To think my mum's attitude is strange?

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My aunt (my mum's sister) is a vegetarian and my mum eats meat. Whenever we go to my aunt's house my mum always point blank refuses to eat anything made by my aunt as she "doesn't eat vegetarian food" and "I'm not eating vegetarian food!". She will always wait until she gets home before eating anything.

My aunt never cooks anything weird or out there, it's just basic normal every day food like macaroni cheese, tomato soup, leek and potato soup, cheesy broccoli pasta bake, etc. Obviously I know that doesn't mean that everyone has to like these things but my mum actually likes macaroni cheese and tomato soup and eats them often. However she refuses to eat them if my aunt makes them, using the "I don't eat vegetarian food" line.

That is odd, isn't it? If I cook her some homemade tomato she will always eat it happily however if my aunt makes the same thing she refuses to even try it . It's the same recipe as I got it off her.

I've thought about the possibility that maybe she knows something I don't know but I've ate food prepared by my aunt lots of times and I'm still alive, so...

I would like to know if there actually is something I don't know. Does food cooked by a vegetarian become contaminated with something regardless of what it is?

If anyone comes to me for lunch, there's a good chance they'll be getting soup, which is quite likely to be vegetable-based, like today's asparagus soup.

I eat meat, but I often have vegetarian meals, and breakfast is nearly always vegetarian, except on the rare occasions I have a full English. Having one or two meals with someone who happens to be vegetarian wouldn't be noticeably any different from my normal diet.

I think your Mum is illogical and rude.

Op.

One of my kids genuinely wouldn't eat if in a vegetarian/vegan household he has autism and significant sensory issues if he was there for any length of time he would end up in hospital with a feeding tube. He eats three meals all have to have the same components no changes at all not even sweets chocolate or anything that most people think off.

But even he wouldn't make disparaging comments about vegetarian food in fact I've heard him ripping the piss out of a relative who wouldn't eat forrin vegie muck when ever they have a nice cup of tea!

Does your mum actually understand that vegetarian simply means no meat products are eaten? Does she think something is specially added to make it vegetarian?

I saw your comment on the other thread too and found it weird of your mum.

We went to a BBQ last night and one of the guests loaded her plate with meat and garlic bread and commented 'I don't do vegetarian' so ignored all the gorgeous salads (couscous, rice, green, potato). I found it bemusing in a 'people are weird' kind of way.

if she eats your veggie food but not your aunts then its illogical and rude, dounds like your mum hates your aunt and wont admit it

Get your aunt to make you a lovely pasta bake/soup and take it home, the day before your mum visits.

Serve it, watch her enjoy it then agree with her praise of the lovely dish. 'Wonderful, wasn't it? Auntie X made it specially!' Then add that she really should choose a cleverer way of being passive-aggressively rude to your aunt, as the 'veggie thing' makes her look thick as two short planks.

You can catch vegetarianism. Didn't you know? Just like you can catch gay. Just standing in close proximity to these people will result in lifestyle transference.

But seriously, your mum is odd!

Isn't a carnivore something like a lion that will kill an animal and eat it raw right there? Humans are omnivores aren't we? There's something that rubs me the wrong way about someone describing themselves as a carnivore, like they think it makes them sound hard or sexy. You picked up a shrink wrapped packet of chicken breasts from Tesco and cooked them in the slow cooker for 6 hours, try and get over yourself!

Maybe OP you could serve your Mum tomato soup at your house then tell her your aunt made it. See if she reacts as if she's been poisoned! Does your aunt never say anything to her about it?

I would absolutely assume, like others above said, that your aunt refused to eat a few times at your mum's because she turned vegetarian. Your mum must have resolutely decided to refuse anything your aunt cooks from then on, for ever and ever...

Her behavior smacks of golding some sort of grudge.

But whatever the reason, it is a huge waste of effort and hugely childish!

Slap your mother.

What does your aunt think about it?

Why does your mother continue to visit at meal times?

Your mum is very odd and there's definitely some simmering tension there! Next time she comes round yours, however, you must accommodate her dietry requirements and make sure no vegetarian food is offered. More bacon drizzle cake mother?

I've always been confused with this.
I was sitting down to dinner with a friend who was constantly talking about how much he hates vegan food.. while eating vegetables and things that are naturally vegan.

Then he had a total stress because he thought we'd tricked him and given him vegan cake and cream, and kept saying it was gross.

It wasn't vegan and I had never given him a reason to believe I'd do that.

I think people have some sort of thing against vegan/vegetarian food and I have no idea why.