Thats fucked up, yo. Like, being vegetarian is super fuckin’ easy.
Not that my family will ever understand what being a vegetarian means. (“So, what, you don’t eat any meat? At all? . . . What . . What if you go to McDonald’s? I mean - heh -what are ya gonna order?!? Haha.” x 30 years)
I don’t know why so many people think fish is vegetarian, but as someone who doesn’t eat any seafood it is one of my biggest pet peeves. It sneaks its way into fucking everything. Caesar salads, kimchi, most Thai food, bahn mis, you name it
I don’t know why so many people think fish is vegetarian
It isn’t. But it’s relatively common to be vegetarian + fish. And historically fish didn’t really count as meat which is why Christians were allowed to eat it during pre-Easter “fasting”.
I’m sorry you’re being served fish and other water animals as “vegetarian”, that’s fucked up.
Caesar salads and kimchi has always been made with a little seafood though. The anchovies is what makes it a Caesar dressing, and lots of kimchi recipes have those tiny shrimps or at the very least some type of shrimp paste in them, and are heavily seasoned with fish sauce.
Fish sauce is a huge staple of Asian cuisines in general, so this stuff you’re complaining about ‘sneaking in’ has always been there. You sound like a crazy person to me, complaining about these foods having seafood in them.
I purposefully have examples of dishes that tend to have it. The problem is that they’re often unlabeled/misrepresented at restaurants, especially when fish-less versions of those foods do commonly exist. I always ask with Asian or Italian cuisines, but waiters don’t always know for certain. The slightest trace of seafood tastes like low tide to me.
I personally am a practicing carnivore, I accept and understand those who aren’t, and yet I have no fucking clue why some think fish is “better” meat. I think it must be some christian holdover, scraping for moral superiority.
I generally avoid Asian restaurants that don’t specifically advertise as vegan or Buddhist because I’ve received authentic food that was definitely riddled with fish sauce or some form of shrimp even though the staff reassured me it was ‘veggie safe’.
I don’t blame them, a lot of the food is preprepared and I’m the 1 in 100 weirdo that is asking for their most popular dish with all the delicious stuff removed.
I once got an order of pad Thai (no fish sauce, no meat, no egg) that was just oily noodles and cilantro. They even left off the peanuts, probably to be on the safe side allergy wise. I have that soap gene so the cilantro was nearly overpowering.
If I hadn’t been on a date I would have just paid the bill and given the leftovers to the crazy woman that sings to pigeons down the street.
I’m not even vegetarian, seafood is one of the only things I don’t eat, but I’ve learned I can’t even trust “vegetarian” options at Asian places. I’m super cautious around Italian food as well. Unfortunately they’re among my partner’s favorite cuisines so we end up at them often
I’m not a fan of seaweed either, which is often the vegetarian option. It tastes like low tide to me.
Yeah plant a garden and wait for it to grow. It’s that fuckin easy./s
I get you have a chip on your shoulder but if it were that easy to get something to eat they wouldn’t be eating their beasts of burden. You know the animal that they probably rely on to till the fucking ground for crops and carry heavy loads.
In the midst of the escalation of prices, the proposal arose to market donkey meat, sold for about 7,500 pesos per kilo. Butcher Gonzalo Moreira, from Buenos Aires, described the effects of the crisis on the sector. “We are facing a major recession. I don’t know a merchant who isn’t going through difficulties. The sector is under a lot of pressure, even without major price variations. Everything is paid by card, pushed forward,” he told Radio 750.
It is industrial production and sale of donkey meat pushed by flesh merchants in cities like Buenos Aires, not poor rural smallholders eating their own donkeys for survival.
Your interpretation of this is ignorant and frankly kind of racist. You think most Argentinians are destitute subsistence farmers plowing their fields with donkeys? Get a grip.
Also I 1000% promise you that vegetables are significantly cheaper to obtain than fucking donkey meat. This is just butchers trying to stay in business. Making lame, ignorant excuses for industrial animal agriculture is gross.
Thats fucked up, yo. Like, being vegetarian is super fuckin’ easy.
Not that my family will ever understand what being a vegetarian means. (“So, what, you don’t eat any meat? At all? . . . What . . What if you go to McDonald’s? I mean - heh -what are ya gonna order?!? Haha.” x 30 years)
any meat? at all? what about fish?
I don’t know why so many people think fish is vegetarian, but as someone who doesn’t eat any seafood it is one of my biggest pet peeves. It sneaks its way into fucking everything. Caesar salads, kimchi, most Thai food, bahn mis, you name it
It isn’t. But it’s relatively common to be vegetarian + fish. And historically fish didn’t really count as meat which is why Christians were allowed to eat it during pre-Easter “fasting”.
I’m sorry you’re being served fish and other water animals as “vegetarian”, that’s fucked up.
no it is not, vegetarian+fish is oxymoron. vegetarian means you don’t eat meat. not eating pork and beef does not make you vegetarian.
“pescatarian”. Not vegetarian.
Can’t say I’ve ever had that problem, but I didn’t t eat those foods you listed even before going vegetarian
Do you know about fish sauce? It’s the only thing that makes most SE Asian food difficult to verify as vegetarian.
Well, I don’t eat any SE Asian food 🤷
Caesar salads and kimchi has always been made with a little seafood though. The anchovies is what makes it a Caesar dressing, and lots of kimchi recipes have those tiny shrimps or at the very least some type of shrimp paste in them, and are heavily seasoned with fish sauce.
Fish sauce is a huge staple of Asian cuisines in general, so this stuff you’re complaining about ‘sneaking in’ has always been there. You sound like a crazy person to me, complaining about these foods having seafood in them.
I purposefully have examples of dishes that tend to have it. The problem is that they’re often unlabeled/misrepresented at restaurants, especially when fish-less versions of those foods do commonly exist. I always ask with Asian or Italian cuisines, but waiters don’t always know for certain. The slightest trace of seafood tastes like low tide to me.
Ah yeah, I get your point now. That is annoying. Restaurants should know exactly what they’re serving people and be up front about it.
I personally am a practicing carnivore, I accept and understand those who aren’t, and yet I have no fucking clue why some think fish is “better” meat. I think it must be some christian holdover, scraping for moral superiority.
Nothing but meat at all? You must have to eat a bunch of organs eh. Gotta keep them vitamins up.
I generally avoid Asian restaurants that don’t specifically advertise as vegan or Buddhist because I’ve received authentic food that was definitely riddled with fish sauce or some form of shrimp even though the staff reassured me it was ‘veggie safe’.
I don’t blame them, a lot of the food is preprepared and I’m the 1 in 100 weirdo that is asking for their most popular dish with all the delicious stuff removed.
I once got an order of pad Thai (no fish sauce, no meat, no egg) that was just oily noodles and cilantro. They even left off the peanuts, probably to be on the safe side allergy wise. I have that soap gene so the cilantro was nearly overpowering.
If I hadn’t been on a date I would have just paid the bill and given the leftovers to the crazy woman that sings to pigeons down the street.
I’m not even vegetarian, seafood is one of the only things I don’t eat, but I’ve learned I can’t even trust “vegetarian” options at Asian places. I’m super cautious around Italian food as well. Unfortunately they’re among my partner’s favorite cuisines so we end up at them often
I’m not a fan of seaweed either, which is often the vegetarian option. It tastes like low tide to me.
*sigh* yes, i get that too. Still. After 30 years.
Yeah plant a garden and wait for it to grow. It’s that fuckin easy./s
I get you have a chip on your shoulder but if it were that easy to get something to eat they wouldn’t be eating their beasts of burden. You know the animal that they probably rely on to till the fucking ground for crops and carry heavy loads.
Wait, you think farmers in Argentina are using donkeys to plow their fields instead of tractors?
Congratulations, you just posted the dumbest comment on the site this week
Here is the actual article.
It is industrial production and sale of donkey meat pushed by flesh merchants in cities like Buenos Aires, not poor rural smallholders eating their own donkeys for survival.
Your interpretation of this is ignorant and frankly kind of racist. You think most Argentinians are destitute subsistence farmers plowing their fields with donkeys? Get a grip.
Also I 1000% promise you that vegetables are significantly cheaper to obtain than fucking donkey meat. This is just butchers trying to stay in business. Making lame, ignorant excuses for industrial animal agriculture is gross.