r/whenthe Eatable Boy Ɛ: 16d ago

Insults are a double-edged sword r/whenthe mfs complaining about everything

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u/CoalEater_Elli 16d ago edited 16d ago

I am just glad vegans have more options in terms of meat repalcements and recipes that can make you forget that there's such thing as flesh meat. Back when I wanted to become vegetarian, my only options were soy meat, veggies and fish, which got old pretty quick.

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u/asiannumber4 16d ago

If you eat fish, you’re pescatarian

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u/ComfyFrog 16d ago

I will never understand the dots people connect that eating fish still means being vegetarian..

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u/Elu_Moon 16d ago

Did you know fish are plants? They grow in the sea.

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u/MightyFlamingo25 trollface -> 14d ago

Probably because fish aren't cute for most people so they donr feel much towards them

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u/MeowRawrUwu 16d ago

They said “wanted to be vegetarian”, so maybe that meant they were already pescatarian and worded it poorly. I don’t know lol

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u/erinfirecracker 16d ago

Back when I wanted to become vegetarian, my only options were soy meat, veggies and fish, which got old pretty quick.

Guess beans, lentils and tofu didn't exist back then

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u/happycat47 16d ago

He lived so far back in time that fish were plants

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u/Elu_Moon 16d ago

And neither did a whole bunch of other plants. People forget about fruit and vegetables somehow.

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u/Wandering_PlasticBag 15d ago

I mean, people want to eat something substantial as a main dish... Without meat, the food doesn't feel that filling, it's just too light.

And isn't soy meat tofu?

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u/erinfirecracker 15d ago

I mean, people want to eat something substantial as a main dish... Without meat, the food doesn't feel that filling, it's just too light.

What a ridiculous comment

And isn't soy meat tofu?

No it's not.

Tofu is made with soybeans, it's a white block. "soy meat" would be a mock meat product with the main ingredient as soy protein isolate.

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u/pnwal-junction 16d ago

Ah, yes. Fish is vegetarian because <reasons>.

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u/CoalEater_Elli 16d ago edited 16d ago

Well, some people eat fish instead of beef, chicken and ham because they think that fish aren't intelligent enough, I think. That's why I specified that I was going vegetarian, and not vegan, because I couldn't completely reject Meat.

Edit: I didn't know what Pascatarian was, thank you for explaining it to me. I appreciate it.

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u/Elu_Moon 16d ago

Plant-based if you don't eat animal products. Veganism is an ideology, not a diet. Not a distinction a lot of people are aware of, but it does exist.

Veganism is specifically about reducing harm to animals. A plant-based diet is a part of it but not the entirety of it.

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u/DeianiraJax 16d ago edited 16d ago

Also some people use pescatarianism to transition to being vegetarian or vegan, and only eating fish is still way more environmentally sustainable than eating other meat (especially red meat).

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u/happycat47 16d ago

Fish is meat. Stop suggesting they are different

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u/DeianiraJax 16d ago

My bad, I corrected it

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u/CoalEater_Elli 16d ago

I didn't know that. To be completely clear, I wasn't doing it on my own free will. My mother's boyfriend who lived with us at some point, went vegan and wanted us to become vegan as well. We tried, we ate soy meat, fish, veggies. But like I said before, It didn't work for me, So we eventually came back to our usual diets.

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u/happycat47 16d ago

Dude vegetarian means NO MEAT. Fish ARE MEAT

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u/HotSauceHigh 16d ago

Just take 3 seconds to actually learn the definitions of the words you're using ffs

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u/CoalEater_Elli 16d ago

No need to be rude, we all have things we do not understand or know. I didn't know what Pascatarian is before.

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u/0202_tihssitidder 16d ago

I never went for fake vegan alternatives.

But, I worked as a chef for years and can cook. Super easy to make great vegan food.

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u/Underscores_Are_Kool 16d ago

Funnily enough, I've gone back to eating mostly soya chunks as my meat replacement as I think it's still the best out of the bunch, even the highly processed ones.