National Vegetarian Week

[Loop]

so where do you stand on the leather shoes?

snigger - funny

[MrsC]

Professor Peabody, well done on your hard work (cooking wonderful dishes for your colleagues!)

[Two_Sheds]

When saw it was National Vegetarian Week, I though odd having at the time of year when there is not much grown to size to eat.

A good point.

I am eating dried beans, lettuce, more lettuce, onions (spring and stored), chard, coriander. That's about it.

[Iamhanuman]

well i certainly support more Vegetarian weeks throughout the year to take advantage of the different seasons!!!

[Iamhanuman]

oooh 555 posts for me!

darn now it's 556!

[jacob marley]

Now that the heat has died down on this thread can some body answer this Numtie a question please .
Can any body tell me the difference between a veggie and a vegan because i do not know .
This is not a wind up i do not know....jacob

[Loop]

JACOB MARLEY
Vegans don't eat dairy products and eggs
Vegetarians do but they dont eat meat and fish!

[di]

JACOB MARLEY
Vegans don't eat dairy products and eggs
Vegetarians do but they dont eat meat and fish!

...nor honey!
A Vegan doesn't eat or wear anything derived from animal origin.....depending on how "strict" could include not wearing silk.

[jacob marley]

thank you very much i always wondered and now i know thank you....jacob

[Hilary B]

Now I wouldn't have known about honey. Since it is a surplus reserve 'stolen' from the bees, I am not sure quite WHY a vegan wouldn't use it. Very strict vegans won't even eat food that has been inside a kitchen used for preparing non-vegan food (includes a few I've met) which must make all sorts of things complicated for them.....

[Alison]

And then you get those annoying pretend vegetarians who don't eat meat except perhaps a bit of chicken and then fish is fine................ Upset a bloke at work who claims to be vegetarian but eats fish and white meat by pointing out that he wasn't really vegetarian, more just a bit faddy. He insists that he is vegetarian as "fish doesn't count". It really doesn't help.

[FionaH]

Never quite understood "vegetarians" eating fish and chicken. That just means you dont eat red meat doesnt it?

[zazen999]

Never quite understood "vegetarians" eating fish and chicken. That just means you dont eat red meat doesnt it?

Yup...I don't understand it either. I LOVE Alison's comment about them being 'just faddy'...and I shall tuck it away for useage at a meeting one day.

Thanks Alison

[NOG]

Well meat is murder.

But Fish is justifiable homocide.

[Alison]

Well meat is murder.

But Fish is justifiable homocide.

LOL - how does chicken fit into that then?