On Nov 11, 12:44*pm, Dave Smith > wrote:
> On 11/11/2011 3:51 AM, ItsJoanNotJoann wrote:
>
> > On Nov 10, 10:18 pm, > *wrote:
> >> I had a interesting conversation with one of my new teammates at work
> >> who is from India about soup. *The conversation drifted as often they
> >> do. *But the one thing he told me that was interesting is that most
> >> people of India descent, especially those in India, are vegetarian.
>
> > I've yet to meet an Indian who wasn't a vegetarian.
>
> I have met an Indian who wasn't a vegetarian. *Several.
>
> We had an Indian at our wedding reception. He was the son of a business
> associate of my father in law. He was not just a vegetarian, he was a
> Jaine, and those guys has some strange dietary rules.

It's Jain, and they're individuals just like "real" people. Everybody
in this thread is so eager to generalize about a country of 1.2
Billion people. I work in IT and I've known many dozens of people from
India. Some vegetarian, some won't eat beef, some Jain (although I've
never met a strict Jain) and one guy who said "if it tastes good I eat
it". There are many who will eat beef, but it's definitely a minority.
If you're talking about people who live in India, a lot of their diet
is guided by circumstance although it has been codified by religion in
lots of cases. A lot of the ones who make it to the West realize the
religion stuff was just a bunch of bullshit and start to eat what's
readily available.

Or maybe you guys actually believe that no Catholics eat meat on
Friday during lent (or whatever the current rule is).