To think that you don't walk into a vegan cafe with a Mcdonald's burger in your hand

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Had a lovely lunch yesterday at a bar that sells outstandingly good vegan food (I'm not vegan, but the food is insanely good).

As we were walking out DD asked if I had seen a family walk in with one of the children holding a Mcdonald's burger in their hand.

a) It is rude to bring your own food into a café anyway
b) It is breathtakingly rude to bring meat into a vegan café!

This place sells the most amazing chips, so they could easily have bought this child the chips instead of a McDonald's.

YNBU

It's fine to take baby food to a café/restaurant, but for toddlers and older children you buy food from wherever you're eating. If there's nothing your child likes then go somewhere else.

Very goady to take a Mcdonald's burger to a vegan café.

kinda like how sometimes groups of vegans holding anti meat signs go into steak restaurants?
or maybe they didnt know it was a pro vege restaurant
or maybe they wanted to get the kid something to shut him/her up and then be able to get themselves something nice?
i doubt it was a conscious anti veg pro meat act... simple innocence at work

And had you seen a family walk in with one of the children holding a mcdonalds burger?

As a non vegan, sick ofhowthe activists work with bombarding those who do eat meat in restaurants etc I havenoobjection to this.

YANBU. I'm not a vegan or vegetarian but I respect the choices others have made and I wouldn't go into that sort of environment with a meat product. I agree with the pp that it's rude anyway to take your own food into a cafe unless you seek permission first.

Probably thoughtlessness rather than an attempt to offend, but symptomatic of the lack of thought for others that seems more and more prevalent in society today.

Really? I've been a vegetarian for over 30 years and i can't get my head around anyone being bothered by a maccy d's. I just don't get why it's offensive or disrespectful.

People actually eat meat near me every day. Somehow I find the strength to carry on, cursing the butchers as I walk past it. Not.

I'm also unsure if you were in a bar that sells vegan food or a vegan cafe.

A bar, imo it really wouldn't be a big deal. People take takeaway food into bars fairly often locally.

Vegans are happy to walk into supermarkets/cafes etc spewing their anti meat anti dairy crap so yeah rock on bringing McDonald’s in to the vegan cafe!!

Surely the child simply won't want vegan food child was probably whining, parents grab a burger for child, then go grab lunch for themselves afterwards.

My main issue here is the rudeness and CFery of eating food bought elsewhere in a cafe/restaurant. Why do people do this?

I imagine the youngster in question refused to eat anything else
when my ds was a lot younger my dm took him to a cafe, with his macdonalds burger for him to eat.
bit naughty but forgivable

It's rude to take your own food into a cafe unless previously agreed. Full stop.

I don't think the fact that it's meat makes a difference. I also don't think that vegan protests in restaurants have any relevance either. Can't believe pp are justifying it on that basis!

Not crime of the century... but a bit thoughtless !!

Surely the child simply won't want vegan food

In that case I think the parents should have waited for the child to finish the burger rather than taking it into another cafe, or as the OP suggested, bought the child something generic such as chips.

I agree it’s a bit thoughtless but not rude. It’s food. We can’t all have the same opinions

I honestly couldn't get worked up about this. I presume people in that cafe will go to restaurant which sell meat and choose not to eat it..

YANBU on the first point. You shouldn’t bring your own food in to a cafe.

On the second point you are policing what other people are eating and are BU.

I imagine the youngster in question refused to eat anything else

Then they should have fed the child beforehand, or gone elsewhere.

My eldest ate very few foods until he was about 5. I never waltzed into a cafe or restaurant with food from somewhere else. We either compromised on where we ate, or ensured he was already fed and then had sticker books or colouring to keep him occupied.

It’s hard enough for restaurants without this sort of thing. And the argument ‘it’s just a one off/just a kid’ doesn’t hold - once they allow it once it’s incredibly hard to police.

I think it’s rude to take a MacDonald’s into any sort of cafe/restaurant. Almost as bad as taking it on the train!

The level of vegan hate on these sorts of threads always makes me roll my eyes. I don’t think I have ever seen vegans waving banners in a supermarket or outside a restaurant, yet according to threads like this it happens ALL the time.

The only place you can 100% ensure no one is eating something that you object to, is your own house.

I'm sorry I've just laughed at this

Seriously this is a non problem.

"Surely the child simply won't want vegan food"

Not even plain fries?

I'm not policing what other people eat BTW. I am an omnivore, but I do think it is unethical and rude to bring meat products into a place where everything they sell is vegan - all the drinks and all the food.

"'I'm also unsure if you were in a bar that sells vegan food or a vegan cafe."

Gotten it is a bar that sells vegan food. The provider of said food used to be a vegan café, and moved their business into the bar at the invitation of the owner, who is vegan.

Did anyone else mind op?