vegetarian recipes that call for meat???

what the hell? i was reading this list of 101 vegetarian recipes on msn.ca and one of the 'chick pea sandwiches' or whatever, called for SALAMI AND BLACK FOREST HAM! I was so pissed. I had felt so glad to see it on msn's homepage when i opened my browser, you know.... nice to see vegetarianism going a little more 'mainstream'. When i came across that i was just pissed. After reading the entire recipe and directions it's obvious that it's easily eliminated but that was far beyond the point. The principle of the matter was that they were encouraging people with a tastier healthier way to live veggie lifestyle and then they masacre it (in my opinion) by throwing in lunch meats as a filler. Ugh i was just so mad I had to write a complaint. I never thought i'd be that person, but i had to. I just hope i wasn't the only one so that the message would get through.

 

Write MSN about it. That's total crap. =\

 

i did as soon as i found it!! i couldn't not....

 

Good job MSN.

I've found vegan recipes with very obvious non-vegan ingredients, but this is even more ridiculous.

I'd like hear what their response was to your letter.

I'm visioning something a long the lines of...
"What?! What do you mean Black Forest Ham isn't a vegetable?!"

 

a lot of the time they are talking about fake meat

 

um no.....an amateur recipe guide would not have stated "black forest ham" if it meant "ham flavoured tofu slices often found in the health food or oganics section of your local grocer"

Black Forest Ham

A moist German ham that is air-dried, salt cured, and smoked over pine and/or fir to give it an intense flavor. To be a true Black Forest ham it must be produced in the Black Forest of Germany. It was traditionally coated with beef blood which gave it a black exterior surface however, today the blackened exterior is most often the result of the spices applied to the outer surface and the smoking process during curing.
A variety of commercially produced hams are also available that are labeled as Black Forest hams but not produced in Germany and not cured in the same manner as the traditional Black Forest ham, so they should not be mistaken for a true Black Forest ham. This ham is often a specialty ham that has been brine cured and smoked, providing a robust flavored ham that may have the black exterior surface, which closely resembles the dry salt cured Black Forest ham.

 

theere is absolutely no way that this can be slighlty vegetarian. Good thing of you to write to MSN. I am too lazy for that

 

Yeah on about.com's vegetarian info they had fish on the list. It pissed me off and I wrote them and never got a response.

 

About.com's presenters often take a long time to fix things. What you need to do is gather lots of people and have them all constantly email, eventually they usually come around.