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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It doesn't matter to me what you eat and why.  The reasons why may be interesting and may provide some insight into you as a person (your moral values, your culture, your religion, etc).  But what steams me are people who misidentify themselves as being vegetarian (or vegan or gluten free or what have you) and that leads you into making all sorts of changes to the meal you'll be serving ony to find out that they really aren't truly vegetarian.  And then you find that they do eat fish or can tolerate chicken broth or will eat gluten if it is in a dessert, etc. etc.  So please clarify!  I want my guests to enjoy themselves and have suitable food, but I don't want my troubles to be in vain![/quote]

If I am coming to your house, and you serve me no fish, I will be happier than if I have to eat fish. I will eat the fish if there is nothing else for me to eat.

If you put chicken broth in your stew, I would rather you not. If I know there is chicken broth, I won't eat the stew. If I can pretend it's not in there, and I am hungry, than I might eat the stew.

Honestly, it's not that complicated. If you have a friend who's vegetarian and coming over for dinner, just ask them: does that mean you eat eggs and cheese, does it mean you eat fish.

Sorry that how I eat causes you this much consternation. I've lived a lot of places where I can't speak the language and have to do my best with what I can figure out; been to a lot of people's homes for dinner where the last thing I wanted to do was cause more trouble. I've developed a diet for myself that works for me.

And I call myself a vegetarian, because I do not feel like explaining to every goddamn person I meet how I developed the precise diet I have, and if you feed me all vegetarian food I will be most happy.

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