• @[email protected]
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      161 year ago

      Is it not common in most places to differentiate land animals (meat) from sea animals (fish)? I get your point that there’s no real distinction to make philosophically, but it’s customary and most people understand it?

      • @[email protected]
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        191 year ago

        No? The only times I’ve seen fish treated as somehow not meat is for religious reasons. Generally you’d categorize the meat by the type of animal, such as beef, pork, chicken/poultry, or the broad categories like fish or shellfish.

        Maybe it just depends on if you live someplace that’s very religious or not?

        • @[email protected]
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          71 year ago

          The only times I’ve seen fish treated as somehow not meat is for religious reasons

          I think going to the restaurant located inside my local church was a mistake

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          I’ve definitely seen and heard the phrase “meat or fish” used where I live. I doubt it’s just a Finnish thing

      • BruceTwarzen
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        91 year ago

        I once met a vegetarian when i was only 8 and wasn’t even sure what that was. She explained that she doesn’t eat meat, just fish and chicken. Instead of just asking a real adult, i made shit up in my brain like: fjsh aren’t meat and neither are chickens, because their meat is white or some shit.

      • Overzeetop
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        51 year ago

        My FIL is going through some medical issues and considered going mostly vegetarian to try and reverse the (irreversible) organ damage he was told he had. His plan was just fish, eggs and poultry, with red meat just once or twice a week.

        I’m not often speechless.