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AIBU - vegan dinner party guest EATING FISH

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isitginoclock · 13/05/2016 20:06

We're throwing a dinner party. I've just excused myself to the loo to write this because I'm FUMING!! One of our guests has recently become a vegan. I spent bloody ages making her a mushroom pate for starter which she happily tucked into whilst we ate our salmon tartare. She then asked if she could try some salmon.

Wtf?!?!

I've bought loads of different stuff for her to eat and spent all frigging day cooking it. Why do I bother?!

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Waltermittythesequel · 13/05/2016 21:35

Girl why is it OK to kill an animal for shoes but not meat? Not being smart, genuinely curious about the thought process.

Pineau · 13/05/2016 21:36

Serve her pud up with a load of cream - bet she makes a fuss..

carabos · 13/05/2016 21:38

And on the point of your mushroom pate OP, I was once accosted by a bunch of
fake vegans and a Muslim at a conference dinner who told me in no uncertain terms that mushrooms cannot be eaten by either vegans / vegetarians or Muslims. They all settled for omelette instead .

I've given up trying to understand it.

elfycat · 13/05/2016 21:39

HowBad

but then give up when you hear a grunting noise and lift the table cloth to discover the vegan rolling about under the table in a carnal toothy embrace with a whole leg of lamb, bathed in gravy.

giggled until I cried at this. I used to be a vegetarian, but then one day at a party the cocktail sausages were getting a bit too appealing. I ate one, then another and my friends quickly said 'but they're meat!'

Next day... rare steak
day after... liver with bacon

Haven't looked back. My poor body was screaming for meat. It was my own fault as I was a bad Veggie... didn't spend time or effort balancing the nutrients.

toffeeboffin · 13/05/2016 21:39

She's a fegan.

Live and Learn OP.

toffeeboffin · 13/05/2016 21:41

Brother's ex was a vegetarian : 'You won't want soup made with ham stock, will you, as you're veggei?'

'Oh, go on then'

FAKE!

GirlOverboard · 13/05/2016 21:44

Girl why is it OK to kill an animal for shoes but not meat? Not being smart, genuinely curious about the thought process

I wasn't commenting on the ethics of wearing leather. I'm just saying that it's completely irrelevant in the definition of vegetarianism. Being a vegetarian is a dietary choice, not a lifestyle choice. Also I think if someone cares enough about animal welfare to avoid leather, then they'd be better off eating a vegan diet, as there's plenty of animal cruelty in the dairy industry.

AgingJuvenileBinkyHuckaback · 13/05/2016 21:45

I'd come in and express my devastation that I'd checked the labels on the wine and they're not actually vegan. Snatch the glass away from her with a cry of "Thank heavens I got here in time! Don't worry, I've got some lovely apple juice for you in the fridge."

I'm normally absolutely fine with inconsistent veggies - they're doing a lot better than most people, and the people who love to catch them out are mostly self-justifying Dawkinsite twats. But this woman is bang out of order.

Waltermittythesequel · 13/05/2016 21:45

I always assumed vegetarianism was an ethical thing.

BombadierFritz · 13/05/2016 21:47

These people are not vegan. They are simply fussy eaters.

kipperydippery · 13/05/2016 21:49

My sister would love this thread!! :)

I was totally veggie, supposedly my friends were too. She joined our hen weekend, quiet cottage in the country, no big parties, not her thing at all.

My sisters biggest complaint was after cooking breakfast "If I'd known the vegans/veggies ate bacon I'd have brought more with me". There was none left for her, the only meat eater.....

LadyAntonella · 13/05/2016 21:50

but then give up when you hear a grunting noise and lift the table cloth to discover the vegan rolling about under the table in a carnal toothy embrace with a whole leg of lamb, bathed in gravy.

giggled until I cried at this

And me.

GeezAJammyPeece · 13/05/2016 21:53

elfycat mine was a bacon sarnie
2 huge rashers on a perfect west of Scotland roll (anyone who has had one will understand) with tattie scone and lashings of brown sauce. My boss sent me down to the bakers for Saturday morning rolls and I was powerless to resist.

I have heard frequently that a bacon butty is the most regular cause of a vegetarian falling off the wagon. I have no idea if there is any truth to that, but given how good they taste, wouldn't be surprised.

GarlicShake · 13/05/2016 21:57

Hahaha, kippery! Also ROFLL (rolling on the floor with leg of lamb) at HowBad.

limitedperiodonly · 13/05/2016 21:59

Did she ask you to prepare vegan or vegetarian food for her OP? If so, that would have been bad.

If not, well, people's dietary whims can be annoying but if there was enough fish to go round I would have just let her have it.

squoosh · 13/05/2016 22:01

Obviously if a vegan wants to stuff their face with rib eye steak and ice cream it's no one's business but their own. But when someone has been running around preparing vegan friendly recipes for them only for them to say 'no ta, I'll have the meat'..........well I'd give them my beadiest of beady eyes!

p.s OP I love mushroom pate so feel free to pass it my way.

paxillin · 13/05/2016 22:04

Roast hog next time. Give her the snout. "Well, a little bit won't hurt you said last time."

LaContessaDiPlump · 13/05/2016 22:07

You can get crispy bacon-flavoured crisps at Sainsburys which are vegan, Geez. I praised Buddha the day I found them fuck me but bacon is delicious. Shame about the pig murder really.

squoosh · 13/05/2016 22:12

The snout? paxillin dear you're being too kind. Give her the bum snout I say!

LeafTheLucky · 13/05/2016 22:15

Geez I was a vegetarian for quite a while as a teenager. Even sat through a vegetarian Christmas dinner while all my family had the full works, but totally fell off the wagon one day when my sister tempted me with a bacon sandwich and I never went back!

paxillin · 13/05/2016 22:16

Bum snout- what a delightful word ! Even better.

flipsahoy · 13/05/2016 22:24

I used to work with an incredibly annoying vegetarian who was constantly banging on about animal rights. If any of us had meat for lunch we'd get all kinds of snarky comments (including 'ewww... get that away from me, how can you eat that???) She'd even comment on people's leather shoes etc.

And yet, she was quite happy to eat fish. (Oh, 'only once a week' mind which is apparently ok!)

xalyssx · 13/05/2016 22:25

I'm not a big fan of meat myself, but I don't profess to be a vegetarian. If I am going to be eating at someone else's house I just ask them to give me extra potatoes and vegetables etc instead of meat. Unless it's shepherd's pie cos I won't eat lamb at all!

GeezAJammyPeece · 13/05/2016 22:26

I'm always a bit at vegan/vegetarian friendly meaty crisps LaContessaDiPlump I know most have synthetic flavourings anyway but its still funny when you think about it.
Those Sainsbury's ones are delish!

High Five Leaf
The Enabling boss who joined me in the shameful Bacongate scandal was a practising Jew we both went to hell that day

theclick · 13/05/2016 22:26

Can I have your mushroom pate recipe

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