Comments on: Vegetarian: Final Round-up

By: yona loriner

yona loriner — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:28:06 +0000

very interesting! thanx

By: alyson

alyson — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:26:13 +0000

update your catsinsinks site!!! pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease!!! thank you.

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:32:37 +0000

Your lack of protein intake Fras has obviously dramatically reduced your energy levels and therefore attention to Blogjam.

Let me know if we need to send an ambulance.

Yours in meat,

Simon.

By: David Hepworth

David Hepworth — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:13:57 +0000

Of all the newspaper sites I look at the one with the most vitriolic feedback is always the Guardian/Observer. There’s more powerless *rage* there than in the Daily Mail.

By: Adam_Y

Adam_Y — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:21:43 +0000

Vegetarians in my town are generally restricted to one venue if they want to eat out… the rest barely have vegetables, let alone a ‘veggie option’.

Actually, that’s the bit that gets me, why vegetarian food has to be specialist, as opposed to just food that doesn’t contain meat.

One menu has ’salad’ another one has ‘vegetarian salad’…

… makes you wonder what was in the first one that prevented it from being called vegetarian.

Still, with barbecue season approaching it’s a good time to turn to the green side. Less food poisoning.

By: TunaSunrise

TunaSunrise — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:58:28 +0000

@hairyhighlander

Ah! Not a bad guess though. What’s in a name anyway? At least yours is descriptive. I, on the other hand, can make no claims to being fishy or bright in the morning.

Nevertheless, congratulations sir, on your full head of hair. :)

By: HairyHighlander

HairyHighlander — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:17:51 +0000

@tunasunrise: Nope fully paid up highlander from Dingwall, but then I could just be making that up ;) Actually thinking about that no-one would make up that they came from Dingwall. I do have a full head of hair though (although it is receding a wee bit).

By: pep

pep — Sat, 31 May 2008 06:54:13 +0000

how frustrating. I wish people would read things more than once before they decide to rant and stamp their feet. That way they might actually have a point that was relevant to the damn article.
(which i enjoyed, and thought fought their corner).

By: TunaSunrise

TunaSunrise — Thu, 29 May 2008 11:25:09 +0000

A good article, I thought. In fact, your whole vegetarian experience has been a good read, and it’s the kind of stuff that keeps me reading BlogJam. A welcome return to form - you should carry out more experiments on yourself for our entertainment.

I’m not sure why your article stirred up such a hornet’s nest though. The point was fairly clear, I thought - all you have to do is read it properly, without a disproportionate amount of righteous indignation. I think Hairyhighlander (let me guess - bald guy from Ipswich?) is right when he says “a lot of folk miss the point or are just looking for a reason to get outraged”. The anonymity of the web gives people the boldness to proclaim their views at the drop of a hat. Unfortunately, they don’t always pick the right time, place, tone, or even soapbox, and in their rush to defend their right to a point of view they forget that everyone else has that right too.

Hey ho.

By: HairyHighlander

HairyHighlander — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:11:04 +0000

Some of the comments wouldn’t have been out of place on the Daily Mail website. Never mind Norway, a few years ago we had to point out to a local pub that their only vegetarian option (a pasta dish) wasn’t actually vegetarian on account of the anchovies.

Enjoyed the article, but as seems so often with writing on the web a lot of folk miss the point or are just looking for a reason to get outraged.