Meat vs no meat

[Sixguns]

Help me resolve an problem with a coworker and fellow ATOT member. Should Lasagna have meat in it or not? I am not talking about your fancy lasagnas, just your normal everyday lasagna. He even screwed up his own arguement stating that a vegetarian would ask when ordering it at a restaurant if it had meat in it or not.

EDIT: Because he is saying I worded it wrong even though to me it makes sense. He says that the question should be, Does Lasagna normally have meat in it.

 

[surfsatwerk]

Meat is nice, but by no means an essential ingredient in lasagna.

 

[crownjules]

I prefer meat lasagna.

 

[lxskllr]

Don't know, but I'd reject any lasagna that used meat. Seems like the standard is sans.

 

[ViperXX]

Meat is nice, but by no means an essential ingredient in lasagna.

This is the correct answer. Lasagna is the base you add things to it. Then it becomes lasagna with meat, lasgana with eggplant, etc...

 

[LookBehindYou]

Yes it has to have meat. Hot italian sausage to be specific. At least that's what my mom uses, and there is no other way to do it.

 

[Squisher]

The boobs never lie: meat

 

[surfsatwerk]

Yes it has to have meat. Hot italian sausage to be specific. At least that's what my mom uses, and there is no other way to do it.

The sausage is served on the side in link form. As a man I no longer have a desire to have my food pre-cut into little bites. I eats it with my bear hands.

 

[NetWareHead]

Where my family comes from (Southern Italy), Lasagna always has meat in it (Almost always ground beef, although I have seen meatball and sausage used). There is no such thing as vegetarian friendly food. Everyone ate meat and there was no question about it. Had a vegetarian friend visit my house one day and my grandma could not wrap her head around the fact that he did not eat meat. She later on asked me if there was something wrong with him. :biggrin: Now I have had some veggie lasagnas that used spinach instead of meat and those were good, but that's a veggie lasagna, not a regular lasagna and in my family we make that distinction.

 

[BladeVenom]

The boobs never lie: meat

Good point. If a good looking woman says to put meat in it, you put meat in it.

 

[spidey07]

Does bolognese have meat in it? Yes. What is lasagna? lasagna bolognese

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolognese_sauce

No meat means it's not lasagna, it's something else.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Like the vegetarian, I would also ask if there's meat in the Lasagna, but with the opposite intention. The standard is irrelevant.

 

[FoBoT]

all normal food has meat in it, for omnivores

 

[Atomic Playboy]

If faced with the question "meat or no meat," the correct answer is always "meat."

 

[NetWareHead]

Good point. If a good looking woman says to put meat in it, you put meat in it.

Yes

 

[HardcoreRobot]

meat pretty much makes everything better. its reasonable to have a lasagna without it, but why would you want that?

 

[Matthiasa]

If faced with the question "meat or no meat," the correct answer is always "meat."

What if the meat is rotten though?

 

[BoomerD]

The sausage is served on the side in link form. As a man I no longer have a desire to have my food pre-cut into little bites. I eats it with my bear hands.

Seems rather messy to me...

As for me, I prefer lasagna to have meat, but I will eat "vegetarian lasagna" as well.

 

[mmntech]

Lasagna is just a pasta based casserole. You can put anything you want in it. Traditional lasagna is ricotta cheese, tomato sauce, and ground beef. However, you can make it with fish, vegetables, different cheeses, cream sauces, chicken, ect.

 

[Deeko]

If faced with the question "meat or no meat," the correct answer is always "meat."

Good point. If a good looking woman says to put meat in it, you put meat in it.

Listen to these two.

 

[KeithTalent]

I always assume there is meat in the lasagna unless someone explicitly tells me otherwise.

KT

 

[Sixguns]

I always assume there is meat in the lasagna unless someone explicitly tells me otherwise.

KT

Thank you. This was the post I was looking for. Most people have said they would have meat in it but that fact that you assume there is meat in one. Thats the point I am trying to get across.

 

[purbeast0]

only pasta that is acceptable without meat is cheese ravioli/tortellini.

THAT IS IT

 

[NetWareHead]

Just show your friend this thread and the poll results.

 

[Sixguns]

Just show your friend this thread and the poll results.

He is in the thread.