Whats your poissons?

tailwindhome

Where did my picture go??

i'll try this one instead?

AyrshireBacon

WheezyMcChubby wrote:

AyrshireBacon wrote:

WheezyMcChubby wrote:

Also, you can't claim be a vegetarian if you eat anything which ever had a face.

???

That's you that is!

No, my hat is black and his is brown

BUICK

There was a study recently on Salmon that showed that they DO in fact display behaviour consistent with feeling pain and being afraid after being hooked - so the 'fish don't have feelings' argument is even more defunct than it was before! After all, if people didn't feel pain would it be acceptable to kill and eat them?

That being said - Scallops! Tuna steak! Sashimi! Yumyumyum...

symo

Grouper, but only when eating at Maurius in Rio.

STEFANOS4784

Salmon, grilled or fried (not those slivers of 'smoked') typical that they're the ones who feel pain, poor salmons

Jen J

I like the white chocolate fish you used to get in the penny sweet shops (they were actually 3p though )

Does that count?

attica

I have a strict "no exoskeleton" rule to my diet.
I won't eat crab, lobster, shellfish, insects or snails.

I do like a bit of fish though, and pickled baby octopus are loverly.

EDIT I know someone is going to pick me up on my use of the word exoskeleton now - look I just mean generically anything with a hard outer bit and the meat in the middle (although how you can call "oyster snot" meat is beyond me).
Go and stand in pedants corner, go on, off with you or there'll be no supper for you.

linsen

Attica, I think Always Tyred must be busy today....

Hard outer - meat in the middle..... there must be a witty response to that but it escapes me...

ansbaradigeidfran

<Dime bar advert mode>
Armadillos!
Soft on the inside, crunchy on the outside!
Armadillos!
</Dime bar advert mode>

Anyone else remember that?

finchy

If you don't eat animals on ethical grounds, what about waiting for salmon to finish spawning, and then bash one over the head? After all it's going to die anyway, so you could justify that I think. Same goes for a bee that's just stung you - BBQ it

I tried going vegetarian when I was living in Slovakia, and I'd heard one too many pigs being slaughtered at dawn in a pig-killing party (not pleasant). It all came unstuck in the restaurants, because vegetarian food in Central Europe only means that it has less meat in it than most other meals, so I'd order something from the vegetarian menu and it would contain ham. And I say better to have an animal die for a meal than just to be chucked in the bin...

don_don

Hard outer - meat in the middle..... there must be a witty response to that but it escapes me...

Hard outer, meat in the middle = HOMM?

ie. any vehicle driven by an appropriately stupid and/or ignorant person? As in "I was nearly taken out by a HOMM today"

Sewinman

BUICK wrote:

There was a study recently on Salmon that showed that they DO in fact display behaviour consistent with feeling pain and being afraid after being hooked - so the 'fish don't have feelings' argument is even more defunct than it was before! After all, if people didn't feel pain would it be acceptable to kill and eat them?

That being said - Scallops! Tuna steak! Sashimi! Yumyumyum...

There are just as many studies that show the opposite - so hardly defunct. Disputed perhaps.

BUICK

Think you might have missed the point I made? If for some reason YOU couldn't feel pain do you think that morally would mean you could be killed and eaten without there being any wrong doing? Seems a bit of a leap.

BUICK

Incidentally, I am only picking on the argument itself!

DavidBelcher

Jen J wrote:

I like the white chocolate fish you used to get in the penny sweet shops (they were actually 3p though )

Urgh. Couldn't stand 'em. Pink foam shrimps all the way for me!!

David

Sewinman

BUICK wrote:

Think you might have missed the point I made? If for some reason YOU couldn't feel pain do you think that morally would mean you could be killed and eaten without there being any wrong doing? Seems a bit of a leap.

It's a ridiculous and pointless hypothetical question - so i ignored it.

goodson

No such thing as a veggie sausage, Soya milk is not milk and vegetarians aren't real people.

Fish should be battered served with chips and salt & vinegar from paper in the open air.

Or be oak smoked Herring from Whitby

Fresh trout from Kilnsey

Light the blue touch paper and retire.

fuddymox

Jen J wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

None:

Proper Vegetarian (unlike those who say they are yet somehow contrive to eat fish)

The definition of a vegetarian is someone who does not eat fish, flesh nor fowl.

Therefore anyone that eats fish and claims to be vegetarian is just a liar

*EDIT* I don't eat fish but sometimes eat meat, so when people say 'I'm vegetarian but eat fish, I usually just reply 'I'm vegetarian but eat meat'. They still don't get it it though...

I am a vegetarian but I love gravy- I suppose that makes me an oxomoron...

BUICK

Not much of a philosopher then, Sewinman? :roll:

Kieran_Burns

fuddymox wrote:

Jen J wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

None:

Proper Vegetarian (unlike those who say they are yet somehow contrive to eat fish)

The definition of a vegetarian is someone who does not eat fish, flesh nor fowl.

Therefore anyone that eats fish and claims to be vegetarian is just a liar

*EDIT* I don't eat fish but sometimes eat meat, so when people say 'I'm vegetarian but eat fish, I usually just reply 'I'm vegetarian but eat meat'. They still don't get it it though...

I am a vegetarian but I love gravy- I suppose that makes me an oxomoron...

I do a gravy that blows away any of the packet stuff you can get.. and all those ones with greasy fat from the meat as well.

Rich, LOADS of flavour and well worth trying 8)

The Chingford Skinhead

I like most fish but not in batter. Got a real thing for sea bass at the moment though Mmmmmm, feel hungry now

DavidBelcher

goodson wrote:

No such thing as a veggie sausage.

Do Glamorgan sausages count (Caerphilly cheese and onion - see http://thefoody.com/cheese/glamorgansausage.html)? Mind you, they are skinless so may not be regarded as true sausages by aficionados.

David