‘vancouver’


Shaun White: Unvegan Hero

February 18th, 2010 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

USA!

Okay, so the Winter Olympics aren’t the most interesting sporting event in the world.  I understand that, but let’s be honest:  has anyone not watched any of the Olympics this year?  If you haven’t, you are truly missing out.  When else can you watch snowboarding, curling, and bobsledding?  All these sports typically bore me, but once every four years, I enjoy their existence.  Which brings me to Shaun White. Continue Reading»


When Vegetables Attack: Organic Salad

June 30th, 2009 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

Look out, loyal Canadian readers.  It looks like deadly organic salad is now out to get you.  According to the Times Colonist, organic salad from Vancouver Island is having some salmonella-related problem.  The salad comes under the label of Kildara Farms Organic Gourmet Salad Greens, so if you have any of that laying around in your fridge in a 113 gram container with a best before date of June 25th, it’s time to send it back to Vancouver.  In unrelated news, you probably shouldn’t eat salad that expired five days ago.

(via Times Colonist)


Really, PETA?

June 9th, 2009 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

I try not to make my blog into an anti-PETA blog, but sometimes it’s hard to avoid the things that PETA does just to get attention.

unvegan peta 1Just recently, they tried to exploit the death of abortion doctor George Tiller as an excuse to promote going vegetarian.  They planned on putting up billboards unvegan peta 2catering to both pro-choice and pro-life people asking them to become vegetarians.  The murder was a tragedy and showed that PETA obviously has no regard for the loss of human life.

On top of that, they have now turned the Olympics into a protest event.  Continue Reading»


Going Global at Plan Check

Fries of the world.

A couple of weeks ago, The Backyard Bite invited me to The Burger Culture Clash, sponsored by Stussy (which apparently still exists) and Plan Check. Plan Check, by the way, is a sort of new (since February) restaurant in West LA with Chef Ernesto Uchimura of Umami Burger fame. As my love of burgers, especially those of the umami variety, I jumped at the opportunity.

Although I arrived alone, I was not the only lone eater. Just next to where I was seated, I met e*star LA and we decided to share a meal called loneliness, because it’s better than eating alone. We made quick friends over our respective blogs and Midwestern roots, then got to work at dissecting the special menu, which Plan Check will be featuring for the next month if anything tickles your fancy.

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