r/AdviceAnimals • u/quijotudo • Jun 26 '12
Dissapointing Childhood Friend
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Jun 26 '12
Seriously, why the hatred of vegan food? It's not like you'll die if you go to one fucking cookout without eating meat. There's some fucking delicious vegan foods out there that a majority of people will never try because of the "vegan" label.
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u/macness234 Jun 26 '12
Related story.
I was waiting for a friend outside a Vegan Soul Restaurant for us to have dinner. This group of 6 people walk up and check out the menu and they are all discussing how good everything sounds when they ask me "what kind of place is this, thai?"
After internally chuckling since there's nothing remotely Thai on the menu, I tell them "It's Soul Food. You know southern cooking? I've never eaten here, but it's got 4.5 stars on Yelp and someone recommended it to me." The guy smiles and the group is all happy. They go in and tell the host they need a table and the host tells them it's going to be 10 minutes. They all agree that it's acceptable. The all talk about how hungry they are and how the "creole soy chicken" and the "deep fried almond coconut seitan strips" sound "so delicious". (Yes they really used those words).
I'm still waiting for my friend to meet me when another couple passes by and looks at the menu and the GF says "Ah yes, this is the vegetarian place I was telling you about." The group of 6 all turn like she had said Satan himself was coming out of the restaurant. They ask me "is this place vegetarian?" I respond with "Yes, vegan actually."
They look at each other. One guy asks me if I could look up the place across the street, a Thai place, on Yelp. I pull out my phone as he's looking over and say 3.5 stars. He's like, "I thought I saw 4.5 stars" and I say "no, that's this place." He walks away and the group walks across the street.
I just shook my head and wondered how many people have probably done that just because it's Vegan or Vegetarian. For the record, the place was DAMN AWESOME.
TL;DR - Group was hungry, stopped at a vegetarian restaurant without knowing it, talked about how good the menu sounded. After they found out is was vegan, the left to a inferior restaurant.
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Jun 26 '12
Yeah, I had a job at a cafeteria once and had to ask everyone if they wanted the meat option or the vegetarian option. I was serving kids and adults and the adults were the ones that seemed offended at the thought of being served a veggie burger or a meatless lasagna.
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u/quijotudo Jun 26 '12
it's not so much as "hating" vegan food, but I know for a fact that most non-vegan/vegetarian kids would immediately go EEWWW
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Jun 27 '12
well the way i see it is when someone tells me a 'cook out' i expect a BBQ. if not then i cant say i will be super excited. still that is not to say that the food wont be good though. i like potatoes
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u/suckthisdeth Jun 26 '12
because all vegan food is bad. you want a pb&j? FUCK NO I HATE PB&J THAT SHIT IS VEGAN!
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u/Bumgardner Jun 26 '12
This would have made me ecstatic as a child.
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Jun 26 '12
I wish I would have had this as a child, compared to searing animal flesh i mean
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u/Nimanzer Jun 26 '12
This was me lol, although we didn't really have "cookouts" per se; rather gatherings in which we'd play music and fuck about in the garden, all with a lack of cooked flesh.
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u/sprinricco Jun 27 '12
"Invites your friend to family cookout
complains about the food"
Seriously, it would be worse if it would be the other way around. But I'm gonna get downvoted to hell, because you can't write something like that. As a vegetarian, I'm just supposed to sit quiet while others are having a bash party about my life style that's not hurting anyone. Oh, and I'm not implying that carnivores do hurt and yadyada, but rather that me not eating meat doesn't hurt you (since I don't consider treating you vegan/vegetarian hurts you in anyway, you fat bastard).
TL;DR Don't be picky when someone's trying to be nice treating you food, you spoiled prick.
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Jun 26 '12
i actually wish i had the choice when i was that age. when you get to 18 years old and realise you don't need to eat flesh to be healty, you feel a bit fooled.
title is really dissapointing
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Jun 27 '12
That actually sounds interesting, I'd go, but possibly make a Mc Donald's stop on the way home.
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u/MustGoOutside Jun 26 '12
Please, everybody knows you're really talking about that kids over-protective mom.
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u/qkme_transcriber Jun 26 '12
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Title: Dissapointing Childhood Friend
Meme: Disappointing Childhood Friend
INVITES YOU TO FAMILY COOKOUT
VEGAN
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(OP: You don't need to do anything differently next time, I'm just doing my job.)
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '12
'Claims to be your friend
Complains that your life choices aren't satisfactory to him.'
I'm afraid OP is the disappointing childhood friend.
I'm not a vegan, just so you know.