[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:159, topic:515377”]
How can you make a veggie soup with chicken broth?
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It’s a weight watchers soup with chicken broth and a bunch of veggies. Not vegetarian.
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:159, topic:515377”]
How can you make a veggie soup with chicken broth?
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Vegetable, in the sense of no meat bits, rather than vegetarian vegetable, containing no meat broth. Vegetarians like me tend to learn to make that distinction quickly.
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:159, topic:515377”]
How can you make a veggie soup with chicken broth?
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A lot of vegetable soups are made with meat broths. There’s quite a bit of intersection, but “Vegetable X” does not necessarily equal “Vegetarian X.”
I hate this argument. It may be a higher tax RATE ($/1000 assessed value), but the overall PAYMENT AMOUNT is often very similar, or even lower, due to lower assessed values.
I grew up in Ipswich MA, which has a tax rate just south of $12/1000. I now live in a town in southeast NH with a tax rate of ~$19/1000. But, my house, in Ipswich, on 1.3Acres, would be assessed at nearly $400K (or more), rather than the $260K where I live.
400K x $12/1000 = $4800
260K x $19/1000 = $4940
Slightly more expensive, but not equivalent to 5.75% (or is it >6% now) x my salary + 5% of all my non-food/clothing purchases.
Of course, if you live in NH, and work in MA, you pay the MA income tax, so moving jobs from MA to NH is a nearly 6% raise, if you don’t move the location of your home as well.
Higher Tax rate =/= higher tax bill.
Much of the increased spending in NH is due to MA residents moving up, and now requiring services that were not formerly available, and thus held the tax rates down.
I’d never heard “veggie soup” used to mean “vegetable soup.” I’ve always heard it to mean “vegetarian soup.” Hence my confusion.
An online buyer is trying my patience regarding an item she bought and which I mailed a couple days ago (1st class from CA to IL). She’s in a huff because the postal service online thing is not tracking the delivery confirmation number yet and she thinks this means I never mailed it. I explained to her, patiently, twice, that I did indeed mail the thing but that perhaps the postal folks simply haven’t retrieved it from the drop yet or they didn’t get around to tracking it. It’s out of my hands now.
She does not get it. She says she’s never had this problem with any other sellers.
Sigh. Maybe I should have gone on a long road trip and delivered it manually. But then she would have griped about the delay.
My parents live in a racoon intensive area. They installed a cat door.
Me: You shouldn’t do that. The racoons will come in.
Them: No, the door only operates one way.
Me: Racoons are smart. They’ll figure a way to get in.
Them: No, they won’t.
Me: Yes, you will wake up one morning and find a big boar racoon raiding the kitchen.
Sure enough, my mother heard a funny noise one morning and guess what was eating the family groceries?
So they don’t wan’t their cats to be able to come back in after they’ve gone out? 
You got me there. It was just one person. :o
A couple of years ago, my (vegetarian) father and I tried the soup of the day at a local restaurant. It was billed as “Vegetable Minestrone.” It had chunks of ham in it.
Said restaurant has since gone out of business. I like to think that was part of the reason why it did.
You’re paying attention to the wrong part. They’re asking how you can be eating good food and staying thin. To some people, delicious food cannot be, and will never be, healthy. (I think a previous post in this very thread reflected that.)
Why am I sensing a woosh here?
Some years ago, an old boyfriend of mine found a house he wanted to buy. The house was being sold on an as-is basis by the owner, which in our state means the owner is required to list any known defects. From a practical standpoint, if something goes wrong after the sale is complete, this puts the burden on the buyer to prove that the seller knowingly concealed the defect. An older relative urged my ex to made his purchase offer contingent upon a home inspection, done at his own expense, of course. The sellers agreed to this condition, saying that they had nothing to hide and remarking that they had bought the house themselves without an inspection.
Come to find out, the original builder/contractor had screwed up big time, and the house had a massive structural flaw, with the damage just becoming evident. The cost of fixing the problem exceeded the value of the house, and my ex-boyfriend withdrew his purchase offer.
Me: (Shaking my head in amazement at the five-figure bullet he’d dodged)
Him: (Before I could speak, and with great disgust) So I guess I just wasted that
$200 I spent on the inspection.
:smack: Kinda glad I didn’t marry him.
I was at a local place that had corn chowder. Now, corn chowder sometimes has ham or bacon or chicken, and sometimes is just corn and vegg.
So I asked the server if there was any meat in the corn chowder and she consulted the kitchen. No, no, no - no meat at all, etc.
Out comes the soup with big (BIG) slabs of bacon in it. I call her over, show her the bacon, she’s pissed at the kitchen. She took the soup back and there was much hollering from the kitchen direction.
She came back and apologized and said the dude in the kitchen didn’t know/think that bacon was meat…:rolleyes:
I may go off on one here - it just makes me so freaking mad! I work for car rental and all we ask for you to rent a car is full licence (paperpart and plastic card), ADDITIONAL proof of address (bank statement, utility bill, etc) and a credit or debit card for payment. Anyhoo heres what happens
ME: Can I please see your proof of address?
A-hole customer: Dont have one, I wasnt told (grr we tell everyone!). Its on my drivers licence.
Ive worked in car rental for 4 years - I am FULLY aware that the hirers address is on their licence! They always reply in such a smug manner that the address is on the licence like I dont know or something.
Also when they hire again we need to see their licence again to check for endorsements or in case they have had their licence taken away.
Me: Can I see your licence please?
A-Hole customer - I was told I didnt need to take it, you have it on your system.
Me: As you were told when you booked we need to see both parts of your licence everytime you hire.
Some people are so ugh they wont be told. Why would we tell people not to take their licence? Do they think we get enjoyment from being shouted at by them? Some people just always think they are right. What Ive said seems so petty but when you are serving up to 100 people a day it really starts to wind you up when people just wont listen!
GRR!
Thanks for listening!
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:165, topic:515377”]
I’d never heard “veggie soup” used to mean “vegetable soup.” I’ve always heard it to mean “vegetarian soup.” Hence my confusion.
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It’s actually only fairly recently that restaurants and stores have started offering more vegetarian options. I’ve been an on-and-off vegetarian of various levels for, oh, about 15 years now. Especially when I first started (I gave up meat for Lent in sixth grade), you had to be *very *careful about checking the ingredients on everything. You didn’t dare just have “vegetable soup” because there was a very good chance it had a beef or chicken broth. Even now, you could probably walk into a grocery store, look at the canned soups, and see some non-vegetarian vegetable soups.
According to the literature I read (from the Us Conference of Catholic Bishops) broths are OK on Fridays of Lent if they are made from mammal or fowl meat.
I’m not talking about the normal abstinence of meat that Catholics traditionally engage in on Fridays during Lent. It’s also traditional to give something up for the entirety of Lend (excepting Sundays, IIRC, since those work like “little Easters”), and I gave up meat that year.
Could you provide a cite for that? I’m not doubting you, I’ve just never heard that and I would love for you to be right.
I know my name isn’t cite, but I know loads of people who give things up for Lent (strangely enough, not all of them Catholic). I just assumed it was a common practice.