Vegetarian chicken, hmm?

[phoenix_rising]

My aunt is vegetarian and she's had us try all kinds of vegetarian 'meats'. I'm very partial to the vege jerky, but I couldn't stomach the vege hotdog or the tuna. The texture got to me...

[BlaqueKatt]

A great way to catch out vegetarians, or vegan, is ask if the drink beer. If so ask if they've researched the filtering process. It usually involves something called finings. Otherwise known as fish guts.

I did not know that

*Checks Wiki* wow! I learned something today-yay!

[edible_hat]

I admit on first reading the post, I thought the jock was asking how the CHICKEN could be a vegetarian...

I've actually seen "vegan eggs" on sale... eggs from hens fed a vegan diet. Has anyone seen Guest House Paradiso? "Where do you get your eggs?" "Hens' vaginas."

A great way to catch out vegetarians, or vegan, is ask if the drink beer. If so ask if they've researched the filtering process. It usually involves something called finings. Otherwise known as fish guts.

You could argue that yeast is an animal. (My vegetarian cousin said "Yeah, but it's not sentient. Anyway I went veg when I couldn't afford meat, and just stuck to the diet.")

The only vegetarian meat I like is nutmeat, and that's because it's more a processed nut product than a food substitute.

[ArcticChicken]

(I cant' really see a pescatarian eating Dolphin.)

I bet they eat Dolphin, though.

[Broomjockey]

You could argue that yeast is an animal. (My vegetarian cousin said "Yeah, but it's not sentient.

*snicker* That's wrong on so many levels. Most of them having to do with my brain being evil.

[edible_hat]

*snicker* That's wrong on so many levels. Most of them having to do with my brain being evil.

yeah, alcohol is basically yeast pee.

[PepperElf]

I remember reading the menu for Teany, the Vegan / Vegetarian tea shop run by Kelly & Moby (Kelly's X) in NYC (www.teany.com)

Most of the items on the menu could be made vegan upon request, with a few excpetions. One that sticks out in my mind is the Granola cos... it's made with honey.

Never thought bout that before but...yeah. Bees make it, and when you get the unfiltered stuff you sometimes get bees in it too.

[Becks]

A great way to catch out vegetarians, or vegan, is ask if the drink beer. If so ask if they've researched the filtering process. It usually involves something called finings. Otherwise known as fish guts.

I should mention that to the future SIL.

[Rubyred]

I am a vegetarian by ethics ( I always say that it's not THAT they're killed it's HOW they're killed) That means no beef, pork, poultry, fish, seafood, milk or cheese (well...I do eat cheese sometimes...but not alot). The only time I will EVER eat meat is if it would be rude to not (ie. I had to eat chicken soup at a religous meal served and cooked by my bf's family once...it would have been really rude not to).

It astounds me how many people will try to call themselves Vegetarian or Vegan and not have a clue what those words mean.

It's also incredibly frustrating to try to explain my point of view on this matter when there are people like this making us all sound like crazy flakes.

(I cant' really see a pescatarian eating Dolphin.)

BTW...Dolphin as in the mammal is actually a protected species and can't be eaten legally...there is also a fish called Mahi-Mahi that is also called "Dolphin".

[Broomjockey]

Never thought bout that before but...yeah. Bees make it, and when you get the unfiltered stuff you sometimes get bees in it too.

I was told honey's not vegan no matter what. It's made by animals, so no go.

[Rapscallion]

Honey's a quandary for some vegans. There are claims that it either does or doesn't contain bee enzymes, which is proof that science is good for making people worry. Propolis products are listed as non-vegan in our catalogue, since bees were involved in its manufacture.

Milk is a dodgy one for some vegetarians, really. To produce milk, a cow has to be made pregnant and give birth every so often. What happens to the calf? Over here, the veal trade supports the milk industry.

I've heard of a butcher in the UK who supplies meat from natural-death animals - hit by lightning etc (assume it comes with its own grill marks in that case...). Some vegetarians find that acceptable.

As a vegetarian chum of mine said to me on many occasions, it's where you draw the line.

Rapscallion

[Rubyred]

Honey isn't vegan.

[Rapscallion]

Depends on your definition of vegan - some think it would be ok if it had no bee enzymes in it.

Of course, I manage to forget the one that really made me blink regarding science and devoted forms of eating. Essenics - it's a religious following that wants to have everything as Jesus ate it. They've phoned us up from time to time asking if we have any of the grain that Jesus would have eaten (well, no - he's eaten it, and haven't you heard of a sell-by date? oh - the sort of grain - no, we haven't, and you can't even provide a name anyway...). We've also had calls asking if the food we sell is heat treated above 40 degrees Celcius, because that level of heat destroys the living enzymes, and their interpretation of religious scriptures is that the food has to be living, and destroying the enzymes is a bad thing in this regard.

You know, I really ought to tell the next lot to buy a farm and grow their own. The reaction would be interesting.

Rapscallion

[Sliceanddice]

i made some a vegan pie... i got as pure as chocolate as he said he ate (its so yummmy) and took a vegetarian recipee and took away honey and found a raw sugar made syrup. people liked it.

[edible_hat]

Some years ago I saw a news story about a nutter-vegan (as in, one of those extremist idiots who go around throwing red paint at people who wear fake fur) who demanded compensation from a hotel she stayed at. What did they do that was so traumatic? Not take out the wool carpet when she booked the room, even though she completely failed to tell them she was a vegan.