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[Chippy_Tea]

Google have removed the egg from its salad emoji to make it more vegan friendly

Do vegans complain about this sort of thing or is it Political Correctness gone mad?

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[110ben]

For someone of my age its not just P.C. gone mad but pretty much the whole world has gone mad. Thank goodness for hobbies to keep me sane...or drunk ...either works for me.

 

[Gunge]

They should therefore remove salad greenery to avoid the risk of offending rabid carnivores, like me!

 

[Covrich]

Bit Eggtreme of them if you ask me

 

[marshbrewer]

My better half and I got engaged the other day so, naturally, we have been discussing wedding plans.

We are thinking along the lines of a field and a shed sort of do, with a hog roast for grub. I asked if we could put a sign next to the hog roast, pointing at the grass, saying ' vegetarian option '. She didn't think that was a good idea.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

An excellent idea.

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[Cwrw666]

Thank God they've just discovered meat products in Tescos vegan readymeals.
Didn't say whether it was horse or not...

 

[MyQul]

I'm afraid Im going to have to close the thread due to all the anti-vegetarian views expressed in the thread. Vegatists!!

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I saw that earlier "traces of pork in Sainsbury's own brand Meat Free Meatballs and traces of turkey in Tesco's Wicked Kitchen BBQ Butternut Mac" i never got why veggies eat stuff that looks and tastes like meat (sausage, chicken etc) why eat meatballs if you don't like animals being killed to provide us carnivores with meat?





According to the Telegraph's investigation, a German government-accredited food testing laboratory found traces of pork in Sainsbury's own brand Meat Free Meatballs, and traces of turkey in Tesco's Wicked Kitchen BBQ Butternut Mac.

Sainsbury's said the meatball product, which carries the widely-respected Vegetarian Society logo, is produced at a meat-free factory.

A statement stressed that Sainsbury's and the Vegetarian Society carried out regular checks and no issues had been found.

"We are concerned by these findings however, and are carrying out a comprehensive investigation alongside our supplier."

A Tesco spokesperson urged the Telegraph to share full details of its testing.

"We take the quality and integrity of our products extremely seriously and understand that our vegan and vegetarian products should be exactly that.

"Our initial DNA tests have found no traces of animal DNA in the BBQ Butternut Mac product available in stores today."

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I'm afraid Im going to have to close the thread due to all the anti-vegetarian views expressed in the thread. Vegatists!!

Oh **** i think we just cross posted, am i about to get a ban

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[MyQul]

Oh **** i think we just cross posted, am i about to get a ban

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Im afraid Im going to have to ban you from the snug*






*Bugger, just remembered, only you have that mod power

 

[Clint]

I don't do PC ...the PC lot are a right bunch of Nazis.....because if you don't do or like what they do you're wrong.
Not kidding got a PC nazi works with me who is that bad you can't even say coal is black!
Yeah why do they have veggie food in the shape and description of meat? What next bananas that look like a 16oz rump steak?
Closet carnivores...

 

[MmmBeer]

I got banned from Weight Watchers for being politically incorrect. We were all sat around a big table when someone's phone goes off, as she was rooting in her bag for it, she spilt a whole box of malteasers onto the table.

All I did was comment afterwards that that was the funniest game of hungry hungry hippo's I had ever seen and suddenly I'm being called insensitive and told to leave.

 

[Clint]

A Muslim chap I used to work with got two packets of smokey bacon out the vending machine by mistake but wouldn't eat them...someone explained that they were in fact vegetarian with no meat at all..
In the same place the other Muslim ate bacon and sausage toasties for breakfast and went out on the ale...
Did I care...nope!

 

[Oneiroi]

i never got why veggies eat stuff that looks and tastes like meat (sausage, chicken etc) why eat meatballs if you don't like animals being killed to provide us carnivores with meat?

I think lots of people grow up eating meat and enjoy it, they don't necessarily stop liking it (or wanting an approximation) because they decide not to eat it. I'm not going vege, but trying to only eat meat once or twice a week, mainly for environmental and other reasons rather than caring about animals themselves. I love meat so if they make tasty equivalents it helps me eat less, although sadly most of the faux meat products taste a bit crap to me.

The egg thing is idiotic. But for me it's not because PC has gone mad to the point where even such tiny things are being changed, it's because companies like google think that such stupid things make them look 'inclusive' without having to focus on the more important but harder to fix problems.

Edit: and yes Clint, if I went vege I would definitely be a closet carnivore

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I wonder if a lot of veggies who decided to become a veggie because it was trendy many years ago are closet carnivores.

 

[Pope]

It's a bit meh for me. I didn't realise there was a salad emoji before today.

The ironic thing, is the same people who spout the "PC gone mad" line, are the ones usually the most easily offended...often by stories such as this.

 

[Pope]

My better half and I got engaged the other day so, naturally, we have been discussing wedding plans.

We are thinking along the lines of a field and a shed sort of do, with a hog roast for grub. I asked if we could put a sign next to the hog roast, pointing at the grass, saying ' vegetarian option '. She didn't think that was a good idea.

Hog roasts are dreadful.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Hog roasts are dreadful.

I bet the hog would agree.

 

[divrack]

Bit Eggtreme of them if you ask me

that was eggscrutiating