Salon post: March 22

[jenett]

Welcome to this week's salon post.

Topic of the week
A friend is taking me out tonight to a nice restaurant as a thank you for cat sitting.

For this week, what's a fun extra-nice outing for you? (Something a little out of your usual routine, for a special occasion.)

What I've been up to
A fun thing I'll talk about when it's public (probably end of April), ritual stuff, prepping for more ritual stuff, and... yeah, that's pretty much my week.


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[(Anonymous)]

I only recently discovered that there's a vegan fast-food place at the Mall of America. (The Mall of America alarms me and gives me agoraphobia and claustrophobia simultaneously, so I don't go there much.) It's called Earthburger. I was meeting a friend who had a long layover in Minneapolis, and it was too rainy to go to a park, so we just went to the mall and ate vegan junk food. Spicy not-chicken sandwiches! Fries, or sweet potato fries if you preferred! The sandwich had that particular mayonnaise-warm-limp-lettuce quality that I recall from going to Steak 'n' Shake when I was a child.

A couple of mixed omnivore, vegetarian, and vegan restaurants around here will do a vegan breakfast sandwich, with tofu, vegan sausage, vegan cheese, and tempeh bacon if you want it.

I hear you about the combination of all possible food restrictions into one or two items; I understand the urge, but it doesn't serve any of us really well. I guess it's better than the trend I noticed a few years ago, in which gluten-free products (which I totally support) were crowding out vegan ones. That was sad.

P.