Vegan Shmegan

So..my BF and I were discussing "Veggie" burgers and other vegetarian dishes and we think it's kind of silly how they make veggie burgers look exactly like real 100% meaty beefy delicious burgers. The more they look & taste like the real thing the better reviews they get. (p.s. the photo above is a veggie burger from a restaurant called the flying saucer)

If you really can't stand the REAL thing then how can you eat anything that resembles it in the slightest?

I know...I get it...it's made of soy & crap but still...why don't you make it look like something totally opposite?

It's an OXYMORON if you ask me...(definition: a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “poor little rich girl.”) or as in "I don't like eating animals but I like eating things that look like it could be made of animals".

Take TOFURKEY for example. They've managed to make a whole wack of food alternatives to meat products. The best one is called "Tofurkey Jurkey Wishstix" which is the Tofurky version of a wishbone. The Wishstix are made of a jerky-esque product, essentially two strips - one visibly longer than the other – that are attached in the middle. It's like a real wishbone. So...let's get this straight...the thought of eating a real turkey disturbs you, but you want the fun of the wishbone so you made a fake one that is an exact replica of the bone found in a turkey? Wow...make up your mind? Once you gave up eating real turkey, you gave up making wishes on wishbones. It just comes with the territory.

To me, all this meat alternative food that looks like meat is a mean trick towards Carnivores...I went to FRESH with my cousin the other week and I was kind of excited. I got the veggie burger and it looked awesome. Like a real burger but when I took the first bite, it was a disappointment. It had a weird texture and didn't taste as good as meat.

If God didn't want us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of delicious meat.

p.s. Dear vegetarians, no offense. I still love you.

Mimi

Summer Heights High = funny shit

I started watching this show about 2 months ago on HBO called SUMMER HEIGHTS HIGH. The season just ended and I already miss it.

It's so funny and has the best lines. I kept quoting lines from the show with my friends to the point where they had to watch it to understand...and then it spread like wild fire and soon enough my friends and I were texting eachother all day with lines from this damn show.

It's an Australian comedy set in a real high school among real high school students and examines life in high school through the eyes of 3 main characters: the gay drama teacher (Mr. G), a female exchange student (Ja'mie King) and the school's juvenile delinquent (Jonah Takalua). All 3 characters are played by Chris Lilley. (p.s. I want to be his friend in real life)

If you have TMN on demand you can watch every episode (1-8). If not, I feel sorry for your life. I even got my friend Celeste from Edmonton texting me quotes from the show. She doesn't even get the channel...she's just been watching clips on youtube.

Here are some of my favourite moments:

JONAH:


JA'MIE:


MR. G:

hahahahahah I am lolling

I watched Russell Peters' RED WHITE & BROWN on Christmas day and laughed non stop.

Everyone has to watch it. Or else we can never be friends.

I found a funny clip from a different show Russell Peters did. It's about different asians and how you can tell between them.

So effing funny.

Watch

My huge fam crammed into my living room...sorry about the shaky hand

MeRRy xMaS & haPPy HoLiDaYs!!!

I honestly love this time of year.



Christmas with my family is hilarious.



My fave thing that my family does when we get together for xmas is the money throwing game. I think all Filipino families do it. At our family xmas, we usually get together with about 50 of my family members and my mom will 'scramble' hundreds of dollars worth of loonies, toonies, change & small bills and throws it up in the air and the kids pretty much kill each other trying to scramble for the money.



I still play. But my little cousins are bigger than me now. It's a dangerous game but well worth it.



We do dance contests, musical chairs and other games for prize money. hahaha it's awesome.



Check out a money grab video of my family freaking out in the next post...

Filipino Xmas money grab game

OMG...I might have this...WTF...

SAD: Condition in which people experience episodes of depressionthat typically begin each fall or winter and lift in the spring.

some major points:

* much more common in Canada, where it affects nearly 10 percent of people

* caused by lack of sufficient light  For example, people living at higher latitudes, where winter days are dark and short, have higher rates of the disorder

read more here: http://www.cmha.ca/bins/content_page.asp?cid=3-86-93

So I guess I need a vacay to cure my "winter blues"... it's just what the doctor ordered.