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HungryJoe Gristknife from Under the Tree Since: Dec, 2009
Gristknife
#201: Mar 8th 2012 at 2:24:18 AM

Cuttle fish are pretty cool.

I got a biology teacher to fall in love with me using a novel construction method for my model of Sepia officinalis.

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Mukora Uniocular from a place Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
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#202: Mar 8th 2012 at 12:22:11 PM

More like cuddle fish, amirite?

(iamrite.)

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RainbowMatt Prettiest Pony :3 from the cave of unspeakable naughtiness Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#203: Mar 8th 2012 at 12:25:27 PM

Take that to the cuddle pile! :P

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LoniJay from Australia Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
#204: Mar 8th 2012 at 3:14:25 PM

[up][up] I'm pretty sure I used to mispronounce their name like that as a child.

When you think about it, look at all those tentacles! They're bound to be cuddly. grin

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HungryJoe Gristknife from Under the Tree Since: Dec, 2009
Gristknife
#205: Mar 8th 2012 at 7:25:35 PM

Cull the cuttlefish!

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Carciofus Is that cake frosting? from Alpha Tucanae I Since: May, 2010
Is that cake frosting?
#206: Apr 12th 2012 at 1:18:41 PM

All right, the Easter celebrations are ended. And the lamb roast was most excellent, by the way.

Cutting the meat to once per week (and allowing fish whenever) was pretty easy, all things considered. So I think that I'll now try making things a bit stricter (I need to lose weight anyway, so why not?)

From now, I will eat meat once per week, fish once per week, and for the rest I'll try to be mostly semivegetarian. That means that

  1. Shellfish count as vegetables. They are tasty, and they are not as ecologically damaging as other kinds of edible animals, and they have very undeveloped brains, and they are tasty.

  2. Shrimps also count as vegetables. Relatively primitive, and tasty — sounds like fair game to me.

  3. In case of parties, special occasions and so on, I'll eat whatever is there and not worry.

We'll see how it goes...

EDIT:

I'm not sure if I should make shrimp count as a vegetable too or not. Thoughts?

EDIT 2:

Heh, why not. I hereby declare shrimps to be vegetables.

edited 12th Apr '12 11:14:00 PM by Carciofus

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
LoniJay from Australia Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
#207: Apr 12th 2012 at 5:50:53 PM

What about insects, Carciofus? Are they vegetables?

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Carciofus Is that cake frosting? from Alpha Tucanae I Since: May, 2010
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#208: Apr 12th 2012 at 11:05:43 PM

Why not. tongue

I'd have no problems with eating insects anyway — I mean, I am not going to raise them myself or to hunt and eat wild "prey", but if I happened to visit a place where they eat them commonly I'd try them.

According to a family friend who went to Africa as a missionary, roasted ants are delicious...

edited 12th Apr '12 11:06:02 PM by Carciofus

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
LoniJay from Australia Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
#209: Apr 12th 2012 at 11:11:10 PM

I wouldn't eat ants, but I might eat a spider or something.

What about cephalopods?

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Carciofus Is that cake frosting? from Alpha Tucanae I Since: May, 2010
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#210: Apr 12th 2012 at 11:12:33 PM

I don't think so — too intelligent. I don't usually eat them anyway, but they count as fish.

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
imojee Be evil from The Desert Since: Apr, 2011 Relationship Status: In bed with a green-skinned space babe
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#211: Apr 13th 2012 at 3:13:24 PM

I once tried sorting out which animals I won't eat, mainly based on intelligence.

I found it far easier to just discriminate based on whether or not they were carnivores or not, as carnivores tend to taste horrible. Plus if its something from the ocean then the carnivores tend to be filled to the brim with mercury too.

Actually my only real rule on what to eat is does it taste good, plants as a rule taste bad.

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Mukora Uniocular from a place Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
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#212: Apr 13th 2012 at 11:12:08 PM

If you buy crappy vegetables and don't prepare them properly, then yeah.

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imojee Be evil from The Desert Since: Apr, 2011 Relationship Status: In bed with a green-skinned space babe
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#213: Apr 14th 2012 at 3:10:26 AM

No even the "fresh" and or "properly prepared" plants don't taste that good to me, just a matter of personal taste I suppose.

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InverurieJones '80s TV Action Hero from North of the Wall. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#214: Apr 14th 2012 at 3:13:38 AM

Well, life is life so I draw no distinctions. I'll eat anything, though I tend to avoid land-based carnivores. Parasite load and all that.

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HypercatZ Since: Apr, 2012
#215: Apr 22nd 2012 at 9:51:18 AM

I once tried sorting out which animals I won't eat, mainly based on intelligence
That would lead to cannibalism. Seriously, we humans would be the only creatures worth to be eaten, since we are basically useless and in most cases harmful to any ecosystem. The only problem, as pointed out once both in Futurama and in Jojo's Bizzare Adventures, is we probably taste orribly as any carnivorous. And maybe that is really the only one thing preventing us from eating each other, if not metaforically. But if some humans starts becoming vegetarian, isn't that going to turn them in... possible food source?

HungryJoe Gristknife from Under the Tree Since: Dec, 2009
Gristknife
#216: Apr 22nd 2012 at 11:58:41 AM

^I think he was implying he would only eat the "dumber" animals.

Ah, shellfish, the food of, if not my people definetly my land. A huge portion of the oysters consumed in the Eastern part of the US come through my town.

Charlie Tunoku is a lover and a fighter.
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