So called vegetarians..

[Hugh Manatee]

Right. I am seemingly one of the evil sods this thread is aimed at. 95% of what I prepare and eat is vegetarian. I made the change about 5 or 6 years ago. It started as a Lent challenge. I'm not particularly religious but I like the challenge and I donate what I save either to the Sally Army or the Lifeboats. By the end of Lent I realised how much healthier I felt and decided to carry on for a bit. I decided to carry on for a bit longer having followed a lorry in a traffic jam full of very obviously frightened cows.
You may be wondering about the 5% or so? I prepare and cook the occasional chicken pie for my son and wife who enjoy it and to whom I don't want to dictate to. I will only buy organic.
The rest is fish. Again, I try to avoid farmed stuff. You only have to see what fish farms are doing to wild fish.

Put bluntly, I'm not sure I would now eat anything I am not prepared to kill myself. I do fish but if I was to eat what I catch, starvation would have happened long ago. A rare success:

I also enjoy Quorn (with the exception of the bacon stuff; horrible) which probably puts me totally beyond the pale. Do you know what?

Don't care.

 

[Tin Pot]

..who eat fish.
WTF is all that about?
Mark Kermode, my nephew and his wife, to name but three.
A trout isn't a farking sprout, FYI.

Fruit of the sea innit.

 

[BurningLegs]

@Hugh Manatee - I am quite similar to you on this.

I have been “pescatarian” since my mid-teens (so about fifteen years) and have the same philosophy around fish.

I personally don’t enjoy the “meat replacement” products that are available on the market, e.g TVP that is designed to look, feel and taste as similar as possible to chicken or beef mince etc. I have chosen not to eat those those things, why would I want to buy something as similar as possible? My personal opinion is that those products are aimed at meat eaters who want to replace meat in their diet with a straightforward substitute. I generally cook with a lot of veggies and pulses but it’s quite a different technique to cooking with meat (but I would say it’s quicker, easier, cheaper, and tastier).

I have also made some vegan choices in my diet where there is a “like for like” swap available. E.g soy or nut milk instead of cow juice and alpro cream instead of dairy cream. This gets more difficult when moving into cheese and eggs and for now I haven’t found any replacements but if there were replacements available I would use them.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I understand where rich is coming from, he's an elderly retired gent with feck all on apart from complaining about stuff but some of you others, why is what someone else does that's not impinging on your existence bother you all so much, get a friggin life.

 

[rich p]

I understand where rich is coming from, he's an elderly retired gent with feck all on apart from complaining about stuff but some of you others, why is what someone else does that's not impinging on your existence bother you all so much, get a friggin life.

If you'd bothered to read the OP, you muppet, you'd have seen that I couldn't care less if anyone was a vegetarian. Calling yourself one while eating fish, occasional bacon sarnies is my point.
And I've got a life, thank you, just less of it ahead than behind me....

 

[Aperitif]

And I've got a life, thank you, just less of it ahead than behind me....

Halfway, Rich! Are you the life half full, or half empty? I'm pretty vacant already.
When I gave up being a non-meat eater, it was in Paris 2012. Slowly but surely, I was becoming harder snails.

 

[MossCommuter]

I knew a vegetarian cannibal

He'd only eat swedes

 

[classic33]

@Hugh Manatee - I am quite similar to you on this.

I have been “pescatarian” since my mid-teens (so about fifteen years) and have the same philosophy around fish.

I personally don’t enjoy the “meat replacement” products that are available on the market, e.g TVP that is designed to look, feel and taste as similar as possible to chicken or beef mince etc. I have chosen not to eat those those things, why would I want to buy something as similar as possible? My personal opinion is that those products are aimed at meat eaters who want to replace meat in their diet with a straightforward substitute. I generally cook with a lot of veggies and pulses but it’s quite a different technique to cooking with meat (but I would say it’s quicker, easier, cheaper, and tastier).

I have also made some vegan choices in my diet where there is a “like for like” swap available. E.g soy or nut milk instead of cow juice and alpro cream instead of dairy cream. This gets more difficult when moving into cheese and eggs and for now I haven’t found any replacements but if there were replacements available I would use them.

https://www.thespruce.com/homemade-almond-cheese-recipe-591548

 

[Dayvo]

..who eat fish.

Whilst I understand your point, Rich, there is a big difference between this

and this

I'm doing what I can to eat healthily and morally (emotionally?) right.

 

[jefmcg]

My wife was offered an ostrich steak as the vegetarian option at a conference dinner recently in Cape Town. The logic was that many vegetarians eat chicken (wrong!!) and ostrich is like chicken (wrong!!).

She told the waiter that even an absent minded professor, like her, could tell the difference between an ostrich and a plant.

How strange. From my brief experience in Cape Town, it would be a hard place to be a vegetarian, but ostrich a vegetable? I had practically the opposite experience.

"Welcome. Here are your menus. The fish of the day day is line caught ling, and the venison of the day is ostrich."