Yup, I also noticed the distinct friday-nightness of my own humorous quips.
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Am I the only vegan in the forum?
No, I´m a level 5 vegan. I eat nothing that casts a shadow.
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There’s @TaarakVakil which is vegetarian.
And I bet there are others. I’m not but I’ve reduced a lot meat consumption in the last years which isn’t that difficult since our traditional mediterranean diet is pretty well balanced with use of legumes and plant proteins. Furhermore I like many veg recipes and products. I wonder if my grandparents would ever call “veg” what they used to cook every week like past’e fasule* that’s amore 
*pasta and beans
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I’m vegetarian-adjacent.
According to a French textbook I was working with the other day I am a vegetarian. It said something stupid like “daddy’s a vegetarian: he only eats fish.”
I’m not actually vegetarian-anything, at least not on purpose. I just don’t happen to eat meat for long stretches of time, sometimes even years. I generally eat stuff like herring, mackerel, and sardines more regularly, although even those I might not eat for a few weeks at a time. (I think I was accidentally properly vegetarian for about two to three years about 8 years ago.)
PS When I eat meat I mean things like liver that my body might want the nutrients of, not so much the muscle meat that’s so popular with Americans.
The funny thing about that is that when people hear things like “paleo” they think it means eating more meat, but for most of the population in the Benelux and Germany (don’t know about Italy) it’d actually mean eating less meat. You don’t need a pound of meat with every meal. Like wtf is that all about…
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We had this stupid controversy (not sure what happened to it @someone?) where one political party suggested to maybe, just maybe introduce one meat less day a week in school cantinas. This resulted in another party having a fit and they started stylising the eating of meat as intregal part of the german culture and your goddamn patriotic duty to have some dead animal on your plate EVERY DAY, damnit!
It was ridicoulous and even those who complained the loudest about the meat less day admitted when pressed that they don´t really eat meat everyday themselves. But they acted like it would be the end of the world if kids couldn´t have meat at school at one day of the week.
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AFAIK the party has withdrawn her suggestion.
Yes, especially because it was just a suggestion. I think in this case the press (or to be precise: some media) did the main job. Some parties just jumped on the bandwagon.
But in Germany the people are eating a lot of meat - it’s even cheaper than some vegetables. And I know a few people who eat meat in some form every day.
Come to think of it, in all my childhood, when I had lunch with my grandparents after school, Friday was no-meat-day (isn’t that good catholic tradition!?). There were pancakes, potato fritters, semolina porridge or the aforementioned Carthusian dumplings, etc. pp., and it was absolutely normal.
That´s true, but catholics love cheating that with fish, too.
Christians, in general, love tricks with fish.
I’m looking for the guy who feeds the moltitude with a fish…
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What is even this thread?! 
(It’s brilliant)
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We don’t know it either. 
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I thought Friday was fish day but maybe that’s just a Catholics by the sea thing?
No it’s like that everywhere. It is the famous catholic “fish is no meat” loophole.
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It’s hardcore food because you use the breadsticks to pick up each slice of pizza. Right? 
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