To not let my sister bring her own meat on Christmas day!

[FelizNavidadAmiga]

First off, we are a strictly vegan household for moral reasons. I invited my sister for Christmas lunch as she is recently divorced and has nowhere else to go. I usually put on a magnificent spread with roast vegetables, tagine, stuffed peppers, vine leaves, falafel, home made hummus etc. My sister has just sent me a message saying she's going to bring her own chicken to cook. AIBU to say no way! I don't want chicken cooking in my nice clean vegan oven! Plus the smell makes me feel ill 🤢 I don't want to upset her as she's very sensitive at the moment but surely she can do without chicken for 1 day.

How is it immature to be honest about what meat is? I hate to be the one to break it to you, but it is indeed a dead animal!

That's a bit of a melodramatic reaction.
Do you have an intolerance to all vegetables?

I completely disagree. Having said that I would have something in that a guest would enjoy, but expecting vegans to provide meat for a guest is beyond rude.

It would be the same as expecting a Jew to provide pork or a Muslim to provide wine.

Sorry, your food sounds awful. On the other hand, taking one's own meat to a non-meat household is just crass.

You really didn’t need to add the first sentence.

Its not necessary to say it, is it? The only reason a person says that is because like a silly kid they are trying to gross people out. That's all. That's the entire purpose. Its immature and not very intelligent.

And people really don't need to add that meat is dead animals....

Will only eat potatoes and carrots, apparently.

Oh FFS. Telling someone their food sounds awful is an opinion and an insult. Describe meat as dead animals is factual - even if it’s a fact you’d rather not acknowledge.

We are veggie but I let my guests bring precooked meat for their Christmas Dinner. I do all the rest of the trimmings but we have mushroom strudel and but roast. They have their pre cooked meat. Everyone is happy!

Yes. I read that after I posted

Intolerances and allergies excepted there seem to be a few posters with eating disorders on this thread.

I'm not vegan or even vegetarian, but if I was I would cook something my guests would enjoy, even if it meant buying fake meat and roasting a few potatoes.

We don't know if the OP's sister likes the menu. It sounds like she wanted chicken in addition to what was on offer.

Another sensible and adaptable person!
Happy Christmas.

Your menu sounds great. I'm a vegetarian (often vegan) and I wouldn't dream of bringing cheese or th like to yours, even though I'll eat lots of it over Xmas.

Anyone can go without any type of food for one day/meal surely

Oh FFS! Describing food as 'dead animals' is immature and obnoxious, and you know it!

The food sounds lovely to me, but even if other people think it's not it's just rude to make it clear you're unhappy with the food if someone's kind enough to host you.

Anyone hosting for a Large group doesn't check with everyone if it suits, most hosts make a 'spread' of dishes that guests could select from. Some bland like potatoes and some more adventurous. Whether the selection is meat, vegan, veggie honestly shouldn't matter to the extent of bringing pre prepared food unless it's bring a dish or allergy based.

No, it’s factual. And l’m a meat eater. Most people refer to the remains of their Christmas turkey as ‘the carcass’. Odd that only meat eaters here seem to have a problem with the terminology.

Calling vegetarian foods 'dead vegetation' would be factual too, but we don't do it because it would sound like we were trying to make some sort of point, plus there is already a standard way of referring to 'vegetables', just like there is for 'meat'.

I can only see one person guilty of those accusations.

If you type " turkey carcass" into Google it brings up gazillions of recipes for a carcass, the dictionary definition of which is the dead body of an animal,

Another meat eater here.

If you’ve invited someone, they get what they’re given, unless they’re veggie/vegan , in which case they could bring something. I think that’s different, you can’t be expected to eat meat if you’re normally veggie, but you’re hosting and it’s a non-meat household. As pp mentioned earlier, you wouldn’t take pork to a Jewish household, this is no different.

I suspect that @wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting had had too many sherries, looking at the utter crap they were posting and the time of the posts. Either that or their mummy had let them stay up late because of it being Christmas.

Drunk old lady troll or unintelligent teenager troll, I can't quite decide? 🤔

Someone of ME would eat this food regularly (as do I), so how is it a special or celebratory meal? Tasty, but its not a one off

What privilege is that?

Being curious about flavours and items in the supermarket, being curious and investigating different recipes whether by instinct/tv/books, engaging with the kitchen to learn how to make all sorts of things.

Dear IdylicDay I don’t know what your grown up self believes about meat. You are obviously in denial and don’t like to know the reality.
I realised I wouldn’t kill to eat meat. Therefore it wasn’t acceptable that I should allow others to kill for me.
We all have our lines that we decide not to cross. And the OP has made her family’s ethical lines clear. They are not being childish. It is a very honorable and deep line. It’s not about ‘not liking meat’.
Have you read how Chris Packham has had to resign as chair of RSPCA today because of the cruelty practiced at their recommended abattoirs? Just think what the un recommended ones are like. Christmas is about life and birth which many feel should not be celebrated through the suffering and death of others.

I dont have a problem with the terminology. I love dead animals, they make tasty food.