I have no idea how you vegan-ize a roast. I suspect carefully.
I feel like I let myself get a bit lazy with the interiors of the Smith house earlier. I wanna try to pay more attention to that this time around.
I have no idea how you vegan-ize a roast. I suspect carefully.
Oh dear. When Todd agreed to go to the dinner I /do/ hope he told them that Selkie can’t eat vegetables.
How does one vegan-ize a roast?
I think you cook the meat and the veggies separate and allow the option for them to be combined maybe?
That’s roughly how my mom’s parents handled my ovolacto vegetarianism, when we had Thanksgiving dinner there. Divide the meat from the other stuff, and allow combining, or choice of gravy, etc.
Thoroughly.
You baste it in soy-sauce and add some tofu chunks to the pan instead of potatoes.
You can vegan-ize a roast by making out of a vegan.
Lordy, they would be a hard family to cook for. He’s a vegan, she’s a carnivore, essentially each person’s diet is poison to the other.
I think you vegan-ize a roast with a slingshot.
Crikey. I just realized that’s a four story house. For three people.
i don’t think todd would die from eating meat.
Never fed a long-term vegetarian, eh?
If you don’t eat meat for a while, your gut will stop producing the meat-digesting enzymes (your body adapts to what you’ve been eating) and the first few times you eat meat after not having it for a while, it takes a very long time to digest and can make you feel sick.
This *includes* eating vegetables cooked in meat juices and such. It’s the long protein molecules that you don’t have the enzymes to break down.
Guru is totally right. I’ve been a vegetarian for ten years. Just the smell of meat makes me feel queasy, which is something that happened over time. The longer your body is away from it, it becomes this weird alien thing.
…so this would be why fresh veggies always mess up my stomach around the start of harvest season?
Where I live, fresh vegetables in the winter are 1) insanely priced and thus way past my financial range, or 2) produced in a country that I don’t buy products from based on political reasons (as an example, I don’t buy anything Israel-grown, you can probably guess why).
Canned goods are much cheaper, but they’re usually also cooked before being canned. Same for most frozen stuff. Right now we’re in the first half of the harvest season (this far north it’s about from late June to late August), and I’ve been indulging myself at the marketplace almost daily. 😀
I kind of like this theory… 🙂
As to the comment that each other’s diet is poison to the other, Todd’s choice to be a vegetarian is just that, a choice. Meat isn’t poison to him, he just doesn’t eat it. As for Selkie, her diet is genetic, she has no choice in the matter. The only way you veganize a roast is to not have it at all. Veganism is a total absence of any meat or meat produced products. No meat of any kind, beef, mutton, veal, fish or fowl, no milk, eggs, wearing anything leather or wool. Also, sad to say, Vegans tend to be more judgemental than plain vegetarians.
Yeah, I’m not a vegan (or a vegetarian), but “veganize the roast” actually sounds kinda freaky to me. Like maybe she doesn’t really know what a vegan is, and thinks a roast actually can be veganized somehow, or like maybe she’s going to superficially reorganize things to give the illusion of vegan options when really everything’s still got beef or beef juices in it.
It’s not like, say, kosher, where you could fudge it and have no one be the wiser: like Guru says above, strict long term vegetarians and vegans can get gastric distress from being fed animal protean whether they know it’s in there or not.
It can also cause vomiting. I’ve been a vegetarian since day one, and the couple of times I ate meat without knowing what it was (I wish my parents had thought to warn me that most people aren’t vegetarians and school lunches are designed to cater to most people), it made me throw up.
I am no longer surprised — grouchy, yes, but not surprised — at how many places make tomato soup with chicken stock. Or cook vegetables in chicken, or with beef bits. Or add chicken stock to things that are otherwise ovolacto vegetarian-looking.
And yes, it is very hard to cook for everyone when there are two carnivores (well, omnivores, one of whom usually wants some meat with his meals) and one “ew, meat” person.
Todd had cheese in his fridge; cheese is an animal product, so he can´t be that sort of strict vegan.
I suspect (but we won’t know until it comes up in comic, obviously) that Todd is a vegetarian who gets free-range eggs and milk. It just makes sense with his character.
Jack Sprat could eat no fat
His wife could eat no lean
And so betwixt the two of them
They licked the platter clean
aww … I can not see all of what Ms. Fairweather is saying 🙁
“I gotta get the potatoes and vegan-ize the roast and the bathroom is a MESS.” 🙂
Nor can I. 🙁
I think that might be on purpose, to show how spastic she is… it can also convey a larger chunk of text without filling in all of it, I did that in a comic I made for a class once. I could be wrong but it looks purposeful, at least there’s enough to make sense of it.
She’s rambling so fast it flows right off the page. XD
I am not sure if they are an overly cutesy couple or he is trying to ease her stress level by being overly nice.
No soccer? Awww, I kind of feel sorry for her now.
i must say, so far im really liking barb as a character
I’m liking Barb as a parent. She`s shaping up to be a much better parent than the first couple of appearances would have sugjested.
Same here. She no longer creeps me out as the “plastic Barbie”.
I feel like, in their initial appearance, I overdid their “yuppie” aspects to the point of caricature. I feel like dialing them back down to earth a bit is working much better.
In their initial character drafts Ken and Barb were basically vapid stereotypes, an idea which no longer works for me.
I love that we can see the soccer goal in their backyard.
I like the way that Barb not only omits punctuation (pauses to breathe) but doesn’t notice whether she is entirely intelligible or not (text partially off page).
I also like the way that the kids or the orphanage are getting lots of screen time. It adds so much depth that we get to see how our little soccer player is adjusting (not without some significant bumps), and how the kids who have not been adopted are going on with their daily life. “Tutu- Mart in the face!!” just killed me, and the phrase has happily stayed with me so that I think the next time I have to sound threatening I will use it.
I do not think that Barb is gonna be the ideal warm Mom, but you know, it might well work out
Let me know how using “Tutu-Mart to the FACE!” works in real life. XD
So many memories! My mom used to ground me from reading since reading was my most favorite thing ever. Also, when I was vegan, I made many a seitan roasts from scratch. Especially for Thanksgiving, all the omnivores on my block loved my “turkey”.
Oh come on Heather! You know Selkie and you know about her special diet, clue the parental units in before this dinner goes to craps.
That would infer that she LIKES Selkie and doesn’t wanna see her get sick…
Uh, or that remembering the special diet of a person she doesn’t spend much time with(orphanage or not) is a lot to expect from a child Heather’s age.
Come on guys. She’s a little kid. Not the Source of All Evil.
This is not about liking Selkie, this is about liking soccer. If it turns out she did know but didn´t tell her parents about it, do you think she´ll even SEE a soccer ball again until she turns 21?
Somehow I can’t see Todd relying on someone else when his child’s life could be at stake.
“Barb, we’d be glad to come to dinner. Gotta tell you though that Selkie has EXTREME food allergies. She can only eat meat and dairy. No vegetables of any kind. That includes meat cooked in vegetable oil.”
Tofu and lentils can do magical things….
Count me among the one hoping that the Smiths are aware of Selkie’s diet.
You can make a vegan ‘roast’-a tofu no animal by products flavored with the same spices as the roast would be.
I think a lot of comments here are confused (or maybe it’s just me that’s confused) with veganism and vegetarianism. Vegans often abhor all animal products, some going so far as avoiding products containing carmine (a natural dye made from this critter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochineal ), or wearing anything that was once part of an animal, even wool.
Vegetarians, however, come in just as many “flavours” as “meat-eaters” (barring actual carnivores). Some use dairy (lacto-vegetarians), some accept also eggs (lacto-ovo-vegetarians), some even eat fish (don’t ask me what the term is, way back in grade school our teacher didn’t think people that eat fish were vegetarians), and I’ve even heard of some peeps that consider themselves vegetarian for not eating cows and pigs, but will happily eat various bird meats, fish, eggs (probably fish eggs too :P) and dairy products.
From what I remember reading in the comic, Todd is not a vegan, but rather lacto-vegetarian (can’t remember a mention of him eating eggs), which doesn’t mean he couldn’t digest animal proteins at all. He just doesn’t want to eat meat, it’s his choice.
As Bill Wa said in the comments above, Selkie being a carnivore is genetic, she can’t help it. It’s not a choice, like for humans, who as a species are omnivores. I’d happily be a carnivore if I could (also if I could afford it), but human biology doesn’t allow that option, at least not without some insane supplements that would be more scifi than real life stuff.
some even eat fish (don’t ask me what the term is, way back in grade school our teacher didn’t think people that eat fish were vegetarians)
Your teacher was right, they aren’t vegetarian if they eat fish, they’re pescatarian.
I’ve even heard of some peeps that consider themselves vegetarian for not eating cows and pigs, but will happily eat various bird meats, fish, eggs (probably fish eggs too 😛 ) and dairy products
I’ve heard that type of diet referred to as pollotarian. It’s certainly not vegetarian.
Basically, vegetarians won’t eat something if an animal (which includes fish and poultry) has to die to provide the food item while vegans won’t eat it if it comes from animals in any way.
People who eat fish are sometimes called piscatarians, as I recall. Not vegetarians. Your teacher is entirely right. People who call themselves vegetarians and eat animal-flesh protein are Intensely Irritating to people who do not eat animals and don’t like being served animals. (A nurse once went and chewed out a cook when I was in the hospital, for sending me chicken when I was clearly noted to be a vegetarian.)
Yeah, I learned the word “pescatarian” a while ago. It’s not quite vegetarianism, but it’s closer than most people – and probably easier/more practical to maintain a healthy diet.
I agree. It’s very annoying when people go “Well, I’m sort of a vegetarian”, or “I’m a vegetarian, but I eat chicken sometimes.” No, it’s like being kosher. You are or you aren’t.
Sometimes people who occasionally eat meat are called “flexatarians”.
I once went to school with a girl that claimed she was vegan, except she ate dairy, eggs and fish and she was VERY high-and-mighty about being a “vegan”, too. I’ve been working hard to get rid of the prejudices she planted in my mind.