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Originally posted by sugar and spice
But I think that if you eat chicken and fish, you need to say "I'm a semi-vegetarian" . . . not "I'm a vegetarian."
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Agreed! I have been a vegetarian for what... 13 years maybe? Long time. Anyways, I am a lacto-ovo vegetarian meaning that I eat dairy & eggs. But no chicken!
I too have had the chicken-vegetarian problems. I can forgive my husband's 80 year old grandmother (who is 100% Italian BTW) -- she did make potatoes & vegetables for me... never mind they were cooked with the chicken... but I don't expect someone of that age to understand that I don't eat meat... or things COOKED in meat!
At convention, the vegetarian meal one night was salmon... and the dressing (without telling us) was bacon peppercorn or something like that (def bacon) -- thankfully I smelled the bacon in it & ordered oil & vinegar instead.
I have to be VERY careful with labels too -- my son is also a vegetarian, so I check for chicken fat (thrown in a lot of veggies - including Del Monte's Southwestern Rice & veggies in the can) and gelatin (in a lot of fruit snacks & dips) in everything.
Being in the south, its hilarious to see the look on people's faces if you are at a restaurant & ask "Do the turnip greens/blackeyed peas/etc. have meat in them?" -- they first say "no" but then if I say "no fat back?" they'll say - "well of course they do!" I guess I should just start specifying that if there is any animal contents mixed with my food, I don't want it
