Mavis and the Vegetarian misunderstanding...
Mavis and I never got on. I'd started as a temp and secured a permanent position not 3 months later, but Mavis still treated me like a lackey. One day she was discussing her vegetarian diet with another colleague; I knew damn well she ate fish, and as a 'proper' vegetarian I took offence.

"Vegetarians don't eat fish" I remarked, "..the name for your dietary choice is pesco-vegetarian, or pescetarian."
"No, I'm a vegetarian" she replied, adamantly.
"But you eat fish - they have flesh, blood, eyes...mothers...fish is meat"
"No it's not, I'm a vegetarian"

No amount of arguing would convince her. The next day when she came in, all self righteously and smugly she announced that "I looked pescetarian up in the dictionary and it's not there, so I AM A VEGETARIAN".

I didn't bother to retort.
(mcnelson, Tue 8 Mar 2011, 21:50, 8 replies)

AGH!
People like that drive me nuts. They're the reason in some restaurants you have to explain that, yes, you are a vegetarian, and no, the fish flakes on the seaweed you ordered are not...

By the by- don't try seaweed (even without fish!). Blech!
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Tue 8 Mar 2011, 22:36, closed)

I like vegetarian beef
comes from cows that only eat grass - yum
(Figmaus, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 9:36, closed)

There's no such thing as a fish.
Vegetarians are only so so that they can claim to be superior to people.

Meat is delicious.

Animals can fuck off.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 9:58, closed)

According to some idiot I heard on the radio,
no one likes meat, only the way in which it is prepared and the flavourings that are added to it.

Following that logic, liquid smoke ought to be an immensely popular foodstuff in its own right.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 10:41, closed)

Hahahaha
They're such cunts. My mate summed it up, "The only reason you're a vegetarian is because it gives you another excuse to whine about something."
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 12:55, closed)

On a trip to Spain
we discovered that not only is fish not considered a meat, but, to many Spaniards, ham falls into the same category.
You'd love it there, I'm sure!

The trouble you have, is that many (most?) people don't interpret "vegetarian" as "one who only eats vegetables" but as "one who eschews meat," which is fair enough, as most vegetarians will consume dairy products (milk, eggs, cheese, etc.), which are neither meat nor vegetable. Put this alongside the fact that many people see a distinction between meat, fish and poultry, and you can understand why many people will consider fish compatible with a vegetarian diet.

Besides which, describing yourself as "pescetarian," is most likely just going to confuse people.

Maybe you should become a vegan, then you'll lack the energy to get worked up about anything.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 10:39, closed)

Perhaps people should stop being willfully ignorant.
Without wanting to pretend I know anything:
Pescetarian == thinks fish aren't animals, for some reason, so they don't feel pain.
Vegitarian == Does not eat animals -- usually pretty much as defined by biology.
Vegan == Does not eat animals (see above) or any produce thereof -- especially if it involves farming or other forms pf captivity or exploitation.

Personally, I'm an omnivore and, as such, will eat anything "edible" or, at least, try it.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 18:57, closed)

If God had not meant us to eat cows,
why did He make them out of delicious steak?

(C) I forget whom
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 13:12, closed)