June 2010
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Saffron Grill: new vegan menu!
We here at Vegansaurus pretty much love the hell out of any restaurant that buckles to vegan terrorism listens to their vegan customers and throw us a, uh, bone. Accordingly, we are happy to announce that San Francisco’s Saffron Grill has added a brand spanking new, all-vegan menu to their existing offerings.
Saffron Grill is North Indian cuisine, folks—that means flatbread, saag,...
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Treehugger says that oil-soaked birds should be... →
Here’s a simple quiz: If you came home to find your house on fire, would you (a) call the fire department and, while waiting, run in to try and save your family? Or would you (b) assume they were going to die from smoke inhalation anyway, so why not pour some gasoline on the fire and finish the job?
You’re probably not a sociopath, which means you answered (a). So then why the...
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Who Wants to Demo Vegan Cookie Dough? FOR MONEY.
It’s your wildest piggy dreams come true. Oh hell yeah.
Here’s what the job entails: going to grocery stores in the SF Bay Area with a shit ton of the redonkulous Eat Pastry vegan cookie dough and demoing the shit out of it. It would be preferable if you had your own toaster oven, some baking know-how, and the ability to bake on site. It’s pre-made cookie dough so if you...
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The Beehive Market!
The Beehive Market is a new flea/farmers/food market that’s opening on Saturday, June 12 in the parking lot of the Berkeley Adult School. It’s the ultimate hippie mart (what? you love it, you composting, communal hot-tubbing, vegan psychopath!); it runs every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and there looks to be lots of vegan vendors, including some I haven’t heard of (yay! more...
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How to make perfect (and vegan!) McDonald's-style... →
A mad scientist/food hacker reverse-engineered the secret to McDonald’s french fries, and posted the technique online. The best news? The secret isn’t beef tallow, or even any animal ingredients at all. All you need are russet potatoes, distilled white vinegar, Kosher salt, and peanut oil, along with the patience to blanche, freeze, double fry, and monitor the exact temperature every...
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What's up with Obama lifting the ban on commercial...
There hasn’t been enough in the news lately about marine life being killed by the excesses of civilization, so what the hell, let’s talk about whaling. Food Fight Grocery alerts us to a FOX News report (via UPI) that Obama is set to “break his campaign pledge to end the slaughter of whales” by negotiating a compromise to lift the ban on commercial whaling. The International...
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OH NO: matches aren't vegan!
The world is fucking ridiculous. First the Kardashians get their own television show. Then some of them get their own spin-off show. And now it has come to my attention that matches are not vegan. Yeah, that’s right. Whenever you want to light up a soy candle that you so painstakingly made sure was vegan, you best be rubbing some sticks over that shit: matches are the devil’s work.
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We're all doomed, but at least we can eat vegan...
You haven’t forgotten about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, have you? Neither have we! Because it’s still wreaking fucking havoc and ruining everything and will you look at this poor pelican? Look at this pelican and tell me there’s good left in the world. But “at least we’ve got the oil spill to take our mind off the economy, right?” [photo by Charlie...
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SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! Vegan Iron Chef streamed... →
Can’t make it to Vegan Iron Chef? Then watch it live on Ustream, starting this Sunday at 5 p.m. The event is sold out so even if you do live in Portland, you’ll be sharing the cheap seats with the rest of us. Vegan Iron Chef serves as yet another reminder of how much I hate Portland. And by “hate” of course I mean “am seethingly jealous of.” Come on, San...
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Omnivores are selfish bastards
Raising all those animals for you to eat is unsustainable and absolutely ruinous to the planet. Don’t hate me for saying it—the U.N. did! And of course the comments, even in the good old smarty-trousers Guardian, quickly devolve into meat-eaters demanding that people leave them alone because it’s not their fault the Earth is going to burn up in a toxic flameball by the end of the...
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Children of All Ages Delighted by Enslavement of... →
The Onion continues to be one of the only news sources to trust in America. Seriously, send this to everyone you know who still goes to the horror show that is the circus. There are a million ways to teach kids to love and respect animals and taking them to a zoo or circus ain’t one of ‘em. I still remember visiting the Oakland Zoo when I was a kid and crying for like a week over the...
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Some notes on San Francisco sandwiches →
OK, Grub Street, you like Ike’s veg sandwiches, though you “couldn’t stomach any fake meats.” Kauffman isn’t better than meat substitutes, but you are, we get it.
The thing is, if you’re going to get all sniffy about vegetarian sandwiches, you might want to be savvier about the concept of “vegetarian.” Animals have to die to supply you with bacon,...
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What's new at Rainbow Grocery: a vegan odyssey!
Man, we have it so lucky in the bay area. In other parts of the country, they have to literally climb mountains, cross rivers, and pass tests of endurance, skill, and wit to get to a quality vegan cupcake. For a decent vegan pizza, they must whittle a squirrel while riding an elliptical. For vegans in Middle Earth America, grocery shopping is basically like living in Saw, but worse*. WHICH LEADS...
