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So a vegan just left the dinner table to sit outside
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Inferno313
Banned
Those poor, poor plants.
Confronting someone's stance isn't being aggressive. I'll ask questions about what they think. I'll see if they're truly "bout it bout it" as their leaving the dining room suggests. I'm not yelling at them, but I would be laughing if in the course of the conversation, I find that a person is a vegetarian that eats chicken, or a vegan that eats cupcakes with "regular" icing.
Gordon Shumway
Banned
I'd laugh at the situation for a couple and move on. Geezuz. Everyone eats something someone else thinks is fucked..grow the hell up lol..
frankie_baby
Member
I'd throw them both out and tell them they werent welcome back
I don't mind, or rather can tolerate eating at the same table as meat eaters but if it was stinking hot weather and indoors was poorly ventilated I could conceivably see myself opting to eat outdoors instead as fish especially can be really smelly. My dad is meat and potatoes as they come and he can't eat lamb or sea food without puking his guts out for days so the smell understandably doesn't agree with him either.
Some of you are right twats to vegans. I'll resist the temptation to make a compilation of shit posts from this topic.
Some of you are right twats to vegans. I'll resist the temptation to make a compilation of shit posts from this topic.
If you're a recovering alcoholic, do you get upset when people drink in front of you? I can maybe understand if its your friends and they constantly make fun of you for not drinking and calling you a wuss. But you can't get mad at dinner if someone is drinking wine.
if you don't like seeing people eating meat in front of you, ask them politely before hand not to do so. Don't fucking expect it like you're the Queen of England.
Its not like you were waiting in line at the ATM and someone brought out a fucking steamed fish and ate it in front of you. It's your god damn girlfriend's parents house. show some respect.
I dont hate the guy for being vegan. I hate the guy for being a disrepectful, selfish twat.
This. Life is too short, and the world is full of too many people to bother with folks like that. It's not worth getting upset over. It really isn't. Strike them off the invite list for get togethers/dinner and move on. If you can't find it in you to respect the host, you shouldn't be invited anyway. Waste away alone in your own home while everyone else enjoys the family's company.
TheRedSnifit
Member
I would. Yum yum.
C
Contica
Unconfirmed Member
Well, typing something on the internet has a way of making things sound like a bigger deal than it is. I also tend to be (irl) percieved as angry when debating something, since I can get very enthusiastic. Put those two together and most people in here probably think I'm seeing red and frothing at the mouth right now.
Lol, I'm not expecting anything at all. That's the first thing you learn when going vegan.
kiunchbb
www.dictionary.com
I am just taking a wild guess here, may be the vegan dish suck?
Being a vegetarian I really don't know how to respond when someone is being considerate and ordered me a plain rice with stream veggie while everyone else are eating fish and lobster.
Vegetarian meal is hard to cook due to limitation on ingredients, I can't imagine how much harder it would be for vegans. You can't just take a meat recipe and substitution the meat with mushroom.
Next time when you prepare vegan option, ask yourself this, "can I eat just this for dinner?" If the answer is "no" for you then it would be the same for a vegan, we have taste buds too you know.
Being a vegetarian I really don't know how to respond when someone is being considerate and ordered me a plain rice with stream veggie while everyone else are eating fish and lobster.
Vegetarian meal is hard to cook due to limitation on ingredients, I can't imagine how much harder it would be for vegans. You can't just take a meat recipe and substitution the meat with mushroom.
Next time when you prepare vegan option, ask yourself this, "can I eat just this for dinner?" If the answer is "no" for you then it would be the same for a vegan, we have taste buds too you know.
bunbun777
Member
sorry I only read the first page but I don't think anyone had proffered the idea of... discussion? I mean he either is honestly hurt by the presence of the fishes being eaten or he's a tool but which is it? Like was he crying outside or was he indignant? I guess I should read on...
AppleSeason
Member
Wait until you meet the vegan police. They are literally the IRL version of the guys in Scott Pilgrim Vs The World. I have had vegan friends crucified for something like using a bath bomb that honey (bomb was a gift) and being suddenly classified as fakes.
Pretty simple solution, eat with the family or don't eat at all. If you are going to pass judgement on those eating meat at the dinner table but still accept a meal from those same people, you're a shitty hypocrite.
Him leaving the table accomplishes no net positive other than swaying his own self-imposed guilt and putting his wife in a shitty position.
Him leaving the table accomplishes no net positive other than swaying his own self-imposed guilt and putting his wife in a shitty position.
Holy shit.
Vacation is when I get to relax my own dietary restrictions for a bit, I sure as fuck am not incorporating someone else's because of some emotional blackmail.
Raptomex
Member
Yeah, fuck him, OP. But get your sister with the program.
Astral Dog
Member
A year, they spread very fast
Lil'DigiOp
Member
I would have said
"get the fuck over yourself lame"
"get the fuck over yourself lame"
You don't usually have to ask if someone is vegan. That's usually what they tell you after their name.
Lol yup
I guess the problem is, most non-vegan dishes have meat as a major component so we meat-folk often struggle to understand how to replace the meat. The real solution though is not to replace the meat but to pick something that doesn't have meat in the first place. I personally would just ask my sister as her husband is vegetarian.
cartographer
Member
It depends on how he did it. There's a certain amount of disrespect in stepping away from the dinner table for a lot of people, but it doesn't have to be a big thing. If he understands the meal was prepared with the best intentions then I'm sure he might feel bad about needing to step away. If this is going to be the new normal then at least this can be avoided in the future.
But it does sort of feel like this thread turned into an airing of grievances. People really feel the need to shit talk it.
But it does sort of feel like this thread turned into an airing of grievances. People really feel the need to shit talk it.
Snkfanatic
Banned
Really don't know what this has to do with the OP though...they left the table for other reasons. If you are trying to find a nice way to say your food sucks I don't think using the excuse that a fish is being consumed at the same table as you, is your go to excuse.
TheCochese
Banned
Legit chortled.
Lol
Sounds like the Apple fanboy equivalent of Veganism. If he didn't like it, he could've quietly left without protest and explained afterwards why he left to anyone who asked, no need to be a dick and try to ruin everyone else's dinner.
GrooveCommand
Member
Based on the information provided in the OP, I think it would be hard to say that the brother-in-law expects all his whims to be catered to. He was uncomfortable and excused himself. It's not a personal or disrespectful act in and of itself.
You know nothing about the guy other than he chose to eat outside and yet you *hate* him and think he is a disrespectful selfish twat? Anger issues mate.
Dude will obviously be a very accommodating person and grateful to be hanging with family and friends while on vacation, based on the little info we have.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
Thats...rude
Ask them to take you to their favorite Vegan place and just keep making a scene as to why there are no non-vegan options. When they eventually give you something, just leave then go get some fast food and bring it back to the restaurant.
I have a handful of vegan friends and they aren't assholes about it like this.
Ask them to take you to their favorite Vegan place and just keep making a scene as to why there are no non-vegan options. When they eventually give you something, just leave then go get some fast food and bring it back to the restaurant.
I have a handful of vegan friends and they aren't assholes about it like this.
I was specifically responding to a poster who sounds personally bitter that when they attend dinners hosted by non-vegans, there are non-vegan dishes served and they feel they are being herded into the vegan ghetto with separate but equal dishes.
fredrancour
Member
"I will not eat at a table at which nonvegan dishes are being served" is an uncommon enough clause to veganism that I feel like the obligation was on him to mention that sooner. I can't say it's inconsistent with an anti-meat moral stance, but if you feel that someone's diet is too immoral to share a room with, accepting a dinner invite seems like a bad plan
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Deleted member 17706
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That's extremely rude. I think if someone in my family, extended or not, did that they would be asked to leave and would never receive any invitations to future get-to-togethers.
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
I didn't tell anyone when I was vegan because of these types of responses.
Whenever people found out I'd immediately get shit about it. They only found out when they saw what I was eating/I ate a meal that gave it away.
Just wasn't worth the bullshit
Eh then maybe the family thinks they said something to offend him. This would probably have been worse.
Let's be honest that there was no great outcome once they got to the point of dinner and this hadn't been talked about.
You missed this gem; they're going on a family vacation soon.
sorry i don't mean hate. but he is being disrespectful and selfish.
TheCochese
Banned
ThingontheFloor
Member
Goddamn, one vegan steps out of line and it's open season against them all with some of you. What's with all the hostility and pent up aggression? I've seen way more tired "don't worry they'll tell you" and "mmm BACON" jokes than moral superiority from vegans.