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Login Here Signup Here Signup using FacebookI went and saw “Baby Mama” with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler today (and loved it). There’s one scene in the movie where Tina Fey and Greg Kinnear go on a date…to a raw vegan restaurant. The waiter assures them that the special of the day tastes “earthy…like dirt” and then serves them a “yeast ball” which looks like a blob of raw bread dough. Then of course the couple runs as fast as they can to find meat elsewhere.
1) Seriously…would it even be possible to make a “yeast ball” that is raw vegan, that doesn’t have processed flour in it? These inconsistencies in scripts drive me bananas! 2) Isn’t it funny that a diet filled with juicy delicious foods is so completely misunderstood? If my watermelon could laugh… 3) Even though the screenwriter got it wrong, I still found myself pumped that a raw food restaurant was mentioned. We’re gaining ground in the consciousness of the media, and eventually all the truth about what raw food is will follow. I have faith!
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So true. This reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend today. I find it funny that people actually look afraid of my food; like it’s going to hurt them. I hear things like, “No way. I’m not touching that!” There is alot of misunderstanding. But as you mentioned, there’s much more attention given to raw food.
Hi kids. interesting post, i once made a vegi cheese made from ground sunflower seeds and bouillon powder, left to mature in a warm place, rolled into balls, its not raw though. Audrey’s point about media acceptance, what about fruitarians, some might say extremely raw, i couldnt do it, would you like to live without plants, is honey a bee or plant product? Some eat raw eggs, fish. If we cant agree, what are the media going to make of it? Cheerio for now.
I’m new, but I have seen two things:
People don’t want to know what they’re eating, and they say that explicitly: don’t tell me.
People don’t bear that others eat different things. I don’t know if it is due to inconsciently they know they’re eating bad, or if it is related to different reasons, but they can’t see you’re not drinking coke, you’re eating sweets… so if you eat raw… they go mad!
You have to admit that making a joke about murdering carrots is pretty funny. And that just because we’re cool with fruitarianism and we get it doesn’t mean we can’t or shouldn’t laugh at the joke. If everyone was completely serious about everything all of the time and didn’t enjoy comedy, I’d be out of a job. Besides, half of what’s so funny about these jokes in movies is how much they get it wrong!
I noticed that scene too. It seems that the "raw food" culture is becoming more and more recognized in mainstream culture.
I notice a few other things of interest in Baby Mama. There was a bit of interesting discussion about the juice bar and the ingredients of the drinks. And the character Steve Martin plays seems to parallel the Whole Foods markets company founder.