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No como ni carne ni pescado.

No como ni carne ni pescado.
I eat neither meat nor fish.
From Lesson 66:Indefinite and negative pronouns (algo, nada, alguien, nadie)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about No como ni carne ni pescado.

Why is there a no at the beginning if the sentence already says ni... ni (neither... nor)?
Spanish requires double negatives! If negative words like ni (neither/nor), nada (nothing), or nadie (nobody) come after the verb, you must put a no before the verb. So, Spanish literally says "I don't eat neither meat nor fish."
Do I always have to use ni twice?
To say "neither... nor," yes. The pairing of ni... ni... frames the two options you are rejecting. If you only use one ni in a sentence, it usually just translates to "nor" or sometimes "not even."
Why isn't it ni la carne ni el pescado?
When you talk about general, uncountable things like meat or fish using ni... ni, you usually drop the words for "the" (el, la, etc.). It sounds more natural in Spanish to just use the plain nouns here.

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