# A vegetarian unknowingly eats meat...

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 15, 2012, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-vegetarian-unknowingly-eats-meat/609556 "2012-01-15T00:59:26Z")
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### Author: ![CatherineZeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@CatherineZeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatherineZeta)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-vegetarian-unknowingly-eats-meat/609556/13 "2012-01-15T02:40:18Z")

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I eat lots of fake chicken (“chik’n” is what it tends to be called) and sometimes it’s so realistic that I worry I’ve accidentally eaten real meat.

If I accidentally ate real meat and somehow didn’t notice, I’d appreciate it if someone told me so I wouldn’t repeat my mistake. I don’t think vegetarians getting sick after eating meat is purely psychosomatic either- if you haven’t eaten it in ages I would imagine a bad case of the shits at the very least.

> [@DCnDC](#):
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> meatatarian .

Ha! I thought I’d made that word up.

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