I'd Proudly Dine Alone

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On Wednesday, November 26, 2003, at 07:07 AM,

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> Message: 6

> Tue, 25 Nov 2003 20:05:50 -0000

> " dave " <dave4sale

> Re: just stuff....

>

> PT,

> I don't know what aussie style salad is, but my understanding of

> Australian cuisine is that it generally consists of a lot of meat

> (and strong beer)..

 

See? Beer's a given for 'em. lol

 

> . Even Steve Erwin, ( " crocodile hunter " ), who is

> always saying how intelligent reptiles actually are and has condemned

> the cruelty of people who were capturing some reptiles to be eaten,

> was going on about how great a certain fish tastes in one episode.

> Apparently the fact that fish are similar to reptiles in many

> respects hasn't dawned on him.

 

For Steve-O it's, " Fish for Eatin', Reptiles for Wrasslin'! "

 

Crikey.

 

> But Daniel Johns, the frontman of

> Silverchair is a vegetarian, so there's some hope for Australia

 

Yeah, but it's like Rush being from Canada; they used up all the good

smart musicians in one group.

>

> I also can't help notice the total hypocrisy that you are being asked

> not to make your casserole (or at least to make other things in

> addition to it) because of someone who doesn't like veggies, yet no

> one has considered making a dish that you could eat.

 

Precisely my point, which I made more rudely of course, being such a

monster.

 

> Your story has

> also made me glad that I haven't spent any holidays with my family

> since going veggie. I can't imagine the ruckus I would cause now

> that I would have to check into what (if any) of the food would be

> vegan;

 

You'd enjoy the liner notes in the new Tull Christmas Album where Anderson

says, among other things, to cast Vegan disciplines aside, gobble the

turkey, (steady on, there), and enjoy a therapeutic respite from the

rigours of daily life. He is being droll and ironic.

 

He also says, " My own views on Christmas? Well, i'm not exactly a

practising paid-up Christian but I have grown up and lived with a

so-called Christian society for 55 years... "

 

Irony's so good, n'est pas? lol

 

> My dad doesn't eat " red meat " or dairy, but doesn't have any

> problem eating turkey. I've been trying to convince my family that

> my grandmother (who just had a stroke) really shouldn't be eating any

> meat (or dairy for that matter) but they just say " She has to eat

> something. " Apparently I've been subsisting on nothing.

 

I used to get that crap, too. They genuinely feel they'd starve. It's

bizarre how deep runs the meat industry indoctrination.

>

> I don't know what else to tell you other than good luck.

> Maybe " aussie style " will turn out to just include some exotic

> veggies after all.

 

All poisonous, no doubt, being from Oz and all. I'll second the good luck,

and once more ask WHY? Why bother with this group of meat-heads?

 

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" Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts

can be counted. "

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