Whaddya gonna do, declare a jyhad on soup and have a food fight? What a bunch of high-strung halfwits. If you place that much value on your religion's dietary requirements, here's a little pointer that ought to help:
READ THE FARKING LABEL.

I await the inevitable news story about suicide bombers hitting the Pick n' Pay.

"LALALALALALALALALALALA-"*BOOM*

Damn! I was hoping something more along the lines of a soup can label illustrating Jesus and Mohammed in a gay embrace.

I think I'll make that soup. It's sure to piss off somebody.
And it will be damn tasty, too!

"This soup is so good it will turn your religious icons gay!"

Hehe. I'm naming my next kid Rugbeer.

"Let them eat cake!"

2005-06-06 01:06:19 AM SpacePunk

Fungii are considered a meat, technically. Wonder if the vegetarians considered that.

For the record, your saying something doesn't make it true. Sorry try again some other time.

Donga
I dont think it is too much to ask for, if all they want is big bold letters saying it has animal products.

Why?

They are perfectly able to read the.. what's it called, the list of what's in the item... oh, yeah: INGREDIENTS! If they don't bother, that's their problem. It's not like the listed ingredients are incomplete or wrong.

Why should this group get THEIR items listed in "big bold letters"? What if some other group pops up, wanting to to have their items listed in "big bold letters". Pretty soon, the actual name of the product will be the only thing in normal-sized letters, and it'll be lost amid the "big bold letters" warning the stupid people.

Reminds me of this:

The Planet of Plork
Nothing kills more of my braincells than supposedly reasonably intelligent people who believe that their (almighty) deity cares about what you eat.

If they can believe their Invisible Friend is real then they can believe anything.

the only good reasons to eat a restricted diet that i can think of are a) health reasons or b) for assorted personal reasons

bad reasons? because you're told "you are supposed to according to x deity"

actually this isn't just for diet... this works for a lot of things

*whine*
Eeeeeh - what you're doing doesn't conform to the standards of my religion - so it's wrong.


/get over yourselves.

It doesn't take much to enrage major world religions... a slight breeze will do it.

I think the problem is that the soup can just says on it
"artificial flavors" but does not specify that these flavors contain pork and beef.

I actually keep mostly kosher and have gotten into the habit of reading the ingredients on processed food I havent bought before and this would piss me off too.

If you are going to add any animal parts just put it in the ingredient list. I don't think that is too much to ask and is very important to hindus, jews, muslims, vegetarians, allergics, and any other group with dietary restrictions.

garyx: "But bacon tastes good....pork chops are good...."


Okay. Now I'm upset. Because I can't farking remember what that's from.

Nevermind. Now I remember.

Bill cosby

I exist dammit!
Anyway south africa does have a small jewish population
Check out the synagogues
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/synsa.html\
But ok they probably make up some tiny fraction of a percentage point of the population

/ex south african jew
/now an aussie jew

Oh this is a culture clash thing...

OK - Africa hosts over 1,000 spoken languages. This is what happens as a result (there is no majority language in many areas, so listing translations is not feasible).

When people go to the grocery store in Africa, they look at the pictures on the lable. They are big pictures, although yes, they do contain writing. So while the contents may be listed in one language, the person looking at the can probably does not understand it.

This is not a literacy issue - it is an ABUNDANCE of literacy issue.

Solution - they need to come up with a 'common' printed symbol people can spot from a distance.

//Thank you - and no doubt this cultural analysis will no doubt sail past Pick N Pay completely.

'round heah we call that "natural flavor"

indylaw

Religious people are sometimes the biggest farking crybabies that ever were

you have just succumbed to captain obvious...sad.

Can one person change the world?
If they have the time, the money, the intelligence stupidity, and resources. Oh, and the religious/brainwashed forgiving.

*blinks uncontrollability*

Its amazing what kind of public controversy will make news. This makes me want to hoax the media just because they are susceptable to such bullshiat.

Wow, most of you just threw a temper tantrum.

Does it not make sense that a product should label what it contains?

The label mentions permitted mushroom flavourants which essentially means anything. Would you be pissed if you found out the artificial flavoring in your mountain dew was donkey ball excretions?

Would you be pissed if you found out the artificial flavoring in your mountain dew was donkey ball excretions?

Why yes. I'd take it back to the store and tell them to fill the cans with caffeinated urine like I asked for.

Yeah but wouldn't it be embarassing to go to Hell for eating fish or pork on the wrong day? All the rapists and serial killers would be pointing their fingers and laughing...

When you go vegetarian, you get used to reading labels and tracking down companies...all sorts of things have animal products in them. Sometimes weird animal products...fish swim bladder extract in beer...bone char in white sugar...animal fat in cheap frosting (the typical wedding cake is about 10% cow, as far as I can figure).

But I believe the point of the article is that previously the label had only referred to 'allowed flavourings'. Now, do you expect 3 kinds of meat in mushroom soup? Although I'm sure it would catch on in the states..."vegetable soup, now with added tallow! Part of our Home-cookin' Soup n' Lard range...helping america become hoplessly sedentary for 75 years!'".

As for vegetarians and protein, the average western diet has far too much of it anyway. With even moderate consumption of mushrooms, beans, nuts, soya, etc., you get more than you need.

roughmarble, Rasraf Mekerk

Thank you both very much. I'm going to be smelling coffee all day.

/goddamn funny people

Please do not call it a mutiny. It is like calling american war of independence a successful mutiny. You take away the courage and spirit of independence people showed in fighting a stronger enemy by calling it a mutiny. While the enfield rifles triggered the unrest among some soldiers, the Brits did not belong to India and there was widespread discontent in general. Well, I am glad Brits now sit with their tails firmly between their legs.

History doesn't remember the losers. Get over it.


---
"What does it mean to sponsor a vegetarian? It means that you have to find someone in your life who's a really big pain in everyone's ass every time you want to go out to eat, and then you commit yourself to eating THREE times the amount of meat you'd normally consume to make up for all the meat that your vegetarian buddy isn't eating." - Maddox

When people go to the grocery store in Africa, they look at the pictures on the lable. They are big pictures, although yes, they do contain writing. So while the contents may be listed in one language, the person looking at the can probably does not understand it.

This reminds me about the news story that resulted when African stores started selling cans of baby food with the Gerber baby on the label...

2005-06-06 12:52:29 AM Barks
How ever do they get adequate protein intake?

Beans. Lots of beans. And nuts and seeds.

Eh. Just stock a few cans of good, hearty, corn chowder if you really want to score a trifecta.

Mm...sounds good, doesn't it?
Corn.
Chowder.

Give it a good stir, there. Look at that savory creamy sauce...have a sip, there, my good man.

Yes indeed. Corn chowder.
Made with excellent MILK, HAM, and
*SPLOSH*
...what did I say?

azxj - "History doesn't remember the losers. Get over it."

But thankfully we screwed the brits in the end

Didn't they learn their lesson when people figured out McDonald's French Fries had beef flavoring in them?

Q) Who are the only crybabies that rate with religious fanatic farknuckles?

A) Nationalistic Patriot-jingoist-flagwaving farknuckles.

Well think about it.

Both of the above groups are ideologues - both have a victim/fortress/us-them mentality - both are self righteous as fark - both are hypocrites and intolerant - both steal from the needy in the name of a "higher good" are are generally greedy and hateful - and both need a nice big dose of reality shoved up thier asses. Preferably violently and without lube.

/2c

Or when McDonald's "Chicken" nuggets were found to be made with beef fat?

and I almost forgot - both groups have a large intersecting subset!

The beef flavoring is what made the Mickey D fries goooood. Now they aren't that special and not what I remember as a kid. I was actually a vegitarian my whole life till I was about 21 and quite often just ate Mickey D's fries when out with friends as to not cause any problems for anyone else. It didn't even bother me when I found out that they had the beef flavoring.

/never thought eating meat was wrong in any way,just gross!

rudebwoy, you are wonderfully ironic. That is all.

chocoboat:

This reminds me about the news story that resulted when African stores started selling cans of baby food with the Gerber baby on the label...


Yes! That's an example on of my teacher's brought up! Because of the way things are labled in Africa - people there either thought it was funny or horrible, because a baby on the can means there's one inside. I don't remember if Gerber ever clued into what the problem was.

Some of the art on the lables of cans in Africa is very beautiful, because it needs to be large and specific as to exactly what is inside. So instead of relying on words to sell the product, they rely on the visuals.

Mushrooms are nasty. Never eat 'em.

/cuz I like posting Engrish.com images
//go through the clothing section for some incredibly funny entries...

thisispete said:
"When the British introduced the Enfield rifle into India, rumour had it that the cartridges had a membranes that were greased with either pig or cow fat. These membrane were to be cut by the teeth before loading. Obviously this wasn't welcomed by Muslims or Hindus.

Thousands died in the ensuing mutiny."

I always wondered how that mutiny/insurrection/mini-indepenence war went:

Gupta: "Let us put our differences aside and defeat the British"
Masood: "I agree. The British are coming. Load your Enfield and shoot at them"
"I'm not loading mine, you load yours"
"I'm not loading mine, you load yours"
"I've got an idea, sniff it to see what it smells like"
"Oh that's brilliant, it smells like farking gunpowder"

That reminds me of a funny story...

Used to go to this place called "La Belle Province" in Montreal. It's a hot dog and burger place. Fries in Montreal are really good because they are not only Canadian-grown Yukon Gold 'taters, but they are cooked to being brown in 100% pure hog lard.

So Canada, being the "multicultural" place that it is would have Muslims/Jews come to La Belle Province to eat. Time after time I would see people ask the guys working there "Is that lard in the oil?" to which they replied "Oh no, it's vegetable oil, our special blend."

And they were duped.

But the funny part was that these people would say ALL THE TIME "Wow, those are the best fries ever" because it was probably the first time in their life they had ever had fries made in lard.

They guys would just laugh their asses off after the people left...Greek Orthodox...they thought Muslims and Jews were full of it anyway...

I mean, not very respectful, but an interesting point.

Rugbeer Kallideen


thats all i have to say

2005-06-06 12:52:29 AM Barks
How ever do they get adequate protein intake?

Plants. Fungi.

thisispete

The insurrection, uprising, rebellion, whatever you want to call it began with soldiers turning against their commanding officers. If that's not mutiny, I don't know what is.


If soldiers join "enemy" leaders, then I dont think you can call it mutiny. Mutiny is a good word if hands turn against the captain on a ship. But if hands jump off the ship, swim to a neighbouring ship and join them against the present captain, that isn't mutiny. It is a rebellion/inserrection/war.

azxj
History doesn't remember the losers. Get over it.

Duh. We have obviously not forgotten it yet, have we?

Donald_McRonalds - Mushrooms are nasty. Never eat 'em.

I agree 100%! The goal in my fridge is to NOT eat the fungus!

Even if they are artificial flavourants, a product or by-product, they are still not acceptable.

I did not know vegetarians were so strict. Artificial flavourants? I suppose this means that only real vanilla extract is allowed. WTF is artificial meat flavouring made from, and where is it used?

On second thought, I may not want to know this.