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To have asked him to choose a different sandwich

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Medsy · 30/03/2024 13:04

Don't know if it's because it's Easter or what but my local co-ops sandwich section was totally barren, only meat sandwiches left (I'm vegetarian). I saw a man go for the last cheese one there was, so I asked him if he was vegetarian and if not, would he mind if I had it? A woman (wife?) appeared and went batshit at me and called me rude.
It made me quite pissed off actually. I wouldn't have a problem with say a gluten free person asking me if they could have the last gluten free sandwich.
WIBU?

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SmileyClare · 02/04/2024 11:46

This reminds me a bit of being in a park with your kids. All the parents encouraging their dc to take turns, wait for a swing to become available or use the other equipment.
Then you occasionally get one pushy parent who strolls up to the swings and asks (ever so politely) if their little Bobby can go in the swing?

You either come across a bit rude and feel awkward by declining their polite request, or you let them have their own way and roll your eyes that they didn’t just wait their turn or go on something else, like every other cunt.

Devora13 · 02/04/2024 23:57

'Interesting. Because by my analysis, whether the animal sandwich gets eaten by him or by you, it's still getting killed for, and eaten by, one of you. So philosophically, you're equally complicit if you get him to buy it.'

This!

notjaneausten · 05/04/2024 10:20

Did you get the sandwich?

Medsy · 05/04/2024 10:27

notjaneausten · 05/04/2024 10:20

Did you get the sandwich?

Since that fateful day, I had not been able to put that sandwich out of my mind so yesterday I did indeed buy myself a cheese and onion sandwich plus roast beef and onion crisps but from M&S. WAY better than the co-op version

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notjaneausten · 05/04/2024 12:10

OP that sounds much better!

ZetuianRose · 05/04/2024 12:17

Medsy · 30/03/2024 13:16

Because you don't buy them because of preference, I don't buy them out of philosophy

😂😂😂

Sorry to break it to you, but vegetarianism is simply a dietary preference. It doesn’t matter what reason you have for that preference.

Unless every form of meat gives you a severe allergic reaction, then it’s nothing more than a preference, and you had no more right to the sandwich than anyone else. In fact, even if it was allergy based, he still doesn’t have to give you his sandwich.

TheOriginalEmu · 05/04/2024 13:18

Juicesausagecake · 02/04/2024 08:34

Come to think of it, what is the etiquette for when some random woman sidles up to your husband at the chiller cabinet and breathes huskily into his ear:…?

’you look like a man who likes meat’

What kind of a wife makes you buy packaged sandwiches. Doesn’t she know that THIS is a supermarket where bread and cheese are freely available to be bought separately?’

’Let’s crouch down here and take alternative bites while chewing the claggy mixture alluringly at each other with our mouths wide open’.

’Would you mind if I had the last vegetarian one’.

😂😂

Beasmum4 · 05/04/2024 13:31

Medsy · 05/04/2024 10:27

Since that fateful day, I had not been able to put that sandwich out of my mind so yesterday I did indeed buy myself a cheese and onion sandwich plus roast beef and onion crisps but from M&S. WAY better than the co-op version

Hey Medsy, you’re taking the piss eating the crisps of meat eaters. Was this an act of retaliation? 😂

Medsy · 05/04/2024 14:24

Beasmum4 · 05/04/2024 13:31

Hey Medsy, you’re taking the piss eating the crisps of meat eaters. Was this an act of retaliation? 😂

Hey chill! They have beef FLAVOURS not actual beef, I did my research😏

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