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The slogan is necessary. Somebody has got to challenge the vegetarian conspiracy against girls.

Even if it weren't in response to this shirt, PETA and the rest of them would continue to prey on the body image insecurities of teenage girls.

Don't eat animals, they're made of FAT and you are what you eat, fatty. Plants don't have FAT*, they have oils (never mind that they're pretty much the same thing),so if you don't want to be FAT, you'd better start eating them tubby. Or just don't eat anything.>>

I don't know if the vegetarian community is conscious of it, but it depends on this sort of propaganda. Even if it is damaging, it increases enrollment which is necessary for their community's survival as other vegetarians come back to their senses and realize that meat is good and a little bit is not going to kill anybody (or make them fat).

They have evolved to keep membership by perpetuating amongst them the idea that they can never go back because somehow vegetarianism damages the systems in your body that digest meat. They don't tell you that up front.

So you jerks at PETA, keep telling girls that if they eat meat they'll get ginormous and have to cut their breasts off. But you'd better be prepared for the world to figure out that you are full of crap.

Ok, so I have still done a terrible job of explaining this. It's not that the food is the same shape as the original Kiki or Bouba. If you did the experiment with two foods instead of two shapes, which one would people guess was called Kiki and which Bouba.

Lets say that you had a hot pepper and a bowl of sour cream and told somebody that in some made up language one was called Kiki and the other Bouba. I bet most people would guess that the hot pepper is Kiki. Some food is not obviously a Kiki or a Bouba, but a lot of foods are.

I tried to put a link in the original post but it didn't take. Let's try again:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect

Maybe you had to see the show. I think it explained the idea as it relates to food much better than I could. Don't know if "In Search of Perfection" airs in the states, but it must somewhere on the internets and is worth the search.

Fennel = crazy delicious

I put it in my lasagna. I grind some fennel seed in my coffee. I even have fennel flavoured toothpaste (Crest extreme herbal mint).

I understand that it's not too popular. Fennel is the jazz of flavours. It requires a bit of understanding to be appreciated.

Most people today do not want to be challenged by a flavour. The "tongue tastes" (sweet, sour, salty, meaty, fatty) are winning out over nose flavours. People drink out of straws so that they don't have to smell their beverages. Boring brown food is king as proven by the popularity of the failure pile in a sadness bowl.

A coworker explaining his hatred of black licorice compared it to the similarly shaped red candy. "With the red stuff I could eat it through the whole movie".

Well who said you were supposed to eat licorice like that? One is enough. Somehow our internal gluttons demand for us to eat only that which can be continuously stuffed into our guts without waking up the part of our minds that appreciates flavour. It is a sort of willful ignorance.

If you don't like fennel, please consider that maybe you are wrong. As much as you are entitled to your own opinions, in this case, you are just being picky. Please go to the bulk store and buy one tiny piece from the licorice allsorts bin. Try to remember the first time you tried a really hot chicken wing. Harness that sense of adventure and try this little candy. It's not bad for you. It's not even bad. It is flavourful. It is interesting.

This was my birthday cake growing up and was always served with the first strawberries of the season. I have made my own a few times but it sure does take a lot of eggs. I guess it frees up a lot of yolks for creme brulee.

One of my great mess en place moments involved realizing I didn't have any vanilla, ten egg separations too late. There was no turning back, so I used the only extract on hand, which happened to be mint, and some cocoa. As much as I love mint chocolate, this is a downgrade from the real deal. I strongly recommend double checking everything (and there are only five or six ingredients) before you start.

Mr. Fipp's Pretzel Chips.

I registered specifically to add my desire for
Regal Crown Sour Cherries!
I had a craving for them suddenly and went online to look for them only to find out they are discontinued. I am sad.

I also want to add one more gone but not forgotten, but I think I may be the only person who has ever eaten this cereal:
Concentrate
It turned to mush when milk was added and had a great taste. I guess most folks like their cereal crunchy but I never did.

@holdthemayo

Damn, you're correct. They are still together. :(

Real girls can eat steaks or tofu, or both, depending on their mood.

You couldn't find examples of more than alleged Hollywood vegetarians? Really? There are high-profile vegetarian athletes, too. Tell me that they all look like Kate Moss.

I eat vegetarian, and I have to say that I've yet to meet a vegetarian or vegan who agrees with PETA anti-feminist, hyperbolic tactics. I hate the recent idea, perpetuated by books like "Skinny Bitch," that vegetarianism/ veganism is some sort of weight loss plan. Oreos are vegan. That should say it all.

I am a vegetarian for a lot of reasons, so I no longer eat meat at all. For the first year or two, especially at Thanksgiving and Christmas, I would miss it, but now I don't "crave" any sort of animal protein.

Okay, maybe ONE THING still gets to me --- the smell of pancetta sauteeing in a pan, but even then, the smell has to be enough, because as much as I'd love a taste, I won't take one. Really. I swear. Honest and truly.