Psychotomy

Pescatarian? Pescetarian?

Kiir points out occasionally when I saw that I’m vegetarian that I’m technically Pescetarian. Because I eat pesky people.

Of course, using a term like “Pescetarian” in public is just going to get you confusing looks. And since “vegetarian” has been so abused that it means everything from “I only eat vegetables” to “I eat everything except I don’t like corned beef”, it’s just as easy to say that I’m vegetarian. I try not to say that as I’m ordering fish, though, b/c I have enough problems and I don’t want to be part of the problem for the next guy who is really vegetarian and ends up with fish because “vegetarians eat fish.”

I usually just ask if there’s ANY meat in that? “Is there any kind of meat other than the crab in the crab dip?” “The Salmon and Asparagus just has salmon and asparagus?” Fairly straightforward. You’d think.

“The cedar plank salmon, that’s just the fish right?” “Yes sir.” … Comes out, and the salmon has bacon all over it … wtf? “The baked potatoes, are they vegetarian?” “Of course” “Then why are there bacon bits in them???”

Although I did love (same place actually as those two ; I only ate there the once with my in-laws … wonder why it’s not on MY list to go back to) asking about the french fries. What are the fries cooked in? “Oil?” Really, Sherlock? Damn. I was figuring maybe they were cooked in butterfly blood. What KIND of oil? And I could tell that his first reaction was that he WANTED to say “Hot?” But my mother-in-law jumped in and explained that I was vegetarian and wanted to know if the oil was vegetable oil. No, it’s peanut oil. Whatever, excellent. “But they sometimes toss the bacon drippings and some bacon into the oil” Even more excellent. PASS!

Come ON people! Vegetables give places this much trouble, no way in heck am I even TRYING something as complex as “pescetarian”!!!

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