We are a vegan house, meat eater friends over this evening. WIBU to cook a vegan menu?

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Hi all, this is my first AIBU but I'm having a panic.
Non vegan mates over this eve, they always make every effort to accommodate us when we go there but this is their first visit to ours since we are vegan.
Shall I suck it up and cook a corpse or stick with a vegan menu? Would you be offended to eat vegan at a friends as a meat eater?
Thanks in advance if you reply. Could do with a few views...

A vegan meal can be eaten by a meat eater, a meat meal cannot be eaten by a vegan

Of course it CAN. They choose not to. There is a difference.

Please don’t be that vegan that does the whole how can you eat a corpse, meat is disgusting thing.

To a answer your question if a vegan family invited me for dinner, yes I would be expecting a vegan meal. I eat meat but I also enjoy veggie dinners and I don’t need meat at every single meal so I’d be more than happy

Why would you have to cook a dead human?

Because that's what the word corpse tends to refer to.

Oh, I see! Are you being deliberately inflammatory?

Surely not!

Lol at 'cook a corpse' and 'THAT vegan'.

OP I'm veggie so I wouldn't cook meat - but that's at least partly as I can't - I have no experience at it and obviously couldn't even taste test anything. My skills lie elsewhere. If they were super meaty types however I'd maybe provide cold meaty starter options? - you know your friends. Thai curry sounds perfect for a casual meal, a ready-made fishy starter (sushi thing?) or cold cured meat or pate might be nice if you think they'd really like it. Pate and crackers and wine to start - could be yum and you could do herb pate as well as fish and meat??

HOWEVER if you are a 'no meat in my kitchen' person then absolutely go vegan completely - no sensible person would object to a perfectly delish meal that happens to have no meat!

Of course you should cook vegan! If I were coming to your house, that's what I'd expect. And if you were coming to mine, I'd cook vegan too, so that we could all enjoy the meal. It's not difficult to make tasty vegan food, and I say that as an omnivore.

I just don't get any of this. I eat meat and I eat veg. I am sure other meat eaters have had a cheese sandwich and a bag of crisps for lunch and not even thought about it being a 'veggie' meal..or a falafel salad or something else. Meat eaters don't die if they don't consume meat at every meal.
If someone invited me to their house for dinner I'd eat what was offered. (And if they were my friends they'd probably know what I would or wouldn't eat...or I'd say please not 'mushrooms' or whatever).
Make what you like and as long as there are not any allergies or obvious dislikes you shouldn't worry.

Stop it, Barbara, you’re making me hungry and I’ve just eaten 4 falafels xunked in hummus.

We're a vegetarian household. It wouldn't even enter my head to buy or cook meat for non-vegetarian visitors.

I love meat but I don't eat it at every meal, so I wouldn't be arsed about eating a vegan meal.

However if my friend was vegan and was preachy and referred to meat as a "rotting corpse" then you would get on my nerves.

Why are people so touchy about the corpse thing? It's what it is, the dead body of an animal. If you eat meat then presumably that doesn't bother you, so why the upset at someone calling it what it is?

If I went to a vegan household I would be delighted to have vegan food, but I am a bit fussy about textures not that it matters, so some potato dishes of whatever vegan variety and nice bread and vegan dips would satisfy me no worries.

OP you could have everyone going vegan if you pull this off! Best wishes.

Fascinating thread :)

You've apologised about the corpse comment OP and i acknowledge that.

You've really thrown the cat among the pigeons using those words though and made a more interesting thread

Majority of meat eaters here have said they would be fine to go to a vegan meal at a friend's house and many would be excited by it. Me included. All good.

I'm under no illusions about meat being dead flesh ect, but the corpse comment not going down well is kind of on a par with a meat eater asking on AIBU how best to deal with a vegan coming to dinner (all fine) but then right at the end of the post resigning themselves to being stuck with having a bowl of slimy lettuce all evening because that's all vegans really want to eat.

love it.

Cook a corpse.
This is why people are rude about vegans.

I’m vegetarian, I wouldn’t use dead corpse phrase.its provocative and preachy
Factually correct yes,but wanky.a preachy vegan gives everyone else a bad name

Why are people so touchy about the corpse thing? It's what it is, the dead body of an animal

Actually corpse refers specifically to humans.

corpse
kɔːps/Submit
noun
1.
a dead body, especially of a human being rather than an animal.
"the corpse of a man lay there"
synonyms: dead body, body, cadaver, carcass, skeleton; More

Thing is OP, you say you don't want to be "that vegan" and lecture, but by describing the normal human diet as consuming corpses, you are being "that vegan". It's bloody boring to listen to I used to work with one of those vegans.

Just cook your normal food and don't make a big deal about it. Your friends know you are vegan, so vegan food is what they will be expecting.

If they go on about the absence of meat then they are rude, but if you go on about the absence of meat then you are rude.

I love vegetarian and vegan food, but an ulterior motive would be certain to spoil my appetite. My best friend has been vegetarian since shortly after I met her more than 30 years ago, we often eat together but she respects my choices, and I respect hers. Peace and harmony reigns at least at mealtimes

Bon apetit

Cook vegan. They won't die of b12 deficiency from one meal. But no nasty fake sausages or similar mccartney crap!

Thai green curry sounds really nice. I was going to suggest something like that.

Why are people objecting to "cook a corpse"? What do they think meat is?

1. cook vegan

1. talk to them about veganism if they initiate conversation about veganism, but don't make it the focal point of the evening

1. relax and have a good evening

I always cook / expect to be cooked vegan or veggie as appropriate though I'm a meat eater.
It's important to them and I hope I'm a good enough friend to accommodate their choices.

I Have, however, served both vegan and dairy cream with a vegan pudding as I can't bear the taste of vegan cream.

Is that spelt right? because I can only see ape-tit now and were back to the "corpse" again

I have eaten vegan at vegan peoples home, no issue.

I’d expect to be fed a vegan meal and would be fine with that.

Any talk about ‘cooking a corpse’ would be labelling you as that kind of vegan Am doing I’m afraid my opinion of you would drop somewhat.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mr-2jb6oNA

I would expect vegans to provide vegan food, possibly vegetarian but would be surprised if they offered me meat

Bore off with your corpse comments though