What's the strangest food you've discovered wasn't vegetarian?

Dry roasted peanuts.

I accidentally ate a couple and then looked at the ingredients.I figured peanuts equal vegan.They contained gelatin.Which, I found rather odd.

And the Tropicana juice.I saw it at the supermarket the other day.It even said fish oil in the ingredients list, along with a cute little fish cartoon.Apparently, having fish oil in juice is something to be proud of.

I think the strangest thing is Cochineal, a red food coloring made from an insect. It's used in some bottled beverages. I never would have expected that one.

The other one is varak, a silver coloring used in some Indian sweets. At least some of the time it's made using animal intestines. That seems pretty bizarre when you consider that India has had a vegetarian tradition since ancient times.

Pop Tarts with icing, pudding snack cups, most yogurt, "All natural" fruit leather in a health food store, Swanson Vegetable Broth (shrimp shells in "natural flavorings")...

Vegetable Egg Rolls at my former favorite Chinese Restaurant that had shrimp (or baby toes) in them- suddenly and without warning, Another Chinese Restaurant that had pork bits in the vegetable dumplings, A Subway veggie n cheese sub that had a bug (roach?) baked into the bread...

The oasis grape juice with fish oil and the ranch salad dressing with anchovies.

I found a "lower calorie" vegetable soup that has "chicken" listed like 20 something ingredients in... but there are not chucks of chicken in it! And it doesn't say "chicken stock" or "broth"

I got the diarrhea rumbles later though, with no diarrhea.

I didn't expect ranch to have anchovies. I thought I found a good substitute for meat in tacos, then found refried beans had lard. Same with pie crust!!

Edit: I second the altoids!

wait... i'm sorry what?! tropicana orange juice has fish oil?!

oh

well thank you

i guess that's the one that i'm most surprised to find out isn't vegetarian/vegan

One of my favorite Asian dishes actually, Pad Thai, which I recently found out usually uses a fish ingredient. :(

Frozen Fries. I found a brand that had beef fat in them o.O

Most wine is not vegetarian. Not that I care for wine at all.