food food food.........

You're right.
That's actually why I'm taking it in moderation.

I love it, but I think I have just one cup every ten days or so.


Thanks for the recipe! I'm SO gonna try that!
(And excellent point on "leaving it" a bit: fresh ginger indeed is a condiment better suited to the spicy, oriental kitchen then to tea. Hot, HOT, HOT!

Oddly enough I can only stand sugar with coffee.

I like Green Tea too D, just hot water with nowt else.

I take everything!

Sugar.
Milk.




Rum.

continued from justin's composition thread


of course no moss on MOS burgers!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Burger
If you have a chance to visit Japan (or Taiwan etc.), try MOS for once! They provide very good burgers, even though they're regarded as a fast-food chain. Actually it's not so fast, you have to wait after ordering until they serves. And it's a little expensive compared to other burger chains like McDonald and Wendy's. But it's worth. They use better buns, meats, fresh vegetables... superior to other chains in quality and quantity (buns are not thin like McD's! )

I eat McDonald sometimes (when I lack money or time...). It's yummy, guilty pleasure, at first. But it doesn't last so long... I'm always getting sick of the taste when I finished.

Please. We're not talking about Korea here.

No dogs, cats and snakes are used on MOS Burgers, of course! (but there is an urban legend that McDnalds uses rat meat )


Just to clarify... in Japan we no longer eat dogs and cats (at least, in usual places, I believe). In some parts of China, Korea, and probably more other countries in the world, people eat dogs or cats. I have nothing against their custom.

I'm a dog lover, and I never want to eat my dear dog Nana, nor other people's pets (companion animals). But I will do eat dog meat if it is served at a proper restaurant or somewhere like that.

In my point of view, there is nothing wrong eating any animals (except human beings). Eating dog steak and eating beef steak are the same for me. All animals can't live without killing other organisms. We're all connected in the great Circle of Life, you know!

Hunting endangered species/overexploitation is completely different issue, though.

This is just my point of view. Just a point of view from a Japanese biology student with no religion, also a dog lover, animal lover, nature lover. But probably other many today's Japanese think it's disgusting to eat dogs and cats...


Anyway, MOS BURGER is yummy! That's the most important. Their chicken burger is the best imo

The main reason that honorary British citizenship is being witheld from me to this day, is that I have no compunction in eating dogs and horses.
Horse is very tough meat and really needs a lot of preparation for it to get a proper texture.
It IS tasteful though.

I have never actually tried dog yet.
I gather it's quite tough meat as well, which doesn't maek me in a hurry to try it.

Obviously anyone eating cats is hellspawn on the level of Hitler and Pol Pot and needs to be eviscerated slowly with a rather dull breadknife.

I've eaten some roasted, salted queen ants from Colombia once.

They taste just like small roasted peanuts.

Anteaters are SO cool.

Ahhhh, but does it?
A deeply ingrained rejection against eating one's pets is natural.
It wouldn't be unlike eating family. POssibly the best comparison would be to eat one's children.
An utterly abhorrent and evil thought indeed!

...but does the abhorrence extend to those animals that may be kept as pets?
I know someone keeping a pet lam.
Yet I will eat shoarma.

I know someone keeping carp.
Yet I will happily fry a fish for dinner.

I know of people keeping snakes.
I have never tried snake yet, but Im sure at some time I will (I gather it's very tende white meat).

The list goes on and on.
The simple truth of the matter is that probably none of us will eat anything we ourselves have an emotional connection with, not even in the most dire circumstances.

Haven't you read what i've written? It was to catch such an argument:

"PETS, animals who have existed through their ancestors' interaction with humans, animals who have learned to live by, LOVE and depend by human beings since their day 1"

Anyone can keep what they want in their houses, but all which you mention isn't in this category.

I am not talking about what people FEEL about the pets, but what the PETS feel towards people. This list is very limited.

Ahem.
Yeah, it surprised me too.
I didn't even think reptile brains were capable of affection.

But they are.


In a nut (or tortoise, depending on whether or not one is a veggie) shell: quite so, master Southall.


I can see the barbecue is going to be one medieval heathen festivity of goats, soaked in the blood of their brethren, running for their lives, and wild, exhilarated madmen, dressed up with twigs and leaves, calling upon Herne The Hunter, Wodan and Goldsmith, in merry pursuit, brandishing their meat cleavers in bloodlusting abandon.

Martijn, those animals you mention have no natural dependency upon human beings. I see poor stray dogs and cats dying our of hunger in the street, every day. Now try to walk towards that pet snake of the dude and see its reaction towards you, or let it free in the nature (where it BELONGS) and see if it lives or not. I find it very hard to believe that YOU - out of all, is actually disagreeing with this or having difficulties understanding this simple point. I think you're into rather for the sake of discussion.

See my posts above. No other animals have the affection towards human beings or the VITAL DEPENDENCY like cats or dogs nor the linked with human beings provenance and existence. No other animals exist in the civilized world, just for being pets, not giving milk or meat or food or anything else to human, other than mutual love and affection, like dogs and cats. I am seriously stopping this here 'cause i don't think you're unable to understand this, you're just toying with me