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Imitation eggs aren’t eggs.

SciTechDaily:  Why Plant-Based Eggs Are Finally Getting the Spotlight

The team also asked participants to rate how plant-based eggs would compare to traditional ones. Unsurprisingly, expected taste and appearance still favor the classic egg.

A plant-based egg, is not an egg.  Not even a little bit.  A traditional egg comes from a chicken.  If the cook is using ostrich or turtle eggs to make my omelet, he is obliged to make that clear.

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Pythagorians

Today I learned that until the mid-1800’s, people who didn’t eat meat were referred to as “Pythagoreans”.  That’s about the time when some killjoy invented the word “vegetarian”.

This Rubens painting is Pythagoras Advocating Vegetarianism.

That’s from Wikipedia, and it doesn’t make sense because the painting is from the 1600’s.  Doesn’t matter, I’m still going to start calling them Pythagoreans.

In Arthur Conan Doyle’s book, Gothic Tales, he refers to a character as a Pythagorean, so the word was in usage in the 1800’s.  Back in the day, culture changed slowly and not uniformly.

Sparky is zoned out.

When I came in from mowing the lawn, Sparky was sitting in the snack pit.  He’s still sitting in the snack pit, just staring off into space.  He seems resigned or despondent. 

I hope he didn’t poop in the house.  Sparky wouldn’t want that to happen, but if it did, he’d own it.  He’s not one of those dogs that sneaks in to take a dump in the bedroom closet, then denies everything.

Update:  Sparky’s mood has improved.  He was in a funk because he thought he’d found a meatball, but it was only a cherry tomato. 

I went grocery shopping before cutting the lawn.  While unpacking the bags, the cherry tomato container had popped open, spilling tomatoes on to the counter.   Apparently one had fallen on the floor.  Sparky is the kind of dog who is sneaky about food.  He’d seen it fall, but kept his distance until I was gone.  Imagine his disappointment.

I drizzled some turkey gravy on his dinner and that brightened his mood.

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