Quiche Guardian and the Non Pork Eater

[MidniteScribbler]

We had a staff day at work and lunch was provided. The meal was a pork roast and salad. There were also quiches provided for vegetarians which was being guarded by another staff member and only served to those who were actually vegetarians and any one who wasn't a vegetarian was refused access. One staff member said that she doesn't eat pork, so wanted a piece of the quiche. Quiche Guardian (QG) said that she can eat pork but chooses not to, so she wasn't allowed to access the vegetarian meal. Standoff ensued. QG won and non pork eater ate just salad. There were three full quiches left at the end of the meal which QG packed away and took home with her.

Should non pork eater been allowed to access the vegetarian option?

(I was neither party in this debate, quite happy to gorge myself on pork roast and crackling.)

Yes QG was being ridiculous. It sounds like there was plenty of quiche available, so I'm not sure what the issue was?

I'd have personally thought if there was a veggie and meat option, then I'd have given first dibs on the veggie option to the veggies and anyone that can't eat the meat option available for religious reasons etc. After that then surely people could have just chosen whichever meal they preferred.

As a meat eater who cannot bear the taste of pork, this has really made my blood boil!

How dare QG dictate who may eat the quiche! Understandable to insist the vegetarians get first dibs but to completely ban every one else from having some even if they cant eat the main meal if absolutely disgusting behaviour, especially as she then had some herself!

Please tell me she's been hauled over the coals, the cheeky bitch!

Sounds like quite a badly organised meal all round (my boss organised a hog roast for our conference once, but he knew his audience).

Something similar went on at my old college and it s meals (fully catered). You could only have the vegetarian option if you were registered vegetarian with the college. You couldn’t have the veggie option if eg it looked like the tastiest, or least likely to kill you (‘quality’ of our college food was notorious in the uni), or you were an omnivore that was happier with some meats than others.

Of course they should have got the quiche,a long with anyone else that wanted it.

Although just wait for the people to turn up who said on a recent thread about buffets that meat eaters should not touch the non meat food as that was for vegetarians and we were greedy bastards for not eating purely chicken and sausages, because the salad etc belonged to the vegetarians!

I think QG was a greedy so and so and just wanted to take the quiche home with her. I could of understood it if there hadn’t been much quiche but with 3 left over obviously you had more than enough to go round. In the case you didn’t have much quiche you would serve the veggies first and pass around what’s left.

Why does QG think vegetarians don’t eat pork? Most can absolutely eat pork/meat but make a lifestyle choice not to eat meat it isn’t a medical condition.

I do eat meat although not often but I don’t eat pork, I don’t like the taste/texture and I know a lot of people that eat meat but won’t eat pork.

Something similar went on at my old college and it s meals (fully catered). You could only have the vegetarian option if you were registered vegetarian with the college. You couldn’t have the veggie option if eg it looked like the tastiest, or least likely to kill you (‘quality’ of our college food was notorious in the uni), or you were an omnivore that was happier with some meats than others.

The problem is if you don't do this there's a very real chance of the vegetarians getting no food. I went to a dinner recently where the veggie option clearly 'looked nicer' because I didn't get any dinner In this case where there was a tonne of quiche left it was clearly unreasonable, however.

I'm veggie and it fucks me off when meat eaters take the veggie option at a buffet plus stock up on shit loads of meat. Have an ex bil who would do this to the point of there being nothing whatsoever for me to eat while he sat there and scoffed. In the situation you describe though the QG was definitely U.

I'm veggie and it fucks me off when meat eaters take the veggie option at a buffet plus stock up on shit loads of meat. Have an ex bil who would do this to the point of there being nothing whatsoever for me to eat while he sat there and scoffed. In the situation you describe though the QG was definitely U.

Quiche Guardian sounds bonkers. But I’m amused she was allowed to get away with it. Taking three quiches home for herself? Come on.

QG is a massive CF

I'm not a veggie and it fucks me off when people can't see that meat eaters might want to eat food like onion bhajis, salad, quiche and cheese or egg sandwiches instead of pork and carbs four ways - many buffets consist of ham sandwiches, pork pies, sausages and sausage rolls and little else.

I love a pork pie as much as the next (non vegetarian, Jewish, Muslim or Hindu) person but I also like a balanced plate with different types of food including, shock horror, some that doesn't involve processed pork or pastry. It's not just vegetarians and Muslims that miss out at buffets.

Who appointed Quiche Guardian? And what genius picked pork as the main meat instantly excluding all those who don't eat pork for religious reasons.

Quiche Guardian appointed herself.

And pork was actually a very popular option. No muslims or other religions that can't eat pork on the staff. Just one person who chooses not to for ethical reasons. Everyone else loved it.

@BarbaraofSevillle but at least with pork pies, sausage rolls and ham sandwiches, you at least have something at the buffet that you can eat. The others you mention (vegetarian, Jewish, Muslim or Hindu) don't eat that stuff at all and so if the pork eaters take all the veggie food just to give themselves 'variety', those people go without food entirely.

It's not just vegetarians and Muslims that miss out at buffets. - it mostly is though

@MidniteScribbler was QG spoken to?