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Right.

I've been a vegetarian for around 17 years. I've been actively involved with various vegetarian societies and groups along the years and consider myself fairly knowledgeable when it comes to all things vegetarian, but even now people still ask me if I eat fish when I tell them I'm a vegetarian.

This is taken from the Vegetarian Society's website:

"People who don’t eat red meat but do eat chicken or fish are making a very important first step, but they aren’t vegetarians. We usually call such people meat-reducers."

SEE? WE DON'T BLOODY EAT FISH!

/rant

anhaga has this very nice reply to vegetarians who still eat fish, something along the lines of: I don't eat fish or seafood, can I call myself a vegetarian too?

You have to think there is something very wrong with someones education if they even for a moment think* they're a vegetarian if they still eat fish

I mean, I might as well say 'I'm a vegetarian... but I only eat chicken seafood fish and bacon....'

I have to remind myself sometimes that as a non-vegetarian I can still* eat vegetarian only meals... did a fantastic veggy soup the other night

When I try to explain that fish are animals, I usually get the answer "well, fish isn't proper meat anyway". What in the name of Bob is wrong with these people? I'm sick of being nice, sick of being sarcastic "oh, so fish grow on trees do they?". Anyone who thinks fish is ok for a vegetarian to eat is an idiot in my book.

Quite bluddy right! and I'm a meat eater... and fish is* bluddy meat... how could the eck it not be

No way, if it ain't red it ain't meat

What's the urge of branding yourself a vegetarian if you aren't one anyway There's nothing wrong with just saying 'I don't eat meat' (here, as opposed to fish, which is definitely not vegetal).

Meat is meat, no matter what colour it is

Sure is

If I could be bothered to care, I should be offended at the rampant carnivorism in this journal entry

I'm equally unkind to vegetables as I am to meat things though... Actually I get through an obscene amount of mushrooms and onions a week and chilies Not mentioning cheese

Mmmmmmm, cheese You can't beat a nice bit of cheese on some oatcakes, nom nom nom!

Cheese today for lunch... just on toast with butter Actually I do get through an obscene amount of cheese a week I'm still resisting the cave aged fetta and hard organic goats cheese that I bought last time i did a shop Mind... I've gone through a pack of ementile (however its bluddy spelt), half a block of reg chedder, and two packs of Bovarian smoked actaully its a good twenty minutes since lunch perhaps I should have afternoon snak now

I was trying desperately to find a clip from Coupling of Jane explaining to her shrink, a vegetarian, how she is also a vegetarian, even though she eats meat.

"I'm an emotional vegetarian. I know a lot of vegetarians and we tend to like the same films."


All I could find was the later scene at dinner where she goes full carnie with the lamb, "If you like animals, you'll love lamb."

My brother used to say vegetarians never eat anything with a bumhole. He's a lovely chap. He gave up being a veggie when he went on holiday to Germany, apparently it's a bit difficult there.

I'd be a veggie if I could still have ham sandwiches.

I used to say if it has a face I don't eat it, but then I'd have to put up with comments like "oh but liek zomg potatoes have eyes you murderer roflcopter" etc, so I might try the bumhole method - oh my god, did I really just type that?

It's funny how pig meat is the vegetarian's kryptonite - I'll admit to falling for one or two bacon rolls along the way, although I didn't enjoy them. What is it about piggies I wonder?

Simple... they're salty.

So in order to get my daily RDA of salt all I have to is lick a pig?

You married him, you'll have to put up with it...

B

An artile covering this very subject: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8341002.stm