The thread on online dating got me to looking through some online profiles on a site.
Anyway I came across one and the man writes:
“I’m a vegetarian but I eat chicken and fish.”
OK does anyone really believe that if you eat chicken and fish you’re a vegetarian?
LOL 
Wouldn’t it be easier to say “I don’t eat red meat”?
He’s not a candidate for THIS forum…that’s fer damn sure.
Is his name Edward and is he a vampire? Seems like the same thing (as Twilight nonsense) to me…
No, because then some smarty-pants will try to feed you pork, the other white meat.
English needs a word for I don’t eat quadrupeds.
AGGGGHHHHHH! I hate when people do that! It’s unfortunately common, even among smart people.
It’s not that hard, people. Let’s go back to grade school (no quibbling about mushrooms or anything, please): animal, vegetable, or mineral. A fish is a…?
I’m a vegetarian that eats chicken and fish.
Oh, and the occasional cheesburger.
and sometimes steak or chops.
But not eel, …well hardly ever.
Bacon?
(IMHO, the Human Animal has eaten meat for 65 million-odd-years…at least. I’m not gonna buck the trend.)
That sounds like code for cannibalism.
In Nambia, if you told them you were a vegetarian, they’d assume that mean you’d eat chicken and fish. There aren’t a lot of vegetables there, so diets are mostly meat.
What’s a good word for not eating cow? Just out of curiosity. I have heard people use the phrase “Hindu vegetarian”, though. (Meaning - eat other meats but no cow and sometimes no red meat.)
“Four legs good, two legs bad!”
Stranger
I just tell people “I don’t eat beef.”
It works wonders, and most people understand it… except for the random people who then try to offer me veal. :smack:
Well, yeah. Otherwise it’s just picking on the chickens.
I eat beef and in my entire life I’ve never been offered veal.
Bacon is a gateway meat. One minute you’re having bacon, the next thing you know you’re face-first into a plate of raw beef.
I’m a mainly vegetarian who eats fish - I call myself a vegaquarian.
To me that would indicate you only eat vegetables which grow under water.
Kelp, and such.
The accepted term is pescetarian.
The term for someone who eats a vegetarian diet but adds chicken is called a pollotarian, and if you add multiple meat categories, you’re a semi-vegetarian: normally this means you eat chicken and fish (although wiki includes seafood, I’m not familiar with that one.)
I find it intriguing that you guys have never heard of people calling themselves vegetarian while still eating chicken and fish. While I like the new term, I’ve heard the old term quite a lot. I could have sworn I learned of it on this very message board.
Well, I’m a vegetarian who occasionally eats a nice juicy steak. Oh, and a beef taco from time to time. Er…and I really like sausage and pepperoni on my pizza. Ok, ok…steak and chicken fajitas are a staple to…
Um…well, and cheese. On everything. But that’s not really meat, right?
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Come to think of it, I actually don’t eat many vegetables at all, aside from potatoes and the stuff they put in salsa. But if it gets me a date with a hot chick…well, I’m a vegetarian!
-XT