Vegan wedding

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Would it be asshole-ish of me to smuggle babybels in my handbag?

The menu looks very tiny, and I don't intend to eat it in front of anyone, just find a dark corner. It's the only meal at the whole event.

I did think of peperami but it's vile and stinky.

Yup.

If you're out, you're trying to avoid onions...but then most things are cooked with onions...and I'm supposed to miss out garlic, which I love.

Go to a buffet and look for rice...but then you have difficulty in finding plain rice.

I took a couple of friends out for afternoon tea as a thank you. It was confirmed that I could get gluten free.

My pals got quiche and sausage rolls alongside their sandwiches. I got two miniature sandwiches, a pile of oatcakes (which I like) and hummas... (I kept thinking "What? Not even a scraping of paté?")

I confess to lacking in sophistication. I ate it, not knowing that the ingredients were on the forbidden list.

Especially as the groom has now decided to no longer be vegan.

Presumably too late to change the catering, though. Are you going to post the menu, OP? I love poring over a menu.

Could you wear the babybels as earrings? Hidden in plain sight. Maybe fashion a brooch out of a pasty? And a marmalade sandwich under your hat?

Not true. Before humans learnt how to create fire and use to cook food they used to eat raw meat

This is a bit righteous tbh. I'd take the Babybel. Can't be doing with imposing rules on people.

Before humans learnt how to create fire and use to cook food they used to eat raw meat

Not every day, surely. I thought the current thinking was that humans back in prehistory were scavengers eating anything they could find, and a lot of that could be plants, supplemented by birds' eggs, honey, insects, dead animals, and very occasionally fish or raw meat after a successful hunt.

Sorry that should say before they learnt how to make a fire then cooked their meat. Giving my baba a bottle. Can't trye properly one handed 😅

If Babybell is your snack of choice, I'm nor sure you are beat judge of decent food, vegan or otherwise 🤔

Decent food is decent food and inedible stuff is inedible- it's not the meat or lack of that is the problem- it's the chef.

Its only relatively recently that our diet isn't one with minimal meat and dairy.

This is fundamentally untrue.

Meat has been an important component of the human diet.... always. There are hypotheses that a diet containing highly nutritious meat enabled us to develop larger brains. There are many parts of the world where we simply would not survive without consuming animal products.

Honestly you wouldn’t be an arse hole but you’d be embarrassing. Grow up.

Why is the whole thing vegan?
I'd assumed it was religious/cultural but presumably not if the groom's now not vegan.
A relative is vegan but offered omnivorous and vegan/vegetarian food at their wedding.

Having said that, it seems a bit excessive to "smuggle in" food.
Is the menu really tiny, or is it just that you don't like much of the food?
Like others, I'd be interested to be given an idea of what's on offer.

I thought the current thinking was that humans back in prehistory were scavengers eating anything they could find, and a lot of that could be plants, supplemented by birds' eggs, honey, insects, dead animals, and very occasionally fish or raw meat after a successful hunt.

Have you read this on a pro vegan website? 🤔

Seriously? Would you feel equally “uncomfortable” at a Jewish or Muslim wedding? How is that different to a Hindu vegan wedding?

I'm vegan, I know lots of vegans -and I don't know a single one who would care if you brought your own babybels.

Bearing in mind we sit in restaurants surrounded by meat and dairy, and walk through supermarkets. It's totally fine. Just don't bring a roasted hog's head in a tupperware tub - anything else is fine

This. It's the only way!

https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/evidence-for-meat-eating-by-early-humans-103874273/#:~:text=The%20diet%20of%20the%20earliest,Milton%201999%3B%20Watts%202008).

Possibly you've read this sort of thing, which is talking about pre homo-sapiens hominids 2.4 million years ago

If you read about early modern humans (much more recently - 200,000 years ago) there's a much greater reliance on animal protein.

Is this the wedding cake? How can a menu look tiny 😐

Ok fair enough

Do people really worry this much about one meal. It's just so privileged.

My dear old Mum used to go on about "starving people in Africa" when I didn't eat up my dinner in the 60s, and we just ignored her. But really, It's just one meal.

No, I am an omnivore myself. Obviously meat has played an important part in human diet all over the world all through time, but hunting is difficult and dangerous, so freshly killed meat won't have been an everyday food. I didn't think it was particularly controversial to say that humans must always have also eaten roots, leaves, stems, seeds, fruits, nuts, grains and animal foods that aren't huge hunks of raw mammoth, or (once we mastered fire) huge hunks of roast mammoth.

Two babybells aren't going to stop then going hungry. They are tiny

I'd say if a babybel is enough to fill you up you should be fine with a small menu 🙄

Be careful of the wax OP. I took a few babybel in my handbag and the wax ended up over my make up bag. Pop them in a bag in case the wax rubs off on anything, also the little packs of 5/4 oatcakes go well with them! I’d take a snack if the menu is small and poor, you’ll probably not be the only guest with a snack in their bag.

Yeah it's like look I've bought Cheese to the wedding I'm such a rebel