Is chicken a vegetable?

[Guy Fawkes]

Poll question: Is chicken a vegetable?

Unlike Tomatoes, which exist in some sort of nether-region between fruit and vegetable- a bastardization of nature- the Chicken is most definitely either a vegetable or not a vegetable. So... which will it be?

[Liberal Veteran]

1. According to some of my vegetarianish friends...

Both fish and chicken are vegetables. But hey, at least they are trying to eat healthy, so no skin off my nose.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

8. I feel like beating those people.

They really do a disservice to real vegetarians and vegans. I eat fish, so I call myself a pescarian, the proper term.

[Benfea]

24. It really bugs me.

"I don't eat meat."

"Yes you do. You eat fish and chicken."

"They don't count as meat."

"Please pardon me while I slam my head into this wall repeatedly. I'm hoping it will dull the pain that talking to you has caused."

[LostinVA]

28. That is sooo a made up word

BE QUIET -- I know it's a real word.

I thought you were protesting today?

Did you go get the Lost DVDs?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

32. The women I was going with backed out this morning.

And I didn't feel like going alone this time. Not yet. I'll get them later.

[LostinVA]

33. It's rainy here... perfect day to watch Lost

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

34. It's perfect weather here. I went hiking this morning.

[LostinVA]

35. I'm going running in a little while

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

36. Johnny Damon just hit a three run homer.

Right now I think it's a perfect day to watch baseball.

[LostinVA]

37. Yankees suck

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

38. Whatevah!

Who's your team?

[LostinVA]

39. I loathe baseball

But, I rooted for the Phillies when I was a youth.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

40. Oh yeah, I forgot you're from *south* Jersey.

:eyes:

Piney.

[LostinVA]

42. More of a Bayey....

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

43. Okay, that's fine. As long as you're not a piney.

[LostinVA]

44. They're all inbred and spooky

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

46. Yeah, of course, the town north of me is filled with "Jackson Whites"

The northern inbred, spooky breed of New Jerseyian.

[LostinVA]

47. You live near Jackson? OOOH

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

49. No, the Jackson Whites oddly enough are in West Milford.

West Milford also supplies Weird NJ magazine with 75% of their material.

[VeggieTart]

2. And don't try to feed that dreck to me.

Chicken is an ANIMAL, fuckyouverymuch, not a plant.

[TimeChaser]

6. Nice sense of humor you've got there

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

9. If you were a vegetarian, you would understand.

The world is filled with masses of idiots that seriously think chicken is vegetarian.

[LostinVA]

31. That's silly, of course chicken isn't a vegetable.... of course,

Guinea hen IS a vegetable. But, I suspect you know that already. You're a smart chick.

[LostinVA]

30. Some chickens LOOK like vegetables

This one totally looks like a cauliflower:

[Conan_The_Barbarian]

3. I just picked my chicken crop out of the garden

gotta plant them late in the spring and pick them early in the fall so their nice and ripe.

[Ptah]

4. No. n/t

[evirus]

5. Chicken cells bares no walls

hence not plant matter... hence not a veggie

[qnr]

7. Well, some were candy...

At least the stick variety of chickens.

[pitohui]

10. close enough for gov't work

they're not real bright, i've raised chickens

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

11. ...

:eyes:

[pitohui]

12. hey it's all in your definition of vegetable

do you mean totally in a coma or do you mean with some sparks left

the chicken has some sparks left, so that kind of vegetable, the one who can open his eyes once in awhile and send you a message in morse code by the way he blinks his eyelid

hey, did you think i meant broccoli?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

13. I figured we'd be going by dietary definitions here. Not medical.

How silly of me to think logic would prevail with you.

[pitohui]

14. jeez girlfriend this is a thread about chickens

lighten up


my mom had a beautiful rant about chickens and about how they're too dumb to know they just got their heads cut off, but i have a feeling it would swoosh right overhead

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

15. There's no humor in cutting off a chicken's head.

And I ain't your girlfriend.

[begin_within]

16. Why don't you just ask him...

[NMMNG]

17. I'm hoping those who answered that it is a vegetable were joking

:scared:

[Robeson]

18. I hear ya' Buffy. May I join your....

...:scared:

[NMMNG]

19. I did have a chuckle the other night though

I saw a "Simpsons" repeat where they went to England. While on a tour bus they stopped by a "Fish and Chips" place. Homer declined to eat there because "I'm not much of a vegetarian".

Of course when it comes from real people who actually think fish and chicken are vegetables it's not so funny.

[Robeson]

20. I'm sure you've heard this before, but I'm always surprised when I tell...

...people I'm a vegetarian, they still say, "but do you eat seafood?" Sad thing is, they're serious. As if seafood is not meat.

[NMMNG]

21. I have heard it before

But one time when I was out with my roomie and some friends we don't see often the whole deal came up. They began the "Do you eat chicken...fish.." deal and finally my friend said, "She doesn't eat anything that has a face!"

Then they got it.

[tjwmason]

22. Because of over use of the inaccurate terms one has to.

Some people say vegetarian when they mean vegetarian, others say vegetarian when they mean "I'm a stupid eejit pick-eater", others say vegetarian when they mean they gave up beef due to B.S.E., and so forth...unless one knows that the person actually is a vegetarian, one can't be sure which of them they are.

If one is trying to cook for other people it is helpful to know which they mean. If people would only use the term when they mean it, then other people would have to ask the follow-on questions.

I never call myself a vegetarian despite there being frequent times when I don't eat meat, as I think it implies a moral stance (to which I don't personally adhere).

[Left Is Write]

23. Yes.

[RedStateShame]

25. I hope so. Otherwise, I buried those eggs for nothing.

[jilln]

26. This is why hunters, farmers and other large-scale animal abusers...

refer to "harvesting" animals, etc. Using language like that makes it seem benign.

[u4ic]

27. No, but chocolate is n/t

[CBGLuthier]

29. I never knew that you had to eat meat or poultry

to have a sense of humor until I read this thread. :-)

[Guy Fawkes]

48. My next poll should be...

"Do you have a sense of humour"

[China_cat]

41. Depends on if you are counting intelligence.

I've seen carrots that were smarter than chickens.

[Crabby Appleton]

45. definately a vegetable