Wine and cheese

[dananne]

Speaking as likely the lone vegetarian on the board, there are several "levels" or "stages" of vegetarianism. Some avoid all animal products altogether -- they're vegan (that's me 99% of the time, though I'll do some dairy on exceptionally rare occasions or when I'm dining out, especially on vacation, and it's just too difficult and/or too much effort to avoid it otherwise -- that having been said, at this point because I've avoided it for so long, I'm borderline lactose intolerant, so I seem to do better with sheep and goat cheeses and the like when I'm "off diet").

Vegetarians who eat dairy are called lacto-vegetarians. Some eat eggs and are called ovo-vegetarians. If you eat dairy and eggs, then you're an ovo-lacto-vegetarian. And so on.

Some people even call themselves vegetarian if they eat seafood, but avoid meat. I even had one lady tell me she was vegetarian because she didn't eat red meat! Wierd, I know, but it proves that the definitions can be different for different people.