I'm one of them vegematarians
What eats fake bacon and stuff.

But I'm apparently the easiest-going vegetarian ever. I don't mind other people eating meat in my house. I don't think anyone else should or shouldn't be a vegetarian. It's my choice, for me. If we go somewhere and the vegetarian options are limited, that's my problem, not yours. I'll be the one put out.

Still, I'm a massive hypocrite. 'Cos I have leather shoes.
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 15:55, 11 replies)

I'm with you there
SO long as there is one vegi option on the menu then I am happy.

I hate when people I'm eating with apologise for eating meat. I don't give a fuck.
I try not to wear leather shoes but it's not that easy.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Thu 19 Feb 2009, 16:00, closed)

Definitely.
My mate went out with a veggie girl who, I think, half did it for the attention. Poor little crusading chick who gets a soapbox every time anyone mentions going for food. 'Oh, no, we can't go there. They only do three vegetarian options and anyway...me me me la la la'.

She wouldn't eat fake bacon, veggie sausages, 'meat' flavoured crisps or Quorn burgers. Why? 'Because they look and taste a bit like meat, which is wrong.'

Er, it is? Oh. I don't object to the taste of bacon. Just the fact that it tends to involve a dead pig.
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 16:04, closed)

good attitude both of you
me? I fucking love the stuff.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 16:19, closed)

I knew a vegan...
who only bought 2nd hand leather shoes, because he reckoned that it wasn't bad as the animal ha died for the first owner and not for him.
(General_Manchego, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 16:38, closed)

Veggie girls
I once went out with a vegetarian. Who wouldn't let any meat pass her lips.

Unless it was still alive.

wink wink.
(Pill Popper Thank you Sasha Shulgin, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 16:55, closed)

Fake Bacon
I can't see the point of the fake bacon and chicken etc if you like the taste so much, then eat the real stuff - it probably has less E numbers and polywhassernames!
( Vambo, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 16:56, closed)

Ahh, but...
It's not for the taste, but the lack o' meat. I'd as happily eat non-meat flavoured stuff, but it's much rarer.
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 17:09, closed)

To be honest...
There's a lot of difference I find. Firstly, none of the veins or fatty bits of string or gristle are present which always put me off meat when I was a wee 'un. Also, the taste and textures are completely different. I find they actually can taste a lot nicer. Lastly, it does seem completely odd to make fake meat but in retrospect it makes it easier to make certain dishes.
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 19:35, closed)

re: the shoes
it's not hypocritical unless you eat them

Millennium hand and shrimp!
(Stu Moo winner of five nobble piece prizes, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 17:59, closed)

Bugrit
...very true
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Fri 20 Feb 2009, 9:40, closed)

But..
If you don't have a problem with other people eating, say, beef... Why is wearing leather a problem?
I used to say that when I was a veggie..
*Cough Cough cough*
(Beer Elf Thought this was like a campfire, anyhow, on, Fri 20 Feb 2009, 15:01, closed)