What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

[jamespowers]

Some people are afraid of their own shadow. If I can't eat the foods I want to eat, I'd rather be dead anyway.

Agreed.

 

[Gregg Axley]

Some people are afraid of their own shadow. If I can't eat the foods I want to eat, I'd rather be dead anyway.

I don't know, I'm afraid of tofu.
Especially if a friend of mine invites me over for tofurkey sandwiches.
Uh no...
Not unless it's sitting on a thick slice of ham.

 

[jamespowers]

I don't know, I'm afraid of tofu.
Especially if a friend of mine invites me over for tofurkey sandwiches.
Uh no...
Not unless it's sitting on a thick slice of ham.

Salty ham.

 

[Matt Crunk]

Even if you eat all the right foods, and do all the right things that are supposed to be good for you, eventually something is still going to kill you. Why not enjoy life while you have it instead of worrying about adding a few more days to your twilight years when you won't feel like doing crap anyway?

 

[jamespowers]

Even if you eat all the right foods, and do all the right things that are supposed to be good for you, eventually something is still going to kill you. Why not enjoy life while you have it instead of worrying about adding a few more days to your twilight years when you won't feel like doing crap anyway?

:rofl: You have a good point there. What the heck use is it to live to be old but can't do anything anyway?:doh:

 

[Renault]

I base my healthy lifestyle on a pyramid of the five basic food groups;
Nicotine, caffeine, fat, sugar, & salt.

 

[sheeplady]

Tofu's not too bad... you just have to know how to cook it. Unfortunately, in my experience, most Americans don't.

 

[Gregg Axley]

Tofu's not too bad... you just have to know how to cook it. Unfortunately, in my experience, most Americans don't.

My friend doesn't have a choice, he's vegan.
He has the same list as Renault....
Actually we used to eat the Boca burger.
Not bad, with cheese and Tapatio hot sauce.
Then it wore out it's welcome...

 

[jamespowers]

My friend doesn't have a choice, he's vegan.
He has the same list as Renault....
Actually we used to eat the Boca burger.
Not bad, with cheese and Tapatio hot sauce.
Then it wore out it's welcome...

Tofu is a hideous and insipid fake meat/gelatinous mass(probably space alien) that needs to be exterminated. That is something modern I will not miss. There IS no way to make it palatable unless you use so little of it that you might as well forego the whole thing.

 

[jamespowers]

I base my healthy lifestyle on a pyramid of the five basic food groups;
Nicotine, caffeine, fat, sugar, & salt.

Better than rocks, twigs, quinoa and couscous.

 

[Matt Crunk]

Better than rocks, twigs, quinoa and couscous.

Hey, there is absolutely nothing wrong with a good couscous!

 

[HudsonHawk]

Tofu is a hideous and insipid fake meat/gelatinous mass(probably space alien) that needs to be exterminated. That is something modern I will not miss. There IS no way to make it palatable unless you use so little of it that you might as well forego the whole thing.

Tofu is basically cheese. It's thousands of years old, far from modern. But it is pretty tasteless.

 

[sheeplady]

Somebody has got to make James tofu and get him to eat it without knowing it.

You know when you make a fuss like that it's basically a challenge.

 

[Matt Crunk]

Tofu is basically cheese. It's thousands of years old, far from modern. But it is pretty tasteless.

Tofu absorbs and assumes the flavor of whatever it's cooked with. I personally love it in stir-fry dishes and soups especially.

 

[Stearmen]

Better than rocks, twigs, quinoa and couscous.

[video=youtube;_XJMIu18I8Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XJMIu18I8Y[/video]

 

[Fastuni]

I like deep-fried tofu (with salty and sweet seasoning) on noodles. Other preparations however are not so much to my liking.

Tofu of course is anything but modern - also in an American context.
The first American to write about tofu was Benjamin Franklin - the first American tofu company was established in 1878.

http://www.soyinfocenter.com/chronologies_of_soyfoods-tofu.php

 

[dh66]

Tofu is by far preferable to t.v.p.
At least it is what it is.

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[LizzieMaine]

After my grandmother's fourth heart attack, she was no longer allowed to eat meat or salt. The doctor prescribed tofu, which was something none of us had ever heard of. She found it in an obscure corner of a supermarket, and when she opened the package we all gaped at what looked like a putty-colored block of florist's foam, floating in a plastic tub of murky water.

I understand it comes in much more appetizing forms today, but you never forget your first impression.

 

[Retro Spectator]

If there is one new thing I hate, it would be online job applications. I guess this also applies to Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime, but I think I will post it here instead. I will be very glad when they start offering offline job applications again, if they even do so. I will never put my SSN into a computer. Unfortunately, these online job applications force you to do so, thus making me not apply online. Quite annoying in my opinion.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

After my grandmother's fourth heart attack, she was no longer allowed to eat meat or salt. The doctor prescribed tofu, which was something none of us had ever heard of. She found it in an obscure corner of a supermarket, and when she opened the package we all gaped at what looked like a putty-colored block of florist's foam, floating in a plastic tub of murky water.

I understand it comes in much more appetizing forms today, but you never forget your first impression.

I had more than my share of tofu growing up and I had pretty much the same impression. When I was a kid in L.A. there was a guy who used to sell tofu from a truck! To this day I avoid tofu as much as possible. Though recently, as I recounted in the "What's for Breakfast?" thread I had some vegetarian chorizo, basically flavored tofu! I was grocery shopping with my housemates when they handed it to me asking if I would chip in for it. I said, sure, no problem, thinking it was the standard pork or beef version. I didn't realize what it was until we got home. lol