I Finally Understand..

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I don’t eat meat. I never have. It’s not a religious thing, and it’s not a hippie thing, it’s just that I don’t find it appealing. I look at a big, juicy burger and think “Hey, look. A big, juicy burger” where the normal response would be “Mmmmmmgimmehungrywanteatcowsogoooooooood!”

I’ve heard of guys seeing a cow and getting hungry for a burger, thinking about the cow from whence it came.

I never got that, until now…

I’ve been watching the Deadliest Catch on the Discovery channel. Now, I don’t eat meat, but I eat a shit-ton of seafood. I’m a VERY expensive date. When I eat crab legs, I actually get hungrier. It’s sad.

Anyways, I was watching that show and got a big jones for crab legs. I get it each time I watch the show. There’s a bar by my credit union that does all-you-can-eat crab legs one day a week.
That day, my friends, is today.
Last time I went there, I pounded through 10 pounds of crab legs. No, they didn’t make any money off me.

DRAIN THE SEAS!!!

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How on earth can you say you don’t eat meat and yet you eat seafood?

I’ve never been able to figure out the logic of that. Beef=meat taken from a cow, seafood=meat taken from a sea-critter.

Seriously, is it like that old phrase “It’s always in the last place you look.” that you never really think about, you just say? (of course it is in the last place you look, because then you stop looking.) I’m not eating meat because I only eat seafood, wait, crab legs, chicken legs…holdonaminute…

FWIW, I’m a hopeless carnivore, but the first thing I’d give up is chicken. Dun even think about takin’ mah pork. You’ll lose a limb.

Oh, and bacon is good. Very good. Wrap some bacon around a shrimp or scallop and you are in heaven, I promise.

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Don’t discrimintate, you mammalist.
Fishes is meates too. And crab. Crabbes.

yum

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I guess if the distinction is good enough for the Pope, it’s good enough for the rest of us. :slight_smile:

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Oh, you nit-picking bunch. I’ve never had red meat in my life. I figured that the burger example might help, but it hasn’t.

Also, I’ve never had pork chops, but I do like bacon.

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Considering how many weirdos I know who will not eat anything with a number of legs/arms/wings that’s not 4, I would say there is a difference. In English you call it “crabmeat”, but in Spanish it’s just crab. The notion of adding “meat” to something that’s been fished always gives me a minor i/o error.

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Pork, including bacon, is red meat, regardless of the pork industry’s “other white meat” nonsense.

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WTF? Everything I’ve read says that pigs are more intelligent than cows. On what possible ground are you saying that beef is meat but pork is not? :confused:

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What a great example this thread is of Dopers’ ability to nitpick something to death, and thereby suck the fun right out of it.

Enjoy your crab feast, LOUNE. :slight_smile:

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Mmmmmmmm…crab legs.

I grew up pretty near vegetarian. I mean, I occasionally had chicken, but it was less than twice a month, and sometimes I could have McDonald’s.
I had beef even less than that but I did have that sometime, in the form of patties. And maybe once a year I’d have lamb. We’re Hindu, and at the time fairly strict.

Then I grew up and met my omnivorous Chinese boyfriend. Man, he eats anything. If it moved, crawled, swam, or locomoted in any way, it’s edible.

And now I have discovered the wonders of shellfish. I luuuurrrve crab legs.

However I have not gotten into the habit of looking at live animals and visualising my food. We went to a Chinese baby banquet this year. If you don’t know, a baby banquet is “presenting” the baby to your family & friends. It’s at a high-class Chinese restaurant, and costs a small fortune. And it’s got every kind of food imaginable.

All in one evening, I had sharks fin soup, calamari, octopus, shrimp, snails, chicken, beef, lamb. veal, duck, goose, some kind of fish - you name it.

After three hours & 12 courses we made ready to leave. As we left, the SO pointed out a large tank of fish by the door.

“See those?”
“Yeah?”
“That’s the fish you ate.”
Urk. I mean, I even fish, and I caught one last year and ate him, but it’s a little different to go fishing and catch a fish and go to a nice restaurant and eat the living fish there. My mind still has trouble reconciling it.

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Is it a nitpick to ask is someone claims to not eat meat but likes bacon? Seriously now?

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So many nitpickers in one thread. **LOUNE ** went out of his way to say he does not eat meat for any real reason except it does not appeal to him. Okay, maybe he should have said most read meat.

Let me reinterpret the Op for those who are stuck in full-out nitpick mode.

LOUNE, does not like Hamburgers and steak. He knows many people that love hamburgers and steak and really enjoy them. He has never looked at a hamburger as anything but a hamburger and never really understood why so many love them so much, or how just looking at one would make you hungry.

He had a minor epiphany yesterday. He was watching a show about catching crabs and got a huge craving to go eat them. The minor epiphany was that this must be the same thing that beef eater feel.

He is correct by the way. Don’t get between my Brother and a 24 oz T-bone. My brother’s idea of a good meal is a large steak with a grilled cheeseburger as an appetizer and some more beef or a cannoli for desert. :wink:

I hope you enjoyed the crab LOUNE.

Jim {damn, did you know Cannoli is not in the default dictionary for either Word or IESPELL, that is a disappointing fact. I have now added it to both.}

It is when you apparently missed the point of the op. The Red meat was not really the issue. The sudden understanding of other people’s cravings was like his own, was.

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Carne is meat, but not all meat (in English) is carne. Heck, I even learned one hungover morning in Madrid, that not all carne is carne. Stupid tripe! Meat should never be chewy, at least not that way.

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To be clear, we don’t call it ‘crabmeat’ in the UK, either. Just ‘crab’.

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Chewing Tripe in Madrid with a Hangover sounds like the punishment for Drunkards in Dante’s Inferno.

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I finally understand too. Never in my life have I grokked why anyone would want to live in Detroit. Until now.

Please tell me that this place serves either Guinness or a decent weissbier. Because crab without that is like hot monkey sex without orgasm.

Crab – it’s the new lobster.

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I think crabmeat might be more of a US thing. They also say “tuna fish” down there. Well, duh.

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/hijack
I’ve always hated that phrase, so I started spending an extra minute looking around after I found something, just so I can be an ass when someone says that to me.

I have way too much free time :smack:
/unhijack

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Consider it done.

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You remind me of Homer in the all-you-can-eat seafood place.

'Tis no man. 'Tis a remorseless eating machine.