Goat may replace hot dogs and hamburger, but it won’t replace fishies though. NOTHING can do that.
Hot dogs: all the stuff you never want to know you just put in your mouth.
Goat may replace hot dogs and hamburger, but it won’t replace fishies though. NOTHING can do that.
Selkie, you are technically correct … the best kind of correct.
Does that mean she’s going to be a bureaucrat when she grows up?
Beats the outright dishonesty of a politician.
Selkie, you are technically correct … the best kind of correct.
Your actions were also inappropriate and you are using the same logic to justify them that Truck did when he was shaking you.
I love kids, but this is one of the many reasons I don’t want to become a parent.
“Everything is someone else’s fault for not doing things my way” is what Selkie’s comments seem to boil down to. Faint echoes of Truck there, which is a little disturbing. And I’m wondering if this is about fear: If Selkie caught on to Mina’s interest in Todd, I can see that making her feel a bit unsettled or insecure. Hence the acting out.
That’s not a Truck thing or a Selkie thing. It’s just an immaturity thing. It’s easier to say that someone else was wrong, or being mean, or being too sensitive, than to recognize that you were out of line yourself.
Glad he called her on it. She was being bratty the whole time. Not acceptable, kiddo.
Hey, all around the world, there are traditions of taking every spare part of meat that nobody wants to eat, grinding it up to mush, and shoving it inside a tube before cooking it up and serving it.
Hot dog. Haggis. Kidney pie. And so very many kinds of blood sausage. Anywhere there’s people poor enough to eat anything you plop in front of them, there are spare parts meals.
It isn’t the spare parts but the chemicals that get me… Hamburgers with their pink slurry are very similar if you don’t make them yourself/know what is actually in the hamburger “meat”. Just sayin… Do I eat hamburgers and hot dogs? Yes, but not very often if I can help it.
Dave> Does this harken back to your experience at Weinerschitzel? LOL
I crave chili dogs now. XD
You my friend are a poet, you have reached across the internet to caress my cholesterol filled heart!
Can one ever be certain what’s actually in one’s hamburger?
If one makes it ones self, usually. Some restaurants (Five Guys and In-N-Out, at least, and maybe more) have really good, real meat burgers. Other places…not so much.
Steak’n’Shake is another place to get good burgers.
And I’m enjoying how _real_ the kids are being written (they act like kids), even when I think the character needs to be spanked.
Maybe if you started with a cow and worked your way down…
Some table-service restaurants have good burgers, too. Believe it or not, some of the best burgers I’ve had at a restaurant were at Denny’s.
If you’re very, very careful about what brand you buy, or just make your own with carefully selected ingredients, you can have healthy and/or ethical hotdogs and burgers.
Yeahhhh they need to make it cheaper and more common, though. :/
Hebrew National hot dogs are beef– not sure which cuts of beef (I’m sure they’re not prime cuts of course) but they aren’t pig butt. In order to qualify as “kosher” they have to be of higher quality than the typical Oscar Meyer… So those are an option.
They also have to be prepared in a “clean” facility (no cross contamination with other meat sources) that, unless rules have changed, actually get inspected quite regularly.
Yeah, those are actually some tasty dogs.
Unless you don’t like beef hotdogs. Yuk!
I prefer turkey dogs, myself. 🙂 But then, it seems I’m one of only a few who do.
“That’s not my faults he mades me mads!” … … …careful Selkie…that’s the same train of thought Truck had…
She’s always had bratty tendencies. I have been waiting for it to finally show outright though. She throws fits when she doesn’t get her way and automatically jumps to conclusions about people who she deems making fun of her. I’m glad Todd is angry with her and telling her what’s what, but I get the feeling he’s mostly upset about being embarrassed in front of Mina and not because his kid is bratty which is worrisome. She’s been spoiled pretty hard since Todd adopted her and keeps being told she’s perfect and special and clever. This sudden change on Todd’s part may upset her pretty badly.
Can’t say I agree with you on being told she’s perfect.
She was/is pretty insecure about her outer appearance, because… well, she’s Sarnothi, and only a few know of their existence.
So yeah, people are pretty thick for thinking she’s ill, but then again: she’s out in the open… you can assume she’s okay.
But Selkie should’ve been used to it by now, and not throw hissy fits or tantrums like that. So I’m glad Todd is being stern now.
Before you all start tumbling over eachother to rip my throat out for saying she should be used to namecalling: I didn’t say that.
But most people genuinely ask if she’s okay… that’s not like Amanda calling her a fishface.
*Sigh* Daaaaave, get an edit button over here 🙁
Correction:
So yeah, people are pretty thick for thinking she’s ill, but then again: she’s looking pretty weird.
For thinking she’s sick: She’s out in the open… you can assume she’s okay.
I think it’s more that Todd recognizes that she’s a kid and allows her room to act up at home. In this case, she’s in a more formal setting and the kind of situation that she knows calls for “best behavior,” but instead her behavior was poor even by casual-at-home-with-her-friends standards.
She’s tired, doesn’t have her hair clip, and had to compete for her guardian’s attention in a way she isn’t used to. She acted out. That’s a very normal and expected reaction, but not one to encourage or allow.
Where exactly did she have to compete? As far as I can see there was none, nor did she seem to care. She acted out because someone pissed her off. And she really liked goat meat. No idea why he got mad over that. That seemed like a stupid overreaction on his part. So he’s vegetarian. So what? His kid isn’t and she doesn’t understand it. His dad even said he needs to indulge her eating habits. At least he isn’t forcing her to be vegetarian. I’ve known parents who forced their habits on their children. Be it their no animal product diet or I’m a lesbian so you should Be too to I have tattoos so you should too.
Well, he *knows* she can’t eat vegetables.
Sure, at first they were labeled as ‘allergies’.
But he found out her carnivorous nature pretty quick.
So he would be nothing more than a sadist if he’d force his vegetarian ways on her.
But he’s also right to be upset when she’s shoving goat in his face.
One, he was trying to talk to her teacher about things and sent her to get food instead of letting her join the conversation. That’s a situation I’d call competing for his attention. Then she has to work on boring tasks (homework) while he continues to talk to someone else. Should she easily be able to do this? Yes, but that doesn’t mean she’s going to when already worked up.
Second, at that age I certainly would have gotten in trouble for shoving food in my parent’s face even if it was something they liked. I would have been in a lot more trouble if I’d interrupted a conversation Mom or Dad was having in order to do so. It has nothing to do with his being a vegetarian and everything to do with basic manners.
If you remove something from your diet for a while, your body gets used to running without it, so having it in you body makes you more sick. I don’t know if he is vegan (he said he had cheese, but there is such a thing as vegan cheese). His parents are omnivores, so to them, it is no big deal to indulge Selkie in her meat eating. But for him, it could end up at the very least as some wicked indigestion. He’s not forcing her because he knows that she is not able to eat most plants without getting terribly sick. But people should not be forcing him to eat what Selkie eats for the same reason.
I think Ya’ll are wrong about Selkie. She is not ready to share Tod with anyone. I mean, duh. Years in the “home”? She is still in the “I can’t believe this is happening” stage…..
I think it was justifiable for her to be upset about the man asking if she was contagious since from what we can tell she’s been called names a picked on as long as she can remember. Also I think he should’ve been mature enough to not ask a little eight year old that. Her other behavior was pretty inexcusable though.
Just a heads up, using IE 10 and google chrome (windows 7 home premium), the navigation buttons (back, forward, first last) are missing. I’m not sure if the problem is at my end (was prompted to update flashplayer this morning) or yours.
Oh dammit. Thanks for letting me know. It seems my color settings have made the links the same color as that purple box they’re in. I’ll work on it.
Should be fixed, messed with the color settings to bring them back.
yes it is. Thank you.
I very very briefly worked at what I will politely call a “chicken disassembly plant”. My job was only to hose the entire place down (literally, ever surface lower than six feet, with a powerful firehose that sprayed a soap/water mix.) and sweep up the leftover bits. I was okay with the unidentifiable meat scraps, but stepping on organs and hearing them squish under my boot sent shivers up my spine. Respect to the dozens of little Chinese ladies who worked that assembly line all day. Their stomachs are stronger than mine.
Anyway, to my point. All the “meat scrap” (that we previously blasted off the assembly lines with the soapy firehose) got swept up and dumped into big wheeled bins, about 4 feet cubed. I asked what was done with it, and was told it got sent off to make dog food at a different plant.
I don’t know about hot dogs specifically, but I can easily imagine a very similar process happening at some “Cow disassembly plant” somewhere. An example of how “100% beef” doesn’t necessarily mean “100% meat”.
If my daughter was acting up like Selkie, she would be facing no desserts for a week. But now I’m curious as to what desserts Selkie would lose since most desserts are made of plants?