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...

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[quillori]

A high proportion of the vegetarians I know are Hindu, closely followed by various variations of Buddhist - it's so easy to take the term 'vegetarian' (which is actually pretty recent - I think only about 150 years, at least in popular usage), and use it to rope together all sorts of different traditions, which isn't entirely unreasonable, where they can all be at least roughly summarised as 'don't eat meat', but it does overlook that what counts as meat, what would count as meat except it's too locally ubiquitous to reasonably avoid, and what non-meat things also tend to be excluded vary widely. (If you worry about cruelty to or exploitation of animals, things like milk or honey may be out; a religious prohibition may allow meat that hasn't been explicitly killed for consumption but disallow, say, onions ... and now I'm thinking about 'too ubiquitous/necessary to the local diet to avoid', I'm also thinking of 'too tasty to do without' and I want to go and look up all the medieval barnacle geese etc, which are such fun, but also not what I should be doing with my time right now). I've found it a not infrequent problem when people are travelling - they don't realise that what is on offer as vegetarian may be quite different to what they would mean by the term.