I know a guy that proudly calls himself “vegetarian” and eats fish and shrimp. Like pescatarian is a thing, homie. Why bother pretending? It wouldn’t bug me so much but last time we at at a thing together he was proudly proclaiming to someone that he was vegetarian as he ordered a salmon dish.
i was JUST asked at a recent gathering (that had only animal products for food) if i “still eat fish” and was met with shock when i said no. do people genuinely think fish aren’t living beings or something?
Fish. “Fish isn’t meat so I thought it was okay.”
I know a guy that proudly calls himself “vegetarian” and eats fish and shrimp. Like pescatarian is a thing, homie. Why bother pretending? It wouldn’t bug me so much but last time we at at a thing together he was proudly proclaiming to someone that he was vegetarian as he ordered a salmon dish.
i was JUST asked at a recent gathering (that had only animal products for food) if i “still eat fish” and was met with shock when i said no. do people genuinely think fish aren’t living beings or something?
I think it has to do with traditional (religious? catholics) categorization of flesh into meat, poultry, and fish. they think “animals” means “meat”
A lot of languages also don’t consider ‘meat’ to include ‘fish meat’, having entirely separate words for the two.
but yeah, I think in the US, its mostly catholicism brainworms