In which we discuss important issues, like imitation cow parts.

[friezaess]

I wish we had Tofurkey in Australia, it looks freaking awesome. That said, I really wanna check out a new vegetarian place at Mt Gravatt that has lots of Chinese dishes like "beef" and black bean and sweet and sour "pork". Anyone want to "check it out"?

A recent incident at work experience amused me. Newspapers are typically left wing and Quest often has articles about multiculturalism/diversity/brown people/etc. So when we went out to interview people in the street, I found it ironic how they wouldn't interview anyone but whities. As in, when I tried to approach "people of colour", I was told not to bother with them, even when the streets were barren and we were desperate for quotes. Happened like five times. O lawd.

Speaking of all things newsy, since when did the phrase "climate change sceptic" (YES IT'S SPELLED WITH A C, GODDAMMIT PEOPLE) become synonymous with "fire-breathing Nazi Polpot"? I've always figured that people on both sides of the debate have a lot of money at stake and thus take everything surrounding the debate with a grain of salt, but damn... I mean, I'm all for planting trees and shit, but apparently being against an $1100 p.a. tax hike means you are a conservative old man who wants to own 20 four wheel drives and nuke the whales.

Oh well, we'll all die in 2012 anyway I guess.

Anyway. Time to see if there's anything on Mbok worth splurging on.

Comments

[vrrrrt.livejournal.com]

I was just in Mt Gravatt last week to check out a vegan place called The Loving Hut. If you're talking about a different restaurant, I'd like to go along to it as well!

[vrrrrt.livejournal.com]

Oh, and were the quotes you were getting for Quest the type that have a photo of the person published next to them...?

[friezaess.livejournal.com]

That's the place! Can you vouch for it or is it as dodgy as to be expected from most veggie places?

And yeah, the quotes were the kind that came with a picture of the person.

[vrrrrt.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed my meal, and would love to go there more often if it didn't take so long to get to. It does have a bit of a dodgy spect, though: it's part of a franchise owned by some sort of religious sect (it seems to be an offshoot of Buddhism) and they're contractually required to play, at all times, a TV channel associated with it. When I went there, however, the TVs were silent and easily ignored - the guy playing an electric by the door was more annoying.

Well, that's just perturbing :/