Re^3: My favorite food for feasting:

[greenFox]

in reply to Re^2: My favorite food for feasting:
in thread My favorite food for feasting:

You are using a faulty definition of vegetarian. What constitutes meat has nothing to do with what constitutes vegetarian. Think vegetarian == non-animals (or animal kingdom) or better still think vegetarian == vegetable (vegetable kingdom). I'm a long term vegetarian (>14 years now) and I hate it when you go into an eating place and ask about vegetarian dishes and they list the fish and chicken dishes because some-one who doesn't eat whatever (usually "red" down here) meat (for whatever valid reason) and calls themselves vegetarian.

For the record I've never had a tofu cheesecake but I'm not against trying some if some-one is offering :-)

[DrHyde]

What about sea cucumbers? :-)

[kudra]

Of course, there's also fungi. As far as I know that's fair game to vegetarians.

[greenFox]

And I always thought they were a strange kind of plant. But since we are talking about vegetarians it would be "good harvest" rather than "fair game" :-)

[jonadab]

Fungi were consider plants (if macroscopic) or protists (otherwise) until the late eighties, so as a rule only young people know that mushrooms aren't vegetables. And anyway, the Darwinian classification scheme is not really relevant for the purposes of determining diet, unless your reason for not eating meat is because it's from the same Kingdom in the scientific nomenclature as yourself, which seems... unlikely to be a very common reason.

[swampyankee]

It's the Linnaean scheme, not Darwinian. See Linnaean_taxonomy.