McDonald's introduces "Deep Fried Curried Pork Hummus Gefilte Fish Wrap" for southern Jewish Muslims

[HopeHoops]

:puke:

Yeah, it even made ME gag to think about posting that.

No, it isn't from the Onion. I just sucked it out of my ass and that's probably where it should have stayed.

[TK421]

1. They should probably just shorten the name of it...not that it helps your

traumatized colon

[HopeHoops]

2. Even if that was real, I wouldn't eat it. I went vegetarian more than 20 years ago!

On the other hand, even if I WASN'T vegetarian, I wouldn't eat the crap fast food joints push off as food. :puke:

[TK421]

3. I'm considering going vegetarian for a while, just to give it a shot

see what it's like...since I really can't give up dairy so I couldn't do vegan

I rarely eat red meat or poultry anyway, but I do like flounder and salmon

Is there a name for that, HopeHoops? You got any pointers? My sister recommended going this route

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

4. Perhaps you could try some

Deep Fried Curried Tofu Hummus Gefilte Fish Wrap

No meat, just fish.

Mmmmmm, and by some coincidence, it's lunch time.

:hi:

[HopeHoops]

5. Dairy and egg is "ovo-lacto" - not sure how to classify it with fish. Read on...

What got us thinking was the book "Diet for a New America" by John Robbins, the heir to the Baskin-Robbins empire. He grew up with an ice cream cone shaped swimming pool and turned down the entire estate because he felt it was wrong.

I know vegans, but it is a very hard diet to follow for primarily nutritional reasons, especially with young children. The book is split pretty evenly between medical/scientific issues and moral/ethical matters. It is a good read even if it doesn't change your mind on anything. We read it in '89 and haven't done red meat or poultry since. I know we did fish for a while because my eldest (19 1/2) had tuna at some point in her early years. Eventually, fish just stopped being "food" and even the smell made me think "cat food". Curiously, I will still buy albacore for the cats.

The issue with fish wasn't really moral, ethical, or even medical. It was more about the toxins in it. If you eat farm-raised tuna or shrimp (U.S. farms that is), you're pretty much getting the best there is. I wouldn't trust anything from China, even if it is marked "farm-raised". There are too many damn heavy metals and farm-runoff poisons in the seafood now.

Living in Maryland, I grew up with the summer tradition of blue-fin crabs and corn. The last time I remember eating crabs, I didn't get very far into one. My dad got them from a crab house he had been going to for years. One smelled like a photography dark room (which I spent a lot of time in), another like ammonia, another was almost black inside, and one pretty much fell apart - it wasn't a dead crab that was cooked, I've seen those - this was just gross. I think that went a long way toward changing my opinion of seafood.

If you have a problem with "well what the fuck do I COOK then?", try Mollie Katzen's books ("The Moosewood Cookebook", "Enchanted Broccoli Forest", and "Still Life With Menu") and "Laurel's Kitchen", which has a lot of nutritional information in the back.

As for magazines, "Vegetarian Times" is a staple. I don't get it anymore because we've been at the "just throw it together" stage for over a decade. My wife just made two pot pies from scratch (other than the crust - Betty Crocker "just add water") and guessed at the proportions, filling, sauce, etc. My eldest daughter's boyfriend is a serious meat eater but he snarfed it down. I can't remember the last time I used a recipe for anything, well, other than a box/package mix.