Sorry for the late day post, not feeling great. Got a maniac of a cold, hard to focus.
Today's edition of the Secret Commentary is empty, because Dave failed to come up with something for it.
Sorry for the late day post, not feeling great. Got a maniac of a cold, hard to focus.
I think even vegans like bacon, that’s why there are so many fake versions of it. And as the parent of a vegan, there are a few of them that are pretty good if you can afford them.
My mom makes an awesome fake bacon out of rice paper and seasonings. I’ve tried it myself a couple of times, but I just can’t get it right. I’m not even vegetarian, I just like it.
In a section of the webcomic Leftover Soup, Jamie makes vegan bacon using avocado. The author, tailsteak, says this in the notes:
“This is true, by the way. You can slice avocado, dredge it in whatever, fry it in oil, and it is very close to vegan bacon. It lacks the internal chewiness, but the flavour makes up for it, I think. Also, doing this to an avocado probably nullifies the whole “healthy fats” thing.”
(In the strip, Jamie uses panko and ground cashew for the crispiness.)
I think I heard somewhere that eggplant can make vegan bacon, but I can’t recall where.
Incidentally, do you know that there’s a principle of Jewish law that allows pregnant women to eat whatever they’re craving, even if it’s against kosher dietary rules? It stems from the general principle of “pikuach nephesh”, which is that life supersedes *most* of the Law: God intended the Law to help people live, not for them to die in service to the Law.
This allows people to break the Law in order to preserve life in various ways — and requires that the *most* pious Jew be the one to break it. E.g. if it’s the Sabbath where you’re not supposed to work, and someone gets trapped in a collapsed building, you don’t try to find a less pious person to save them so you can say you kept the Law — no, you affirmatively save life as part of your duty to God.
Assuming I understand it correctly, the stipulation about pregnancy is that God set up a woman’s body to crave the things necessary for both the mother and the baby, so eating what she craves is providing the best chance for both. Ergo, if she’s craving bacon or shellfish or a cheeseburger, she gets to follow that craving, because of the principle of preserving life.
It’s an interesting nuance to an otherwise pretty strict set of Laws, and one that raises a discussion topic of when rules should be broken and by how much. As tailsteak observed, when Lawful and Good come into conflict, a Lawful Good character should remember that Good is the aim and Lawful is only the means.
Feel better soon man, and thanks for the comic, you’re one of two that I have set to alert me when Twitter updates, don’t want to miss it!
Any idea about that write up for Sue and Kathryn? I love the world’s you have made, so much lore and backstory in your creations. Not everyone puts so much thought and care into it.
I uh… yeah I still need to finish that. Ran into a few plot holes as I was doing the write up, and then sort of had IRL happen and still need to finish it. Keeping the website up until I do for whatever that’s worth.
I hope you feel better soon, Dave!
And … am I seeing that right? They’re bowing down to him because he made bacon? LOL
Nah, they’re rushing for the snacks.
Hope he brought some cow. Mina’s religion will not allow her to eat the ham or the bacon or (quite probably) the bologna. If we have any Jewish children, their religion also forbids it.
Just something to consider in this day and age, Todd.
One of the many reasons why this wouldn’t happen in a real world classroom.
If you look carefully, most of the bigger stores carry TURKEY bacon.
Purists might balk, but it’s not as bad as all that.
Given that Todd’s a vegetarian himself, I’m pretty sure he’s provided alternatives. Whether those alternatives include meat products, no idea, but I’m actually quite proud of him for so quickly adapting to a carnivorous daughter. It’s quite the contrast to those particularly militant vegans who refuse to feed their *cats* meat (cats being, like the Sarnothi, obligate carnivores who will get sick if they don’t have meat).
If this were a cartoon there’d be a shot where his voice trails off after ‘bacon’ and he looks up as there’s a low rumbling and the screen starts to shake shortly before a hungry carnivorous preteen stampede rolls over him.
Sorry to hear about your cold, Dave, hope you get better soon! After you’ve gotten some R&R… there is supposed to be a K in Ms. Afkhami right?
Selkie has trained them all to be carnivores
Well, Todd didn’t make the FATAL ERROR. Never get between the kids and the bacon.
Sounds like my kin.
“My family all were loggers,
There’s none like them today;
If you put bacon on it
They would eat a bale of hay.”
He laid them out so nicely. Pearls before swine.
Heh,swine before swine.
Did you ever see that video of Jamie Oliver showing a group of kids just what goes into a chicken nugget? And then, at the end, he asks if anyone would still eat it, and every hand goes up?
I’m getting a tiny bit of that vibe from Todd’s face. Not much, but a tiny bit.
Here’s the video. I posted it separately in case the spam filter gets touchy.
https://youtu.be/6QSZXaVopIA
He should have shown them that documentary where they process live chicks if he wanted to scare them off nuggets
When I went shopping with my young nephew, I’d talk about the “dead fish aisle” as we passed — hoping to bypass the “shock! we’re eating animals?!!” panic that a different niephling had had.
Also, I’ve seen at least one video showing the culling of chicks. It was horrific. I’ve read up on the topic a bit and dang, we started to play God with breeding and suddenly we’re mass-slaughtering the byproducts of our hubris (because male chicks bred for eggs are worthless for meat, and we breed them on such a massive scale that there’s no other fate for them but day-one death). It does bug me.
Not enough to stop eating chicken, but enough to be glad that there’s legislation in the works trying to make the culling of live chicks illegal, and there are people trying to make technology that’ll identify chick sex before the still-in-the-egg chick is old enough to feel pain. And to be more willing to pay higher prices, sometimes, in order to get eggs from smaller local farms, hoping that their process is more humane.
Because nuggets are awesome. I remember the whole pink slime video, I don’t care. I don’t care if I sometimes get bone fragments in my McNuggets, they are delicious and I’ll gladly consume them.