to think if your staying with a vegan you wouldn't bring meat into the house

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Hi,

Have a few people staying with me, one of them bought back some greasy fried chicken the other night. I thought oh well thats a bit impolite and rude especially as she wanted to eat it inside with my plates are cutlery. But I let it slip and washed up said dishes and had to dispose of the remains myself as she just left them in the lounge smelling.

Now this morning she's bought some sausages to cook on my pan. I put my foot down to this as she's super messy and would get animal fat all over the place.

Apparently its my fault as I'm a vegan it makes her crave meat.

Just to add I'm not a pushy vegan, I say nothing about it and she's the one that keeps asking stupid things like "don't you miss x and y, I couldn't do it"

Also I live in a town centre with 20+ places to eat within a 10 min walk

Thank you Rhonda. I didn't mean to offend omnivores and you did put it better than I.

Benchmark. Sooooo right about the steak comment and the jokes. Arsewipes. Why do people feel it's acceptable to make jokes about peoples' ethical beliefs, yet the same people wouldn't dream of mocking those who were vegetarian/vegan for religious reasons?

staywithme, IMO the worst example of this was when Gordon Ramsay served a pizza with meat concealed in it to an unwitting vegetarian.

Link here

He thought he was such a card, but of course it just served to prove to those who didn't already know, that Gordon Ramsay is a very special kind of twat.

That's just cruel.

Why would you do that? Disgusting!!

SuburbanRhonda, they are still my mates for the same reason I'm still theirs. We accept our excesses and our differing politics. The thing is, everyone has to know.

If I knew a vegan couldn't deal with me eating meat on their premises, I wouldn't eat meat. But I might not know if they were a vegan like one friend that cries at the thought of people eating meat, or like another vegan friend who can happily deal with people chomping shish kebab in front of them. Like I don't know if someone who doesn't drink is a recovering alcoholic who just doesn't like to see any drink, or a person who doesn't like drink themselves but is fine if someone downs a pint. It's best to tell people so they know how to conduct themselves, not expect them to guess.

Rude rude rude.

I am a meat eater, but I hate lamb/mutton etc, even the smell. I have a friend who loves it, cooks it regularly but not when she's invited me around. She doesn't like choclate based desserts, so even though choclate brownies are my go to dessert I make something else when she comes to mind.

It's just basic manners, never mind religion or anything else?

rhonda I'm am outraged after reading that. He's an inconsiderate, selfish a'hole! I hope he looses business over this. I know I would never set foot in his restaurant and therefore my meat eating friends would not go either if we were going out together. Does he not realise that if there's one vege in a family that will not trust his restaurants then the whole family will not go. Prat. Hope it comes to bit him on the arse.

I totally understand OP. I used to have a vegetarian kitchen. No plate or spoon or saucepan had contained or even touched dead animal. Then I met my meat-eating OH, who still tells the tale of me making her eat a Chinese takeaway from the packaging rather than the plate as it was meaty. I have had to relax since then, but was still to find dead cow splattered all over the surfaces and salt, pepper, and other bits and pieces the other day.

Rude guest, how dare she? I am afraid I love meat but would never dream of eating it in a vegetarian's or vegan's house. And how ridiculous is anyone complaining about being 'deprived' of steak ? I'd ditch the friend. I admire anyone making the choice to be vegan and wouldn't think twice about respecting their wishes. Same with Muslim, Jewish person, Hindu, allergies etc.

Yanbu.

It is terribly rude to bring meat into your hous without asking, and even more so to expect you to clean it up.

I would be finding new friends.

Suburban that is terrible of Gordon Ramsay. I never heard of it at the time but I will certainly avoid his restaurants now.

It doesn't matter if you agree with someone's beliefs, they still deserve respecting.

It takes a real petulant child to not be able to go without meat for 2 days. In fact, it's not even 2 days, it's just in her house!

On the other hand, not sure why so many people are saying that some veggie/vegans are not self-righteous. Some are but so are some meat eaters, so swings and roundabouts!

Yanbu op your friend is rude and thoughtless.

Unfortunately I couldn't afford to eat in a Gordon Ramsay restaurant even if I wanted to. And it didn't change my view of him because I had always thought he was a twat.

I just think he's one of those evangelical meat eaters who really struggle with the idea of people just not wanting to eat meat. He has to denigrate them in order to try to prove he's right. But it just makes him look even more of a knob than he already is.

Don't forget he also berated a customer in one of his restaurants for seasoning his food before he tasted it.

Narcissistic, non?