To call out my vegan friend?

[rubbishtalker]

I haven't known her very long, a few years. She is a work colleague. She is 'vegan' on social media, lots of photos and hash tagging and "cruelty free" style comments.

But a few months ago when we went out for a team lunch she ate pork. I've seen her eat cheese, chocolate etc before.

AIBU to comment something along the lines of ' I love how you see vegan meals as a healthy aspect to your current diet'?? I am starting to find it irritating.

I have been a vegetarian for twenty five years, but perhaps half a dozen times a year, when I am staying in an hotel for work, I enjoy a full English breakfast - bacon, sausages, eggs - although I draw the line at black pudding

Sorry, but how on earth are you a vegetarian if around half a dozen times a year you eat bacon and sausages?! You do know what a vegetarian is, right?!
You're an occasional meat eater, not a vegetarian.
I'm not even veggie or vegan, I eat meat and fish (not much, but I still do) but just because I only sometimes eat it doesn't mean that makes me a vegetarian.
Some people have some really weird ideas.
People like yourself are probably why when you ask for a veggie dish and they say stuff like "surely you can eat chicken though?" Or "pick the ham out or eat around it."
Makes proper vegetarians seem like they're being fussy and difficult.

Just take a photo of her next time she's eating meat/dairy and send it to her with a hashtag 'Busted!'

Dreamy You're not a vegetarian.

Dreamy You're not a vegetarian.

My point exactly, it's definitely thinking.

Aah rubbishtalker I wonder if you are talking of my ex....
Its amazing how she got on her soap box of being such an animal loving veggie and speaking of all the cruelty etc amd lecturing anyone stupid enough not to run...yet I witnessed her snaffle chicken nuggets when drunk and bacon....I also had a mate who insisted he was veggie that ate fish and would not accept he was a pescatarian (spelled wrongly I admit)...
AshamedandblamedAs a (not through choice but allergies)gluten/dairy free person with added severe shelfish allergy I also don't like people who claim to have allergies and then eat said products as it is frustrating that some people see it as a whim and it's hard enough finding places that cater for us and i have in the past been very ill having eaten at places that claimed they were gluten free.
I was behind somebody in a queue at our favorite veggie cafe who caters for GF /DF etc and one girl insisted on ordering GF pasta with her meal to "show support" for them selling it even though she wasn'tGF why???

Stop reading her posts?

Dreamy at what point does someone become (or not become) a vegetarian then? I'd love to see this vegetarian rule book you apparently have! If someone decides one day they're vegetarian and stops eating meat that very moment, are they ok to call themselves that? Or a person who has been veggie for 30 years eats chicken once then never eats meat again - are they an occasional meat eater?? it's simply not as binary an issue as you'd like to believe, is it.

The key is THEY decide they're vegetarian, not you or anyone else.

If someone decides one day they're vegetarian and stops eating meat that very moment, are they ok to call themselves that?

Yes, vegetarians have made the choice not to eat meat any more. If you continue to eat sausages and bacon, you’re not a vegetarian. You can call yourself one if you want but people will think you don’t understand what the word means.

Just block her so it doesn't annoy you.

If someone decides one day they're vegetarian and stops eating meat that very moment, are they ok to call themselves that?

Well,yes, as they've stopped eating meat.

If you continue to eat sausages and bacon, you’re not a vegetarian.

Exactly! Bloody hell.It's not rocket science, is it?!

not rocket science

Not read the whole thread but what exactly is the benefit to you? Just mute the posts.

Blowing out other people’s candles won’t make yours burn any brighter.

Love that Buxton

I have been a vegetarian for twenty five years, but perhaps half a dozen times a year, when I am staying in an hotel for work, I enjoy a full English breakfast - bacon, sausages, eggs - although I draw the line at black pudding. I see it as the same principle that my Methodist grandma, a staunch teetotaller, enjoyed her weekly glass of home made rhubarb wine - easily as alcoholic as the heaviest Australian claret

Yes, you can see it in exactly the same way, in that you are not a vegetarian and she was not a teetotaller.