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Re: The staff ate it later

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Post by gostsamo »

kulahan wrote: post #55
germinalphrase wrote: post #48

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Tripwiring (and thus fatally wounding) horses was quite a thing back in the day.

Wasn't there some horrible story about the number of animals killed in the filming of Homeward Bound or some similar movie? I simply cannot comprehend the callousness of people towards animals back then. I guess our cultures are simply too different, but it genuinely seems like people saw all animals as "things" until, like, the 1950s or something like that. What the heck?

I remember reading about a man being accused of mistreating his donkey in somewhere like 1835 Brittan. The case went to a court, but I'm fuzzy on the details.

Re: The staff ate it later

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Post by weregiraffe »

duxup wrote: post #40
tmtvl wrote: post #34

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I don't understand why people will have these stupid preconceptions about food which normally you unlearn during childhood. Complaining about food without tasting it is stupid and childish. Of course if you try something and it doesn't suit your tastes then it's fine to complain, but dismissing something offhand because you aren't familiar with it is rather narrow-minded.

I choose to eat what I want. It’s that simple. Im even less interested in others picking interesting things for me when I am busy working.

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Re: The staff ate it later

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Post by topkai22 »

kulahan wrote: post #55
germinalphrase wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tripwiring (and thus fatally wounding) horses was quite a thing back in the day.

Wasn't there some horrible story about the number of animals killed in the filming of Homeward Bound or some similar movie? I simply cannot comprehend the callousness of people towards animals back then. I guess our cultures are simply too different, but it genuinely seems like people saw all animals as "things" until, like, the 1950s or something like that. What the heck?

You are thinking of Milo and Otis, which incidentally was filmed in Japan.

AFAIK nothing was proven, but it got a reputation.

Re: The staff ate it later

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Post by astrange »

fsckboy wrote: post #20
triceratops wrote: post #15

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I get it now. More staff engineers than I expected in the Bible.

pretty much everything is in the Bible if you look, even automobiles: "and G-d drove Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden in His Fury" https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=plymouth%20fury&ia=images&i...

> The one driving the chariot drives like Jehu, the son of Nimshi. He’s driving like a crazy person.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%209&v...

Re: The staff ate it later

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Post by [deleted] »

stickfigure wrote: post #113
adriand wrote: post #87

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> I guess our cultures are simply too different, but it genuinely seems like people saw all animals as "things" until, like, the 1950s or something like that. There’s a weird disconnect where people ignore or are wilfully ignorant of cruelty to animals in industrial food production but are sensitive to it in virtually every other context. I saw a woman the other day who was tending to an injured pigeon and had called…

If the little bird was tasty it might have gone on the bbq too. We humans are capable of empathizing with different creatures differently. Some people have their empathy dial set up so high that they anthropomorphize plants. Some have it set so low they're psychopaths. Most functional people are in the middle. Personally, keeping chickens has almost completely put me off empathy with them. Roosters are assholes. Into…

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Re: The staff ate it later

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Post by AxEy »

stickfigure wrote: post #113
adriand wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I guess our cultures are simply too different, but it genuinely seems like people saw all animals as "things" until, like, the 1950s or something like that. There’s a weird disconnect where people ignore or are wilfully ignorant of cruelty to animals in industrial food production but are sensitive to it in virtually every other context. I saw a woman the other day who was tending to an injured pigeon and had called…

If the little bird was tasty it might have gone on the bbq too. We humans are capable of empathizing with different creatures differently. Some people have their empathy dial set up so high that they anthropomorphize plants. Some have it set so low they're psychopaths. Most functional people are in the middle. Personally, keeping chickens has almost completely put me off empathy with them. Roosters are assholes. Into…

> "Personally, keeping chickens has almost completely put me off empathy with them. Roosters are assholes. Into the pot with you."

What a relief that we don't generally take this policy toward asshole humans.

At any rate, it's one thing to eat one asshole chicken and another to systematically farm asshole chicken to be killed.

Re: The staff ate it later

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Post by rkomorn »

kulahan wrote: post #58
rkomorn wrote: post #46

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Vegan feta has the best success rate for me. Unfortunately, feta has limited applications. (I'm not vegan but I like to try vegan products anyway.)

If you haven't make shakshuka yet, it's worth a shot. It's one of my favorite places to use lots and lots of feta. It's not normally vegan since it's topped with an egg, but that's easy enough to remove and forget. Eat it with toasted pita.

Come on, it's 2025, no true HN user hasn't tried to make shakshuka by now. :D

Re: The staff ate it later

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Post by rkomorn »

stevage wrote: post #84
rkomorn wrote: post #46

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Vegan feta has the best success rate for me. Unfortunately, feta has limited applications. (I'm not vegan but I like to try vegan products anyway.)

> feta has limited applications. Politely beg to differ.

It's not particularly sliceable, meltable, or all that edible on its own. That rules out many cheese applications for me.

Then again, I'm French, so our takes on cheese may be very different! :)

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