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#2972143 23-Sep-2022 13:58

The Woolies gluten-free brownie box mix is like a gift from the gods, I'll fight a holy war to keep that on our shelves if God asks me to.

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#2972144 23-Sep-2022 14:00

GV27:

The Woolies gluten-free brownie box mix is like a gift from the gods, I'll fight a holy war to keep that on our shelves if God asks me to.

Thanks for the recommendation! After a lot of hard work sampling various offerings, gluten free brownies tend to be far superior. So gooey.

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#2972158 23-Sep-2022 14:06

GV27:

PsychoSmiley:

Well to save people's sanity at least for a dessert, if you want a cracking gluten free cake do a flourless chocolate cake. Only 4 ingredients and it's dense and moist AF.

200g sugar
200g butter
200g dark chocolate
4 eggs
My wife was very gluten intolerant for a while, but oddly being pregnant did a soft reset on her body and now she's okay.

This just sounds like a giant chocolate biscuit.

I can't wait to give it a crack.

When I read the ingredients I was think more like a chocolate omelet which doesn't sound very appealing.

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#2972295 23-Sep-2022 19:24

The neighbors are chasing three bicycle thieves who have already stolen 5 expensive bicycles and eBikes from the basements of houses in the last 2 weeks. Two of them are on their own with rickety bicycles and one is on foot with tools in his backpack, and he takes the stolen bike with him when he flees. I've seen them sneaking around houses, but unless they're committing a current crime, you can't arrest them. Last year, bicycles and eBikes worth a total of €100 million were stolen in GER.

Let's see how this goes.

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#2972309 23-Sep-2022 21:04

mkissin:

So yeah, basically just leave people alone?

In the case I mentioned, now when we go to their place for dinner, we eat food that suits them - which is fair enough. But when they come to our place, now they expect to eat food that suits them. That’s unusual food by our standards - not easy for us to provide and not food we would prefer to prepare and eat. If all this was really necessary, we would feel differently about it - but it’s not actually necessary.

So yeah, we’ll leave them alone - we’re still friends but as I said, we have tapered-off on the hospitality.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#2972310 23-Sep-2022 21:09

eracode:

So yeah, we’ll leave them alone - we’re still friends but as I said, we have tapered-off on the hospitality.

Would they make a BBQ (representative pseudonym) for your sake? If not, then… that would be a foreseeable thing for me.

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#2972313 23-Sep-2022 21:13

eracode:

What?

Yes, I mean would they invite you in and cook you something to enjoy what you eat? Or do they only come to you for dinner with their expectations?

Or do you mean just eating out? Friends come home for us and we usually invite each other over. Otherwise they would only be acquaintances.

We tell them beforehand what we are cooking and if there is something, we also make something separately. But I can tell you, even Muslims have sat at our table and claimed with a glass in their hand that Allah himself turns wine into water and that wild boar was not explicitly mentioned by him. ;-)

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#2972317 23-Sep-2022 21:33

^^ I thought what I was trying to say was reasonably clear - even though a few disagree with me - so I think I’ll just stop there.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#2972320 23-Sep-2022 21:39

eracode:

^^ I thought what I was trying to say was reasonably clear - even though a few disagree with me - so I think I’ll just stop there.

Ok for me!

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#2972402 24-Sep-2022 01:00

HelloThere: Sex with meat-eaters off the menu

No sex, please, you're a carnivore. A new phenomenon in New Zealand is taking the idea of you are what you eat to the extreme.

Vegansexuals are people who do not eat any meat or animal products, and who choose not to be sexually intimate with non-vegan partners whose bodies, they say, are made up of dead animals.

Seems like I'll never be able to have sex again.

… but they will happily re-breathe the air exhaled by the carnivores they live and work with? It would be good if they stopped.

just like anti vaxxers who would never date etc with someone who has been vaccinated

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#2972467 24-Sep-2022 11:54

I’m left wondering how much of a loss it is for vegans to separate themselves from the general gene pool? 😂

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#2972476 24-Sep-2022 12:41

I’m not a vegan (though I am a vegetarian) and I also don’t care for holier than thou attitudes and pompous behaviour over food choices, but the vegan bashing here is getting a little tiresome. The term is being used as a catch-all label in order to mock a (invented) category of people. Ha ha. Very funny. Can we now move on to something other than cheap shots based on ignorance and wilful distortion? Let’s all go make fun of gluten intolerant people. Oh wait …

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#2972501 24-Sep-2022 16:22

The question is also whether what one can still choose today in view of the increasing world population will not lead in the future and distant future to forms of nutrition due to man-made constraints that one would not wish for today.

The first stage will then be that one can only eat meat because someone else does without it.

The second stage would be that one can only eat vegetarian food because someone else does without it.

The third stage would be that there would be nothing left that could be called food and eaten according to today's definition.

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#2972512 24-Sep-2022 16:56

Concerning W.T.F. - A recent self-experiment (ok, it was in an anti-food waste bag, I wouldn't have bought it voluntarily):

Vegan barbecue sausage - Ingredients:

Drinking water

Rapeseed oil

Wheat gluten 7%

Onions

Strengthener

Methyl cellulose (also known as wallpaper paste)

Carrageen

Natural flavour

Spice extracts

Table salt

Broad bean protein concentrate

Spirit vinegar

Oat fibres

Wheat flour 1%

Spices

Dextrose

Bon appétit!

Result: apart from the completely weird ingredients, it had an unstable, wobbeling consistency, tasted of something and if it hadn't been for the homemade tomato ketchup, I wouldn't have guessed a bratwurst. If that's the prospect, I'd prefer vegetables, eggs and cheese in any case.

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#2972514 24-Sep-2022 17:09

Tinkerisk:Methyl cellulose (also known as wallpaper paste)

You made me laugh with that one 🤣.

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