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Default Dinner with vegan friends

On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 21:43:35 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2018-11-14 8:07 p.m., Pamela wrote:
>> On 18:17 14 Nov 2018, Janet > wrote in
>> t:
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>> Of course there's a spread of traits amongst vegetarians and non-veggies
>> but the tendency of vegetarians is, in my experience, markedly different
>> to that of non-veggies. I have never come across non-veggies who are as
>> picky as many veggies I know.
>>
>> For myself, I find veggie food lacks the range of non-veggie food.
>> Veggie food is not just an alternative but it's a subset of non-veggie
>> food which is limiting. Also I find it's too same-y.

>
>I had a number of vegetarian friends back in the 70s and most of their
>food tasted like crap. OTOH, I have had a a number of meals in a
>vegetarian Indian restaurant that were delicious.
>
>
>> I don't mind one little bit if people want to be veggie. It's entirely
>> their choice and I have no motive in debating the pro and cons or
>> encouraging them to eat what they don't want to. However I don't put
>> myself out for their preferences and would rather never prepare food for
>> them.
>>
>> At a tangent, a friend of mine is a veggie and she refuses to take
>> medication in gelatin capsules on account of its animal content. I can
>> only shrug my shoulders.

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>
>I find it disturbing that people like that would do the research to find
>out about that sort if thing.


Oh, they're out there alright... <rolls eyes>.