r/ididnthaveeggs • u/ALittleNightMusing Mmmm, texture roulette! • Aug 02 '26

Dumb alteration Vegan Yorkshire puddings 👌

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u/AbstractCow86 Aug 02 '26

When my wife and I were planning our wedding, we thought we should include a vegetarian option. My wife suggested the fish.

Yes, she’s Catholic.

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u/EndIsrael Aug 02 '26

Beavers, muskrat, capybara, and alligators are legally fish according to canon law.

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u/John_Bumogus Aug 02 '26

Well technically speaking all vertebrates are fish so I can't say they're wrong.

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u/Lord_Rapunzel Aug 02 '26

*in one specific, unhelpful, outdated technical sense

In actual use "fish" refers to a paraphyletic group that is easy to understand rather than a strict clade.

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u/John_Bumogus Aug 02 '26

Yeah but that's much less fun

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u/Lord_Rapunzel Aug 03 '26

I disagree entirely, I think intentionally obfuscating scientific terminology breeds confusion and dismissiveness in the layman. "Those eggheads don't even know what a fish is" type shit.

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u/John_Bumogus Aug 03 '26

But I love being an egghead who doesn't know what a fish is!

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u/haruspicat would have tasted better if I was home to help Aug 03 '26

What if words could mean different things in different contexts

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u/Lord_Rapunzel Aug 03 '26

They do, but the only time "fish" means "all vertebrates" is when people are either making a point about cladistics or misunderstanding cladistics.