As someone who is made actively ill by the protein of peas, beans and lentils, I really wish that they’d call them something other than sausages, and also make them a different shape. It would save my having to spit them out or else be polite and then be sick. (I can usually tell within a couple of seconds, after many years of practice.)
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I wouldn’t feed those to anyone, not even (especially?) a dog.
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Pea protein fritters?
And why do vegetarians seem to want meat substitute that vaguely resembles meat?
Why not have falafel or a good dhaal?
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I do hope you offered him a gorilla cigar to soothe his shattered nerves
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FTFY.
Think we’ve done this one before. Those who didn’t give up meat through dislike can quite miss both the taste and the ‘format’ (for want of a better word).
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But if it is for reasons of principle, surely they should suffer slightly for their principles or it doesn’t count in the virtue stakes?
I mean, dammit, I like peas! They just make me ill. I have to suffer, why shouldn’t everyone else…
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Nonsense, dere. They’re green.
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I tend to think that if you take a moral stance on anything you should do it amongst those with like beliefs and certainly not preach at folk with differing beliefs
If you want to be a vegan go and bbq your tofu with others
Just do NOT tell me how bad my burger with cheese and crispy bacon is for me while you watch me eat it with a faint look of hunger and despair
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I don’t know any preachy vegetarians, because preachy people tend not to be in social groups that interest me.
The other way round, I won’t hassle them about it any more than I’d hassle someone for disliking celery. (Which in either case might be quite substantial, if they hadn’t told me about it before I started planning food.)
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That’s a given: if you are feeding someone it is up to them to tell you what they can’t/won’t eat, in advance, or else bring their own sandwiches and tell you, also in advance, not to bother catering for them.
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I don’t think ‘how bad it is for you’ is the primary concern of the ethical vegetarian/vegan, tbh.
Really?
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I used to go to the market in the nearest town when I lived in NI
I regularly got pamphlets leaflet and flyers thrust upon me while men stood with a microphone and an amplifier proclaiming they were “saved” and how muich better you would be if you were saved by the love of the Almighty
And have had comments about my eating habits and how I should eat properly by colleagues on a night out together
So coming from that background yes dear Gus REALLY
For pity’s sake even in hospital here they try to feed you wafers from a silver cup borne by a nun or a priest
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Glad to hear it.
In hospitals here they are far more likely to put the wafers down out of reach of the patient and remove them without comment as and when it pleases them.
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But what if you don’t want the wafer are feeling dreadful and have lost your voice to refuse and still have a pushy nun trying to get you to take tthe wafer?
I speak from experience
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And a very unpleasant experience it must have been.
Thinks: would a ‘No God by mouth’ notice above the bed be effective? (probably not) And why am I picturing Mrs Doyle in scapular and coif? (notice certainly not effective in that particular case)
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Exactly Gus
Mrs Doyle of the Sacred Order of Over Feeding by Wafer
ETA
I only go on my personal experience and I know religion brings great comfort to a great number of folk
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Fanta I always ask guests to let me know of any dislikes/intolerances as it would break my heart to make someone ill
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Blimey
Has everyone partaken of booze & opiates this morning?
Mean of you to start without me… 
Snell Snyff
A propos sniffing, how is the Fishly nose responding to the saline treatment?
Carinthia.xx
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Not bad at all, thanks.
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That’s encouraging, Fishy
Carinthia.xx
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