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Re:Vegetarian/Vegan food finder for London by chimeracoder on Friday November 15, 2013 @01:06PM (#6740968)
On the flip side, to many Indians, "vegetarian" means egg-free, though oddly, it may include fish dishes.

The special treatment of fish varies across parts of India, but the concept that eggs are non-vegetarian is fairly standard there (to a lesser extent abroad).

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Re:Vegetarian/Vegan food finder for London by desigooner on Friday November 15, 2013 @01:17PM (#6741057)
That might be true for people who hail from certain coastal communities (like Bengal, Orissa, etc.) but more often than not, "Vegetarian" means No eggs, No Fish, No meat.
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Re:Vegetarian/Vegan food finder for London by chimeracoder on Friday November 15, 2013 @01:20PM (#6741087)
> That might be true for people who hail from certain coastal communities (like Bengal, Orissa, etc.)

Right, the fish part is mostly in areas where fish is already a staple of the diet.

My point was that "vegetarian" for many Indians is similar to "vegan" in that it proscribes eggs (though not always dairy).

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Re:Vegetarian/Vegan food finder for London by babysteps on Saturday November 16, 2013 @06:25AM (#6744436)
I personally use the term 'pure vegetarian'.
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