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Post by kunuma on Jul 1, 2012 19:22:40 GMT 1
Nope, not a joke but a question, what on earth is a locust tree and a butternut tree?? (The book is American) Oh and while I am showing my ignorance, what is sasparilla?
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Post by Claire on Jul 1, 2012 21:58:31 GMT 1
Not sure what the first 2 are (unless butternut tree has something to do with butternut squash - a veggie) but sarsparilla or however you spell it is a plant from which a drink is made. Also sweets - did you not have sarsparilla tablets when you were a kiddiwink?
I would just google the other things - what I always do when I dont know something ( a lot!)
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Post by garej on Jul 1, 2012 22:07:32 GMT 1
A butternut tree is nothing to do with butternut squash, but rather a species of tree native to america and canada. Wikipedia has an article about it, with a picture of the tree. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butternut_%28tree%29
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Post by trixiepony on Jul 2, 2012 0:48:12 GMT 1
Google a wounder full place off info.
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Post by Claire on Jul 2, 2012 12:01:15 GMT 1
Google a wounder full place off info. I know i don't know what i did before it came out, probably spent hours looking up things in reference books or the library. Say what you want about the internet but its a fantastic source for info and learning.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2012 12:32:50 GMT 1
Totally agree! I'd never be able to do your quizzes otherwise. ;D ;D
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Post by kunuma on Jul 2, 2012 18:12:48 GMT 1
I'm fast becoming an expert on beer, apparently sarsparilla drink is root beer, which I had heard of but had no idea what it was!
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Post by haffyfan on Jul 2, 2012 20:16:08 GMT 1
They use to sell it at Maccy dees years ago...since i don't eat meat it was the only thing i ever had there as i don't think they 'invented' veggie style burgers till the mid 90's onwards plus last time i went my veg dehli sandwich thingy was actually chicken/fish (lol some form of white meat anyhow- fortunatly i'm a very fussy eater and pull my food to pieces in places i don't trust prior to eating!)
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Post by trixiepony on Jul 3, 2012 7:00:36 GMT 1
They use to sell it at Maccy dees years ago...since i don't eat meat it was the only thing i ever had there as i don't think they 'invented' veggie style burgers till the mid 90's onwards plus last time i went my veg dehli sandwich thingy was actually chicken/fish (lol some form of white meat anyhow- fortunatly i'm a very fussy eater and pull my food to pieces in places i don't trust prior to eating!) Yes you have to be so careful if your a vegetarian it was awful when I was a small kid hardly any shops sold vegetarian dishes, most places do now thow sum are quit pore as Thay don't know what we eat.
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Post by kunuma on Jul 3, 2012 19:30:58 GMT 1
;D I've given up trying to eat out, at family get togethers I always finish up with a plate of flippin' chips!! All the veggie dishes are always based on pasta etc, I can't eat wheat so that usually writes off the entire menu!
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Post by Claire on Jul 3, 2012 22:57:33 GMT 1
Do you not eat fish either kunuma?
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Post by kunuma on Jul 4, 2012 14:42:08 GMT 1
Weell I did, I was a pescewhotsit veggie - but was just kidding myself because it came all mushed up in tins - saw one served up all in one piece and realised how hypocritical I was being, keeping fish as pets and worrying about stressing them moving etc, then supporting an industry that was damaging the very seas it was harvesting not to mention how the fish felt about it -so feel very ambivalent at the moment. I used to go fishing as a child too! Mind you, isn't there quite a history of people such as big game hunters and animal collectors who then 'see the light' and become conservationists and such in their advancing years. Edited to add I would be interested in how many of the other veggies on her do or don't eat fish.
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Post by haffyfan on Jul 4, 2012 21:52:10 GMT 1
I don't eat fish. I'm not vegan...i like chocolate and cake too much! But i don't drink milk or eat eggs unless they are baked in something, i can't eat 'eggy' food like quiche either. yuck!
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Post by trixiepony on Jul 6, 2012 3:35:17 GMT 1
I don't eat fish, but I will have a egg sum times I have soy milk and it's amazing how you can get to like the taste after a wile, there are soy ,nut or veggie cheeses ,yogurt and proton meet substrate. It's not so bad now being a vegaterian.
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Post by kunuma on Jul 6, 2012 14:22:41 GMT 1
I got put on to houmus (can't spell it!) by a friend and love it - I avoided it before as I got very confused with all these things and couldn't work out which was wheat - apparently that's the couscous one! I also found some weird stuff called quorn, some sort of fungi - which they make to look like meat for some weird reason - erm being a veggie I don't want stuff to look like meat!
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Post by Claire on Jul 6, 2012 15:34:42 GMT 1
I love houmous and cous cous too. Quorn is very good for making things like curries, stews, casseroles etc, where it gets the flavour and jiuces from the sauce, otherwise its a bit dry and tasteless. I make a lovely sausage casserole with quorn sausages. I think they make quorn to look like meat for meat lovers who are trying to become veggies, also so that veggies and non-veggies can share the meals. Soya milk tho - yuk!
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Post by haffyfan on Jul 6, 2012 19:44:32 GMT 1
lol joining Kunuma in the i don't want to eat pretend meat club no, no, no, no, no!!
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Post by sarah on Jul 6, 2012 20:09:14 GMT 1
I don't eat fish either (although I never really liked it even before I was vegetarian). (Once I went to a friend's house at uni (pre-veggie days) and her mum had made a 'special' seafood lasagna - I was too shy/polite to say I didn't like fish and had an awful time trying to force in down - tiny bit of lasagna - huge gulp of water - tiny bit of lasagna - massive chunk of bread - :-(
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Post by kunuma on Jul 6, 2012 20:39:43 GMT 1
How nice that there are so many veggies on here
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