An eggplant parmigiana: the eggplant was mostly raw and barely heated, there was some greens based sauce that was just kale and oil blended or something, tasted awful, and a pretty simple tomato sauce that could have come out of a bottle.
To this day I don’t understand how I didn’t blow up in vegan rage at being disrespected on such a fundamental “I want edible food” level. It wasn’t cheap either.
Skill issue from the cook, eggplant parmegiana is good shit
Oh I know … it’s why I ordered it and why I should have marched back into the place and scolded the shit out of everyone who let it pass.
Seconding that it’s a skill issue. Eggplants are fucking SOLID when done right.
Grilled eggplant and roasted portobello burgers are amazing.
When they lie and try to sneak in some butter or eggs because it’s “just a little bit” and I can both taste it and then definitely feel it later.
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
Did the person who tell you this happen to be Catholic?
My uncle used to be vegetarian, but ate fish. He is a catholic. What’s up with that?
Catholics are obligated to not eat “meat” on Ash Wednesday and Fridays during Lent. However, when used by Catholics, the term “meat” doesn’t encompass fish. I remember being taught this, and I asked my grandmother, “But isn’t fish a form of meat?” She then showed me a page from an explicitly Catholic glossary that defined “meat” as flesh that comes from land animals specifically, so it didn’t include seafood at all. It’s silly as hell to me that an animal living underwater somehow negates the “meat” property from its flesh when you consume it.
Catholic mental gymnstics never cease to amaze…
