When Food Group Collide

[dramaqueen_23]

I'm repeatedly amused at the ways people misunderstand vegetarianism. There's a chip wagon down the street from my house and the other day I decided to run out for some hot, vinegar soak fries. A hot dog vendor had parked his cart nearby, pressumably to take advantage of the lunch-time rush. As I walked passed, munching on my fries he offered

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[emiline]

I get weird comments all the time! But never about fries. (Maybe whatever the fries are fried in, but potatoes? Nope.)

[sinnick]

Maybe the potatoes were fried in bacon fat.

[starfishchick]

I was going to say...

[dramaqueen_23]

They were fried in vegetable oil. And even if they were fried in bacon fat, that doesn't explain his conclusion. I've never heard of fries fried in milk or egg yolks.

[anglaisepaon]

I had an awkward dinner party at a coworker's house where she served fish. I just ate around it, and at the end of dinner, she asked why I hadn't eaten my haddock. I told her that I was vegetarian, and she said, "I know, that's why I served fish!"

I'm thinking I should just say, "I don't eat anything that had eyes." But I'm awfully fond of potatoes. :)

[rpriske]

Let her know that while there are people who eat fish that claim to be vegetarian for convenience (I am one of them), technically we are called pescatarians.

[wraithgirl]

I get the same thing! Also sometimes with chicken.

'What aren't you eating your chicken?"

"I'm a vegetarian."

"Yeah, but you eat chicken right?"

"No, chicken isn't a vegetable."

For a while, I tried telling people that I didn't eat anything with a central nervous system, but their brains seized up.

[tinkerspink]

Maybe he thought because they have eyes...

yeeks

[hardcormier]

I think people were all up in arms at one point about some fries that were being fried in beef or something.

[dramaqueen_23]

That I understand, but what on earth does it have to do with being lacto-ovo?

[wraithgirl]

There's misunderstood and then there's just plain dumb.

[hardcormier]

Well cows are a form of egg, aren't they?