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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Chicken with cashews, no broccoli. I order that all the time. But why can't you just eat his broccoli?[/quote]

I'm a vegetarian. [/quote]

::checks notes:: yep, broccoli is still considered "safe" for vegetarians.    :roll: [/quote]
Are you really this dim or are you being deliberately obtuse?[/quote]

They're not killing the chicken for her to eat, so it shouldn't matter if her broccoli touched chicken she's buying anyway. [/quote]
You’re really that stupid. Vegetarian means food that has not contacted meat in any form.[/quote]

I mean...I'm a vegetarian and I would just pick out the broccoli and eat it.  Vegetarian means not eating meat.  I understand if not eating anything that has touched or been cooked with meat is OP's rule, but don't act like it's some universal definition of vegetarianism.[/quote]

Many, many vegetarians are not as lax as you. They do not want vegetables and sauces cooked with meat. It’s very common.

PP was rude

- NP[/quote]

Question—why is this?  I understand a lot of vegetarians are strict, but in this circumstance it can’t be that they are responsible for the death of a chicken—they are placing an order for chicken and broccoli for the kid. So they are culpable. Is it that they are repulsed by the idea that the broccoli touched the meat?  Are they concerned they might eat trace amounts of meat (for example, if the meat flavored the sauce)?  Again, as a meat eater I’m just trying to understand why this line is drawn where it is for many people. [/quote]

Being a vegetarian is not always about ethics.

Chicken has a flavor (as does beef and pork), that flavor and taste effect sauces, vegetables and other items when cooked together. If you do not like the flavor your do not want to eat broccoli or rice or whatever else is in a dish.[/quote]

This reminds me of a time when my mother-in-law prepared some stir-fried tofu in bacon fat for my wife’s vegetarian cousin. MIL didn’t really understand the problem—when we explained it to her my MIL said that the cousin could just pick out any pieces of bacon. Needless to say, my wife’s cousin didn’t eat the tofu (but got a good laugh out of it); I thought it was the best-tasting tofu I’d ever had. [/quote]

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