Have you ever eaten meat on accident?

"gin jai" (pronounced something like gin jay if you are australian)should cover that situation! translates as something like "eat like buddah" and will normally mean no milk or eggs so if you start adding them you are in for a bit of confusion but if you eat with the same people a lot there it should help somewhat! There is something like "mung salewhat" but I can't remember it exactly so come find my brain in an hour when I am going "oh yeah, thats the one!" and I might be more useful!!
In Japan I got it wrong one time and slightly mispronounced a word for a type of seagrass sushi and ended up with the fish in it that sounds almost the same to my untuned ears, unfortunately I didn't realise and was eating it in the dark by the light of the tele...after the first wee bit I realise and spat most of it out (very strange flavour rather than texture gave it away) but boy oh boy, I always thought it was a myth of the hard core vege fraternity but did I have the runs the next day or what!! Has made me extra careful since then, don't know if it was the fact that it was raw or the fact that it was fish but whichever!

 

happened to me. it was lame. i got over it. it was only a couple months after going veg so it didn't bother me so much. The other day i was eating this weird Korean dumpling that said vegetarian on it, but i suspected their to be something kind of meaty in it....when i read the ingredients for a 9th time i still found no meat listen in it, so i figured it was the beans. Still grossed me out a lot more than beans should.

 

A buddy of mine bit into taco in Mexico and found a dog tooth ; I suppose that this qualifies as consuming a form of meat unintentionally. Now suppose a cow or pig is your pal, not much difference .


I've been largely vegetarian for about 35 years (generally fish every few months to once a year or so and other forms of meat once every few years / combine any critter with large amounts of raw garlic and only fat and juice from forms other than fish) and I have had a number instances where the cook makes an error and will put meat in my order; I almost invariably detect it before putting my lips to it. Meat is "powerful" and dangerous stuff in my opinion.




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seriously...I do hope that when you eat meat or fish on those odd occasions you don't call yourself vegetarian?

 

Stephanie,

You write,

Would you chastise an enlightened Eskimo who has gone southwards for the winter ? The Inuit have a prayer, spawned of heathly fear and acknowledgement of the truth, that goes something like this; "Thank you God for this food, I realize that I too will be consumed just as this food." I appreciate your observation, technically one might classify me as a 'Flexitarian'; I am 'Vegan,' for short periods (weeks to months), I am Ovo-lacto for long periods (weeks to years), and then I will eat what I classify as "meat" on rare occasion which I classify as "any living creature other than microbes and plants (here I include nuts/seeds and fruit)."


Peace,

David

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Drumminmama,

I apologize. Been dealing with something unusual in my world. I cannot tell you what I have been through, if I were able to tell you I think you would be stunned. Just knowing that there are people out there who are thinking, compassonate and peace-loving makes a big difference to me. My own foolishness turned to good through acknowledgement of the truth, I guess I needed that.

Thanks,

David.



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sorry drumminmumma and natural...I really was just wondering and didn't mean it to sound aggressive or to try and pick a fight! I totally understand that if you ordered something that you expected to be veg and it wasn't you wouldn't be happy whether you ate meat or not.

thanks for your moderate responses and not jumping on me.

 

That's nasty.
My question is how the hell did a DOG tooth get into a taco.

 

Well I've eaten animal byproducts plenty of times. I remember one time in food technology, we were testing cakes. I couldn't be bothered to read the ingredients on all the boxes so I just ate one of each then I went back to my seat. As I was sitting there, I overheard two girls (both of them also vegetarian) on the next table talking about how they'd read all the ingredients on all of them and one of them contained gelatine! Another time I was eating a double chocolate chip cookie and halfway through eating it, I started reading the ingredients and what do I see listed there? Fish fat! I didn't want to waste any of it so I ate the rest of it anyways. However, I think the worst for me was when I accedently ate chicken. I was in a restraunt and I asked if they had anything vegetarian and the waiter told me they had a roast veg salad. Not very exciting, but what the heck. It was only when I was halfway through that I noticed the lumps of chicken that were in there

 

i';ve been veg probly round 20 years now..& once ordered a veg stromboli, 4 bites in i realize its stuffed completely with peperoni & sausage..& i was too viliontely ill to even bother going back & complaining..& another time had someone drop by the store for me to pick yup some veg chick thingies, but they got the wrong thing..& i ate actual chicken..i felt totaly toxic for a weeek
just goes to show ya no matter how dedicated & careful you are..theres still alwayds that chance ..i think the veg stromboli might have even been a deliberate attempt to piosion me..some bored idiot stuck in a boring jobs idea of fun i guess

 

Yea, its happened a few times... not many, and I don't freak out from it... well, ok, except this one time... here is the story:

I was having a bowl of cereal, stupid me, it was after smoking a bowl... so I'm hungry, and not looking at what is happening.

Shortly after my second or third bite, I notice there are a ton of "little beetles" in the cereal... It really grossed me out to the point where I'm over the toilet.. thinking I'm gonna be sick... So, to add to an already awkward situation, my wife opens the door as I'm over the toilet and says "so, does this mean your not a vegetarian anymore?"

after doing some reasech, I found they were common... they were called "wheat beetles", and are quite common...

 

Well, I dunno if they are or aren’t veg... but a few ppl that tried to make me feel better afterwards said.. "don't worry.. they are veg... see, there’s no meat in them.. just skin, carcass, eyeballs, and juices"....



Well, there goes my appetite again...



Peace

Soc

 

all through my public school time id have dudes hide meat in my food.at least once a week id have a confrontation because of it

 

Yuck... I even liked pork and I can empathize with that one.

I have a Get Fuzzy cartoon where the cat cooked something, and Rob asked if any animals were hurt making it, and he replied "Well, I hit Satchel with the pan a few times." It actually made reference to the strip you're talking about. I never read that one.

 

Eww, I did eat meat a couple years ago accidentally, don't really remember what... and I don't know why I continue to order ceasar salads. Although every time I do (it's often the only "vegetarian" thing on the menu) I make sure to find out if there's anchovie paste in the dressing, and even then, there often is, and it's so disgusting! Eating animals! I mean, honestly. What a thing to do.

 

Got a salad once at a restaurant, that had a random piece of chicken in it. Once I bit down on it, I knew what it was and it flew back on to my plate.

And I had a Werthers last night, which contains whey, butterfat and likely some other dairy by-product, so definately not vegan, and I remembered that after I ate it. I felt kind of dumb after accepting it and eating it.

I now almost exclusively dine at vegetarian restaurants.
I'm usually a ridiculously picky and paranoid eater.
To be on the safe side, I almost always bring food to people's houses.

 

Yeah and then i felt so sick i throw.