In the interests of deciding how drunk I would need to get to make the experience tolerable, I had a look at the menu. Normally the mark of a good chef is being able to take poor ingredients and make them into something wonderful. This skill is awe-inspiring and I am jealous of it. Good cooks can take good ingredients and turn them into a nice dish that is more than the sum of it's parts. In this place, they took some decent ingredients and made them worse; an impressive feat but not one to envy. Each dish sounded like it would come out of the kitchen as a brown swill. Some meat added to the dish would inevitably lift it a bit and make it edible. Still, at least it's nice to know that people that failed their McDonalds entrance exam can get a job in the catering industry.
Apart from the food, the principle incenses me. I think vegetarians are bloody idiots but if that's the way they want to live then so be it; it's only them that's losing out. However when they start dictating to me that's another matter, especially when it deprives me of cash I don't really have for food I will not enjoy (frequent readers will know I'm a passionate cook and take a great deal of pleasure from what I eat and drink). The arrogance and ignorance displayed is breathtaking and makes them no better than the other tub-thumping zealots out there that the sensible, rightly, deride. If I could be arsed, I would put my legal hat on and look for some sort of provision that says it's unacceptable discrimination not to have some sort of meat-based course; the Human Rights Act might as well be put to some productive use rather than keeping criminals with kittens in the country.
What tickles me in a bitter way is that these self-same veggies often lust (almost sexually) after leather shoes and handbags (like other eating disorders, those that suffer are usually female).
As I say, didn't end up going although it might have been fun to deploy a pack of salami and some pork scratchings half-way through to be controversial.
Rant over!
On another note, was earning some good boyfriend points by watching Strictly Come Dancing with the girlfriend at the weekend. Is it just me or is Len Goodman under contract to say, "Seveeeeen" at least once per episode. It is getting to the stage where an episode without it is like a car without an engine; still looks the same but somehow not quite right!
JR
Hello JR,
ReplyDeleteAs a vegetarian myself, I read this comment with interest. I absolutely agree that those people who are rude, arrogant or even aggressive to others simply because they don't share their opinions or behave in the same way, are ignorant sods and deserve to be treated as such. Having said that, I can promise you that as a member of the Vegetarian Society, most of us are quite nice and won't care a bit if the person next to us wants to have a bit of meat. I was interested in your comment about vegetarian restaurants and would like to point out that eating out can still sometimes be a trial for those with dietary restrictions so it's nice for us to have somewhere to go and forget about that for an evening. Just a point that's all.
Keep writing JR, it's been a fun experience for me so far.
S1987.F. an interesting argument. I myself suffer from dietary restrictions (not the voluntary ones admittedly) so I sympathise that going out to eat can be a bit of a mine field. The peanuts aren't too bad (especially with current levels of paranoia about anaphylaxis) but the eggs can be a bit of a pain when it comes to sweet courses. Following the logic of the aforementioned veggie, would I be within my rights to invite them to lunch then insist they didn't have a pudding no matter how much they loved whatever was on the menu?
ReplyDeleteGlad you like the blog, will endeavour to continue to entertain.
JR
My sister is a vegetarian. The crap she eats makes me think that I would rather starve than become a vegetarian especially as to bulk up on energy, she knocks back Red Bull like it has gone out of fashion and then wonders why she is tired after the rush has worn off and why she has skin that is so spotty, to use concealer would mean applying a mask!
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GND, was red bull ever IN fashion? Come to think of it, the girl on Saturday looked like she had covered her face in polyfilla. I agree, starvation is by far preferable. Plus, there is something terribly attractive about a girl that likes a good bit of meat (sorry, couldn't resist!)
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