Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site frog.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!bellcore!petrus!scherzo!allegra!mit-eddie!cybvax0!frog!wjr From: wjr@frog.UUCP (STella Calvert) Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.cooks,net.veg Subject: Re: Restaurants Using Non-Dairy Creamers Message-ID: <634@frog.UUCP> Date: Sun, 9-Feb-86 00:14:02 EST Article-I.D.: frog.634 Posted: Sun Feb 9 00:14:02 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Feb-86 21:51:49 EST References: <3895@glacier.ARPA> Reply-To: wjr@x.UUCP (STella Calvert) Followup-To: net.consumers Distribution: na Organization: The Church of the Holy Starship Lines: 53 Keywords: "feed it to the cow, and milk the cow. I'll wait." Xref: cybvax0 net.consumers:3170 net.cooks:3059 net.veg:374 Summary: "I don't drink soybean grease!" In article <3895@glacier.ARPA> king@glacier.ARPA (Robin King) writes: > > Is anyone else out in netland bothered by the growing > use of this liquid chemical stew? No. It provides a useful opportunity to be politely unreasonable (if unreasonable is defined as not making waves, as it often IS defined.) > I simply do not accept this cr*p. I'll do whatever it takes > to make the folks come up with the real thing, even if I have > to make an issue out of it. The last time I had to "make the folks come up with the real thing," I called Atlanta once or twice a day for months. Maybe we should call corporate headquarters of chains that attempt to serve us quasi-milklike substances. But I have only once had the server refuse to bring me milk (and have only had to pay for a glass of milk TWICE (in YEARS of being a jerk about plastic cow)). Perhaps we could get the Dairy Association to commission a commercial where John Maschetti (the Federal Express fast-talker, spelling dubious) says, "I don't drink water, hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, high fructose corn oil, sodium caseinate, di-potassium phosphate, polysorbate 60, sodium stearoyl lactylate, salt, artificial flavor, and beta carotene." "Could I have some cream, please?" If anyone from the Diary Council (or whatever it is) is on the net, you're welcome to the idea (but PLEASE air it in the Boston area so I can tape it!) Back a while, before the waitrii in my favorite restaurants caught on and brought it automagically, I could usually get cream, or at least milk, before I had finished laboriously mispronouncing the ingredients. BTW, when I yield to the inevitable and drink the stuff in wintertime I generally set myself up for a bad case of chapped lips. Does anyone else have similar problems. (I only yield to the inevitable if someone serves me the crap (I can think of a more appropriate word...) in their home, in which case politeness seems my only option.) STella Calvert Every man and every woman is a star. Guest on: ...!decvax!frog!wjr Life: Baltimore!AnnArbor!Smyrna! !SantaCruz!Berkeley!AnnArbor!Taxachusetts Future: ... (!L5!TheBelt!InterstellarSpace)