fandomsecrets | [ SECRET POST #3582 ]

[ SECRET POST #3582 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3582 ⌋

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

01.

__________________________________________________

02.

[Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries]

__________________________________________________

03.

[Daredevil, Wilson Fisk/Vanessa Marianna]

__________________________________________________

04.

[Overwatch]

__________________________________________________

05.

[Mob Psycho 100]

__________________________________________________

06.

[Malcolm in the Middle]

__________________________________________________

07.

__________________________________________________

08.

Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 39 secrets from Secret Submission Post #512.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I love my SIL. She's a vegan, but not militant about it or anything and I have absolutely no problem accommodating her diet at family gatherings. I'm a reasonably good cook, so she isn't stuck with the usual Morningstar patty in a microwave with pasta primavera or whatever. I try to make sure she's got at least one entree she can eat, I keep the side dishes vegan, and also have at least one vegan dessert option. All of it is homemade. This week someone tagged her with a vegan cake recipe on Facebook and one of her comments was "Cakes are better without eggs and dairy, anyway! ;)"

No. As someone who's baked and eaten both, no, they are not. What's more, making a decent cake without eggs or dairy and not ending up with something dense and unpalatable is often trickier than baking a cake WITH eggs and dairy. I've eaten pretty good vegan cakes, but none that were superior to one with eggs/dairy. Margarine =/= butter.

I didn't say anything. I don't even know why this bothers me so much, but it does.

But... taste is subjective. Isn't this the same as being offended horribly because someone says Pepsi is better than Coke? Maybe the idea of eating cake that isn't vegan makes her nauseous or something so overall vegan cake is better to her. It sounds like it was supposed to be half-joking, too...

Well yes, taste is subjective. But she didn't say "I like vegan cakes better", she said "Vegan cakes are better", full stop. And no, it doesn't make her nauseous. She's been a vegetarian/vegan on and off for years and when she's off, she has no problem eating cake with eggs and dairy in it.

Would you be as irritated by someone stating "Pepsi is better than Coke ;)" if the person had drank Coke before, and you preferred Coke?

A little annoyed, but less so because IMO, Pepsi is a lot more comparable to Coke than vegan cakes are to non-vegan ones.

Re: Family pet peeves

(Anonymous) - 2016-10-25 00:07 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Family pet peeves

(Anonymous) - 2016-10-25 00:10 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Family pet peeves

(Anonymous) - 2016-10-25 00:17 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Family pet peeves

(Anonymous) - 2016-10-25 00:27 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Family pet peeves

(Anonymous) - 2016-10-25 00:07 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Family pet peeves

(Anonymous) - 2016-10-25 00:23 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Family pet peeves

(Anonymous) - 2016-10-25 00:23 (UTC) - Expand

Eh, if she had said, "I think cakes taste better without milk/eggs!" it'd be subjective in the same way people think Pepsi or Coke tastes better (to them). But stating it as an objective fact automatically makes it non-subjective.

That's why I asked what I did in response.

I have a go-to chocolate cake recipe that turns out like ten times better than most other chocolate cake recipes.

It's vegan.

I'm not vegan.

It's just better than every single other chocolate cake recipe I have ever made, and I shit you not I have probably made at least fourty chocolate cake recipes from gateau to chiffon to pound to devil's food to red velvet to black forest to whatever style you can name. It just happens to be a really consistent, easy recipe.

I can't say that this is true of non-chocolate cake recipes, but like... sometimes you just find a really really good recipe, you know?

DA

What is it? I want to hear about this amazing cake.

This is the one I see most often:

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/16779/vegan-chocolate-cake/

It's good. A little drier than most chocolate cakes with eggs and dairy, but good.

Re: Family pet peeves

herpymcderp - 2016-10-25 08:09 (UTC) - Expand

http://www.instructables.com/id/The-BEST-chococlate-cake-ever...that-happens-to-be/

It circulates from time to time in other forms, but this is essentially it. ...With the distinction that when I've made frosting for it it has never been a vegan frosting because I like buttercream lol. I imagine you could top it with whatever you wanted to though.

I've also gussied it up by putting in chile chocolate, different extracts, etc... it pretty much holds up for whatever you want to do with it.

/mumbles something about black forest cake not strictly being a chocolate cake

How is it not a chocolate cake? *is confused*

Re: Family pet peeves

mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com - 2016-10-25 02:44 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Family pet peeves

(Anonymous) - 2016-10-25 10:21 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Family pet peeves

mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com - 2016-10-25 11:14 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Family pet peeves

(Anonymous) - 2016-10-25 13:49 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Family pet peeves

mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com - 2016-10-25 14:16 (UTC) - Expand

My family pet peeve is that they never call unless they need something. :|

Ugh, this is my family pet peeve too. I just want to scream at them that I've got shit to do and I'm sure their teenage kids know enough about computers to help them fill out a damn job application.

Ouch. Honestly, if they can't manage to fill out a job application by themselves, they're probably not qualified for whatever job they're applying for.

idk what it is, but for some reason vegan and gluten-free baked goods always give me horrible diarrhea. I have no idea what they put in them to substitute for normal stuff, but whatever it is, it clearly doesn't agree with my system.

Vegan and gluten-free baked goods suffer from similar problems, mostly density and low rise. Sometimes the recipe (especially commercial food products) will include additives to compensate, like xanthan gum and other stuff. You might be sensitive to one of them.

They just do not get the concept of not wanting to be disturbed. Like, for example when I'm writing. Cause I guess they also see me game at my computer so it must all just be games. Which is especially funny as my dad worked with computers for decades.

My family pet peeve is that no one talks to each other except through me. My aunt, for example, is forever texting me to say, "Text your brother [X]." Maybe 20 times by now, I've said variations polite and rude of, "You have his number, right? YOU text him."

My pet peeve (right at this exact moment, because I am a very irritable person) is that my mother doesn't seem to understand that temperature is somewhat subjective. "Why are you wearing a jacket? It's not cold!", "Oh, stop complaining, it's not that hot.", why do I not boil the water for the dishes (because I like my skin attached to my hands, mother), why do I make hot drinks and then wait until they're lukewarm (because I hate getting blisters in my mouth, mother) - we've been through all of this so many times and it's just so fucking tedious.
Especially when she comes into my room and turns off the heater. Leave my heater alone, for fuck's sake. >:C

Similarly: "You can:t go out with nothing but that short sleeved dress! Go back and change, it's COLD out!" It's a mild fall day unless you're an elderly valetudinarian, but Mom insists I'll catch my death without a heavy jacket! a scarf! gloves!

Or: "Where ARE you? Why are you out so LATE? What are you doing that you couldn't have done earlier, when it was light out? That was VERY POOR PLANNING, don't you think?" Ma, it's not even eight. "That's LATE!"

That would irritate the crap out of me, too.

Maybe she's trying just a little too hard to convince herself that she believes it.

I am mostly with you, especially on the margarine < butter thing, but my gf recently found a recipe for vegan brownies with self-made soy milk and okara which are honestly better than any other brownies I ever had.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only