Vegetarian chicken, hmm?

[phoenix_rising]

Okay, so I wasn't sure where to put this, but it's funny. They're not exactly sucky, but they are dumb.

Two football jocks walk past me the other day in our cafeteria. One has just caught up with the other and is laughing. I overhear the conversation.

Jock 1: Over there on the soup bar they had vegetarian chicken soup. How can chicken be vegetarian?

I just stopped, looked at them as they passed and shook my head. I had just been by the soup bar and the soup menu read vegetable chicken soup. Talk about literacy. And these guys are in college...

[marty]

Big jock eat MEAT! No vege! MEAT!

Anything that has vegetables is immediately a vegetarian dish in some peoples' minds, I guess.

[draggar]

Talk about literacy. And these guys are in college...

My wife went to a rather hippie college. One of her years there she and some friends conducted a rather blind survey. The students thought they were being surveyed on food and eating habits, the truth was to show how little "educated" people even knew about being a vegetarian.

Students *and* faculty took the survey, this is a very "green" college today, small and I bet most people here never heard of it.

The results showed: (rounded to the nearest 5%)

80% of the student population considered themselves "vegetarian".

No surprise here.

85% ate meat.

40% ate beef
60% ate chicken
30% ate "wild" game (venison, bear, etc..)
95% ate fish

Don't forget, these people are in college, too.

[Gurndigarn]

Students *and* faculty took the survey, this is a very "green" college today, small and I bet most people here never heard of it.

Damn, that sounds sillier than anything that came out of Antioch... which, depending on your social views around here, is either the greatest university in the history, or... um... let's just say that the best explanation of their financial troubles is: "They left-winged themselves out of existance".

[CanadaGirl]

I love how some people call themselves "vegetarian, except for fish" or "except for white meat"... like... what the hell? How is that vegetarian???

[mattm04]

One of my co-workers claims to be a vegan. Frequently they get frozen pepperoni pizza for lunch. I have yet to break it to her that pepperoni is a PORK product.

[BookstoreEscapee]

One of my co-workers claims to be a vegan. Frequently they get frozen pepperoni pizza for lunch. I have yet to break it to her that pepperoni is a PORK product.

I assume this pizza also has cheese on it? Sorry, not vegan...!

[draggar]

My brother in law claims to be a vegetarian but he eats venison, steak, chicken. He won't eat "processed" meat (salami). Odd that I've caught him dozens of time slicing pieces off a slami that his father bought...

[AnqeiicDemise]

God, that reminds me of the Special Dietary Needs class we had to take before graduation. As we were studying, it astounded us how dumb people are when it comes to term "Vegetarian" and how easily they can be confused.

One of the girls got put right in her place by the Chef.

'I'm vegan," she stated. "and my favorite dish is mashed potatoes."

Chef turns to her and asks "So, what's in this recipe?"

"Butter, milk, sometimes cream.. I much prefer it with sour cream. Oh, and potatoes!"


C: Moo, moo and MOOooooOOOO
G: Huh?
C: Butter comes from milk as does cream. What do they all have in comon? In most places, usually Cow. Sometimes Goat, even Pig. These are all living creatures. You're not vegan, you're vegetarian.
G: No I'm not. I don't eat meat!
C: You still eat animal by products. Vegetarian.
G: Bu--
C: Vegans, wether by choice or needs, don't consume: eggs, butter, milk, gelatin, etcetera. These are not 'meat' products, but come from a living animal....

The look on the girl was priceless.

So there you go. Vegetarians, Vegans, Pescatarians*... hell there's even a different sub section of Veganology -yes, I made the word up-- but I can't remember. I LOVED that class.

*A pescatarian diet consists mostly of fruits and vegetables but when consuming ptotein from animals it general comes from fish, squid, crab or other ocean-based creatures. Mostly fish. (I cant' really see a pescatarian eating Dolphin.)

[mattm04]

C: Moo, moo and MOOooooOOOO
G: Huh?

I would have love to been a fly on the wall when the Chef-Instructor Goes mooo, mooo in class. I would not have been able to stop laughing.

[Horsetuna]

I admit on first reading the post, I thought the jock was asking how the CHICKEN could be a vegetarian...

[Sliceanddice]

Ive seen vegetarian chicken, it was tofu shaped flavored and texturits like chicken.

So there you go. Vegetarians, Vegans, Pescatarians*... hell there's even a different sub section of Veganology -yes, I made the word up-- but I can't remember. I LOVED that class.

*A pescatarian diet consists mostly of fruits and vegetables but when consuming ptotein from animals it general comes from fish, squid, crab or other ocean-based creatures. Mostly fish. (I cant' really see a pescatarian eating Dolphin.)

off topic-
ever read princess diarys? Mia in the book is a "vegetarian": actually better than a lot no milk no eggs only soy and subsitutes but!! she loves fish... i giggle....

[Becks]

Just because you're in college doesn't mean you're smart. You just have book learning.

I don't usually eat meat of any kind. Every once in a while I WILL have a hamburger or some pepperoni pizza or some such.

I will not EVER give up my milk and butter, though.

[rvdammit]

My favourite argument:

You are what you eat.
Cows etc. eat vegetables therefore they are vegetables.
I eat cow etc., and so eat vegetables.
I must be a vegetarian.


A great way to catch out vegetarians, or vegan, is ask if the drink beer. If so ask if they've researched the filtering process. It usually involves something called finings. Otherwise known as fish guts.

[Decker]

My favourite argument:

You are what you eat.
Cows etc. eat vegetables therefore they are vegetables.
I eat cow etc., and so eat vegetables.
I must be a vegetarian.

Therefore, people that eat vegetables are vegetables. That's the logical conclusion right?

As for the original post, I've had vegetarian "Chick'n" before. It tasted horrible and had a texture of rubber and fail.