MDC stupidist question of the night!!! - Page 3

[lilyka]

So true. I do not even bother telling people that the stuff I make is vega. They are just cupcakes. or just cookies. or just soup. if you leave the V word out they are more likely to eat it.

[mum21andtwins]

Originally Posted by eclipse

When I was in Paris, living in the dorm, I once asked for their "vegetarian meal" (they always had one designated vegetarian) at the cafeteria, and was givien a salad with sardine heads on it. Um, 1) YUCK and 2) NOT VEGETARIAN! That's when I found out that in a lot of Europe, vegetarian means no beef, and sometimes no ham.

erm no. a lot of european meat eaters are ignorant just as a lot of american meat eaters are ignorant. vegetarian is vegetarian. I'm not sure where you learned this but its rubbish

[somegirl99]

Originally Posted by lilyka

So true. I do not even bother telling people that the stuff I make is vega. They are just cupcakes. or just cookies. or just soup. if you leave the V word out they are more likely to eat it.

Same here (unless they ask). When I used to work in an office, I'd bring in stuff I had cooked and leave it out with just a label like "chocolate chip cookies". Then I'd send an email to the 2 other vegans who worked there telling them they were actually vegan cookies. They would disappear really quickly. When one of the co-workers would put out her stuff, labeled vegan, it sat there all day.

Originally Posted by mum21andtwins

erm no. a lot of european meat eaters are ignorant just as a lot of american meat eaters are ignorant. vegetarian is vegetarian. I'm not sure where you learned this but its rubbish

I find the exception tends to be the UK and Australia - meat-eaters there seem to have a lot better knowledge of what vegetarian and vegan really mean than pretty much anywhere else I've been.

[mum21andtwins]

I find the exception tends to be the UK and Australia - meat-eaters there seem to have a lot better knowledge of what vegetarian and vegan really mean than pretty much anywhere else I've been.

Lol you haven't been in this part of the UK lol!
Actually Netherland is pretty good as is belgium ime. Germany on the other hand was an absolute nightmare. it has allways been our family's thing to pop across the border for a night out because its cheaper but I would be lucky if my salas was actually you know salad and not sausage with potatoes and mayonaise (not joking here...)

[Jugs]

Originally Posted by GoBecGo

I find it a bit hilarious when people say they won't eat vegetarian or vegan food - i mean, surely ALL food that isn't meat, fish or dairy is vegan food!? Ok, i know, not quite, but seriously, i know someone who won't eat "vegetarian curry" - when i talked further she actually meant ANY curry with veggies in it! Including meat curries which also contained potato!

LOL, I have a friend who is a very outspoken meat-eater, and always makes a good natured effort to remind me of this. Whenever we have get-togethers I always make it a point to inform him that I brought dessert but he can't have any because desserts are vegetarian

[Thalia the Muse]

Oen of these days he is going to bring a mincemeat pie, and really fix your wagon!

[Jugs]

[mommy212]

peopel who eat chicken but no other meat are called pollarians. People who eat fish and chicken but no other meat are pisco-pollarians. Vegetarians who eat eggs are ovo-vegetarians, eggs and milk are ovo-lacto-vegetarians. Vegans eat no animal product, including honey. Got this from Becoming Vegetarian

[lilyka]

another thing to consider is that for religous reasons people at my church fast (vegan + no wine+ no olive oil) 26 full weeks of the year. however we kinda down play it also for religous reasons. it often seemed more appropriate or easier to just say we were vegetarian or ask for vegetarian options than to explain why we do what we do and then deal with resulting judgment. but one day we would be all vegan and the next eating a steak What I say now really depends on the audience (I am mostly vegan now).

[QueeTheBean]

Originally Posted by mommy212

peopel who eat chicken but no other meat are called pollarians. People who eat fish and chicken but no other meat are pisco-pollarians. Vegetarians who eat eggs are ovo-vegetarians, eggs and milk are ovo-lacto-vegetarians. Vegans eat no animal product, including honey. Got this from Becoming Vegetarian

LOL--this remind me of the scene in the Charlie brown Christmas special:

Are you afraid of staircases? If you are, then you have climacaphobia. Maybe you have thalassophobia. This is fear of the ocean, or gephyrobia, which is the fear of crossing bridges. Or maybe you have pantophobia. Do you think you have pantophobia?


I have heard of people who are "vegetarian except for bacon", which is so odd, as bacon to me seems like the most un-vegetarian of all foods.

[lilyka]

but it is soooo good. I thought bacon would be the one thing i could not fully give up but after getting rid of all meat going back to bacon totally grossed me out.,

[Jane]

My MIL is mostly vegetarian for texture issues (and abusive father issues, if you want more of the whole story). Very crispy bacon is texturally quite different from meat. She doesn't eat meat substitutes, as that is the whole point - she doesn't like anything that is meaty. She doesn't describe herself as veggie, just "I don't eat meat."

[KaylaBeanie]

Originally Posted by Jugs

LOL, I have a friend who is a very outspoken meat-eater, and always makes a good natured effort to remind me of this. Whenever we have get-togethers I always make it a point to inform him that I brought dessert but he can't have any because desserts are vegetarian

[*LoveBugMama*]

Here in Norway the vast majority of the people I have come in contact with understands what vegetarian acutally means. (Atleast when it comes to the BIG things, like no meat, poultry and fish. A little harder when it comes to rennet/gelatin etc.) IF people are clueless, it`s always about fish. I was reading in a Norwegian Low-Carb messageboard, and soooo many there claimed to be vegetarian and eating fish. But for the most part people seem to get that vegetarian means not eating any living creature.

And honestly, I just don`t get this newish trend about labeling everything. I ofcourse get vegetarian and vegan. But pescetarian? Pollotarian or whatever? Flexitarian? WHY? Why this desire to label yourself something that vagely can resemble vegetarian? Does people actually WANT to be vegetarian/vegan, but find it too hard? I don`t get it. What`s next? A word for those who eat everything living under the sun, exept cow? What about the ones who don`t like bacon? Should they get a ....arian label too?

[lilyka]

Had to chare this here.....today i was eating at church and told the dear lady serving "no thank you, I do not eat meat, I am a vegetarian, just the rice please" and she says "but fish is not meat. it is a vegetable." ummmmmmm.....

[aggieP]

lol @ ''are chickens a vegetable"

[Thalia the Muse]

Flexitarian? WHY? Why this desire to label yourself something that vagely can resemble vegetarian? Does people actually WANT to be vegetarian/vegan, but find it too hard?

No, I don't think so. Good lord, I certainly don't secretly want to be vegetarian! But I do think we have become very fond of scrutinizing and labelling our eating styles in a way that previous generations did not. And saying "I don't rule anything out, but most of the time I'm not that interested in eating a big honking piece of meat and maybe a sad little pile of undercooked baby carrots next to it, so I'll often cook or order vegetarian but I enjoy a certain amount of meat and I don't bring my own food to dinner parties or anything, whether the hosts are vegans or BBQ obsessives because it's all good" takes too long.

So all the people who actually like vegetables and grains and eat them frequently, are not afraid of or baffled by meatless meals, but eat everything else too, have a way to describe themselves that does not involve the words "I'm vegetarian except for ..."

Why label ANY eating style? Why have word for different flavors of vegetarians?

[Irishmommy]

Originally Posted by nigellas

FYI - if you eat fish you are not a vegetarian either.

Catholics don't (or didn't) eat meat on Fridays, but they can eat fish.
Vegetarians don't eat meat. Ergo, they can eat fish. In some people's minds. Maybe that's where it comes from?

[Irishmommy]

Originally Posted by CatsCradle

First, this thread made me chuckle. Second, in my experience people tend to differentiate between "meat" and "fowl" and "fish." I am not Catholic but I grew up around a lot of Catholics - so many that our public schools had fish-only Fridays. My Catholic friends explained that they didn't eat "meat" on Fridays. I guess for some people, there is a big difference between "meat" and fowl and fish.

My mother has known of my vegetarianism for 20 years. She still asks me when I come to visit: "You'll eat chicken, right?"

"Mom, I love you so much, but...."

Okay, so it was covered, I hadn't read ahead!

[caiesmommy]

Originally Posted by Irishmommy

Catholics don't (or didn't) eat meat on Fridays, but they can eat fish.
Vegetarians don't eat meat. Ergo, they can eat fish. In some people's minds. Maybe that's where it comes from?

That's EXACTLY where it comes from! Sadly...so I just say I don't eat anything that can blink at me