Happy "Burns" day/ night

Clever Pun

clarkey cat wrote:

I've just haggis neeps and tatties in the staff canteen.

St Georges Day?

I put on a fancy dress knights outfit and get p1ssed on stella in Yates. Doesn't everyone?

Stella is belgium beer. they call it a kids beer #justsaying

should be drinking ale

Clever Pun

meanredspider wrote:

Seriously, though - what IS veggie Haggis? And how do you know whether you like veggie haggis or just the one(s) you've tasted because, in reality, it's just some vegetable concoction in the shape of a haggis, isn't it? There's no "rules" for what should go into a veggie haggis so I'm assuming one might be based upon nuts, another on soya, and a third on neeps & tatties. At least with a real haggis you know it's sheep. I'm not anti-veggie, per se, but I do find veggie imitations of meat bewildering

It's so while the veggies can shun all things tasty (read meaty) they can still join in I guess. Facon is the real criminal here, cardboard rubbish, least the veggie haggis is nice with oats and veggies in

Kieran_Burns

Clever Pun wrote:

meanredspider wrote:

Seriously, though - what IS veggie Haggis? And how do you know whether you like veggie haggis or just the one(s) you've tasted because, in reality, it's just some vegetable concoction in the shape of a haggis, isn't it? There's no "rules" for what should go into a veggie haggis so I'm assuming one might be based upon nuts, another on soya, and a third on neeps & tatties. At least with a real haggis you know it's sheep. I'm not anti-veggie, per se, but I do find veggie imitations of meat bewildering

It's so while the veggies can shun all things tasty (read meaty) they can still join in I guess. Facon is the real criminal here, cardboard rubbish, least the veggie haggis is nice with oats and veggies in

QED (with regards to my point made earlier)

clarkey cat

Stella is belgium beer

You can't get more English than a nice pint of stella.

You must be doolally.

Clever Pun

Kieran_Burns wrote:

I didn't miss the point at all... I'm afraid you have.

The vegetarian alternatives are to encourage non-vegetarians to try alternatives to the usual fare - this is why they 'impersonate' more traditional dishes.

It has nothing to do with veggies wanting to be like everyone else - it's an attempt to get some more hide-bound individuals to open their minds a little.

since you highlighted it..

I feel you're very wrong here, idealistic in a Rick Chasey way perhaps. They are aimed, promoted at and produced for vegetarians. With the possible exception of quorn mince (i've seen ads saying try it, it's not bad or something like that) but it's more expensive than meaty mince so I can't see the uptake being that high.

Clever Pun

clarkey cat wrote:

Stella is belgium beer

You can't get more English than a nice cup of tea

ftfy

clarkey cat

nice cup of darjeeling.

rick_chasey

clarkey cat wrote:

Stella is Belgian beer

Surely?

clarkey cat

who are you calling Surely?

Kieran_Burns

Clever Pun wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

I didn't miss the point at all... I'm afraid you have.

The vegetarian alternatives are to encourage non-vegetarians to try alternatives to the usual fare - this is why they 'impersonate' more traditional dishes.

It has nothing to do with veggies wanting to be like everyone else - it's an attempt to get some more hide-bound individuals to open their minds a little.

since you highlighted it..

I feel you're very wrong here, idealistic in a Rick Chasey way perhaps. They are aimed, promoted at and produced for vegetarians. With the possible exception of quorn mince (i've seen ads saying try it, it's not bad or something like that) but it's more expensive than meaty mince so I can't see the uptake being that high.

You seem to imply that only vegetarians eat vegetarian food which is of course a complete nonsense. As this is clearly a mindset thing and you're stuck in yours; we'll have to agree to disagree.

rick_chasey

Clever Pun wrote:

I feel you're very wrong here, idealistic in a Rick Chasey way perhaps..

Oh dear.

It's a slippery slope from here.

Next you'll be 100% right about everything.

Clever Pun

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Clever Pun wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

I didn't miss the point at all... I'm afraid you have.

The vegetarian alternatives are to encourage non-vegetarians to try alternatives to the usual fare - this is why they 'impersonate' more traditional dishes.

It has nothing to do with veggies wanting to be like everyone else - it's an attempt to get some more hide-bound individuals to open their minds a little.

since you highlighted it..

I feel you're very wrong here, idealistic in a Rick Chasey way perhaps. They are aimed, promoted at and produced for vegetarians. With the possible exception of quorn mince (i've seen ads saying try it, it's not bad or something like that) but it's more expensive than meaty mince so I can't see the uptake being that high.

You seem to imply that only vegetarians eat vegetarian food which is of course a complete nonsense. As this is clearly a mindset thing and you're stuck in yours; we'll have to agree to disagree.

Wrong.. I'm a rabid carnivore but I do eat a lot of vegetarian food, I say what I say as Ms Pun is a veggie, so I've been able to make a fair amount of comparison taste and awareness wise on the subject. It's all substitute products if they weren't they'd be new and inventive something like the innocent veg pots, an easy way to make anyone eat veg rather than meat lookalike veg. PLus those veg pots taste great with a little cooked chicken mixed in

Can you honestly say that veggie bacon would lure anyone away from real bacon? Do we need a poll for this?

Hang on a mo are you inferring that veggie food is only meat substitute stuff? Or don't you cook much from scratch?

Clever Pun

Rick Chasey wrote:

Clever Pun wrote:

I feel you're very wrong here, idealistic in a Rick Chasey way perhaps..

Oh dear.

It's a slippery slope from here.

Next you'll be 100% right about everything.

Well, if you're correct that means what you say is true. ergo 100%

itboffin

+1 ^ wot he said

See never wrong

SimonAH

:roll: I'm midway through making a huge pot of French onion soup for dinner!

Veggie from scratch!

Oh wait, two pints of beef stock, so it's carnivorous.

Hang on, half a bottle of Chardonnay going in too..

It's really just tasty boozefood.

In goes the cognac.

Pish-head food!

Not getting the hang of veggie cooking am I?

Clever Pun

sounds lush