Historical regional cuisines that were vegetarian

[civ_king]

From what I've heard, many Hindus won't even eat certain vegetables like garlic.

Two of my relatives are "fruitarians" they only eat things that are the fruit of the plant, so they wont eat carrots because that's the plant and stuff like that

 

[cybrxkhan]

From what I've heard, many Hindus won't even eat certain vegetables like garlic.

Actually a few Buddhists also consider garlic and onions to be bad stuff too. They claim it has bad energy or will encourage you to do bad things or something like that. I remember my mom used to question why I liked eating garlic and onions because of this, but I just sort of ignored her on that because I like them in my food and they're actually good for you.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

Actually a few Buddhists also consider garlic and onions to be bad stuff too. They claim it has bad energy or will encourage you to do bad things or something like that. I remember my mom used to question why I liked eating garlic and onions because of this, but I just sort of ignored her on that because I like them in my food and they're actually good for you.

And because they are delicious

Weren't the Manichaeans or Cathari fruitarian?

 

[GoodGame]

Manichaeans were actually prescribed to eat vegetables, at least in the sources I saw in Google books. Mani uses vegetables and bread in allusions, but not to literally say eat fruit, not vegetables.

Also, looks like the Cathari were pescetarians (ate fish besides being vegetarians).


Interesting, came to a reference that Pythagoras was a strict vegetarian, supposedly paying fishermen to release fish catches.

 

[Masada]

Also, looks like the Cathari were pescetarians (ate fish besides being vegetarians).

Not actually true: some Cathari were indeed vegetarians, mostly the Perfecti, but the bulk were not and as a general rule could not be picked out from the average Catholic.

 

[Linkman226]

There are chunks of India that are almost completely vegetarian

This.

Being a Buddhist myself (at least nominally)

Ironic considering the violence of your namesake and avatar-sake

and a vegetarian as well (a lacto-ovo one)

The irony compounds

From what I've heard, many Hindus won't even eat certain vegetables like garlic.

Yup. Because of:

Actually a few Buddhists also consider garlic and onions to be bad stuff too. They claim it has bad energy or will encourage you to do bad things or something like that. I remember my mom used to question why I liked eating garlic and onions because of this, but I just sort of ignored her on that because I like them in my food and they're actually good for you.

And my grandmother, a Hindu, never ate mushrooms either. Apparently that's somewhat common in parts of India. She says it's cuz it's too flesh like

And Jains(strictly practicing ones) won't partake of root vegetables for fear of killing worms and bugs when the vegetables are picked. And this of course. So with regards to the definition of vegetarianism, I suppose your mileage may vary.

 

[thectexperience]

The Incas, massively. The diet in the Andes was beans and potatoes. The Incas controlled some coastal settlements later in their rule, so fish would have been available there. Guinea pig was kept as a delicacy for the aristocracy, and that's pretty much it. I'm sure they would have eaten llamas and alpacas occasionally, perhaps for sacrifices too, but all in all the agriculture was intensive and terraced and there was no practicality in pastures.

 

[Yeekim]

Guinea pig was kept as a delicacy for the aristocracy, and that's pretty much it.

Why for aristocracy only? Wouldn't breeding them be relatively low-cost/low-effort process?

 

[civ-addicted]

Central Europe anyone?
Basicly, a standard serf in Europe had only porridge. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Where i'm from, that was the basic meal up to 1800. A mixture of groat and water, nothing else.
My hometown was handed over to Klemes Wenzel Metternich in 1803, and his doctor wrote an article that the people 200 years ago had massive obstipation because they ate nothing but this stuff.
Times have changed though

 

[Ajidica]

*Why does Firefox want to auto-correct that to "proletariat"?

Firefox is the internet persona of Glorious Comrade Stalin. I thought everybody knew that.

 

[civ_king]

Central Europe anyone?
Basicly, a standard serf in Europe had only porridge. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Where i'm from, that was the basic meal up to 1800. A mixture of groat and water, nothing else.
My hometown was handed over to Klemes Wenzel Metternich in 1803, and his doctor wrote an article that the people 200 years ago had massive obstipation because they ate nothing but this stuff.
Times have changed though

The Poles had a much better diet

 

[Yeekim]

Central Europe anyone?
Basicly, a standard serf in Europe had only porridge. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Where i'm from, that was the basic meal up to 1800. A mixture of groat and water, nothing else.

True, that. Doesn't really merit the lofty title of "regional cuisine" though, which is why I didn't think of it.