‘Raves’
Every band seems to have a really unique tour rider, which describes everything they will need at a venue in order to perform. A notable one is Van Halen’s request for a bowl of M & Ms, but with all the brown ones removed.
The Foo Fighters, however, have one of the best riders I have every seen:
When looking for this song online, I have to say I was quite disappointed to find no official music video and only a couple really uncomfortable home-made music videos. Oh well, at least we have the song to listen to.
Now, Infected Mushroom isn’t the kind of music my unvegan ears usually listen to. The Israeli duo makes some incredibly psychadelic tunes, and that’s not typically my style. Nonetheless, I must give this band credit where it is due.
First off, the band’s name, Infected Mushrooms, conveys the sense of hatred I have for mushrooms. In my mind, all mushrooms are infected, because they infect my unvegan tastebuds with an unsettling taste.
Whenever I go to Burger King, I make sure to order without any vegetables. Today a friend of mine told me that I am not alone. A man named Darius Dugger has a lawsuit claiming that he ordered a meal without pickles, onions and tomatoes and Burger King failed to give it to him his way.
According to Hamptonroads.com, Dugger had a “severe allergic reaction” to the vegetables. Now I’m not in favor of suing a corporation over an incident like this, especially when he should have looked between the patties before biting in, however, I am proud of him for bringing the incident to national attention.
Now that we have recovered from the paranoia surrounding the Swine Flu, it’s time to re-embrace those unkosher animals that caused the whole media event in the first place. Enter Support Pork Week, an idea proposed by Indrani Sen of the New York Times. Rather than avoiding one of the great meats of the world, we should make up for lost time and support the other white meat. From bacon to salami to shoulder, let’s all jump back on the pork wagon and celebrate surviving the first pandemic of 2009.
(via NY Times)
According to recent studies done by Klaus Zuberbuhler and Zanna Clay from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, it turns out I have a lot in common with my close primate cousin, the Bonobo.
They conducted studies of the Bonobos’ reaction to different foods. Their six favorite foods (of eleven tested) were grapes, bananas, popcorn, apples, oranges and biscuits. It wasn’t until number seven on their list that vegetables began to filter in, and even then I assume it was because the apes wanted to appease the vegans of the world. Had they included cheeses and meats in the experiments, I presume that the Bonobos would have forgotten that vegetables even existed.
I have just learned (albeit a bit late) that today is International Respect for Chickens Day (IRCD). My sixth sense must have told me, though, as I chose to write about Zankou Chicken today.
I wanted to write about this topic specifically because I fully support respecting chickens.
The best way I can think of to respect them is by eating them. I’m not sure if that’s what the United Poultry Concerns had in mind when they thought up this crazy day, but it’s sure how I feel. Just the thought of chickens makes me hungry. It’s something like eating the heart of a warrior that you have bested in the battlefield. We respect the chickens because we absorb their strength.
A friend of mine recently enlightened me to the existence of Meat Cards. According to their website, “THESE business cards have two ingredients:
MEAT AND LASERS.”
If those aren’t two of the world’s essential elements (air, water, meat, lasers) I don’t know what are.
The beauty, as far as I can see, is that whether you get these from a good or bad business, you can always eat them after memorizing the essentials. Also, as they are made from jerky, they’re sure to last a long time. There are few things better than edible business equipment.
We all know the unparalelled benefits of eating meat, but Theodore Gray has developed yet another; a Thermal Lance. According to his article on the Popsci.com, a thermal lance “is used to cut up scrap metal and rescue people from collapsed buildings.”
Settling on prosciutto as the most energy-efficient meat, Gray created a meat torch capable of cutting through metal, when oxygen is fed through it. In doing so he unleashed the full power of meat. I’m pretty sure this means that people should always have meat around, in case of emergency.
Just a disclaimer before the real entry. Apparently our country is experiencing a sort of bacon obsession. Almost every time I try to profile a prolific Unvegan Hero, they seem to have some sort of bacon fixation. This is in no way a bad thing, but I would like to shed light on more of a variety of meats. I just wanted to apologize in advance for so many baconated posts and will do my best to find more of a variety of Unvegan Heroes in the future. On to the entry.
I’ve never been much of a Food Network watcher because I’d usually rather be eating food than watching someone make food and eat it in front of me without offering any of it to. If you think about it, it’s pretty rude. That may change soon, though.
My love for Taco Bell has been professed many times in this blog and in real life. It looks like the love is catching on.
Rhett and Link recorded the video above while making an order at Taco Bell. It’s done in a folk song sort of way. Sure, this is pretty cool, but just doing something cool at a fast food place is not enough to become an unvegan hero. The transformation from cool to hero happens at 1:04, when they sing “…but please hold the diced tomatoes,” in reference to ordering a Mexican Pizza.
Good for them. No one should have to suffer through tomatoes on their Mexican Pizza, let alone on any food.