I'm A Vegetarian But I Eat Chicken And Fish

I’ve never understood that. What if she wants a second date? What if something happens and you really hit it off? Are you going into a relationship either having to live a lie, sneaking off to scarf down hamburgers when the vegetables get to be too much, or is she going to have to find the man she thought she knew is an evil sea kitten devourer?

My philosophy is - love me, love my meat.

I think that’s the default definition for everything one finds on an internet dating site.

I was raised in the Gaudiya Vaisnava Hindu tradition, in which “vegetarian” is far, far more strict than it is for almost anybody except vegans, I imagine. No animal flesh of any kind, no fish, no eggs, no chickenses (this despite the fact that a dispassionate examination will reveal that chickens are in fact vegetables), and no spiders. Even garlic and onions were prohibited for reasons I am still not sure I understand!

Dairy products, of course, are not merely acceptable but encouraged; although I expect that western industrialized dairy farming in which the cows end up being done in anyway would not at all be considered a karmically pure source for the practicing vaisnava.

I outgrew religion when I was young, but I’ve retained my strict vegetarian diet all my life. Partly for health, but I think mainly because after so many years, the idea of eating meat or fish just seems so icky. I lurve me some garlic and onions, though. They’ll never take those from me!

So human and kangaroo are okay, then? :smiley:

I’d always assumed the idea was that it was worth converting to vegetarianism if the girl was sufficiently hot.

That, and when a guy says he’d like to date a hot girl, he’d often be satisfied with just having sex with her, and does not expect a long term relationship.

Sometimes, I hear about a rule and I wonder “what happened that they needed to make a rule for that?!?

And snails! Monopeds are a-ok!

IMHO, humans have only existed for about 200,000 years, so I find that pretty unlikely. 65 millions years ago is roughly around the time dinosaurs went extinct, so I doubt humans were doing much of anything at the time, including eating meat.

I really don’t care what other people eat, but it is bothersome to me that people who aren’t actually vegetarians like to call themselves vegetarians because it leads to arguments about what I can and cannot eat. Look. I’m not in it for the label. If you think vegetarians eat “can” fish, I don’t give a shit, but I don’t eat fish. Please don’t try to convince me to eat fish because it’s “acceptable” under vegetarianism. There’s no Holy Book of Vegetarian Rules that I’m following that says what I can and cannot eat.

Can you tell I’ve had this argument before? (I usually have to settle it by telling people that I don’t like fish, so it doesn’t matter, I don’t want to eat it anyway. Which is perfectly true.)

Most of the vege[tarian|n] girls I’ve known were pretty insistent that eating animal flesh makes one smell bad, and that presumably makes other…bodily fluids…smell bad as well.

‘The pollotarians have nothing to lose but their chains.’ - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

I was vegatarian for a couple of years in college, both because my sweetie and my roommates were, and because, well, why not? I like food. I don’t really care what it’s made out of as long as it tastes good.

I did ok, but about every 3 months I would go get a steak, wave it over the skillet, and consume it so fast that I’d spend the next 4 hours in the toilet as my body did a physical ‘WTF!!’

Best steaks ever are when you forgo them for a while first. :stuck_out_tongue:

Which is goofy in its own right, since pescetarians don’t *only *eat fish. :wink:

I wish you were making this up, but even if you were, somebody else would be saying it for real. This is ridiculous. We don’t need special words for these things, and like the OP said how in the hell are you a vegetarian if you eat “multiple meat categories?” If you don’t want to eat a lot of meat or don’t want beef or veal but like fish, fine- I don’t disapprove and you won’t hear a word about it from me if we’re at dinner. But don’t call yourself a freaking vegetarian or imply you’re sort of a vegetarian.

You probably know more about this than I do, but I believe according the stories I was told growing up, was when there was a large feast offering various (vegetarian of course) foods, dishes, and sweets for the God(s) to bless, the Garlic and the Onions, which were quite round and stacked up on the vegetables somehow rolled off the mound, and thus they were not blessed by the God(s). Therefore, the Garlic and onion got the short end of the stick there, and they’re not to be eaten on certain religious holidays (at least that’s the extent I had growing up, I didn’t have the full-blown can NEVER eat them. It’s just when certain feasts/festivals were being had, you couldn’t eat Garlic/onion on those days of celebration as those round bastards fell off the wagon).

What about shellfish? Do you eat shellfish? :wink:

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What about sea cucumber?

Having dated a vegetarian, I can say that it definitely makes a difference in how your bodily fluids taste.

Almost Vegetarian Guy - “Oh I don’t eat beef”

Friend 1 - “Why were you once addicted?”

Friend 2 - “Come on, just have one bite with us!”

So are all round fruits and veggies banned or just to two tastiest ones? :slight_smile:

The no onion and garlic thing is practiced by by most strict buddhist vegetarians in China. I’ve heard it from several different sources as the strong taste is not keeping with the Buddhist way of avoiding extremes. Somehow red hot burning chili peppers were okay though. Again this is ancedotal information I got from multiple monastaries, temples and nunneries scattered around SW China.

As for two legs, I guess you might get “long pork”

Consuming human flesh is pretty rare here in Australia, but roo meat isn’t. It’d be quite rare to find a meat-eating Australian that hasn’t eaten roo at least once.

It’s good stuff, closest to lamb in terms of flavour and texture. Or goat, for those who are familiar with goat meat.

I guess people tend to imagine that any “exotic” animal is also rare, endangered, and legally protected, but roos aren’t any of those things in Australia; in fact they’re so common that, well, everybody’s eaten some at some point. You can get roo steaks and sausages in the supermarket.

Try the veal tonight, it’s delicious!

Just wanted you to be able to check that one off

For the Jain, at least, I’ve read that this is because if you take plants from below the ground you’ll inadvertently be killing something else. Although from my actual Indian colleagues I get all sorts of conflicting descriptions and rationalizations about the Jain. There is a Jain temple about four miles from my home, but I’ve never gotten around to dropping in and asking a few questions.

I have a running joke with some (vegetarian) friends that I’ve decided I am a carno-vegetarian: I’ll eat veggies, beef and pork, but not chicken and fish. Since in my mind I don’t see why it’s any different than calling yourself vegetarian while doing the reverse (the size of the animals killed maybe?)

This said, we have vegetarian friends who eat fish, so we simply noticed it and besides joking about it a bit among ourselves on the way home (because 90% of the vegetarians we know don’t eat fish or chicken), we didn’t make any comments. It doesn’t mean I’ll start bringing them fish dishes when I bring them food, I’ll stick to only plants/grains based meals, so that their other vegetarian friends could eat them too.

In real life we’re mostly vegetarian; we eat a tiny amount of pork something like once a week, a handful of fishes a year, a handful of blood sausages, a chicken or two a year, all my cooking is organized around being meat free and I even cook vegan with pleasure, but I wouldn’t call myself a vegetarian when I’ll happily snack on chicken nuggets at mcdonald, if I have the occasion.