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Comment by ɟǝןıx dǝʇɹɐɹ on August 11, 2009 at 11:07pm

@Dallas: the dispute is not very important and I understood what you want to say but technically Méabh is right. "Omnis" means "every" and from here came the word "omnivore" (the other word is "vorare"-> deVOUR).
We eat "everything". You saying carnivores made me joke about following the middle way (which is not true from a vegetarian perspective).
I pity the poor plants... not only that vegetarians eat them more often but also the animals which were supposed to be sacrificed now are alive and chewing the vegetation. Isn't it anyone for the plants rights?

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on August 11, 2009 at 3:56pm

@ Méabh: I think the term carnivore can include any person whose diet contains meat, not just someone who eats meat at the exclusion of all other foods. What do you guys think?

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on August 11, 2009 at 8:50am

@ Felch: Thanks for that great link.

@ Méabh: Yeah, there are lots of ways in which this group could have been named. References to the delights of eating, the simple need for food, etc. I thought of several before deciding on this one, and went with this one because it seemed to be inclusive enough.

@ Felix, that is a great quote from the book about the Amazon. It is curious how people perceive "normalcy" in other cultures. In general, civilized people are clumsy in a lot of what they do, as compared to more "live off the land" cultures, as we've lost a lot of survival skills. This reminds me that in one of my favorite books there is a brief passage where the protagonist imagines trees as sentient beings who look upon humans as "hopelessly mobile, forever forced to move about". What is normal depends on your perspective.

@ Don: Great info about chopsticks. Thanks.

Comment by ɟǝןıx dǝʇɹɐɹ on August 11, 2009 at 7:57am

Méabh also noticed that we (it is not about you in particular Dallas)have a tendency to ignore other cultures. Chopsticks. This site is predominantly Western and predominantly American and if we don't receive some input from Chinese or other different cultures, we are stuck in our little world. 中国的朋友，请到我们的网站。

Comment by ɟǝןıx dǝʇɹɐɹ on August 11, 2009 at 7:46am

yes Méabh, it reminds me of a book called "Lost in the Amazon" or something like that. The journalist went in the Amazon jungle with a team and one time when he was eating with the knife and fork the indigenous people from a tribe were looking to him with superiority and making comments like: " look at him, he is so clumsy that he has to use tools for eating, he can't eat food with hands like us"

Comment by Little Name Atheist on August 11, 2009 at 2:45am

Don't you mean "omnivores and vegetarians", Dallas? I don't know anyone who lives on meat alone.

Comment by Little Name Atheist on August 11, 2009 at 2:44am

Why not "Chopsticks", or "Fingertips and Hands"?

Comment by Фелч Гроган on August 11, 2009 at 2:18am

All your translation needs -

http://www.foodlexicon.net/

Comment by sacha on August 10, 2009 at 11:38pm

Jaume said: "What about a Lexicon for the 'foreigners' out here? I guess the 'sp' in 'tbsp' means 'spoon', but I'm clueless about many technical terms and acronyms found in recipes."

Great idea. Adding the alternative names for vegetables would be a good idea as well. I'll start a post...

Comment by ɟǝןıx dǝʇɹɐɹ on August 10, 2009 at 9:54pm

@Dallas: "Do y'all like the name of the group okay? I struggled coming up with one I liked."

I think is good. If it was "the knife and pork" would sound well too. :)

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