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Ring a Bell And I'll Salivate

Posted by michael on from the i-scream dept.

mosch writes "Humans have been trained to yearn for ice cream in the same way as Pavlov's fabled bell. I won't be impressed until they can make a healthy human male yearn for a nice healthy vegan dinner."

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  1. Vegans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I won't be impressed until they can make a healthy human male yearn for a nice healthy vegan dinner.

    What about a healthy human male yearning for a nice healthy vegan? ;-D

  2. ISR, Bell Rings YOU by Lije+Baley · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just how did Pavlov get the bell to crave ice cream??
    And you call yourselves editors...

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  3. Kill Vegans ... by zangdesign · · Score: 5, Funny

    The only good Vegan is a dead Vegan. I remember back in The Big War, this cadre of those blasted three-eyed bastards from Vega was ... what? We got Earthians wantin' to be Vegans?

    Great Malda's Ghost! What is this world coming to? Don't those poor misguided Earth children know anything about the Vegans at ... vegetarians?

    Vegetarians?! What? What kinda damn philosophical movement names themselves after three-eyed bastards from space? Damn! Damn!

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  4. Consider yourself impressed. by tordia · · Score: 5, Informative
    I won't be impressed until they can make a healthy human male yearn for a nice healthy vegan dinner.

    As a healthy male vegan, can consider yourself impressed.

    I generally yearn for food from one of Chicago's many vegan-friendly restaurants than my own concoctions, but that says more about my cooking abilities than anything else.

    Some other, more well-known, healthy male vegans:

    • Jack LaLanne (Fitness guru) (vegan)
    • Dave Scott (five time winner of the Ironman Triathlon) (vegan)
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  5. Vegans by sidmystic · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't stand eating vegans ... tend to choke on their self-righteousness.

  6. Re:ah... so it begins... by Experiment+626 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I think part of it is backlash against the militant vegetarians who try to impose their beliefs on others. The non-vegetarians do not want want to hear all about "meat is murder", the conditions in a slaughterhouse, or the plight of the cow they ate for lunch. The vocal minority of vegetarians' self-righteous attitude and proselytizing causes them all to be viewed by suspicion by some people, much as some people react towards Christians.

    Of course, there are other factors as well. In American society, men tend to eat a lot of red meat, whereas salads and vegetables, being more popular among female diets, are sometimes viewed as "chick food". While these are not a universal correlation (men eat some salads, women do eat hamburgers), the topic post's reference to males' dislike for vegan foods clearly plays to this tendency. Deviation from societal norms leads to occasional abrasiveness and ridicule, particularly when it comes to behavior that is deemed unmanly. If I showed up for work on Monday with a pink Hello Kitty t-shirt, the other guys at work would probably tease me.