is it just me, or is there just something funny about companies having to put out vegetarian versions of things like vegetable soups and vegetable buillons?

i mean i realise vegetable soup and vegetarian soup are different, but i can't help it. i guess i just don't always expect things like beef stock to be in things i consider veggy. i'm waiting for "vegetarian veggy burgers" to pop up any second now.

ah well. at least i can read the ingredient labels when i shop. it's worse to get to a restaurant where people just don't seem to understand that no meat means no meat.

i know veggy people who ordered mashed potatoes and 5 side orders of vegetables as a full meal and received bacon bits in the potatoes and 5 little saucers with vegetables. way to listen and respect your customers, you know?

just the other week i was getting the soup of the day at applebee's. it happened to be broccoli and cheese which i had had before. i asked the waitress just in case if the soup had any meat in it. it was mostly out of habit i asked, as i had asked the other waitress that the first time i had the soup and was told no.

"oh good thing you asked, i'm a vegetarian too and i've been eating that soup like crazy, and then just the other day the cook finally informed me the soup has beef stock in it!"

what is it with people disrespecting other's choices of what to eat and drink? i suppose it wouldn't be such a big deal if it wasn't for the fact that i know of people who are allergic to meat. as someone on r.m.t-a put it, you wouldn't give a snickers bar to somebody allergic to peanuts, y'know?

i have heard so many say this recently, and it boggles my mind each time. hello? it's called FIGHT CLUB. they're not picking daisies. i don't care if you are rosie o'donnell, i don't get people who go to a movie called fight club and then leave disgusted because *gasp* they actually had FIGHTS in it.

you don't need to condone violence. it's not about that. it's just common sense. i realise a movies' title aren't always descriptive of a movies' content, but to me, "fight club" is fairly direct. perhaps it should have been called "MEN WHO OCCASIONALLY BEAT EACH OTHER UP AND SOME OTHER THINGS."?

i have a feeling some people (well, women, from my experience) are whining about it because they feel they are missing out on some brad pitt flexing. well. too bad?

you know, fuck you too.

what does people expect to accomplish by saying this? i don't tell them how pretty they would be if they just got rid of that mole and had some hip fat removed? it's one thing when your granny says it, a whole other when your uncle pulls you aside at a family gathering when you are 17 to tell you this, and then suggest that you should perhaps see a doctor because he's worried you're about to die.