Tamala Krsna: I don’t think in Vrndavana there’s so much of this meat-eating.

Prabhupada: No. Here they eat meat very secretly, some.

Tamala Krsna: Very secretive?

Prabhupada: Yes. Openly they’ll never.

Tamala Krsna: No, it’s hard to even find a butcher shop here.

Prabhupada: No, no, no. In Mathura there is slaughterhouse.

Tamala Krsna: Wow! Government allowed. The government.

Prabhupada: I do not know whether it is stopped or not, but formerly. [pause] In Bangladesh, fish you can get very cheap. It is… In the water, you can… Rivers.

Tamala Krsna: So many rivers.

Prabhupada: And especially Padma river, the branch of Ganges, it is full of fish, hilsa fish, very famous. You know hilsa fish?

Tamala Krsna: No, I’ve heard you talk about it previously.

Prabhupada: It is full of oil.

Tamala Krsna: Yeah. Very palatable for the fish-eaters. Bengalis, they are too much fond of fish-eating. They don’t even… Sometimes people say, “Fish-eating is nonvegetarian.”

Prabhupada: Non… Yes, “Fish is a vegetable, water vegetable.”

> Conversation about Old Days in Calcutta – July 1, 1977, Vrndavana