More Proof That It's Tough Being A Vegetarian

12 Surprising Foods Vegetarians Cannot Eat

White sugar

• The ingredient that ruins everything: Bone char
• I remember going to Whole Foods once and seeing vegan sugar. I might have laughed out loud. "What's the point of this?" I thought. Then I looked into the whole "vegan sugar" thing a little more, and ended up buying it, because the idea of eating bone char -- which is usually made from cow bones -- with my morning cup of coffee struck me as a little nauseating. Apparently they use bone char to make the sugar whiter. I've had a huge bag of vegan sugar for a while now, and I can assure you it is of adequate lightness.

Beer

• The ingredient that ruins everything: Isinglass
• For any vegetarian reading this at the bar holding a British beer: you might want to put down that pint. Guinness, among other British brewers, uses trace amounts of fish bladder in the brewing process. And since Guinness is a perfect beverage that will likely never be changed, vegetarians will have to do without it. PETA comes to the rescue with a fairly comprehensive list of vegan-friendly beers.

Apple pie

• The ingredient that ruins everything: Lard
• There is nothing more American than apple pie and baseball, or eating an apple pie while watching baseball, or throwing an apple pie at a man in a baseball stadium and then running away, leaving him to wonder why someone aggressively threw an apple pie at him. Sadly for vegetarian Americans, apple pie (or any pie, possibly) that's made with a traditional recipe can have lard, which is used to make the delicious crust.

Altoids

• The ingredient that ruins everything: Gelatin
• Altoids are said to be "curiously strong," but you don't have to be curious if vegetarians can eat it, because we're telling you they can't. Gelatin is very much in the Altoid nutritional breakdown. Now what will vegetarians going on dates chew before they meet their sweetheart at the drive-in for a little hanky panky? What? Altoids have been around since the 1700s, it's possible.

Twinkies

• The ingredient that ruins everything: Beef fat
• The Twinkies folks could've listed a synonym for beef fat in the ingredients -- "tallow" is the same thing. But they are not shying away from its inclusion in the Twinkie. It's right there on the label in huge block letters: "BEEF FAT." But if being a vegetarian is more important than eating Twinkies, we'll provide you with a vegan version just because.

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People Still Don't Understand This

Quit Blaming The Dealer For Your Low Trade-In Offer

But here’s the thing, ladies and gentlemen: the dealer is not in the business of buying used cars at their retail value. The dealer is in the business of making money. And they will not make money by giving you the Kelley Blue Book “showroom condition” value for your 2002 Honda Odyssey with 147,000 miles and Doritos crumbs in the gauge cluster.

Now, if you’re the kind of consumer who writes car dealership reviews on Yelp, this is the part you think is unfair: you’re only getting $500 for a vehicle that’s “worth” up to $2,000. And this is where the real entertaining part of these complaints comes in. Because here’s what these people don’t seem to understand: if you don’t want to sell your van to CarMax, you don’t have to. You can always use Autotrader, or Craigslist, or eBay, or cars.com to sell the thing yourself and get the value you think it “deserves.” Complaining about a dealership price offer when you don’t need to trade in your car is like showing up at the Apple store and complaining that the Internet is slow on the display computers.

And so, ladies and gentlemen, I leave you with these parting thoughts: if you don’t like the dealership’s offer, quit complaining and sell the thing yourself.

(Jalopnik.com)

They See Me Rollin' - BMW Edition

BMW Concept M4 GTS shows its face in Monterey

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