Vegans angry about photos of meat

Many vegans are outraged at a website for showing photos of meat and dairy and claiming that they're photos of vegan food.

I suppose their ideological purity does extend to not producing animal products to take pictures of them. But the images in question came from a clipart website. The photos had already been made. Republishing them doesn't hurt the animals further. (Although it does send 1/4 of a penny to the photographer, rewarding them for their evil, evil cheeseburger manipulation.)

The publisher did apologize: “We’re going to make an effort to publish nothing but vegan photography.”

Quark - German sour cream

In german class, I learned about Quark, a dairy product. Our teacher couldn't explain what it is. Is it cheese? No. Is it yogurt? No.

My lovely wife got me some for my birthday. It's sort of like sour cream, and sort of like ricotta cheese. Tangy, sour and granular.

Another mystery solved. Now if only I can taste some marsh mallow. Apparently the Egyptians used it as a tea.

I like pie.

However, I find this anti-pie video amusing.

Gamer Cake

There's a post on Cake Wrecks featuring video game cakes. I think the cakes shown are awesome, especially the Mario Cake. (Although I wouldn't have wanted one at my wedding.)

And then I learned of the 100 Games Cupcake Game. There are some pretty amazing cupcake decorations. And board games as well as computer games. Wow. It's most of my favorite things: games and pastry.

The Man feeds us crap, and we like it

I read a disturbing account of how food companies manipulate us. I guess there's not a lot in the story that's new, but it's still amazing how pliable we are to a few simple sensory cues, and how hard it is to resist temptations.

It's frustrating to me that people are able to make such huge amounts of money exploiting our weaknesses.

Don't Eat Poop

From E. Coli to salmonella to Mad Cow, if there's one thing we've learned about food safety, it's to not eat poop. Or things that are fed their own poop.

And yet food companies persist in feeding chickens cow poop and feeding cows chicken poop. And allowing poop to get in our food. But it's ok now - because chicken pot pies have new instructions for cooking times. Too bad that when you follow the instructions it doesn't fully cook the pot pie.

Super gross. I won't be buying any more pot pies until I forget about this story. Which could be a while.

Venezuelan Beaver Cheese

According to their tourism board, the Germans make many kinds of cheese. And all I could think of was Muenster. And when it was invented, Muenster was part of France.

Of course, Gouda isn't originally a German cheese, nor is Limburger. But Quark is an indescribable soft cheesy dairy product which I long to taste. Possibly because I've never tasted it.