Grrl Power #199 – Dietary complex
I like how apparently this steakhouse serves all their entrees with sides of bacon.
If you’ve never done it, treat yourself to Churrascaria at least once. (Unless you don’t eat meat obviously.) It’s a style of restaurant where you pay a flat rate, usually quite a bit, like $50-65, and waiters dressed like understated matadors bring you unlimited meat. Quality meat. Imagine all you can eat rack of lamb, top sirloin, bottom sirloin, filet mignon, sausage, rib eye, bacon wrapped, beef ribs, pork ribs, Parmesan crusted pork loin… you get the idea. It’s a lot of money, but it’s great once or twice a year, birthdays and the like. It was at a Churrascharia place that I had Achilles’s exact thought. I freely admit to making nyom nyom sounds and doing orgasm eyerolls. I could go a few days as a pure vegetarian, there’s plenty of delicious non-meat things to eat, but after a 3-4 days, maybe a week, I’d be going spare for a burger or something involving sausage.
I love how writing works some time. The woman on the left in the second panel (named Seneca, even though her name doesn’t appear anywhere in the comic yet, just for reference) has appeared in the background a few times but I didn’t really have a character for her other than “Latina Badass a la Vasquez” but now that I’ve written a smidgen of dialog for her, she’s forever cursed with a sweet tooth. That’s not a bad start.
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Sydney is vegetarianish.
From what she said, she’s a pescatarian. Veggies, fish, eggs and dairy.
There is that.
her explanation sounded very much like one of Denis Leary’s early routines about holding animal auditions
She’s like Phoebe. “Nothing with a face.”
So Sydney is the kind of vegetarian that bases her choice on entirely *subjective* criteria…Her own opinion for what’s “cute.” Of course, another vegetarian with that same opinion might just not think cows are “cute,” so would eat steak & hamburger. In short, it’s all based on a person’s individual perspective.
I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that. It’s HER choice & HER opinion, so as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else, go for it!
Cows are dumb.
Get a few cows and place them in a pen. Set up a fence in the shape of a ‘T’, anchored at the bottom of the ‘T’ to one side of the pen, thus dividing the pen into 3 areas with openings between the two shorter areas and the long area (at the top of the ‘T’). Give them a few days to learn the layout of the pen so you can safely say they’re familiar with all three areas of the pen. Put the cows on one side of the ‘T’. Feed them on the other…
The cows will STAND AT THE FENCE AND BEG EVEN IF THEY’VE PREVIOUSLY BEEN ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ‘T’ and should thus ALREADY KNOW WHERE THE GATES ARE. EVENTUALLY, one will try to jump it, duck it, or FORCE THE SMALLEST ONE THROUGH IT.
I’ve heard people say sheep are dumber, but to me, it seems like the sheep would have to be comatose for that to be so.
I live on a farm. We RAISE cows. I have Absolutely No Compunction against eating the dumb things.
I hear you there. Aside from a few ambulatory creatures that I’d rather bug-spray or swat into oblivion for just coming near me, I’ll eat most types of foods. I do draw the line on creatures that are intelligent enough to communicate with.
Sheep are dumber. Sheep will eat alfalfa until their stomachs fill with gas. Then they just drop dead from walking. I’ve never seen a cow eat itself to death.
Great comic !
first time posting, and first error spotting: panel eight, “I just don’t (want) anything …” missing a want :)
Thanks! Fixed it. Hit CTRL+F5 to cache dump/reload.
choco gift?
Isnt there missing a want in the second last panel?
Yup. Pretty sure panel 8 is missing a “want”, “expect”, “condone” or something along those lines.
“Cute” is a subjective category: I don’t think cows or pigs are cute so under Syd’s reasoning I too could call myself a vegetarian and still eat steak and bacon.
True dat, but vegetarianism and the like are personal choices. These are Syd’s personal criteria for her diet, so any conflicts with other people over what’s cute and what isn’t doesn’t matter.
You could effectively argue for what you said: “I don’t find cows and pigs cute so I can eat them in my vegetarian diet.” It’d annoy the hell out of other people besides being self-contradictory, but what are they going to do to stop you?
what if sydney finds them cute
I think Sydney’s criteria is “Anything with a recognizable face.” So nothing warm blooded, but milk and unfertilized eggs from free-range chickens are all right. Same with fish and other seafood. Things like turtle soup or frog’s legs would be iffy. Turtles and frogs can be cute, and they do have faces, plus they aren’t common foods.
I could just see Sydney going full tilt at a sushi place.
Syd is on the Optimus Prime Diet.
What?
optimus has that plate over most of the area people normaly have a face (at least original series) so he other than being metal qualifies as edible.
Oh right, but he still has a face, he just doesn’t have a mouth
Teenage Mutant Ninja Entrée.
So what about fish goes beyond having a “recognizable face?” Two eyes, a structure that resembles a nose, a single mouth…Indeed, in the history of evolution, fish would be one of the first forms of life to develop a recognizable face.
Again, the perspective of the individual person is the deciding factor for Sydney. And again, as long as her dietary habits don’t cause harm to other people, then it’s her right to do so. Although I think her vomit was really rough on Maxima’s boot-polish (back at the bank scene) & the noses of everyone else there, I’m can’t say that her dietary choices are NOT unharmful to other people…
:P
extra wasabi please
Highland cattle. Cute and tasty.
Of course it depends on the personal definition of “cute” but according to mine, little piglets are very well within. :3 Baby cows a little less so, but still firmly cute.
Bacon is good…CANDIED bacon is better.
Take strips of bacon, coat them in brown sugar, and bake them at 400 degrees until the brown sugar has carmelized. NomNomNom!
Ever hear of something called “the Bacon Explosion?” Yum yum.
Not a vegetarian, but my “cute” cut off is young animal meat, i.e. lamb and veal. It just seems too cruel and pointless when there are so many other meats to eat.
Snif…Poor Piglet!
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I guess you don’t find young pigs especially cute? I think they are adorable! And there’s nothing quite as delicious as a suckling pig, barbequed and made into pulled pork.
‘Ugly and delicious’ – Gotta love it.
I guess Sydney would love a crawfish festival.
Spicy, ugly food.
She would probably want to bring a bottle of something to get the heat up to something she would consider hot though.
Awesome page, and I can understand now why she wouldn’t have told anybody. Also, sentence error for Sydney in panel 6, I think. Second to last one, anyway.
I predict that this will be a 500+ comment page.
People love to talk about food. and food choices.
Except I think most of us got that out of our system last page XD
Some of us are still there feeding the addiction. ;-)
Yep, 500+ page.
My friends and I are plannig on going to Fogo De Chao in NYC in April. We went to a branch in Baltimore for Otakon and now gonna try the one in the city. Meat fest and their bacon is part of the salad bar.
I call it “All you can meat” and to do it properly you have to have a sensible breakfast and skip lunch so you can waddle out of Fogo with proper meat sweats.
Blue cheese is terrible and you should feel terrible for what you do to meat with it.
That said, a proper steak is worth the time and money put into it.
I’ll take your share. Blu-Cheez addict here. I also eat food with a face. The face is the best part.
Saw that in a Hanibal Lector book.
Read the book and watched the movie.
Sorry about the bad spelling and punctuation.
You could still have seen it in said book. While reading it…
I seem to recall Anthony Hopkins saying he once went to a cinema and, at a suitable moment, lent forwards and did his characteristic “sssslllthhh” noise to those seated in front of him.
I am surprised no one died of a heart attack when they heard that, turned around, and saw him behind them!
Hmmmm…beef cheeks
Actually melting a little bit of Roquefort on a steak makes it super duper extra tastey
Blu Cheese is worthwhile, IF used in moderate amounts and with appropriate foods. I use a light layer of crumbles in the middle layer of my lasagna. It adds a nice tang, along with the sour cream, that compliments the meat and sauce.
In my Italian Sausage sandwiches I’ll sprinkle some Blue cheese crumbles in the buns and toast them for a few minutes (Blue cheese doesn’t really MELT but it does soften and the cheese’s bite is a great counter to the Sausage.
IMO, blue cheese is best left for salad dressing…I don’t eat it in any other form.
can’t stand the Dressing, but I’ll eat the hell out of some Blue cheese on crackers!
Tastes way to strong to put on crackers for me
I’ve never understood the love for Brie myself.
Try it on a cracker*, with a generous sprinkling of freshly-ground black pepper and a whiff of salt. Preferably as a part of a wider platter of cheeses, including the smelly ones. You will find that the milder taste makes a refreshing change of pace, to break up the strong flavours, from the richer cheeses.
* Either the plain Jacob’s ones (which are the best for cheese platters) or salty ones such as Ritz or TUC, but not sweet ones.
I prefer a bit of butter or margarine on the crackers too, but not everyone does.
Butter/margerine + marmite (or your yeast extract of choice) = yummy!
Broccoli penne, a nice creamy pasta with broccoli is a good choice. There are vegetarian lasagnas that are better than the meat versions. (Seriously restaurants try harder on the vegetarian)
While a good steak is fine and wonderful, too many pass by excellent food because it is labeled ‘vegetarian’.
I know my mother makes a spinach lasagna with no meat that’s brilliant. When I first had lasagna from someplace else, I was all “What’s with this lumpy red stuff in here?”
I don’t pass anything by simply if it’s labeled “vegetarian.” If it looks good & I can still identify it as edible (with a few exceptions; for example, I don’t consider insects as edible), then I’ll snarf it down.
Technically speaking, isn’t honey a processed plant semen?
(ducks under the table)
“Throws an anvil at the table”
*Headbutts anvil*
laughs as anvil throws ironhead back at Dr.r as a sinker fastball
“Drops an Acme anvil on shenron “
Bee spit.
Milk is modified mammal sweat, so I don’t think we have the right to pick on bees :P
and here I sit drinking milk as i read that -_-
eh I will still drink it.
its technically bee vomit
Regurgitated semen. Now I know why I hate honey.
Bee vomit.
Yes, proccessed by bees.
So I guess that could go 2 ways. Honey is the result of very hard work by bees, so if you wanted you could probably class it under ‘result of animal abuse’ (if you are a vegan)
o.0 sooo… a hive would be an insect sweatshop?
Or a bee vomitorium. Assuming vomitorium meant “place where you throw up” and not “exit.”
Yeay for a new awesome word
Actually it is an old word.
Lots of people rapidly leaving a Roman amphitheatre looked like they were vomited from that building.
A ‘vomitorium’ actually was a place ancient Romans would go to to eat to excess, then ‘vomit’ to make room and continue eating, not sure if it was straictly related to one of their holidays/festivals or if it was used more often
Bees don’t have sweat glands, so no, it’s not a sweatshop…
From what I can tell it’s nectar and “bee vomit”. What you call “plant semen” should techinecally be the plant’s pollen, so no, it’s not. Though, from what I can tell, it could be (has some properties that are like semen — mainly the reabsorb if not ‘extracted’ part), but I’d say it’s more of ‘plant sweat’.
Nectar gets extrected while a bee is fertilizing it though right?
So it’s sortoff the byproduct from semen
Ever hear of “Bee bread?” – a mixture of pollen and nectar or honey. It is the main food source for honey bee larvae and workers.
Remind people of that AFTER they have a mouthful of it, Bonus points if they are homophobic males
As Michael Caine would say
“Did you know that honey never goes of?”
“not a lot of people know that”
Honey is not bee semen, it’s dried bee vomit. The bees ingest the pollen and vomit it back up to infuse it with enzymes, and then dry it by constant wing flapping until it has an osmotic pressure which will suck the moisture out of bacteria, preventing spoilage. Then they cap it with wax to keep it until it’s needed for food energy.
That is not how you make or eat a good steak a good steak is fine without all the extra garbage on it if you add anything salt and pepper. The meat by itself should be enough flavor, this belief that you need to add garbage like blue cheese to a steak is sacrilege. Personal retrained a dozen chefs on this over the years they would see me walk in and go to the fridge and grab a plain steak with good marbling and cook it up just right. Medium rare salt pepper and a little garlic thats it.
Don’t even get me started on beer three quarters of this country wouldn’t know a good beer if it walk up bought them a drink and took them out on a night on the town.
While I agree that a good steak can taste amazing, a good sauce, provided it really is a good sauce (which is way more difficult to make than the base meat) can really improve it.
But if your meal has to depent on the sauce to taste good, than you failed
I prefer my steak broiled over charcoal and wet mesquite wood chips. I close the lid to get the smokey flavor infused into the meat, especially the last couple of minutes, I close the lid and the air holes so that the smoke has nowhere to go. With a little salt and pepper, it is pretty much the best steak I have ever had. Wish I could get that sort of flavor at a steak house.
You sir understand smoke which as far as I can tell is still an art form in most parts of the country personally I don’t smoke my meat like that. Now I do have a bit of an advantage over some folks there is a store around the corner from the house that sell excellent cuts of meat and I can go and get a really nice bistro strip or a new york cut if I want at pretty much anytime of year. Which is nice and they have a fairly decent selection of beer as well. But I still prefer it naked no sauce presentation can be done with the side dishes and those should complement the meat. If you need to add fancy stuff to your meat get a better cut of meat.
Smoking on the grill is a great way to prep meat for stewing. Of course, it is difficult for the meat to actually make it to the stew pot…
In my experience, most people know that a good steak is just steak. The idea of adding all those weird things to it comes from chefs trying to sign their food.
And from diners wanting to mess with the chefs :P
+100
I too would like to order 100 of these delicious steaks.
I agree, the best thing they have at Fogo de Chao is the Picaña, which is just lightly seasoned with salt I think then seared to perfection, but that didn’t sound opulent enough for Achilles’s speech.
Yea
‘An amazing steak’ just doesn’t bring the same level of ‘great now I’m hungry ‘ as his version
Cooking is a hobby of mine, And I always tell my brother (who ironically is in the food service industry but can’t cook for Bleep) That it is not the number of ingredients it is how well you use and present them. Everything you add gives one more way for a meal to go wrong,
But on the flip side I do all my cooking experimentation on him so he knows full well how many mistakes I have made.
Testify my friend! can I get a hallelujah. to often food service becomes just make it (warm/chilled), look good, and get it out there.
Mmmm…garlic powder, onion powder…Good steak.
Not garlic *salt* or onion *salt*, mind you…I only use the *powder*
Eeew, please tell me you don’t mean the stuf you buy as powder?
Either fresh and mash it yourself, or nothing
Powdered garlic and onion have a very different flavor profile from fresh, and can be used for different things. There are also uses for which fresh just doesn’t work, like making a dry rub. Some dishes even benefit from having some of both fresh and powdered versions–gumbo, for instance.
Down here, we call those powder ‘stock’, comes in several varieties
So, with Achilles and Sydney talking about food an important question arises:
Would Achilles feel pain from Sydney style murder spice?
Seeing as caspsine does not actually do damage (just tricks your nerves into thinking they are on fire), maybe?
You can still get chemical burns.
It causes the reactionary immune system response in full… to that of being physically burned by fire or chemical.
You can die from excess swelling, or if you’re unfortunate if a group of vessels swell too much and rupture.
Hopefully, no resiniferatoxin is involved, as that makes capsaicin look like baby food.
And because becoming “adjusted” to spicy food is literally nerve receptors dying off, if Sydney ever received a healing power, she’d be unable to eat spicy food till she killed the nerves back off.
“we’re getting the distinct feeling you were hungry when you made this page” Too many food references “definitely the food references”
I’m getting the feeling that allot of people got hungry after reading this page ^^
I have 5 eggs, 2 strips of left over bacon, a sausage link and a leftover salad, I’m not sure what is going to happen but I think it will go well with steak.
Mmm. Yes. I can’t make steak in this apartment, but I CAN cook up a pound of hamburger and mix it in my mashed potatoes…
…Variety is the spice of Sydney’s dietary use of combat capsaicin…
Yes, well, I prefer not to deaden my tastebuds, so I tend to skip the spicy stuff XD
By ‘pound of hamburger’, do you mean a ‘hamburger patty’, or the ground up meat pre-pattyfication?
Non-patty.
You only make a pound of mince at a time? We tend to use a minimum of 500grams for 2 people (can sometimes stretch it to a 3rd meal if we use spaghetti or rice, and have developed a special technique to make perfect rice everytime: you keep boiling the rice until the liquid has been absorbed into the rice and it resembles a hot mud pool {ie bubbling and glooping} add some flavouring just before it gets to that stage and you don’t have to worry about adding anything when you serve it, when we used to do it the ‘normal’ way of boiling and then straining the liquid would always have to add lots of butter to give it flavour)
XD I live alone, so smaller batches are more practical.
Never boil rice to a sludge. I have made that mistake. It is horrible. It goes from white to clear. When there is no longer a white line in the middle it is done. To be on the safe side I then give it another couple of minuets. Drain it into a bowl to save the rice milk for later. Rice milk tastes better than soya although it does need sweetened.
Steamed rice is also a good way to get it perfect every time.
Sounds like you are not flavouring the liquid if it comes out horrible
Umm, please to be reminding me how much a ‘pound’ of meat is? We usually use grams for food
Sorry my archaic means of measurement are confusing XD One pound is approximately 453.6 grams.
You call the girl Seneca, in-comic she’s addressed as Shawn by Achilles.
No, Shawn is the guy standing up with the Seal shirt. They said “don’t make up words” because of the dish name “veggie khorma.”
Should be spelled “korma”. And yes, veggie korma is delicious but the original meat korma is divine. My own specialty :)
It seems according to Wikipedia anyway, that korma and khorma are both acceptable. I think korma is more common though.
Does spelling it wrong give someone bad korma?
can we get an orbital strike? APBM? even a pun hammer?
So mentioning a khorma chameleon would get you a bit trigger-happy then?
kohma/ karma = bad pun
until i looked it up, i thought you were ALL spelling “Shawarma” wrong, and i couldn’t figure out how the heck you guys thought it could even remotely be called “vegetarian” in the first place!!…
@Shenron: i’m sure that the Pun Jar/Vault over at the Wapsi Square forums will gladly take a *donation* for pun-violations with Deof’s payment via Punpal, rather than having to have the forums nuked-from-orbit (as it’s still the ONLY way to be sure)
Hey, I’m not going to complain (much) about the use of puns here. Compared to some webcomics I read, the comments section here barely register on my punometer.
That sounds like the punultimate challenge.
next level up from the seal
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Is Seneca a super or just a talented normal?
I’m pretty sure she’s one of the “space marines” that man the Ospreys, which I believe makes her a (super badassed) normal…
“Hey Seneca – you ever been mistaken for a man?”
“No… have you?”
Yes, she is one of the “Space Marines”, she had had been sitting on the opposite end of the table from Achilles, must have been playing musical chairs to get close to her crush
Max “commanded” them to mingle.
She will always remain “Joan of Arc” to me.
Height and build say non-super.
You mean boobs
She’s like Vasquez? Maybe she has immortality of the ‘dying and returning to life’ variety?
Fairly sure Vasquez died in that air-vent
Yea, she did not even get to be partially digested and become one with a chest-bursting alien.
The actress who plays Vasquez, Jenette Goldstein, is fairly typecast in roles as a bad-ass female warrior who always dies before the end of the movie.
The first time she was seen DaveB call them “regulars” and said “they’re just not super powered”.
They have suits for that
I’m not a vegetarian (no dietary restrictions for me other than what I don’t enjoy!–like sour and spicy), but I don’t really like steak, or nearly any red meat for that matter. I love poultry and fish, but even if it’s cooked perfectly, I don’t tend to enjoy non-shredded red meats.
“non-shredded red meats”? What?
Means a hamburger would be ok, since it’s made from ground or finely shredder red meat, right?
Oh right, mince meat, have heard it called ‘ground beef’ in the US before, but ‘shredded’ is new to me
Sadly I have a similar problem. I could not handle anything beyond a mouthful of a steak any more otherwise. If meat or fish does not come shredded, I have to attack it viscously to ensure I can digest it easier. I much preferred it when I could eat it after they just whipped the horns, hide and hooves off and waved a flame at it. But we are all slaves to our frailties.
I found the Easter Egg.
8th pannel, ‘I just don’t anything to suffer for my food’
Missed the word ‘want’ (I guess)
I already like Shawn
A LOT of great food happens not to have any meat in it. Especially if you also eat fish, eggs and dairy. I am not currently a vegetarian myself, but I don’t think I’d lose that much if i stopped eating fish and mammals. I love tofu, I love seafood, I love shrimp, mussels and cod, i love noodles, good noodles, and I don’t want any damn beef or ham in my noodle soup, I love potato pancakes with yogurth, caviar and chopped red onions, I love lasagna, I love when you do lasagna but with tortilla layers instead of pasta layers, I love a good pasta with tomato sauce, I love mushrooms, I adore a good risotto, with permesan and maybe saffron or chili, and i definitely want mushrooms in my risotto, I love the millon ways of making soups where you cook root vegetables until they fall apart and use a mixxer on the result, perhaps with just a touch of cream, or a lot of it.
I love all these foodstuffs, i cook all these foodstuffs, and when you tell me meat is, on a conceptual level, always and inevitably better and more desirable then all these things, even in the summer when you sweat a lot and all you want is to go out on sea or lake with your cannoe and bring a salad with lots and lots of tasty, salty shrimp (Yeah i become a total shrimp nut come summer), I find it kinda funny, because that is so very far from my own experience.
Mind you, as is obvious – I am not a vegetarian, I just don’t think eating nothing but mammal and bird meat, and appreciating nothing but mammal and bird meat, is all that attractive. There is an infinity of good food out there. Why limit yourself?
*If i stopped eating BIRDS and mammals. I’d lose a lot if i stopped eating fish. I love and adore seafood. Also, I am a clone, not a clon. I feel silly now XD
Yes. Steak is still good in summer. But you chill it first. Slice it an appropriate time after it’s cooked, stick it in the fridge, then take it out and stick it on a plate with slices of cheese and apple. Eat with fingers like a barbarian. Nom nom mmmmmmm…………
Oh right, cold cuts, have done that with a leg, but never thought of doing that with a perfectly sized steak
I recommend that you try tarantula. It tastes very similar to shrimp. They are very close relatives.
It is best to burn off the leg hairs though. Some can be mildly poisonous and cause a rash if you touch them without doing that.
Just read the new vote incentive page. funny.
As Joey Tribbiani would say “if a cute animal dropped dead, you could eat that since it’s already dead”
As ai vin said “Cute” is a subjective category, kittens and puppies are cute, but the Chinese and Koreans eat them and some people would say piglets are cute
I’ve found 12 dishes, all non-cute for Sydney to try and so in no particular order we have:
The Cambodian delicacy of fried spider (tarantulas, served with a lime and black pepper dip)
Witchetty grubs (an Australian term for the large white larvae of several moths)
Shiokara (A Japanese dish made from marine animals such as squid which are fermented in their own viscera) usually gulped down with a shot or 6 of whiskey.
Deep fried grasshoppers (Grasshoppers are loaded with protein, and are a popular delicacy in many parts of the world)
Sannakji (A traditional Korean dish of live octopus cut into small pieces and served while the tentacles are still squirming), the closet I’ve found to Gagh, (A Klingon delicacy of serpent worms, eaten whilst their still warm, and very much alive)
Escamoles (Ant larvae which is harvested from the roots of the tequila plant)
Beondegi (A Korean snack of silkworm pupae)
Tong zi dan (“virgin boy eggs”) Every spring in the Chinese city of Dongyang, eggs are boiled in the urine of young schoolboys. not sure if the eggs are free range or not (or the schoolboys or that matter)
Hákarl, When in Rome, do as the Romans. In Iceland, this means taking a nibble of hákarl – decomposed shark. The shark is buried to ferment in its own fluids for several months, then cut into strips and hung up to dry
Surströmming, The Swedish like nothing more than a bit of herring – preferably as sour and fermented as possible. The smell of surströmming is so strong when you open the container that it’s generally eaten outdoors.
Rocky mountain oysters, (deep-fried bull testicles)
Tepa (“Stinkheads”) Eaten by the indigenous Yupik people, it involves chopping the heads off fish and burying them in the ground with their innards until they achieve the required tang.
WTF? in the time it took me to type that list you had like a zillion comments
It is why we do not get many folks trying to type “First”. They would probably be third of fourth by the time they finished typing just that. Not to mention it being rather tacky. :-D
+1 to you yorp
I’ve only done that once
Ahh, didn’t recall that you had. It was just intended as a general comment about the practice, across the internet, rather than as a personal dig. Mind you, despite the fact that I don’t think much of it, I have certainly felt the urge to do it myself on a couple of occasions. It stems from the same primal need, we have as a species, that causes us to plant flags on the top of mountains.
Being first to comment, specially if it is comic-related, should be enough (have managed to achieve that a few times, just never ever felt the need to say ‘first’)
Somehow I’ve heard of most of these dishes. So far I only had the grasshoppers, they tasted great. I would love to try some of the others as well, though I would love to stay away from some as well.
I wish insect would become more popular in western countries, they are a delecious, healthy and a very sustainable foodsource.
Casu marzu. Don’t google it if you value your sanity.
interesting… I was unaware we humans actually ate Gagh
I could of added these as well I think Sydney might object
Puffin heart, Iceland Gordon Ramsay found himself in hot water in 2008, when he was filmed eating a puffin heart on his Channel 4 show The F Word. Forty-two viewers complained to Ofcom about the incident, though puffin heart is a delicacy in Icelandic cuisine.
Snake wine, South-east Asia This popular beverage is believed to have important restorative properties in countries including China and Vietnam. It can either be made by steeping a snake in rice wine, or by mixing snake bodily fluids, such as blood, with the alcohol.
Century eggs, China Rest assured, these rather misleadingly-named eggs aren’t eggs which have been stored for 100 years; they’re preserved for just a few months. But that’s still enough to turn the yolk dark green and the white brown…
Fugu (pufferfish), Japan There aren’t many meals which involve risking your life. One of Japan’s most notorious dishes is the fugu, or pufferfish, which can be lethal if its toxic parts are not correctly removed. Over 20 people have died in Japan after eating the fish since 2000.
Baby mice wine, China/Korea Another drink supposed to have beneficial health properties is baby mice wine, wine filled with… well, you guessed it.
Cockscombs, Europe Cockscombs, the fleshy growth on the top of chickens’ heads, might not strike you as an immediate supper ingredient. But in Italy, they’re a crucial aspect of a famous sauce called cibreo. Combs also have a place in French gastronomic history, where they were traditionally used as garnishes.
Black Ivory coffee (made from coffee beans eaten by Thai elephants, then plucked from their droppings.
Balut, Philippines a fertiliized duck embryo boiled in the shell.
oooo rotten cheese with maggots, lovely
My younger brother was introduced to chocolate-coated grasshoppers too young and while he had a pet iguana. It took waaay too long to convince him that eating the repticrickets was a bad idea….
I like eating meat but churrascaria wasn’t my type of thing. I just didn’t like the serving method. All the hovering waiters bothered me. “Go away and let me eat in peace!” I went to one is Sao Paulo, Brazil. Haven’t been to one in the states though.
Never lived in an area where I could find such a place, sadly….
200 isn’t really all that significant. Now 128 or 192 on the other hand are nice. I just think 10 is a weird base to begin with
Base 12 is better. More dividers. Even better, your significant numbers would be “Gross”, “Too Gross”, and “Tre’ Gross”.
When it comes to talking to computers, hexadecimal (Base 16) is considered to be “shorthand for binary.”
if described in their own iconography, ALL numeric systems are base 10
Sorry, base ten.
If it was anyone but Sydney, I’d probably be annoyed at the ‘Author Tract’… But this is Sydney. She might just have a weird enough dietry preference to not care for the taste of meat (see: Every other comic where she eats, ever)
So, I can see how she might decide the variety itself is not worth hurting cute animals (if giving up pasta would save cute animals, I’d do it. I like pasta, but mostly because it’s different. It’s not like the delicious taste of the charred flesh of the innocent)
If meat isn’t delicious, it’s generally best to at least avoid anything factory-farmed. Not because of cruelty, but because it’s so wasteful (most ‘feed’ gets turned into body-heat and/or waste rather than edible meat)
Fish farms, when done right in optimal conditions, can have a negative loss (so, 1 pound of fish might cost you 0.9 pounds of feed, for a net result of 0.1 ‘gain’ on top of making the food more suitable for humans)
Besides, there’s a LOT of ocean available for fish-farms. Not so much land left for farms. Though off-shore farms probably need a bit more research.
I’m not actually a vegan myself, but that’s mostly because I don’t do well with the whole ‘resisting temptation’ thing.
Fish farms are horribly polluting. And you know what gives you an infinite return on your feed? Catching wild fish. No feed required!
Okay, for Sydney’s sake, what’s a delicious pescatarian-compatible dish that’s spicy? Must include seafood, BTW.
Laksa
Anything fishy from Japan. A proper Japanese sushi restaurant (as opposed to the westernised versions) have all sorts of weird spicy surprises. Wassabi just being a mild example that appeals to western tastes. If you have tried that and thought ‘yuck,’ then be sure to pack enough sandwiches to see you through Japan on your world-tour.
crawfish boil!
I like how the background for that steak description is the “OBEY” graphic on Achilles’ shirt – nice touch, that
As the Fella’s said… “Bacon” …Bacon FTW!! I’ve never deeply discussed religion or political things with either Jewish or Muslim people… but I like both of them..why? Because they don’t eat pork… what does that have to do with anything you ask? … simple.. More Bacon For ME!!
what is the best vegitarian dish?
Depends on what type of vegitarian you are. There are a lot of diffrent variations out there.
The question to ask is are there any vegan dishes out there that are tasty.
My vegan daughter made me a chocolate tofu cheesecake once, that gets my vote.
Cheesecake doesn’t normally have meat in it, so would already be ‘vegetarian’, wouldn’t it?
Oh right, missed the ‘vegan’ part :(
but what if the animal actually wants you to eat it?
See this quote from the Restaurant at the End of the Universe:
https://www.saunalahti.fi/~huuhilo/dna2.html
Personally, I kind of draw the line on eating a creature that’s intelligent enough to talk to.
It is something that people have genuinely had to do though. In survival situations, such as when adrift in a life raft. Establishing the principle of “if any one of us dies, we all give permission that we can be eaten by the others” can improve everybody’s survival chances. And, if you are the first one to drop, it isn’t like you are any worse off. In fact it improves the odds of your last words being passed on to your loved ones.
Although I have found that attempting to get such permission, before any emergency, can be a bit alarming for fellow passengers.
So Sydney thinks cows and pigs are cute, if the idea is “Don’t let anything cute suffer for my food.”?
Being American, one would think she’s not likely to eat bunnies. :p
But Mmmmm…BACON! It’s a vegetable!
…I wouldn’t eat bunnies either, but mostly because hunters (the proper kind, not the posh noble-wannabees that hunt for sport) have advised me not to on the basis of it being terrible meat.
Don’t particularly like whale-meat either.
And I figure bunny-meat would be too expensive, and I KNOW Whale-Meat is (though apparently enough buy it for it to be worth keeping in the store)
thats mostly reliant on the time of year you harvest them, late winter though mid spring or so there good to go. but summer through fall they develop boils, and are un safe to consume, as far as how they taste goes, however, is mostly reliant on if you are a shitty cook or not
Oh, I’m quite terrible as a cook. Best I can accomplish is dump all-purpose spice on it, with maybe a pinch of powdered chili, and hope the inside is sufficiently cooked by the time the outside is hard.
Even then, it tends to get stuck to the plate and/or taste burnt. Or I discover that the ‘pinch’ was far too much, and the taste’s ruined.
Bacon is a Vegetable!!
https://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/931
Did Bodie flee to the other end of the table to get away from Sydney and the now-ostrascised Gothette?
Going to have to try adding a slice of Tasty* cheese to a steak next time we have steak
*it’s actually a type of cheese down here, along with Edam, Mild & Colby (for a country that produces enough milk to feed China, we aren’t very creative when it comes to main-stream cheeses :P)
So she’s not vegetarian after all. That only lasted one page.
Depends on where you see pescetarians.
I would guess it is easier to stay healthy that way than as a strict vegetarian.
No and no.
1) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vegetarian
There is no way of interpreting “vegetarian” that allows for the consumption of fish. Fish are undeniably animals, not plants.
2) It’s only hard to be healthy as a vegetarian if you take a naïve approach, for example eating only salads. There are vegetarian sources of the nutrients that many people only get from fish. (Flax seeds, for example, contain ω-3 fatty acids.)
There are many different gradients of vegitarian.
Those that eat no mamals, those that eat no meat at all, those that eat nothing produced out of animal products, and here we start fading into vegan territory.
And no I don’t care about your dictionary. This is the deffinition that basicly everyone uses.
As in, this is the deffinition
No it’s not. It makes absolutely no sense to call someone vegetarian when they eat fish. Using such definition of the word is less than useless.
Regardless of what your dictionairy sais, that’s how the majority uses the word.
Language evolves kid.
Oh Goooood I haven’t had beef since Christmas. I think I killed all my little beef digesting enzymes from under using them or something, because brisket made me feel like death. X(
I could survive being Pescatarian, but I’d miss chicken and turkey. A lot. T____T
Maybe it was just that brisket that made you feel that way
*sigh*
People don’t realize that being a vegetarian is wrong and evil.
We welcome bronies here, not to mention gun-lovers, the odd mutant leftie and a ginger or two. Surely we can find it in our hearts to be open to be open to…*swallows*… vegies as well?
where do we stand on eating souls/spirits? ummm just for curiosity?
Well soul food is a fine southern tradition. But strictly frowned upon, if taken as the consuming of souls, rather than the feeding of them. Outside of dark voodoo circles, of course.
Mind you we can probably make exceptions for politicians. But I doubt you will find one of those that has not already been sold to Satan.
I don’t mind the occasional soul-eater commenting in here…
But NO POLITICIANS!
Just remember the road to Hell is not paved with good intentions.
It is paved with lawyers.
Sounds like Sidney is really a pescitarian (like me). If she ate fish on a rare occasion, then she can still call herself vegan. Not everyone is uberstrict in their diet. I know that I will eat meat willingly if there is no other choice.
She never said vegan. She said vegetarian.
My mistake.
Sydney should PPO all of those supers right away. Hopefully if she does it as a sneak attack she should be able to get all the harems at once.
Okay I stand corrected she IS a veggie because of the cute cow eye syndrome…unless she’s fibbing. Anyway, I like gently teasing my veggie friend which opens me up for comment on being a barbarian, savage, de-evolved etc.
Um, my cat jumped to the back of the chair opposite me and is giving me a challenging glare while performing the forbidden act of sharpening claws on furniture. Never ending battle.
Cats are the Elves of the animal kingdom. They are superior and they know it.
they aren’t superior but they just don’t care. it’s the same way they manage to exceed the speed of light and approach the speed of rumor or survive baths of dragon fire.
There are so many myths and legends associated with cats it makes you wonder. They have at times been attributed to have magic, to be the guardians of the underworld (You’re dead, now stay that way! *pounce*), to be only half in our plane of existence, to be able to see spirits, to be spirits or gods themselves, and, most commonly, to be sentient. I am most in favor of that last, I am of the firm opinion that they are as intelligent as we are or close, and just hide it so they won’t be put to work or some such. I KNOW my two understand more english than they let on; they’ve slipped up a few times too many.
….or I suppose I could be the one sliping up, my parents say I knew how to speak cat before I learned english…
Ugh… Pescetarians. I never could understand how eating fish (which are pretty definitively made of meat) could still make one considered a vegetarian…
I don’t know, as much as I feel the need to be judgy it’s hard to really validate that kind of attitude. Heck, strictly speaking many pescetarians probably have better reasons for living on that kind of diet then a lot of full vegetarians or vegans. I’ve been vegetarian for going on five years now and I still have figured out just what made me do it, I honestly think it might have just been a personal dare. Granted I’ve found better reasons -since-, but still. (The evil cow conglomerate is destroying our rainforests!)
But for the record, even back when I still ate meat I didn’t understand what the big deal was about bacon.
Depends on if it was ‘real’ bacon, or ‘Canadian Bacon’ (with is not bacon at all, but ham), and as for ‘real’ bacon it greatly depends on how it is cured
Uh, bacon & ham both come from the same animal…
That does not change the fact that the two products taste vastly different when done properly. Different cuts alone are noticeable, but the change in process in making good bacon turns it into a distinct product.
Otherwise, by analogy, you would be able to fuel your car with plastic bags. Given that both are derived from crude oil.
A poorly-cut and prepared bacon can taste similar to other cuts of pig though, so I can see why someone only exposed to indifferent preparation might not get the distinction. I doubt if any Bulgarians do, for example. The best way to taste the difference is to get good bacon and make a BLT, and compare it side-by-side with a ham, lettuce and tomato sandwich. There is a world of difference between those two.
*wanders off in search of some food (which will be unable to fit the BLT gap in the tastebud expectations)*
*tummy grumbles*
Hamburgers and steak also come from the same animal.
Those don’t exactly taste the same
Oh, I’ve had ‘real’ bacon well enough as well as Canadian bacon and probably several other variations as well and can safely say I don’t miss any of it at all. Bacon is just meat after all, nothing special and frankly the religious like devotion so many seem to have for the stuff is extremely creepy and probably would be enough for me to swear off the stuff if it wasn’t already exclude from my diet…
My thoughts towards bacon being over-rated aren’t helped by the fact that it’s also the great ruiner of otherwise very veggie friendly dishes, it’s hard to get away from because many people and food places alike seem to have the mindset that if it doesn’t have meat in it in some way it isn’t considered food.
Baked potatoes or potato soup? Bacon. Salads? Bacon. I once even ordered Mac ‘n Cheese once thinking it would be safe and had it served up with bacon sprinkled across it!
Personally I would be perfectly happy, if I got free bacon with my Big Mac.
By ‘Mac’ I mean macaroni. Macaroni and cheese is typically a meat-free dish.
And it has long been a personal favourite of mine. But there was a little devil on my shoulder whispering in my ear to play on the ambiguity. Corroborated by it also telling me to imply that Big Macs were tasty.
While the way to extreme hype around beacon is pritty stupid, it IS still very tastey.
I wouldn’t put it over a good piece of real meat (such as a steak), but I’d love me some beacon on my burger
I guess you can call fish a type of meat, but it is different then meat meat when it comes to health. The healthiest diet a person can have would consist of grains, fruits & veggies, and seafood. I have noticed a lot of people these days becoming pescetarians.
Problem is, a lot of them become ‘pesty’-tarians: as in, they become pests about it
I would never give someone a hard time about being a Pescetarian for health reasons, but when it comes to moral reasons it really falls flat. If you don’t want to eat meat because for animal rights reasons or something along those lines that’s fine but it should apply across the board and not just to the ‘cute’ ones.
But all that being said, I would still not consider a Pescetarian a Vegetarian.
I would never a hard time about being any sort of vegetarian especially if it were for health reasons. I would give them a hard time for being militant about it.