On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Perry E. Metzger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Perry E. Metzger [27/09/08 21:49 -0400]: >>>(Though I suppose I'm a not-quite-vegan in that I'll happily eat >>>honey -- perhaps that makes me akin to the "vegetarians" who eat fish.) >> >> Hah. There are people out here who think onions and garlic are "non >> vegetarian" (or at least "vegetarian food that good brahmins dont eat" >> >> Ditto with several strong smelling spices like cinnamon .. >> >> Plenty of the older people in my family, for example. > > I understand the existence of augmented definitions, but, technically > speaking, onions and garlic very rarely move under their own power. :)
quote from a fish-eating "veggie" : "it does not move when i eat it, hence its veggie." That's a gem for sure. On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Rishab Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > that's all about keeping the right level of spirituality. in theory, kashmiri > brahmins don't eat onions and garlic, though they do eat mutton and well, i have never understood why every non-veg that i know, only cooks prasad** in a vessel which has never been used to cook chicken/meat/fish/et al... if they strongly believe that fish/chicken/etc is veggie. ** a religious offering of cooked food .
