By not even getting any of her shrimp - 11/02/2014 21:50 - United States - Draper

Today, I took my girlfriend out to a vegetarian-friendly restaurant. She ordered shrimp fettuccine, and I asked why. She slowly explained to me that vegetarians can eat shrimp, then muttered that she now knows who has the brains in our relationship. FML
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ThatGuyWhoTalks 10

It's ok OP. You obviously have a brain or else you wouldn't have been able to post this.

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mollyjynxjax 28

The word she was looking for was pescatarian (the term for someone who eats fish meat but not any other kind of meat). So she was stupid to be arrogant in the first place, and doubly so for getting the term wrong.

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skyeyez9 24

I guess shrimp are "plants" in your wife's mind. Or ugly creatures are allowed to be eaten vs cute ones.

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tj4234 35

As an actual vegetarian, it really bugs me when people who eat fish call themselves vegetarian. That is not vegetarianism. That's a pescatarian, which is different. Vegetarians do not eat any animals. Most vegetarians are ovo-lacto vegetarians (they eat eggs and drink milk), but that is it. That's the key difference between vegetarianism, veganism and fruitarianism. Vegetarian - no meat. Vegan - no meat or anything made from animal products Fruitarian - same as veganism, but the plant has to survive being harvested so that it can grow back (for example, they might eat only seeds or something). Anything else, is not one of those three.

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tj4234 35

really? Funny that, because me and every other vegetarian in this comment section appears to disagree with her...

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rec_chem 22

It's a vegetarian restaurant, not a vegan restaurant. How is she wrong?

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B1ackthesun 31

Read the FML again. A vegetarian FRIENDLY restaurant is very different to a vegetarian restaurant. And she is totally wrong, try googling pescitarian. Or as #203 pointed out read the other comments.

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Sprezlaus 9

Funny comments... You can't adjust a definition to your own likings. As said many times by others: vegetarians don't eat animals AND a shrimp certainly is an animal. Reminds me a bit of the (weird) idea that oral sex doesn't count as sex.

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Cathrin 26

She could be a pescetarian(no meat except for seafood), and just identifies as vegetarian because that's what everyone understands. IIRC, Kari Byron is the same way. Of course, if she's not aware of the difference, you might want to explain it to her.

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diaspora_fml 26

One of them is a mammal. Even Catholics see this distinction in their concept of "meatless" days. Even Catholics still do not call these days "vegetarian" ones, though.

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Xikira 7

the pescatarian for example will only eat fish and won't touch any other type of animal. Then you have the lacto-ovo-vegetarians the do not eat animals but they do eat eggs and dairy products. Then there is the vegan thru don't eat animals dairy eggs. There are other types but I have no more room

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andrewturtle 16

It looks like your teacher isn't the only idiot.

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revois 9

Pescetarian. Spelled something like that. Not vegetarian.

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