when vegetarians eat chicken?

[AMAZINWOMAN]

I know so many people that say they are vegetarians but eat chicken on a regular basis! They can't be true vegetarians then if they eat it!

One friend ate chicken in a restaurant-but had vegeterian gravy!

i was vegetarian for over 20 years (now eat fish)...but cant honestly count the times folk asked if i eat chicken..
i have never understood this..

chicken is meat
they are fools to themselves..

...and making mockery of vegetarianism

HUMM I was serving in a hotel and asked by a vegiterian what meals on the menu were vegatarian?

I pointed out a selection of 7-8 meals - none were suitable for one reason or another so she then said I will have the lasagna. I explained it contained meat - well it doesn't matter I will just have to eat it, was her reply ?????

I went to school with a girl who insisted she was a vegetarian, but could have sausage rolls as the sausage was covered in pastry

Oooh omniverous fakers make me so cross. They give restaurants an excuse to pretend salmon or chicken is a vegetarian option. If they are just faddy eaters, why can't they so so, instead of pretending they are something they aren't?

Its so wierd. I have a great aunt who is like this. She said recently to us that she is vegetarian but will eat chicken, my dh who is a hard core vegetarian was having hysterics in the background at the time as it was during a family buffet. Just plain odd. Either people should just say they prefer the vege option but will eat meat and get on with their lives or be proper vegetarians.

"Vegetarians who eat chicken..." Got to laugh.

Yes, and fish too.

I knew a few of these at university. Just doing it for the pose value. You hope people will have grown out of this by the time they get into the real world.

Yes it's odd isn't it? like HairyIrene I was a vegetarian for over 20 years and now eat fish, but before that people would often offer me fish, as if that were a vegetarian option.

why use the term vegetarian if you're not? Why not just say, 'I don't eat red meat' whatever?

Kind of like being a Vegan who eats cheese occasionally.

not only do they risk pissing off the real vegitarians, they also risk pissing off the omnivores, by demanding that their food prefernces are catered for.

I'm an omnivore. But I will happily cater to people who have particular dietary needs due to real illnesses/allergies or ethical issues. So I'm happy to cook for real vegis.

This is just dressing a food prefernce up in ethical clothing. and as such sets my omnivorous teeth on edge

This really annoys me too. I totally respect genuine vegetarians who, for whatever reason, choose not to eat animal flesh, but those who profess themselves to be vegetarian, whilst in the same breath declaring that they do make certain exceptions - such as chicken, fish, prawns or burgers !!! (I was actually told that one once) - are both hypocritical and idiotic.

Why can't people truthfully say "I don't eat most meat but I do eat xyz" ?? ......

.... I think this galls me because IME the people who say such stupid things often do so in a certain tone which seems to imply "ooh, aren't I wonderful/considerate/animal loving/green/environmentally aware or whatever because I'm a vegetarian don't you know" - then they go and ruin the smug effect they'd hoped for by adding the " ... but I do eat frogs" bit, as if "frogs" (or alternative living, breathing thing) don't count.

Vegetarians don't eat meat. Chicken is meat. Anyone who eats chicken is not a vegatarian.

Just on Friday, several of my Year 7s told me that they were 'pollo vegetarians' - ie eat chicken in addition to a vegetarian diet.

lmao at 'pollovegetarians'

Battery farmed chicken are treated dreadfully.

I call dh a pescatarian (which is shorthand for piss-taking vegetarian ) as he eats fish and seafood but no other animal flesh.

To be fair, he became a pescatarian at age 5 when he realised what meat is and where is comes from - but his morals only extend to animals with fur or feathers, so our fishy friends lose out, I'm afraid. He has stuck to this for over 40 years so it is obviously something he feels fairly strongly about, but it does make catering in our household a bl**dy nightmare at times.

YANBU vegetarians don't eat chicken

They're not vegetarians, they're deluded! Either that or they're very ill-formed if they think that chicken is a vegetable.

also known as peskytarians by my dp Freckle if fish-eating types refer to themselves as vegetarian! Not saying your dh does though.

These chicken eating 'vegetarians' would make me laugh but it's just not helpful for real vegetarians out there.

Why would anyone aspire to being vegetarian?

Dh doesn't refer to himself as a veggie, but has in the past used the term with the fish eating addition because people don't understand pescaterian. I have to say that, if he gave up eating fish, etc., I'd probably give up catering for him. He teased me once that he was going to become vegan. I said fine, but from now on you're feeding yourself. With 3 boys who can be picky, the last thing I want is a dh with wildly different eating habits.

yanbu! Grrr....

Is it any wonder though, that vegetarians are offered fish as an option if the veggies they have encountered all ate fish? I remember inviting a veggie over for tea and cooking tuna for her, she was very rude about it which I thought was unfair, all the other veggies I'd come across said eating fish was fine as they weren't confined animals who died a slow and painful death. So how was I to know that a true veggie didn't eat fish?

I think if you have a food issue you should explain this clearly and be patient with those who get it wrong.

Having stayed with true vegans (they refused to even have meat/milk products in their house but we were 'allowed' to consume said items in cafes etc, there is no reason why being a vegan equates to a restricted diet IMHO. Eating meat simply closes many people's eyes to the amount of alternative foods out there that offer the same proteins/minerals etc as meat does. I'd never eaten so many root vegetables in one weekend before or consumed so much soya milk/butter .

Unfortunately most of this was lost on me at the time as I am a unreformed meat-eater myself - as soon as I got home, I made myself a bacon butty . I do admire people who stick to their principles though. 'chicken-eating vegetarians' are taking the p*ss.

I have a friend who classes herself as veggie, but who eats meat from animals which she considers to have a small brain - so chicken, turkey, fish.

I know another woman who classes herself as veggie but who will eat meat products if they don't look like meat - gelatine in puddings and sweets, for instance.

I've been vegetarian for donkey's years and really can't get wound up about what they eat or what they call themselves, to be honest. If they want to delude themselves then why is it any skin off my nose? They're not hurting me, and the only people they are making look foolish are themselves.

I don't think that people like this really give restaurants an excuse to serve fish as a vegetarian option; we're not in the dark ages where vegetarianism was something unusual, and restaurants have to deal with veggies daily. If restaurants don't provide adequate choices then the blame lies wholly with the restaurant, not with the choices of faddy eaters.

My experience is that it's easier than ever to find good vegetarian food choices these days, and I can honestly say that in almost 20 years I have never been offered chicken as a vegetarian option, and only rarely am I asked if I eat fish.

Rhubarb, sounds like your mate was a bit harsh! I don't blame the people who offer fish/sausages etc as a veggie option, it's those darned peskytarians confusiong people!

I eat all kinds of meat except battery-farmed chicken or turkey, simply because the conditions they are raised in are unbelievably cruel.

This makes it extremely annoying having dinner with a couple of DH's friends' wives who are "vegetarians who eat white meat". They act like I am the faddy one! In their houses they invariable serve a meal with battery farmed chicken or turkey. When we have them at ours we have to fork out for organic or free range fowl as the men believe that a meal is not complete without meat .

I do also know a genuine vegetarian who has been known to make an exception for e.g. wild venison. He does this because he can't think of any argument as to why the meat from necessary culls should not be eaten.