fishy fishy fishy

hmmm. i just realized something. i've been barking about being a fake vegetarian for lent, and i have been eating an ish load of fish. hmmm.

well if we go by phoebe from friends' thoughts on being a vegetarian: "nothing with a face", then i am pretty sure i am breaking the rules, as fishes (i know that is improper use of the plural form of fish but i don't care) do indeed have faces. i am sure that other legit vegetarians will agree that i am breaking the rules.

why didn't anyone call me out on this????

so on fridays, catholics are supposed to give up meat (but "they" say that fish is okay). i guess that's why in my head, i was thinking vegetarian because i was going by the "catholic" rules of giving up meat. that's why all of a sudden, you see all the fast food people plugging their fish sandwich options and even adding it to their .99 or dollar, whatever, menus..."for a limited time only" aka until april 11th when lent ends.

but really, this whole me calling myself a vegetarian was my bad. all i should've said was "i gave up meat" and not "i am a short term vegetarian" due to my increased intake of seafood.

while we are on the topic, i went to negril in the west village this past weekend for dinner. everyone else was chowing down on mango bbq baby back ribs ("smothered in tropical fruit sauce, served with homemade corn bread"), brown stew chicken, and bacon wrapped jerk pork ("medium spiced, pan-seared tenderloin wrapped in bacon strips served with maple whipped sweet potatoes"), i enjoyed the left over corn bread from the ribs, and the ackee & saltfish ("jamaica’s national dish served with boiled banana, yam, dumpling and sweet plantains"). i have to say that i normally don't go out of my way to eat seafood, but this lenten season has forced me to broaden my horizons. i would've definitely not have ordered the ackee & saltfish on a normal day (being that something like mango ribs and bacon wrapped pork is on the menu), but it was actually very tasty and i didn't feel so bad after all for missing out on the other stuff.

but i think i will be making a trip back to negril after lent, because who could really pass up mango ribs and bacon wrapped pork? a person who gave up meat (NOT a short term "vegetarian") for lent.