[ SECRET POST #3452 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3452 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Courage, the Cowardly Dog]



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03.
[Vampire Princess Miyu]


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04.
[Powerpuff Girls]


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05.
[The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, Evelyn/Imhotep]


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06.
[Orphan Black]


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07.
[Lost in Translation]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I know this is a joke, but I pretty much only tell people if I'm asked, ie "why won't you try this awesome lasagna?" Either that or they find out I cook and ask if I can make them something with meat in it, in which case the answer's no, not because "hdu ask me to cook your murder meal veggie rage rarw" but because I learned to cook after I went vegetarian at 11, and any meat I cook has a good chance of being a) unsafe to eat b) rubber c) generally inedible 'cause I've had zero practice and I'm not gonna taste it at any point so I don't know if I've fucked up 'til someone spits it across the table.

[(Anonymous)]

OP

Yea this secret was supposed to be about Steve-O being a dubious role model, not about me being vegetarian. Anons care way too much about what I choose to eat.

[(Anonymous)]

As long as your fine with getting the same response when you ask for special veggie dish. You'll get meat and like it.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT--hey, if they want, like, a deli meat sandwich or a rotisserie chicken, I'll get 'em one. I just can't guarantee any meat I cook, rather than buy pre-cooked, won't accidentally put someone in the hospital with an E.Coli war in their innards. Someone makes their grandma's pot roast and says "sorry, I don't know how to cook for weakling bunny rabbit wannabes, I guess you can have a PB&J?" I'm not gonna be offended.

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nayrt

Uh, not giving people e.coli is mostly about sanitation and basic food prep hygiene, which you should know regardless of whether or not you eat meat. If you're not washing your hands properly when you make vegetarian food, you also run the risk of making your guests sick. As for actually cooking meat, that is also not rocket science, even if you don't eat it.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT--well, yeah, I wash my hands and cutting board and stuff. But even though cooking isn't rocket science (unless maybe you're preparing fugu or something else inherently dangerous in itself) I'm still gonna rely on pre-cooked meat to feed any carnivore friends or acquaintances, because there is a learning curve to cooking that, for me at least, involves tasting as I go and a lot of trial and error.

I mentioned that I started cooking at 11--well, I was no prodigy. My parents just shrugged and said if I wanted to be vegetarian I'd be cooking my own meals. I ate a lot of my own burnt, soggy, over-salted, bland, mushy, and/or hellishly spicy mistakes the first couple of years and I still fuck up 20 years on, although thankfully not nearly as often. I ruined breads, salads (no, 11-year-old me you can't dress your baby lettuce the day before), soups, pastries, quiche--I guarantee I would fuck up cooking meat the first couple times I tried it.

I won't cook it for myself and I'm not gonna serve my inevitable failure (because if I can't taste it I don't know what I've done wrong) to guests. I've also never had an obligate carnivore to dinner unless various cats count; I've never had anyone freak out because there was no meat on the table. Big gatherings like 4th of July and Thanksgiving, if I'm hosting I'll make all the sides and someone who knows what the fuck they're doing roasts the turkey or makes the burgers. I mean, I make pies, stuffing, cranberry sauce, all the veggie sides, or buy the buns, make the potato salad, caramelize onions--I really don't care if someone else eats meat. I just have no fucking clue how to cook it and unless I go back to eating it at some point I'm unlikely to learn.