Are there any vegetarians here?

[SnakesRule1234]

Hah! That's it... I'm a vegaquarian. Thank your professor for that!

 

[Jrgh17]

I have a professor friend who eats no meat except for seafood. When asked if he is a vegetarian, he says, "No. I'm a vegaquarian." Works for me. Truth in advertising, so that's what I call those types now.

My wife and I are not vegetarians. But the funny thing about that is that since we are lesbians, everyone assumes that we are. I can't tell you the number of panicked phone calls we have gotten a few days before weddings we've RSVP'd to attend where the people call frantically to find out if we're vegetarians. It seems, from our end, as if they've been sitting around, looking at their guest list, figuring out the table arrangements, and it strikes them. "Oh my GOD we have LESBIANS coming!!!! Do we have anything to FEED them?!?"

I wouldn't necessarily assume that it's because we're lesbians that people seem to think that we're vegetarians, except that the same people will often repeatedly ask if we are, even though we never have been and have told them on several occasions that we are not. It's weird, but kind of funny. We always get the "You guys are vegetarians, right?" or, "Oh! I thought you were vegetarians." from people we know well but are eating with for the first time. :crazy02:

Well, you know... being a lesbian makes you very liberal, and EVERYONE who has liberal views in a vegetarian. :uhoh:

And lesbians don't enjoy meat :sidestep:

 

[desertanimal]

Ha! Given my past experience in conversing about sexuality here, I'll send my witty replies via PM.

 

[KJUN]

I feel like somehow you put me in that category..

Nope. You haven't told me I'm wrong or selfish for eating "real" meat. You aren't in that category.

Chicken tastes like rubber,

Sounds like your mom isn't a very good cook - I can't blame you for not eating it.....lol. Funny, but I'm not a fan of chicken, either. I eat it, but it has little flavor to me. Not a bad flavor, but not much flavor at all. That's true for store bought, home grown, and completely "free" range (yeah, I used to hunt those with flu-flu arrows as part of a tournament years ago, but that's another story......lol). I refer to chicken as a sponge. Cut it thin and season it well, and it will soak up the good flavor of a good cookin'. If you don't, it tastes like a sponge with little seasonings.

Ha! Given my past experience in conversing about sexuality here, I'll send my witty replies via PM.

I've got the one joke that is obvious to all males running through my mind, and I think it is best if I leave it there......

 

[Voodoo]

desertanimal,

haha. I know exactly what you're talking about. It's not just lesbians. Lots people think that all gay people (male and female) are super liberal and therefor vegetarian. I guess they don't realize that there are gay republicans (shudder) out there who are nowhere near being liberal. Don't tease or feed the lesbians, right? haha.

Anyway, back to vegetarianism. I love the term vegaquarian! LOL. Too funny. I've also heard the term Piscatarian or Pescatarian, which is used to represent someone who mainly eats a vegetarian diet, but occasionally eats seafood. So, there you go!

Someone else mentioned knowing vegetarians who don't like vegetables. To that I ask, what exactly do they eat then? LOL.

I personally love ALL vegetables, and I love finding new ones to try. Same thing goes for fruit. I recently discovered the fruit of the açaí palm from South America. It's absolutely delicious, but difficult to locate in the US since the fruit deteriorates quickly after being harvested. It's wonderful mashed in a bowl with some granola. Mmmm. Last year, I fell in love with the lychee (Litchi chinensis) and found them available at a local food market. Good stuff. They kind of taste like grapes, but much lighter and sweeter. Mmmm again.

 

[alan]

killers...

 

[Bobo's Mama]

:laugh01: That was awesome!

 

[Snake Dave]

Lmao, great stuff!

 

[snakewispera snr]

If you can be a vegetarian and still eat fish....Can I be a non-smoker except for cigars and a pipe...LOL

 

[SnakesRule1234]

You still smoke the cigar but the pipe I dunno...

 

[RainbowMary]

quick post from my about the OP (don't have time to read all the replies lol) I'm vegetarian and luckily for me I LOVE Quorn I think I'd be lost without it, my favourite meals are, Quorn lasange, Quorn cottage pie, pasta and tomato pesto and cheese............and PIZZA with lots of peppers sweetcorn mushroom and onions on it......mmmm I'm getting hungry.

 

[Snake Dave]

quick post from my about the OP (don't have time to read all the replies lol) I'm vegetarian and luckily for me I LOVE Quorn I think I'd be lost without it, my favourite meals are, Quorn lasange, Quorn cottage pie, pasta and tomato pesto and cheese............and PIZZA with lots of peppers sweetcorn mushroom and onions on it......mmmm I'm getting hungry.

Have you tried tofu? But I agree, Quorn sausages are nice, sometimes if I feel like a simple quick meal I'll just have some Quorn sausages, baked beans, homemade potato wedges and some green beans and peas, or something like that.

I had a vegetarian shepherd's pie for dinner, I can give you the recipe if you'd like? It's really nice, it's got split peas, lentils, black-eyed beans, tomatoes, mushrooms and a selection of herbs in it. Then for the topping it has potato and goats cheese/ricotta, with a sprinkling of parmesan.

 

[RainbowMary]

mmmm sounds yum, yeah i do find Quorn makes a meal more filling, oh and I love Tofu, the recipe would be much appreciated

 

[KJUN]

"Do we have anything to FEED them?!?"

I can't say I have any vegetarian friends, but my wife works with a couple. When we have work-friends over to the house, those pretty much used to get left off. We'd tell them to come, but everything will pretty much have meat on, in, or near it.

Why? Because I have a fair is fair attitude towards everyone - including vegetarians. If I went to their house, I wouldn't expect them to make a special meat meal for me. Why should I be expected to make something special for them just because they are the ones that are more picky than me? I'd eat a meal without meat to be polite at their place, but they wouldn't do the same in reverse at mine.......and I won't lose any sleep over it.

I've had the "Well, try a vegetarian meal and see if you like it" approach tried on me. I always counter with a fair offer: "I will IF you try one of my wild game steaks in willow mushrooms to see if you like it." I have yet to get accepted on my offer. Seems like they are OK putting me in their shoes, but not the opposite way around. Heck, I have eaten vegetables. I don't need to try a vegetarian meal to know I still want meat any more than they need to try my meal to know they still don't want to eat meat.

It's funny, though, that I really have nothing against vegetarians (although ones that eat eggs but are against abortion crack me up - is it a life following fertilization or isn't it?), but I have no vegetarian friends. They tend to be city folks (I hate urbanites), non-hunters, etc. Even if they ate pure meat every day, I wouldn't have anything in common with them. I don't dislike them, but we usually have zero in common. The ones mentioned above are OK because we share LOTS of garden interests, and he is fallen from the path and once again starting to eat meat. It seems he stopped eating meat because he didn't like processed meat. Once I started handing over some wild game, he decided to start hunting himself and only (pretty much) eating that meat.

Him? Yeah, I could see developing a friendship with him. I like him. He likes guns, but they are a little too pro-welfare state for me, though. Maybe he'll fall from that path one day when he realizes how much money is stolen from him by the .gov, too........lol.
KJ

 

[Snake Dave]

I can't say I have any vegetarian friends, but my wife works with a couple. When we have work-friends over to the house, those pretty much used to get left off. We'd tell them to come, but everything will pretty much have meat on, in, or near it.

Why? Because I have a fair is fair attitude towards everyone - including vegetarians. If I went to their house, I wouldn't expect them to make a special meat meal for me. Why should I be expected to make something special for them just because they are the ones that are more picky than me? I'd eat a meal without meat to be polite at their place, but they wouldn't do the same in reverse at mine.......and I won't lose any sleep over it.

I've had the "Well, try a vegetarian meal and see if you like it" approach tried on me. I always counter with a fair offer: "I will IF you try one of my wild game steaks in willow mushrooms to see if you like it." I have yet to get accepted on my offer. Seems like they are OK putting me in their shoes, but not the opposite way around. Heck, I have eaten vegetables. I don't need to try a vegetarian meal to know I still want meat any more than they need to try my meal to know they still don't want to eat meat.

It's funny, though, that I really have nothing against vegetarians (although ones that eat eggs but are against abortion crack me up - is it a life following fertilization or isn't it?), but I have no vegetarian friends. They tend to be city folks (I hate urbanites), non-hunters, etc. Even if they ate pure meat every day, I wouldn't have anything in common with them. I don't dislike them, but we usually have zero in common. The ones mentioned above are OK because we share LOTS of garden interests, and he is fallen from the path and once again starting to eat meat. It seems he stopped eating meat because he didn't like processed meat. Once I started handing over some wild game, he decided to start hunting himself and only (pretty much) eating that meat.

Him? Yeah, I could see developing a friendship with him. I like him. He likes guns, but they are a little too pro-welfare state for me, though. Maybe he'll fall from that path one day when he realizes how much money is stolen from him by the .gov, too........lol.
KJ

Republican through and through aren't you, KJUN (Not that there's anything wrong with it)

I wouldn't expect a vegetarian meal if I went to a meat-eating household, I'd make my own prep' beforehand. So we're on the same level there. I'd consider it pretty rude to expect people to go out of their way to accomodate you, so since I don't have any vegetarian friends, I'll just eat beforehand or order a pizza when I'm there, lol.

Just remember, if someone's a vegetarian it doesn't mean they need to automatically be thrown into the liberal-minded, PETA pile. I'm a vegetarian and I'm sure me and you have quite a lot in common. I don't hunt, but I enjoy target shooting. It makes sense that vegetarians wouldn't be hunters, doesn't it, lol. But not all of them are stuck-up urbanites, I'm not.

Hey, just count yourself lucky that you don't have to pay UK taxes. There's nothing wrong with the welfare state in some cases, some people do genuinely need help. However, to those people who prefer to live off the state even though they could work, well, insert your own profanities here ......

 

[Voodoo]

I'm no urbanite. That's for sure! I live in the country. Always have and always will. I like visiting big cities, but would never want to live in or near one. So no, vegetarians do not tend to be urbanites. I know plenty of farm folk and good old country boys that don't eat meat, Kjun. You just haven't met lots of 'em yet.

Also, as a vegetarian, I can say that I have hunted many many times in my life. Most of which was before becoming a vegetarian, but I have hunted since then. I don't really like hunting, but I do it from time to time because it's the only time I can spend time with my dad and not argue over religion. hahah. There is a difference in shooting a wild deer and mass murdering cattle using inhumane methods. I don't expect too many vegetarians to see things the way I do, but what can I say? To each his own, right?

There really is no such thing as non-violent eating. Eating vegetables and fruits is in fact killing. By eating fruit, you are killing part of the plant, bush, vine, or tree that produced that plant. So this can be compared to cutting off a chicken's leg and eating it, but not killing the chicken. By eating certain vegetables, you have indeed killed an entire plant for food. I've explained this to PETA people I've encountered before. It usually makes them really angry. But it's true.

Even if you decided to stop eating meat, dairy, vegetables, fruit, honey, etc, and decided to take up the fine art of eating clay (there are people who have actually done this), you are still killing microorganisms that are living in the material you are eating. Stop eating everything then, you say? Nope. every time you inhale, exhale, or move at all, you are killing some form of life.

 

[Snake Dave]

I'm no urbanite. That's for sure! I live in the country. Always have and always will. I like visiting big cities, but would never want to live in or near one. So no, vegetarians do not tend to be urbanites. I know plenty of farm folk and good old country boys that don't eat meat, Kjun. You just haven't met lots of 'em yet.

Also, as a vegetarian, I can say that I have hunted many many times in my life. Most of which was before becoming a vegetarian, but I have hunted since then. I don't really like hunting, but I do it from time to time because it's the only time I can spend time with my dad and not argue over religion. hahah. There is a difference in shooting a wild deer and mass murdering cattle using inhumane methods. I don't expect too many vegetarians to see things the way I do, but what can I say? To each his own, right?

There really is no such thing as non-violent eating. Eating vegetables and fruits is in fact killing. By eating fruit, you are killing part of the plant, bush, vine, or tree that produced that plant. So this can be compared to cutting off a chicken's leg and eating it, but not killing the chicken. By eating certain vegetables, you have indeed killed an entire plant for food. I've explained this to PETA people I've encountered before. It usually makes them really angry. But it's true.

Even if you decided to stop eating meat, dairy, vegetables, fruit, honey, etc, and decided to take up the fine art of eating clay (there are people who have actually done this), you are still killing microorganisms that are living in the material you are eating. Stop eating everything then, you say? Nope. every time you inhale, exhale, or move at all, you are killing some form of life.

Exactly, but plants don't feel pain, they don't love or feel compassion and they colonise places very quickly, so it doesn't take long for them to recover. When people start going into that, as you said; why don't we just stop eating altogether and just die, lol.

 

[Voodoo]

Plants don't feel pain you say? How do you know? Have you ever asked a plant if they were in pain after you took a bite out of them? LOL

* Each root apex harbours a unit of nervous system of plants. The number of root pieces in the plant body is high and all brain-units are interconnected via vascular strands (plant nerves) with their polar-transported auxin (plant neurotransmitter), to form a serial (parallel) nervous system of plants. The computational and informational capacity of this nervous system based on interconnected parallel units is predicted to be higher than that of the diffuse nervous system of lower animals, or the central nervous system of higher animals/humans.

Research scientists at Baylor Medical Center have "proven" that plants, including vegetables, feel pain when subjected to trauma such as being yanked out of the ground, peeled, cooked, and eaten. "Veggies and plants initiate a massive hormone and chemical barrage internally when they suffer any kind of injury," says professor Barry Lindzer. "This response is akin to the nerve response and endorphin release when an animal is injured."

Of course, I'm only posting this to be funny. It could be true... could be mumbo jumbo.

 

[KJUN]

Guys...I said TEND. That just means 50.00001% or more. I stick by by statement, but it only applies to the US as far as I am concerned. I don't know about other countries. Matter of fact, that only occurs to the SE US, too. I could care less about Yankees of mid-westerners....lol. Southerners are the only ones that generally enter my thoughts. I guess I should have been more specific on the group I was thinking of.

Plants don't feel pain - or just don't feel pain tthe way that you do to the best of your knowledge? Isn't that the same argument PETA uses to convince me to not eat meat? What about the "famous" broccoli experiments where adjacent plants chemically respone when another broccoli plant is harvested. I call that fear.....lol.

Welfare? I think it should be reduced to about 10% of the current budget. Socialistic medical care? Yeah, I've seen the results of that. I'd rather have GOOD medical care that is worth paying ANYTHING for. Thank you very much!

I usually vote republican, but I am not what you'd call a republican. I'l through and through libertarian in my mental thinking. All I want from a .gov is to be left alone and for them to do their sole job: protect my rights (from internal and external sources) that would be otherwise lost without said .gov. Period. Take homosexual marriages since that has been mentioned already...and it is still a hot topic in the US. Me? Nah, not my lifestyle nor is it one I support. However, it is none of my business what others do in their own home....any more than it is their business what I do in my home. Like it or not, I don't think the .gov has a right to say yes or no to same-sex marriage. I voted against the laws of my state trying to outlaw same sex marriage. I don't like it, but that is religious grounds - not .gov grounds! Marriage, from a .gov standpoint, should be nothing more that paperwork....whether it is 2 women or one man and 3 women...or one man and one woman. Same thing on abortion. I am personally against it, but I vote pro-choice every time because I don't think I have a right to decide....nor does the .gov. Libertarian through and through - I may like or dislike something, but I tend to vote to reduce the intrusion of the .gov into private life - ESPECIALLY when that is on religious grounds. (Before anyone asks, I am not very religious. Praise the noodly master!)

Urbanites? I pretty much grew up at a camp 30 minutes by boat from the closest boat launch: 5 days per week until I started school and then 2-3 days per week after that. (I was "sick" most Friday afternoons....lol.) I wouldn't mind the lack of electricity again, but I'd miss daily hot showers! My grandparents raised me a LOT, and they were coonasses who lived off of the land. I think grandpa would have been happier NEVER coming to the "town house" where they lived when not at the camp.....lol. I'm an urbanite now by comparison.....lol.

 

[Voodoo]

KJUN, we might not see eye to eye on lots of things, but I appreciate the fact that you vote to reduce the intrusion of the government into our private lives. That's a sweet reason to vote for things and selfless of you to vote for things to which you are either indifferent or opposed.