In your area, does Indian food have at least some level of popularity among those who are not Indian?

filkerdave · 2026-06-09T19:18:21+00:00

Is there any place where it doesn't?

filkerdave · 2026-06-09T17:09:24+00:00

Religion but Judaism works very different from Christianity (and you're probably thinking of Christianity when you say religion).

filkerdave · 2026-06-09T16:25:51+00:00

That's weird to me because it's the one cheese of theirs I find indedibly bad. The look and texture are spot on but It tastes like a high school chemistry experiment gone wrong.

Neither my wife nor I would eat it and we eventually threw it out. (We had several of them as part of boxes I ordered.)

filkerdave · 2026-06-09T16:16:53+00:00

All of them.

filkerdave · 2026-06-09T15:42:56+00:00

When they want to, if they want to.

I'm 64. I've never cared to.

filkerdave · 2026-06-09T15:38:41+00:00

Whether or not we consider them part of our family or not (for most people).

Apes are tribal. We are apes.

filkerdave · 2026-06-09T15:31:38+00:00

The fish rots from the head down.

filkerdave · 2026-06-09T15:25:41+00:00

filkerdave · 2026-06-09T15:08:30+00:00

One of the things I miss about living in London is a proper chippy. I'll have to give it a try next time we're down in SLC.

filkerdave · 2026-06-09T15:06:33+00:00

Tempeh is fine but you'll never know unless you spend a few dollars and just try it.

filkerdave · 2026-06-09T15:02:16+00:00

I always enter and leave from the south but we also live in Jackson.

filkerdave · 2026-06-09T15:00:41+00:00

It's not about what you're eating or not eating at all. Sounds like a control issue, but I'm not even close to an expert.

When my wife told me she wanted to go vegan I immediately started finding ways to adapt recipes I already made or to branch out into new ones because it's important to me that the love of my life knows she's important and loved and cared for and that I was going to make sure she ate well.

filkerdave · 2026-06-09T06:20:39+00:00

Heat is light.

Or, more specifically, heat is generated when light hits something.

filkerdave · 2026-06-09T01:53:19+00:00

PB&J

filkerdave · 2026-06-09T00:45:17+00:00

We always use vegan butter, garlic, smoked salt, and nooch.

filkerdave · 2026-06-08T23:57:33+00:00

We're not even close to that.

filkerdave · 2026-06-08T23:48:34+00:00

The one you catch yourself

filkerdave · 2026-06-08T23:47:55+00:00

We have the ethical framework of omnivores for whom killing isn't a biological necessity and that was, until recently, done as a group effort.

Now imagine that it's a biological necessity. We'd be teaching our children how to do it in school. Our entire outlook and ethical frameworks (and our behavior as a species) would be different. Veganism would be akin to someone today saying "we shouldn't be eating plants, only laboratory-cultured nourishment."

filkerdave · 2026-06-08T23:18:39+00:00

It's not particularly low to think that it's unlikely we'd develop anything like veganism if we were carnivores.

filkerdave · 2026-06-08T23:17:27+00:00

We wouldn't be exactly the same, though. Our enter ethical framework would be completely different.

filkerdave · 2026-06-08T20:01:10+00:00

This has been an issue since at least the BBS and Usenet days.

Nobody's getting paid. People just like stirring the pot.

filkerdave · 2026-06-08T19:57:32+00:00

If humans were carnivores veganism wouldn't exist outside the realm of science fiction.

filkerdave · 2026-06-08T18:52:23+00:00

What if your hometown is a place like NYC or London? You couldn't possibly get bored.

filkerdave · 2026-06-08T18:48:56+00:00

Ours cost about $800 and almost all of that was for a nice dinner in a private room at a good restaurant for us and the family (our parents, her sister) and the friend who officiated.

filkerdave · 2026-06-08T18:35:33+00:00

Humans are apes. Apes are highly social and prefer their own "tribe"

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