Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd not be that PC. If I knew/realised, which I wouldn't unless specifically told ... I'd go and buy one and eat it outside of the office before returning. I'd not change what I was eating in the workplace, just where I ate it.

Compromise is fair. Yours is a fair solution. .

I also am prepared to eat meat when dining with vegetarian friends if that's what suits me from the menu. But not to take meat into a vegetarian restaurant


There is a theme that has come up a couple of times on the marriages board which is the vegetarian wedding.

If I went to a vegan or vegetarian wedding, on any wedding or function of any one with a religious or ethical dietary stance, I wouldn't expect to be catered for with meat/pork/beef or whatever. However, I do expect to provide for those who do refrain with a verge or vegan alternative (though they might have to eat something like a mushroom) .

Apparently not everyone thinks like this....that meat eaters can do without meat for a day.

Spirit_2

Generali wrote: »

I do like a bit of piggie on my plate. Salami, ham, bacon, roast pork, rillettes, pate, black pudding. Thinking about it, why don't we eat pig kidneys? We eat ox and lamb kidneys.

I think piggy wigs are delicious, although I am not as keen on sausages.

I have a feeling I have had pigs kidneys and they tasted of urine. I may be imagining this...but it is why I do not try to buy them now.

silvercar

Spirit wrote: »

I read the link that was posted about setting up a kosher kitchen. To me it appeared as something in which you could take real pride in getting right, or something that could feel repressive.

I did think of Jewish NP household and wondered how keeping compliance across two or three generations worked, and whether a teenage rebellion/bone idleness or onset of dementia could undermine or spoil the integrity of it.

I can tell you about teenage rebels. If they want to eat something that isn't acceptable in this house, they do it in someone else's house. The rebelliousness extends to eating stuff that I may not approve of, but they still have respect for what is acceptable in the house.

silvercar

Generali wrote: »

I do like a bit of piggie on my plate. Salami, ham, bacon, roast pork, rillettes, pate, black pudding. Thinking about it, why don't we eat pig kidneys? We eat ox and lamb kidneys.

Why do we eat ox tail, but not ox mince or ox steak?

Similarly, I've never eaten cow tail soup.

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

I read the link that was posted about setting up a kosher kitchen. To me it appeared as something in which you could take real pride in getting right, or something that could feel repressive.

I did think of Jewish NP household and wondered how keeping compliance across two or three generations worked, and whether a teenage rebellion/bone idleness or onset of dementia could undermine or spoil the integrity of it.

My in laws are less adherent than, say, GDb's family. We had one dishwasher, which was ok, and two washing up bowls/brushes. One under counter fridge and simply cleaned worksurafaces in the way one should anyway and colour coded chopping boards for prep. But same use pans etc.

Most are flexible on dietary rules, majority eat pork and shellfish. The branch of the family I am closest too are (mainly) German/Israeli x German/Brit living between Germany and Israel.


I know my aunt found her son's rigid kosher lifestyle a bit frustrating but he was fussy about other stuff too (wouldn't eat non kosher branded stuff and was obsessed with quark and kosher quark was much more expensive.....she was complaining about that all the time) . Their father works in a synagogue and is not English at all, but is flexible in dietary laws but not ad adventurous eater. He liked Israeli food and German food.

Taking them for a curry was, however , a huge success.

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

I don't know who max wall is.

One of New Malden's most famous sons!:j

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

Why do we eat ox tail, but not ox mince or ox steak?

Similarly, I've never eaten cow tail soup.

Now, I have had it called cow tail .. Was it ,,...pie I think? Maybe soup. Not sure where , guessing states?


I love oxtail.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Apparently not everyone thinks like this....that meat eaters can do without meat for a day.

I was always annoyed on behalf of vegetarians in canteens that offered 2 meat and 1 veggie course each day. I figured that gave meat eaters 3 choices and veggies 1, but if they'd put on 1 meat and two veggie dishes then the meat eaters would still have a choice of 3, but the veggies 2.

There are many dishes that can sit equally well between veggie/meat so the meat eaters don't feel completely cheated. e.g. serving a veggie pizza that was simply meatless (not overly stuffed with mushrooms) might go unnoticed as a non-meat dish. Equally, cheese/onion flan instead of a quiche lorraine.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Why do we eat ox tail, but not ox mince or ox steak?

Similarly, I've never eaten cow tail soup.

Never thought of that.... what happens to the rest of the ox?

We used to sometimes have a can of oxtail soup and some bread toasted on the fire for supper when I was growing up. Soup and toast, sitting on the floor in front of the fire.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Never thought of that.... what happens to the rest of the ox?

We used to sometimes have a can of oxtail soup and some bread toasted on the fire for supper when I was growing up. Soup and toast, sitting on the floor in front of the fire.

Oxtail just means tail of cattle when we say it. The ox is what you might think of as a cow.


Technically it only means boy cattle tail, but ......times change without language keeping up. I don't know why we called steers ox and not cows. Or maybe I do know and I cannot get there in my head tonight, because I SHOULD know. Its the sort of thing I will have read at some point.