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Post by claudiascandystash on Aug 16, 2006 1:24:48 GMT -5
LOL- and doesn't she eat a hot dog at some point too? Maybe at the camp-out/we are complete incompetents and got lost in the woods in Summer Vacation?
Yep, I can't rag on Dawn either. I am also a vegetarian- none of this eating chicken sometimes crap. It just pisses me off that her state of vegetarianism isn't consistent...
*amber*
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Post by liss31d on Sept 29, 2006 6:53:37 GMT -5
I liked Dawn in the early books because she wasn't a Nazi when it came to food. She liked to eat very healthily, because it was the food she was brought up on and she didn't eat red meat because she preferred not to. She didn't eat much sugary food, but she did eat it now and again (she ate brownies in Dawn and the Impossible Three and she ate some sugary food at one of the meetings along with everyone). She just started to go psycho in the later books, when she went on about murdered mammals and stupid comments about your face breaking out and cooked carcasses and having to wear dentures until you just want to slap her as her comments aren't always true. Chocloate and sweet things are good for you in moderation, despite all the crap that ghost written Dawn comes out with.
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Post by alula on Nov 9, 2006 5:13:20 GMT -5
Oh, my lord! I was totally shocked, in 'Kristy and the Mystery Train," to meet an eight-year-old vegetarian who a) made a polite request that the group's order include a vegetarian pizza, b) told Nicky Pike that "not really" all people from California are vegetarians, and c) apparently sat with people eating sausage and pepperoni pizza, yet made no comment on them eating "processed pig parts." It's so sane, it's crazy!
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Post by courtky10 on Jun 18, 2008 20:08:07 GMT -5
I agree with liss31d. Dawn started to get on my nerves in the later books.
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Post by candykane on Aug 28, 2008 21:18:13 GMT -5
I wonder if Dawn would eat things like the veggie burgers that are supposed to be like regular hamburgers, or the "fake chicken" products like the ones by Morningstar. I really like the italian "chicken" patties that Morningstar makes. They are a lot better than the chicken patties that Tyson makes.
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Post by Crystal Clair on Dec 10, 2008 15:49:36 GMT -5
I was a little annoyed when Dawn's practice changed. I preferred her in the earliest books. She influenced me so much that the only true meat I eat is bologna (yeah, I'm a bologna fan). I eat white meat, lamb, pork and seafood though.
My parents thought my older sister influenced me to become a semi-vegetarian and blamed her. XD
Then again, with the accent changes, it's just, according to Tvtropes, flanderization. The BSC suffered this trope bad.
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Post by greer on Dec 10, 2008 21:01:08 GMT -5
whaaat? accent changes? Dawn never had an accent and I don't see the connection to ned flanders...?
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Post by inconstant heart on Dec 10, 2008 22:34:33 GMT -5
It's a television trope. Flanderization is when a character trait is overly exaggerated, and it's named after Ned Flanders because the 'religious guy' aspect of his character was exaggerated in later seasons until it's all anything thinks of when they hear 'Ned Flanders.' (Warning: The TV Tropes site is REALLY addictive. I once spent two hours there without realising it.)
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Post by Crystal Clair on Dec 11, 2008 15:11:25 GMT -5
Gosh, now I can't even remember what I originally typed. It doesn't help that the Windows appearance setting I'm using makes me unable to see what I write on these boards without hilighting it.
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Post by greer on Dec 12, 2008 23:46:54 GMT -5
Maybe something about Logan/The Hobarts?
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Post by wanderingfrog on Dec 14, 2008 20:48:21 GMT -5
(Warning: The TV Tropes site is REALLY addictive. I once spent two hours there without realising it.) I didn't really believe you at first. Then I went there. And now I'm thinking, Only TWO hours? Dude, you really needed to put up a stronger warning than that.
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Post by wenonah4th on Jan 20, 2009 9:45:20 GMT -5
Most vegetarians will eat those substitutes, unless there's a texture issue.
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Post by greer on Jan 26, 2009 14:58:23 GMT -5
One thing that pisses me off about Dawn is how she's always making people go to health food restaurants. Like in BSC in the USA, she makes everyone go to the health food restaurant at the Mall of America. Now I guess Jeff and Mr. Schafer also eat health food, but I felt like it should have been Verna's decision where to eat. Why should everyone else have to choke down bulghur wheat and seitan for you when you can just eat a freaking salad or something and everyone else can be happy? Sometimes Dawn was a very selfish character.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jan 29, 2009 21:16:27 GMT -5
That's really true and something I didn't pay much attention to before. Dawn and Mary Anne both tease each other about food, but Mary Anne (and Richard) make an effort to try and like some of the foods Dawn and Sharon like. But the two of them don't reciprocate and STILL are like "OMG I can't stand to watch you eat meat and poison your body with sugar." It's not like Mary Anne is constantly saying, "The sight of you eating tofu makes me want to barf." Lighten up, Dawn.
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Post by candykane on Jan 30, 2009 10:55:49 GMT -5
The first time I ever heard of tofu was from the BSC books. As a kid, I was convinced that tofu was disgusting, because all the other girls acted like it was whenever Dawn ate it. It's true, though, that they weren't as outspoken about it as Dawn was about them eating junk food and meat (aka poison in Dawn's book).
I've still never tried tofu, but last night I was reading the section on tofu in my copy of The Joy of Cooking, and now I want to try it.
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