Comments for Passing on the Left

Comment on Live GStreamer Pipeline Graphing by Ray

Ray — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:37:25 +0000

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Comment on Live GStreamer Pipeline Graphing by IamTrying

IamTrying — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:27:43 +0000

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Comment on Live GStreamer Pipeline Graphing by fabiand

fabiand — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:20:07 +0000

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Comment on Snotty comment about “Vegetarian-friendly Restaurants” by DI

DI — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:44:40 +0000

I’m not sure how a non-vegetarian offering suggestions on vegetarian friendly restaurants is automatically a party foul. Yes I’m sure there are plenty of non-vegetarians that may not think about it all that much and make bad suggestions. But I’m certainly not a vegetarian, and I can offer you many suggestions on vegetarian friendly, and vegetarian only restaurants where I live (many of which I’ve been too and have excellent food)

Comment on Snotty comment about “Vegetarian-friendly Restaurants” by Sumana Harihareswara

Sumana Harihareswara — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 09:53:50 +0000

Anonymous! Yes! On what planet is bacon an unremarkable salad component?!

Comment on Snotty comment about “Vegetarian-friendly Restaurants” by Sumana Harihareswara

Sumana Harihareswara — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 09:52:35 +0000

I am amused to find that my rule has made it to Planet GNOME. Years ago I made a similar rule, that there must be at least two vegetarian main dishes, although I’m fine with butternut squash ravioli. My figuring is that, if the chefs just throw one veg dish on the menu then they might not care about vegetarians at all and have little experiential knowledge of how to make things taste good without meat, whereas if they have multiple veg dishes, then they’ve learned the requisite skills. Case in point: veg omlets require a chef to pre-cook mushrooms, spinach, and some other ingredients before folding them into the egg component. Diners where all but one of the omlets are meaty often miss this step.

(My parents raised me vegetarian, so meatlessness is at this point basically inertia.)

Comment on Snotty comment about “Vegetarian-friendly Restaurants” by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 09:46:48 +0000

As a vegetarian, I don’t mind if appetizers and salads have meat, as long as they explicitly say so. If something lists meat, I can always ask for something else or ask for the item without the meat, but I’ve gotten burned a few times by just asking for a salad mentioned on the menu and finding that their idea of a “house salad” has bacon on it without saying so.

I’d also object to your second item: I *like* butternut squash ravioli.

Comment on Snotty comment about “Vegetarian-friendly Restaurants” by Andreas

Andreas — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 08:44:14 +0000

I’m not a vegetarian (I like meaty food), so I wouldn’t call meat “gratuitous” in most dishes. What I can fully support, of course, is an option to say “everything vegetarian please” to omit the non-essential meat from everything. That’s an organizational problem that might be hard to solve for restaurants though… you’ve probably factored this into your requirements.

Comment on Snotty comment about “Vegetarian-friendly Restaurants” by Robert Swain

Robert Swain — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 07:16:36 +0000

Though butternut squash ravioli sounds like something I would try, perhaps that option has saturated the market over there. I remember finding a particularly good burrito place in SF.

I guess I’m too used to being a second-class food citizen in that I’m satisfied if they have anything I can eat at all. It’s much worse in some places in Europe. Like France. I did find one vegetarian restaurant in Berlin, but only one and everywhere else was quite hopeless.

Comment on Snotty comment about “Vegetarian-friendly Restaurants” by Cultural Ambassador

Cultural Ambassador — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 04:17:59 +0000

Sounds like you didn’t realize or understand vegetarians would want a restaurant to make them feel more than barely tolerated before calling it veg-friendly, and you were corrected, perhaps abruptly or even rudely, and embarrassed?