaaaaaah/398584/151 "2007-04-06T14:05:33Z")
[QUOTE=Bridget Burke] Lard makes great piecrust. Traditional mincemeat was made with beef–but you could experiment with prok! [/QUOTE] My ex-wife was a vegetarian the first time we stayed with my family for Xmas. My mother was so proud of herself for remembering to buy vegetarian mincemeat (no suet) for mince pies, and to this day we still mock her for standing in the kitchen proudly proclaiming how aware of modern trends such as vegetarianism she was while she spooned vegetarian mincemeat into a pie tin lined with pastry made with lard. And the lemon spaghetti is a wonderful, quick, easy summer dish. I am as much a meat eater as a lion on the Serengeti, but I love the stuff. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarian-dinner-guests-aaaaaaaaaaaah/398584.md?page=7)