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Re: Afternoon tea

Ada Ma · 2005-01-19T17:07:46+00:00

Beth, Congrats to your success but may I ask what is "piscedarian"? I have googled it and found nothing! NOTHING!!!! Please tell and many thanks in advance. Ada I belong to a group we call the Romance Exchange. We get together every couple of months to swap books (we started with Regency romances, but now it's all sorts of books) and eat afternoon tea. This time it was my turn to host. This is made challenging by the fact that of the six members, there's me who's doing low-carb, one member started as a vegan but discovered she can eat fish and sheep cheese or goat cheese, one is a piscedarian, one can't eat walnuts or pecans and is lactose intolerant, and two (thankfully) who don't have any dietary issues. The menu was as follows. SAVORIES: Smoked salmon and Asian cucumber salad rolls Crab-stuffed mushrooms Filo shells with artichoke-mushroom-garlic-goat cheese filling (I invented this to use up the mushroom stems from the stuffed mushrooms Scones (served with butter and Devon cream and various jams) Bread, vegetables, and spreads for sandwiches SWEETS: Hazelnut torte (with Splenda) Ginger crème brulee (with Splenda) Meringue cookies with chocolate chips Chocolate chip twists (vegan, store-bought) Ginger cookies (vegan, store-bought) I didn't eat any of the bread, and my one splurge was a scone with jam and Devon cream. The salmon rolls, hazelnut torte, and ginger creme brulee were from recipes posted to this group (thanks!), and turned out quite well. The afternoon was a great success, and my weight stayed constant for the next two mornings, so I didn't even put on any additional water weight. In fact, I lost two pounds last week, leaving me only four pounds from my preliminary goal. 208/134/130 Started 3/1/04

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Ada Ma
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19 January 2005, 17:07 UTC #1

Beth,
Congrats to your success but may I ask what is "piscedarian"? I have googled it
and found nothing! NOTHING!!!!
Please tell and many thanks in advance.
Ada
Beth Friedman said:
I belong to a group we call the Romance Exchange. We get together
every couple of months to swap books (we started with Regency
romances, but now it's all sorts of books) and eat afternoon tea.
This time it was my turn to host. This is made challenging by the
fact that of the six members, there's me who's doing low-carb, one
member started as a vegan but discovered she can eat fish and sheep
cheese or goat cheese, one is a piscedarian, one can't eat walnuts or
pecans and is lactose intolerant, and two (thankfully) who don't have
any dietary issues.
The menu was as follows.
SAVORIES:
Smoked salmon and Asian cucumber salad rolls
Crab-stuffed mushrooms
Filo shells with artichoke-mushroom-garlic-goat cheese filling (I
invented this to use up the mushroom stems from the stuffed mushrooms
Scones (served with butter and Devon cream and various jams)
Bread, vegetables, and spreads for sandwiches
SWEETS:
Hazelnut torte (with Splenda)
Ginger crème brulee (with Splenda)
Meringue cookies with chocolate chips
Chocolate chip twists (vegan, store-bought)
Ginger cookies (vegan, store-bought)
I didn't eat any of the bread, and my one splurge was a scone with jam
and Devon cream. The salmon rolls, hazelnut torte, and ginger creme
brulee were from recipes posted to this group (thanks!), and turned
out quite well.
The afternoon was a great success, and my weight stayed constant for
the next two mornings, so I didn't even put on any additional water
weight. In fact, I lost two pounds last week, leaving me only four
pounds from my preliminary goal.
208/134/130
Started 3/1/04

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Carmen
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19 January 2005, 17:27 UTC #2

Hi,
On 19-Jan-2005, Ada Ma <[email hidden]>
Quoted message said:
Beth,
Congrats to your success but may I ask what is "piscedarian"? I
have googled it
and found nothing! NOTHING!!!!
I'm not Beth, but a pescetarian is someone who doesn't eat meat or
chicken but will eat fish.
Take care,
Carmen
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Bob M
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19 January 2005, 17:39 UTC #3

Carmen said:
Hi,
On 19-Jan-2005, Ada Ma <[email hidden]>
Quoted message said:
Beth,
Congrats to your success but may I ask what is "piscedarian"? I
have googled it
and found nothing! NOTHING!!!!
I'm not Beth, but a pescetarian is someone who doesn't eat meat or
chicken but will eat fish.
Take care,
Carmen
Fish isn't meat? I've never understood why it's ok to eat fish but not to
eat chicken or cattle or pork.
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Ada Ma
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19 January 2005, 17:46 UTC #4

Carmen said:
Hi,
On 19-Jan-2005, Ada Ma <[email hidden]>
Quoted message said:
Beth,
Congrats to your success but may I ask what is "piscedarian"? I
have googled it
and found nothing! NOTHING!!!!
I'm not Beth, but a pescetarian is someone who doesn't eat meat or
chicken but will eat fish.
Take care,
Carmen
Carmen,
Thanks for explaining. I have never heard the term before.
Cheers,
Ada

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Carmen
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19 January 2005, 18:13 UTC #5

Good morning,
Bob M said:
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
Congrats to your success but may I ask what is "piscedarian"? I
have googled it
and found nothing! NOTHING!!!!
I'm not Beth, but a pescetarian is someone who doesn't eat meat or
chicken but will eat fish.
Fish isn't meat? I've never understood why it's ok to eat fish but
not to eat chicken or cattle or pork.
Shhhh, you'll stir up the whole "I'm more veggie than you" debate.
<G>
Vegetarians have themselves subcategorized in such a way that the pool
of people who can call themselves vegetarians ends up being just about
everybody if you add enough prefixes. Vegans don't eat anything that
ever had a heartbeat or came from an animal (eggs, milk) and the
purists don't even eat anything that came as the result of animal or
insect labor - like honey.
Everybody else is more lenient and the degree of leniency varies
proportionately to the number of prefixes you see in front of the
"vegetarian" part of the label:ovo-, lacto-, pesce-, pollo-, etc.
Me? I'm a ovo-lacto-pesce-pollo-carni-vegetarian. <G>
Star-bellied sneetches...
Take care,
Carmen
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Carmen
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19 January 2005, 18:15 UTC #6

Good morning,
On 19-Jan-2005, Ada Ma <[email hidden]>
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
Congrats to your success but may I ask what is "piscedarian"? I
have googled it and found nothing! NOTHING!!!!
I'm not Beth, but a pescetarian is someone who doesn't eat meat or
chicken but will eat fish.
Quoted message said:
Thanks for explaining. I have never heard the term before.
No problem. Glad to help. :-)
Take care,
Carmen
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Bob M
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19 January 2005, 19:48 UTC #7

Carmen said:

Good morning,
Bob M said:
Quoted message said:
> Congrats to your success but may I ask what is "piscedarian"? I
> have googled it
> and found nothing! NOTHING!!!!
I'm not Beth, but a pescetarian is someone who doesn't eat meat or
chicken but will eat fish.
Fish isn't meat? I've never understood why it's ok to eat fish but
not to eat chicken or cattle or pork.
Shhhh, you'll stir up the whole "I'm more veggie than you" debate.
<G>
Vegetarians have themselves subcategorized in such a way that the pool
of people who can call themselves vegetarians ends up being just about
everybody if you add enough prefixes. Vegans don't eat anything that
ever had a heartbeat or came from an animal (eggs, milk) and the
purists don't even eat anything that came as the result of animal or
insect labor - like honey.
Everybody else is more lenient and the degree of leniency varies
proportionately to the number of prefixes you see in front of the
"vegetarian" part of the label:ovo-, lacto-, pesce-, pollo-, etc.
Me? I'm a ovo-lacto-pesce-pollo-carni-vegetarian. <G>
Star-bellied sneetches...
Take care,
Carmen
This is true -- anyone can be a vegetarian, with the right prefixes! My
best friend's wife was a "vegetarian" who ate seafood. I think she bought
into vegetarianism because of its "healthy" overtones and avoidance of
"evil" saturated fat. Now, while I think this is something that's not been
proven, at least she had some rational reason for her diet. It's when she
also said that she didn't like to have the pain of animal death where I
became confused: it's ok to eat fish, which are obviously killed, yet not
to eat beef? It's ok to eat lobster (boiled alive), yet not eat something
that's throat has been slit? To me, there's not much difference. I also
don't like that I'm killing animals, but I don't see a choice -- low fat
puts my blood sugar through the roof, and soy products just don't seem
right.
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Nicky
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19 January 2005, 20:54 UTC #8

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Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
I'm not Beth, but a pescetarian is someone who doesn't eat meat or
chicken but will eat fish.
Aha! The third new thing I've learnt today - thankyou!
Quoted message said:
Me? I'm a ovo-lacto-pesce-pollo-carni-vegetarian. <G>
Sounds good to me : )
Nicky.
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JC Der Koenig
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20 January 2005, 02:49 UTC #9

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Carmen said:
Hi,
On 19-Jan-2005, Ada Ma <[email hidden]>
Quoted message said:
Beth,
Congrats to your success but may I ask what is "piscedarian"? I
have googled it
and found nothing! NOTHING!!!!
I'm not Beth, but a pescetarian is someone who doesn't eat meat or
chicken but will eat fish.
Take care,
Carmen
Fish isn't meat? I've never understood why it's ok to eat fish but not to
eat chicken or cattle or pork.
Because the Pope said so.

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marengo
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20 January 2005, 05:40 UTC #10

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|| On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:27:21 GMT, Carmen <[email hidden]>
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||| Hi,
||| On 19-Jan-2005, Ada Ma <[email hidden]>
||| wrote:
|||
|||| Beth,
||||
|||| Congrats to your success but may I ask what is "piscedarian"? I
|||| have googled it
|||| and found nothing! NOTHING!!!!
|||
||| I'm not Beth, but a pescetarian is someone who doesn't eat meat or
||| chicken but will eat fish.
|||
||| Take care,
||| Carmen
|||
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|| Fish isn't meat? I've never understood why it's ok to eat fish but
|| not to eat chicken or cattle or pork.
||
|| --
|| Bob in CT
Ain't hypocricy grand?
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20 January 2005, 05:40 UTC #11

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|| On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:27:21 GMT, Carmen <[email hidden]>
|| wrote:
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||| Hi,
||| On 19-Jan-2005, Ada Ma <[email hidden]>
||| wrote:
|||
|||| Beth,
||||
|||| Congrats to your success but may I ask what is "piscedarian"? I
|||| have googled it
|||| and found nothing! NOTHING!!!!
|||
||| I'm not Beth, but a pescetarian is someone who doesn't eat meat or
||| chicken but will eat fish.
|||
||| Take care,
||| Carmen
|||
||
|| Fish isn't meat? I've never understood why it's ok to eat fish but
|| not to eat chicken or cattle or pork.
||
|| --
|| Bob in CT
Ain't hypocricy grand?
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20 January 2005, 05:50 UTC #12

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|| Me? I'm a ovo-lacto-pesce-pollo-carni-vegetarian. <G>
|| Carmen
Hey, there's a new verse to my song in there somewhere. Your new word has
the same meter as "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!"
It reminded me of some words I put to that old tune a couple of years ago:
"Superlowcarbfatandproteinputsmeinketosis,
Even though my doctor says it's something quite atrocious,
Atkins; Bernstein; Somers; Eades to me are most precocious,
Superlowcarbfatandproteinputsmeinketosis!
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle di
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle di ...."
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20 January 2005, 05:50 UTC #13

"Carmen" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
|| Me? I'm a ovo-lacto-pesce-pollo-carni-vegetarian. <G>
|| Carmen
Hey, there's a new verse to my song in there somewhere. Your new word has
the same meter as "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!"
It reminded me of some words I put to that old tune a couple of years ago:
"Superlowcarbfatandproteinputsmeinketosis,
Even though my doctor says it's something quite atrocious,
Atkins; Bernstein; Somers; Eades to me are most precocious,
Superlowcarbfatandproteinputsmeinketosis!
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle di
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle di ...."
--
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20 January 2005, 05:52 UTC #14

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|| "Bob M" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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||| On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:27:21 GMT, Carmen <[email hidden]>
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|||| Hi,
|||| On 19-Jan-2005, Ada Ma <[email hidden]>
|||| wrote:
||||
||||| Beth,
|||||
||||| Congrats to your success but may I ask what is "piscedarian"? I
||||| have googled it
||||| and found nothing! NOTHING!!!!
||||
|||| I'm not Beth, but a pescetarian is someone who doesn't eat meat or
|||| chicken but will eat fish.
||||
|||| Take care,
|||| Carmen
||||
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||| Fish isn't meat? I've never understood why it's ok to eat fish but
||| not to eat chicken or cattle or pork.
|||
||
|| Because the Pope said so.
It's the only meat he can gum at this point ....
<sorry. couldn't resist>
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20 January 2005, 05:52 UTC #15

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||| On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:27:21 GMT, Carmen <[email hidden]>
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|||| Hi,
|||| On 19-Jan-2005, Ada Ma <[email hidden]>
|||| wrote:
||||
||||| Beth,
|||||
||||| Congrats to your success but may I ask what is "piscedarian"? I
||||| have googled it
||||| and found nothing! NOTHING!!!!
||||
|||| I'm not Beth, but a pescetarian is someone who doesn't eat meat or
|||| chicken but will eat fish.
||||
|||| Take care,
|||| Carmen
||||
|||
||| Fish isn't meat? I've never understood why it's ok to eat fish but
||| not to eat chicken or cattle or pork.
|||
||
|| Because the Pope said so.
It's the only meat he can gum at this point ....
<sorry. couldn't resist>
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Crafting Mom
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20 January 2005, 15:45 UTC #16

JC Der Koenig said:

"Bob M" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Carmen said:
Hi,
On 19-Jan-2005, Ada Ma <[email hidden]>
wrote:
> Beth,
>
> Congrats to your success but may I ask what is "piscedarian"? I
> have googled it
> and found nothing! NOTHING!!!!
I'm not Beth, but a pescetarian is someone who doesn't eat meat or
chicken but will eat fish.
Take care,
Carmen
Fish isn't meat? I've never understood why it's ok to eat fish but not to
eat chicken or cattle or pork.
Because the Pope said so.
Hey "pescetarian" is a BIG leap in honesty. It used to make me cringe to
see people who wanted to attach the word "vegetarian" to their lifestyle
label by saying "I am a pesce-vegetarian" In that case, EVERYONE is a
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20 January 2005, 15:59 UTC #17

Crafting Mom said:
JC Der Koenig said:

"Bob M" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:27:21 GMT, Carmen <[email hidden]> wrote:
> Hi,
> On 19-Jan-2005, Ada Ma <[email hidden]>
> wrote:
>
>> Beth,
>>
>> Congrats to your success but may I ask what is "piscedarian"? I
>> have googled it
>> and found nothing! NOTHING!!!!
>
> I'm not Beth, but a pescetarian is someone who doesn't eat meat or
> chicken but will eat fish.
>
> Take care,
> Carmen
>
Fish isn't meat? I've never understood why it's ok to eat fish but
not to
eat chicken or cattle or pork.
Because the Pope said so.
Hey "pescetarian" is a BIG leap in honesty. It used to make me cringe to
see people who wanted to attach the word "vegetarian" to their lifestyle
label by saying "I am a pesce-vegetarian" In that case, EVERYONE is a
vegetarian LOL
Oh, the Pope. It must be right then.
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Beth Friedman
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20 January 2005, 18:01 UTC #18

Ada Ma said:
Congrats to your success but may I ask what is "piscedarian"? I have googled it
and found nothing! NOTHING!!!!
I may have misspelled it, but I meant a "vegetarian" who also eats
fish and seafood.

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21 January 2005, 21:00 UTC #19

"Crafting Mom" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Hey "pescetarian" is a BIG leap in honesty. It used to make me cringe to
see people who wanted to attach the word "vegetarian" to their lifestyle
label by saying "I am a pesce-vegetarian" In that case, EVERYONE is a
vegetarian LOL
How do you pronounce it, though? I keeps coming out "pesky-vegetarian" in my
head : )
Nicky.
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