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Dee8go · #31 10-19-2007, 09:22 AM

. . . . or was it nu-culer waster?

sixto · #32 10-19-2007, 01:35 PM

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Those carrots need some steroids or genetic modification. I could eat every carrot in that picture and still be hungry.

Sixto
87 300D

Ara T. · #33 10-19-2007, 01:39 PM

Who cares? MBtex is better anyway

Hatterasguy · #34 10-19-2007, 02:05 PM

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I do eat a vegan lunch quite often -- hummus, salsa, bread, tater chips and sunflower greens. Yummy.

My mom and sister are into that stuff. For me lunch includes meat, bread, cheese, and sometimes beer.

sixto · #35 10-19-2007, 03:35 PM

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Who cares? MBtex is better anyway

You'd think you could get "superior" tex in a W140 :/

Hattie, trade me that money pit SDL for this 300D with leather

Sixto
87 300D

Ara T. · #36 10-19-2007, 03:51 PM

Meh, there's a stigma, Americans associate vinyl with cheap cars. Thanks to crappy American cars from the 70s probably. Just one of those cultural things, I think leather in luxury cars in Japan doesn't fly because the affluent people there smell the leather and associate it with a lower working class that work with animal hides.

Interesting stuff eh

MTI · #37 10-19-2007, 04:35 PM

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I think leather in luxury cars in Japan doesn't fly because the affluent people there smell the leather and associate it with a lower working class that work with animal hides.

It doesn't seem to dissuade the tourists from Japan from carting away truck loads of merchandise from Coach, Dooney & Burke, Cole Haan . . .

Hatterasguy · #38 10-19-2007, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by sixto

You'd think you could get "superior" tex in a W140 :/

Hattie, trade me that money pit SDL for this 300D with leather

Sixto
87 300D

Buy an SL or late 90's W140 and we can talk.

Velours rocks, I like it just as much as leather.

t walgamuth · #39 10-20-2007, 06:43 AM

I figure if we weren't supposed to eat meat we wouldn't have canine teeth.

I try to get good shares of veggies and fruit though.

And I will drive out about ten miles in the country to buy fresh eggs. This place I am getting them now has a wonderful variety....cream colored ones, brown, tan, white, and occasionally a green one. They have wonderful taste and are very very fresh. Some almost as small as a hulled walnut, other you would swear are duck eggs......$1.25/dozen.

See?... there are reasons for living in Indiana.

Tom W

cmac2012 · #40 10-21-2007, 02:59 AM

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First time I have heard that.........

Oops. You're Indian right? Is this some stray BS I ran across?

cmac2012 · #41 10-21-2007, 03:03 AM

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Shoe leather would be one of those "or else starve" type things. It was safer to eat the leather when folks tanned the old-fashioned way -- tannic acids. I am not sure about the most modern methods but I know in this country we used heavy metal salts for quite a while -- they are more effective and result in a more pliable and longer-lasting product. The downside is that heavy metal salts are usually deadly poisonous and in small doses, ruinous to health. But at least they look pretty.

You got me curious cmac. I wonder what is used in modern tanning? Put another way, I'm thinking I might not want to own leather products that originate in China.

It is something to worry about. They seem to be into whatever works in a hurry.

I know guy up in the back to the land hippie hills of eastern Washington who tans about 200 sheep skins a year using the old brain method. Sheep and pig brains. Doesn't give a flexible leather under the thick wool but it does work in every other regard. People buy his stuff right and left. Guy's got massive shoulders, a real mountain man, and he's one of the most solid, likeable hippies I've ever met. I've often thought he'd be a great actor for cowboy flicks.

Gurkha · #42 10-21-2007, 03:04 AM

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Oops. You're Indian right? Is this some stray BS I ran across?

There are different kinds......there are those who eat beef and have no taboos as such, that includes myself. Then there are those who are strictly goat, lamb and chicken types and nothing else, beef in any for is out of question for them.

cmac2012 · #43 10-21-2007, 03:06 AM

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My mom and sister are into that stuff. For me lunch includes meat, bread, cheese, and sometimes beer.

Well, I've been known to down a Carl's Jr. bacon guacamole burger now and then with a brewsko. Big, thick burger -- the best round these parts.

Variety is supposed to be important. Too much monotony in diet supposedly fatigues the centers that produce the various means to digest each type of food.

I take it mostly on faith, hard to nail that down with certainty.