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[aprilstarchild]

Guess what? Nothing at Panda Express is vegetarian. It all has chicken broth in it. Even the steamed veggies.

That's so fucking stupid.

BTW, Pizza Schmizza's alredo sauce has chicken broth in it as well.

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[alicia-stardust.livejournal.com]

On the subject...

I recently wrote an email to Cucina Cucina's customer service complaining about their new menu offering and how there's no longer any vegetarian dishes. It must have gotten to someone important, because I got a response saying that they were meeting to re-evaluate their new menu offerings. And then a week after that, they mailed me a $25 gift card to go eat at Cucina, try one of their new dishes, and review it. LOL.

[glitterninja.livejournal.com]

Yay! Way to go! That's cool. I've never gotten a response to any of my letters. :)

[sagcat.livejournal.com]

I wrote Double Rainbow complaining that one of their "all natural" soy desserts had high fructose corn syrup in it. It was an ingredient in the fudge chunks. They wrote back and i could tell that they were *embarassed*. They said they were trying to find a supplier of fudge chunks that didn't include corn syrup. First time i ever got a response like, "We know! and we're so sorry. we'll try to do better."

I love their soy creams... mmmmmmmmm.

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

Random thought:

I know corn syrup isn't your favorite thing, but sugar is sugar is sugar. Whether it's white sugar or corn syrup or fruit sugar, or honey or maple syrup or brown rice syrup, it's the same thing. It acts in your body the same way.

For that matter, every one of those things is a processed food. Honey has to be filtered and (I believe) pastuerized. Maple Sryup is filtered and boiled down. Any kind of cane sugar, corn syrup, or rice syrup, is extracted from a plant and then filtered and concentrated.

So what's the big deal about corn syrup?

[sagcat.livejournal.com]

High Fructose Corn Syrup is particularly fattening and completely useless for the body. No redeeming nutritional value. Sure, Evaporated cane juice isn't on the top ten list of most healthy foods, but it's undeniably closer to "whole" than HFCS, and has some redeeming qualities, such as energy the body can use in a healthy fashion.

In fact, there's almost no use for corn in the diet. Humans don't digest it well. It's filler. Take popcorn from me with a fight, but i admit it's useless.

Sometimes, overanalyzing *any* food product will lead you to conclude that it's not good. If we did that with everything, we'd eat next to nothing. I mean, wheat and soy? So my analysis goes so far and then stops for my own sanity.

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

I'm still of the belief that sugar is sugar, no matter what the source.

Raw sugar (aka turbinado) does taste a little better. Some vegans won't eat white sugar because a lot of brands bleach it with bone char. There's no bone char left in the sugar, however. Same with beer. A substance made from fish scales is used to clarify/filter some beer and wine. By that measure, Guinness isn't vegan. Suckage.

Maple syrup is yummy and has a taste of its own (the darker kind is cheaper and tastier), so I'm likely to use less of it in oatmeal etc.

[sagcat.livejournal.com]

Honestly, it's all about choices and doing the best we can for a particular circumstance. I buy the healthiest food I can while taking into account it's source, whether or not it's organic, is it local, etc. I just do the best I can given my current budget, etc. I'm not perfect. I buy some crap. I eat some junk. I have too much plastic in my house. I don't exercise enough... but then I go see how my family in illinois lives and fuck! at least I'm recycling, you know?

So I try, but i'm not perfect. Got the yummiest chocolate covered raisins at trader joe's today. Sugary, chocolately goodness.

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

*giggle* One of these nights when we're out at the Fez or something, I'm going to make someone take me to Voodoo donuts--they have vegan donuts. Fresh ones!!

Food Fight! is a vegan store on Division I haven't been to yet, but they have every fake food (fake meat, cheese, marshmallows....) and vegan junkfood known to humanity. I'd go crazy, I just know it. There's a company that makes fake nacho cheese, and I so want some.

I know about the making choices thing. Sometimes I make everything from scratch and am very good. Sometimes I buy a bag of NewmanO's and eat half in one sitting, along with some Tings.

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, that kicks ass.

If I were to email the owner of Pizza Schmizza personally I'd probably get a response, re: the chicken broth thing. A few years ago, Tony emailed the guy complaining that one particular Schmizza had really loud Z100-type music on every time we went in there, and to be honest it was a real turn-off...we kept going to a Schmizza further away to avoid it. Lo and behold, he got a reply...and the next time we went in, it was 80's music. *giggle* Also, when he was living in Washington, they were supposedly opening one in Redmond, a half-hour's drive from where he was living. It didn't open on time and he complained, and he got an apology and a gift certificate. Yeay!