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[stephanie familiar]

They're not "forced" to use any colouring products at all. It's got strawberries in it -- it should be the colour of something that's got strawberries in it. If that's not pink enough for customers then tough, they bought strawberry, they should understand what strawberry is. It's ridiculous that we never see food the colour it's supposed to be.

i wouldn't be surprised if there were no actual strawberries in there at all, but strawberry flavour.

[Steve Sensible]

It's ridiculous that we never see food the colour it's supposed to be.

Never?

I bet if somebody bought a strawberry flavoured drink that wasn't pink, they'd complain about it.

[Sanjay]

I've just casually perused this thread. Despite being on a healthy trip lately, I may go and bacon up at lunchtime.

Thus is the power of bacon!

[David Meadows]

Never?

I bet if somebody bought a strawberry flavoured drink that wasn't pink, they'd complain about it.

Well, never unless you make it yourself or deliberately seek out "natural" suppliers.

We make strawberry flavoured drinks from our own garden and they look/taste nothing like strawberry coloured/flavoured drinks you buy from commercial chains. I don't think you'd complain if you tried ours

[HowardAshton]

I'm a vegetarian so I'm perpetually bewildered by how virtually all of the male population seem to love bacon more than life itself, is it really that good? I find that it stinks and looks extremely unappetising, maybe I'm missing something.

[The Lorcan Nagle]

Yes, yes you are

[garjones]

I'm a vegetarian so I'm perpetually bewildered by how virtually all of the male population seem to love bacon more than life itself, is it really that good? I find that it stinks and looks extremely unappetising, maybe I'm missing something.

You could always try Frazzles.

[HowardAshton]

Frazzles still exist?

[Arjan Dirkse]

I like bacon but I don't get the hyperbole either...

I prefer a nice piece of Hungarian salami...



Or dry cured ham



That said , "mmmmmmm bacon" sounds better than "mmmmmmmm Hungarian salami" when you're drooling with lust for meat.

[garjones]

Frazzles still exist?

If they don't I shall shed a tear.

[Chris D]

I'm a vegetarian so I'm perpetually bewildered by how virtually all of the male population seem to love bacon more than life itself, is it really that good? I find that it stinks and looks extremely unappetising, maybe I'm missing something.

I like bacon, though I don't think it's THAT amazing! But it does baffle me that some people can dislike the smell of bacon. I actually think I might like the smell of cooked bacon more than actually eating it. Though it could be a nostaligia thing. Reminds me of lazy weekend breakfasts when I was a kid.

[Todd Gross]

Bacon coffin to put 'fun' back in funerals

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The coffins are available for purchase on J&D's website. No returns are accepted.

[Henry Blanco]

I can't wait to die so I an be buried in one of those.

[The Lorcan Nagle]

I'll gladly be cremated in one.

[Todd Gross]

I'll gladly be cremated in one.

We can but your ashes in an empty one of these:

[The Lorcan Nagle]

I bet Laura would go for that

[craggy]

i wouldn't be surprised if there were no actual strawberries in there at all, but strawberry flavour.

on of my favourite snack munch treat foods, is Chocolate Bananas. They're described on the packaging as something like "banana flavoured confectionery with a chocolate flavour coating" and I'd not be very surprised if there product I buy had never been within 50feet of either a banana or a cocoa bean. Yet they are yummy.

edit:oh, and gar, there be Frazzles.

[Andrew]

Bacon - frying bacon - smells far better than it tastes. Mt wife's vego and I try to avoid meat as much as possible, especially at lunchtime. The reasoning behind it is three-fold:

Animal welfare - although one can ensure they buy certified free-range, organic, ethical steaks or lamp chops for preparing at home, with a bacon and eggs at a café, or a ham and cheese roll from a bakery you're usually uncertain. I have a dog, and I love animals - I'd rather minimise their suffering where possible, especially knowing that pigs for example - and in keeping with the thread topic - are smarter than dogs and as smart as three year old humans. One of the worst things I've ever seen was footage from an Indonesian abattoir, of Australian cattle being slaughtered in front of their own siblings - they were lined up in a fenced pathway and one by one, throats slit, and torn apart, while the next in line watched - there was no denying that these creatures knew what was happening, understood the implication, and were terrified of the fact that they were headed for the same fate.

Health - cutting red meat out of your diet is one of the easiest, cheapest things you can do if you're serious about improving your overall well-being and minimising your risk of life-threatening illness. That leaves chicken and fish, right? Well chicken is a lean protein, however not only are they very clever animals, for them to be "harvested" in sufficient numbers to feed us all they must be kept in pretty horrific conditions, living very short, torturous lives. As for fish...

The environment - the amount of energy, water and natural resources that go towards creating, for example, a beef steak go far beyond what we all pay for the average burger; the carbon footprint of a meat-eater is so large that a vegetarian driving a hummer has a smaller impact on the environment than a carnivore who drives a Prius. On fish, we're seeing whole species being wiped out as a result of the large scale fishing practices currently employed to satisfy demand.

Vegans? I can totally agree with them on dairy products - we only have animal milk as a result of depriving cows' young of their feed (which leads to why veal even exists) and I feel guilty every time I buy milk or cheese, but eggs and honey? I can't buy into that - if I owned a chicken, it'd be well looked after - why should her eggs go to waste and not be eaten by me and mine?

[stephanie familiar]

Vegans? I can totally agree with them on dairy products - we only have animal milk as a result of depriving cows' young of their feed (which leads to why veal even exists) and I feel guilty every time I buy milk or cheese, but eggs and honey? I can't buy into that - if I owned a chicken, it'd be well looked after - why should her eggs go to waste and not be eaten by me and mine?

i'd be fine with eating eggs if i owned and looked after the hens myself, or bought from people that treated them well. but the mass produced eggs that come from battery hens... just brutal. and it pisses me off that companies can put "free range" on their egg packages even when they're not. that sort of thing should be controlled.

as for why you shouldn't eat eggs, well according to the vegan community i've encountered, humans shouldn't use animals for any reason whatsoever, and eggs are the property of the hen that laid them. also, hens will apparently eat their own eggs which i am not convinced of. in small amounts sure, but i've never seen a hen eat all her eggs.

[Christian U]

I won't ever be a vegetarian, but how we still don't have proper legislation that prevents farm animals and chickens and whatnot from basically being tortured is a complete mystery to me. This should've been a no-brainer thirty years ago. I think the situation is a bit better in Germany than in many other countries, but still pretty bad. And I believe most of cheap meat is being driven in from Poland or somewhere.