stupid but quick question

[kaigou]

vegetarian = no eggs = no bread ... correct?

is this generally a hard-and-fast rule, enough to consider it a pretty safe assumption?


ETA: apparently the unclear part above is my expectation that bread contains eggs. Yes, as a matter of fact, bread can contain eggs -- pretty much my entire repertoire of bread-recipes all contain at least one egg. (Some of them contain two eggs, even, and some even have milk.) This is not to say I've never made bread without eggs -- I have -- but I don't much care for the texture or the reluctant timbre of the bread when working with it. With eggs, the bread is considerably silkier/smoother, and just more pleasant and easy to work with; thus it's not a headache to let it rise six times and really become amazingly-melty. Or shorter version: bread can contain eggs.

ETA the 2nd: I suppose it might've been less confusing if I'd asked about, say, angel food cake... for which my grandmother's recipe uses the whites of like a dozen eggs. I rarely make it, though, because I hate wasting a dozen egg yolks, but I'm never quite sure what to do with them...

Comments

[owlectomy]

Most western vegetarians do eat eggs, unless they're vegan, in which case they eat no eggs or dairy.
Hindu vegetarians generally don't eat eggs, though.

[kaigou]

Ahh, I thought the rule was "no eyes or a mother" (in which case, eggs could someday have eyes, so... no eggs).

[dragonhand]

I guess that eyeball fungus from Labyrinth is out, then.

[kaigou]

I'm sure if you could make a dish out of it, it'd be great for making when the really annoying relatives come to visit -- the ones you don't want hanging out for two hours afterwards. Okay, in this case maybe it'd be because they're being carted off to the hospital, but who cares! It gets 'em out of your living room.

(This is the same basis for my mom's theory of Guest Chairs -- the ones you bring out when 'a lot of people will be coming over' -- that are horrendously uncomfortable. BRING OUT THE GUEST CHAIRS, she says, and if you watch who she offers them to, you know who she wants to be leaving as SOON as POSSIBLE. Bwahaha. It's like sekkrit family code!)

[dragonhand]

Ah! We have The Guest Chairs, too!! *laughing*

I just don't want to eat anything that can watch me while I eat it. No eyes on my table. That's my rule. Or tongues. Like Theo Huxtable said, "I don't want to taste anything that can taste me."

[billie]

*nods* That applies for all vegetarians I know, too.
The two Japanese vegetarians I know would be vegan by my western vegetarian / vegan friends' definition -- no milk, eggs, honey, gelatine or anything else that comes from an animal; the vegans I know in Germany don't wear leather or wool, either.