twiddle thumbs and i went to have lunch at native foods in costa mesa. damn the food was good! it was so good, i wanted to walk out of their with one of their t-shirts. i decided i should eat there a few more times before i buy a shirt. but it'd be really cool to be in new zealand with a shirt that says "california vegan". we split the awesome threesome (flatbread, pommodoro, hummus) and spike's bbq pizza. that was some good hummus! for dessert, we took home a slice of elephant chocolate cake and a peanut butter parfait. those were killer! the best vegan food i have ever had!!!

we went home because our friend nopalita was coming over to have dinner then go see siouxsie at the house of blues in anaheim. we dressed up for the show, then nopalita arrived. i tried to find a place in/around anaheim that we could eat at. i settled on chipotle mexican grill in anaheim hills because it at least seemed like health-conscious mexican food and had kind of a hip, funky website. i wrote to the website asking them to explain why they list their cheese and sour cream as being 'vegetarian'. no shit those things don't have meat but if you call traditional dairy products vegetarian safe then i'm thinking vegan. i wanted to be sure so i wrote to them. no answer before we left but i figured it would take a day or two for a reply. we got there and the workers were dumb. they didn't even know what the fuck they were serving. i thought it would be more of a sit-down sort of restaurant but it was like cafeteria service. lame! i really liked the cilantro-lime rice but the place wasn't like how they represented themselves online.

[update 9/23/04: got a response to my question 4 days later and boy is it lame! they said cheese/sour cream being 'vegetarian' is a matter of how you look at it. since cheese is cultured from a bacteria, it's neither plant nor animal based. then they explained what veganism is to me. fuckers. how dare you twist things to label things as you please. it's only because the english-speaking world uses dairy as a staple food so they distinguish various levels of vegetarianism and plant-based rennet dairy cheese is one of the dumbest levels. in korea, that one clerk asked if i was vegetarian as soon as it was made known that i don't eat eggs. see, to them being vegetarian includes those sort of animal products. but not the west because the west is behind the rest. sorry if i seem pissy but it's because i am.]