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ELSknutson t1_je6g0lb wrote

https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002465.htm#:~:text=A%20vegetarian%20diet%20does%20not,Vegetables

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Veganism is a type of Vegetarian

https://www.australianeggs.org.au/nutrition/eggs-and-vegetarians

You are not wrong that eggs can be considered Vegetarian, but you are also wrong saying that they are. Eggs and Cheese are in a gray area and it is diet, religious, and personal viewpoint on if they are actually vegetarian

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gullwings t1_je6erva wrote

Reply to comment by cool_kat_ in [homemade] steak by Single_Helix

If you don't have a digital meat thermometer, I can't recommend one enough. They're pretty cheap and have been a complete game-changer for getting steaks MR consistently. OXO makes a good one.

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HasturDragon t1_je6e7bb wrote

Oh, I actually know this one!

So Canadian bacon isn’t an American term. It’s British originally. There was a shortage of pork in the UK in the 1800s and so it was imported from Canada to the UK. But, Canadians remove the fat from the loin so the cuts were leaner. To sell this to the British the term Canadian Bacon was used to express the fact that it would be lean.

The term eventually migrated to the US where it stuck.

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randombull9 t1_je6c71k wrote

It's literally butchered identically. I'm not sure how anyone could phrase "All butchers will remove the back loin and the belly the same way" in a way that is more understandable to you, but god damn it I can try.

The process of butchering the pig is literally exactly the same. If I buy a ribeye and you buy a flank steak, both of which came from the same cow, that one cow could not have been butchered in two different ways. If I roast a chicken, and you have some thigh while I have the breast, the chicken was not prepared differently between those two cuts, it's still a roast chicken. Back bacon and belly bacon are two different parts of the same pig. The butcher does not cut the back loin to make back bacon, and then throw the rest of the pig away. He goes through a literally identical process when breaking down the carcass, with two parts of meat then going through a literally identical process to cure them. Butchery is the process of breaking down the carcass, the fact that you get different qualities of meat from different parts of the carcass don't make for a different process.

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JelloDarkness t1_je6bsip wrote

If one side of the pizza has pepperoni on it and the other side is plain, and it's still cut into 8 pieces, would you say the pizza was cut differently because someone choose plain vs pepperoni? You wouldn't, unless you were wrong (and perhaps also have a poor grasp of how things work).

Trying to mask your foolishness for pedantic behavior of others says a lot more about you than you might think. Take the L, ideally while learning something from this, and move on.

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