A question for vegetarians...?!
A question for vegetarians...?
What's the funniest/most irritating/original/silly thing people have told you when you told them you were vegetarian? Please share :)
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Oftentimes we can think of the rude statements ("if god didn't want us to eat animals why are they made out of MEAT") or the ignorant statements (SOME vegetarians eat fish), but I would like to take a moment to share an amusing story.
:)
I went to my local book franchise to get a soy caramel latte and had this conversation with the lady behind the counter:
ME - Can I have a soy, caramel latte please.
HER- (smiling) Hmmm, what's soy milk made out of anyway?
ME - It's made from soy beans
HER- Beans?
ME - (Trying my best to stumble through explaining the process of making soy milk)
HER- So, there is no soy cow?
ME - (laughing a bit) No, no cow.
HER- (laughing too) Well, I don't know, you could feed it enough soy beans...
*at this point her friend starts laughing at her and says it doesn't work that way... At this point I am thinking that a soy cow would kindof defeat the purpouse of not drinking milk, but don't because this is all pretty funny*
ME - Still laughing, but not too hard. "I think it would still be milk"
HER- Well, you never know, (in a tone of voice looking toward a hopeful future) it could be new innovations in farming!
END SCENE
:)
It was just really funny how it didn't even occur to her that someone could specifically not want milk from a animal. Although it is a bit disturbing when you think about it, I enjoyed the conversation because she was very innocent about it. It is the first conversation I remember having with someone about veg*nism without them having preconceived opinions or weapons ready to fire.
And it was certainly original.
:)
It reminded me of when I was a kid and I thought there was a chocolate milk cow.
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no one had said anything really , apart from are you really vegetarian
I like PETA too (People Eating Tasty Animals)
i couldnt be a vegetarian, just the way i was brought up
They said 'That explains it then'! Couldn't get them to explain further......
"Don't plants feel"....Dohnuts.
Or.."Arn't thos leather shoes..." Grrrr
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It's the way my mum keeps asking me if I want some jelly, and I'm sort of thinking 'mum! that's short for gelatine!'.. I was surprised a few days ago though, she found some jelly that was veggy suitable, quite tasty too. Most of the jelly she tries to get me to eat isn't though, and I just wonder when the message is going to get through...
Don't worry, it's fish.
on holiday last year i mentioned to a felow guest that my daughter sometimes found it difficult to find something to eat as she was a vegetarian, she eagerly informed me that it shouldn't be a problem in the hotel as there was always a chicken dish on the menu, thinking she had misheard i told her she couldn't eat that as she was a vegetatian, she then told me of a fried chicken take-away round the corner, i just smiled and thanked her lol
then what do you eat? as if there was only the corpse of dead animals for humans 2 feed on!!!!!! disgusting mannnn!!!!!!
"No meat? But you're surely eating salami ..."
I would, but my doctor says I can't.
A surprising large amount of people I meet have apparently discussed this with their doctors and have found they have rare problems that mean they can't be veg.
Bullsh**. They could at least be lacto-ovo.
I did know a girl who was brought up vegetarian. She was overweight, and her doctor told her if she wanted to lose weight that she was missing some amino acid or another and would have to eat chicken. Excuse me, maybe I'm being ignorant here, but what would chicken have in it that an egg wouldn't? She tried it a couple times, was disgusted, switched to Weight Watchers and got really skinny.
An old housemate of mine went on a date with a guy who used to be vegan...until he learned to accept death. :-p
"Meat is too good. Why would you want not to have any." "We are at the top of the food chain, if we don't eat it, then we are messing up the food chain." Aren't those the most ridiculous responses you've heard in long time.
Hi! I got a few:
ME: Oh I'm sorry, I don't eat meat.
LADY: Oh it's ok, this is fish.
PERSON: What do you mean you don't meat?!
ME: Um, just that I don't eat living things.
PERSON: Well, plants are living things!!
ME: Let's put it this way, things that have a face.
PERSON: A flower has a face! What do you think the petals are?!
DOH!!!!!!!!!!
Oh well, you learn to ignore! Hehe... xx
OH! I remembered another one ;]
ME: I'm a vegetarian.
TEACHER: But you eat fish right?
ME: No, I don't eat fish.
TEACHER: You don't eat meat, you don't eat fish - WHAT DO YOU EAT?!
And this is my school headmaster. HELP! =)
(on being presented with a plate of meaty stew):
"...I'm so sorry, I was sure that I'd mentioned that I'm vegetarian"
"But you veggies eat, chicken, right?"
"Umm, no, I'm a VEGE- tarian"
"I guess chicken is meat, fine, but you eat fish, don't you?"
"No. Never have. That'll be because I'm a ... vegetarian."
"Oh.... Can't you just... pick the meat bits out?"
"Forget it. I hope you don't mind if I skip the stew... I can just have the vegetables. It's fine, it's what I usually do at home..."
"Sure. Hey we have some great roast potatoes"
"Aw, yum!" (tucking in)
"Yeah, we cook them in dripping, the old fashioned way... makes them really crunchy..."
I usually request their 'fantastic, special pasta and spicy tomato sauce, you know the one you did last time' when I go round there now, as, despite it being neither fantastic nor special, at least I know I'm safe with that one! :0)
Well, this is pretty funny.
I used to go to a small public school WAY out in the boonies in Arkansas. Alot of rednecks (i..e.. kids being dropped off to school in a pick up with pigs in the back..)
Anyway.. During the Summer after 5th grade I went vegetarian. So during 6th grade my classmates were still getting used to it. Here's an ACTUAL conversation I had with one.. I swear..and they WEREN"T Joking
Classmate: Want half of my balogna sandwich?
Me: I don't eat meat anymore
Classmate: Oh yeah, that's right.. you're a VeterINARIAN now, huh?
LOLlll.
Yup, an eleven year old vet. The animal's Doogie Houser!! LOL..
everyone I know has asked at some point what about chicken?
I am in good health, rarely have colds or digestive problems, like walking, gardening and keeping fit and I think I look a normal, healthy colour. When I mentioned, during a chat to my next door but one neighbour, that I was a vegetarian, she looked genuinely concerned and exclaimed, 'Oh dear! Do you feel alright? - you must be desperately short of protein and vitamins!'
People do get the strangest ideas!!
Once while taking a trip through Kansas I stopped at a small restaurant for lunch. After searching through their whole menu for something to eat I finally decided to order a cheese sandwich. The waitress asked, "What kind of meat do you want on that?" I said, "Just cheese,lettuce, and tomato." She seemed confused and finally said, "I don't know if the cook can make it like that - but I'll ask."
I've also been told to "just pick the meat out of it" when a dish was prepared with meat. When I suggested, "If I cooked something with cat poop in it could you just pick the poop out and eat the rest?" I was then regarded as being unreasonable.
Go figure.
Well, once when I told somebody I was vegetarian they asked me; "So where do you do your food shopping?"
I don't know if they believed me or not when I answered; "Tesco - same as everybody else!!"
this one guy said to me "well I have to eat meat as my religion says I do" I asked what religion that was, he said *drum roll plz* "catholic....."
I ain't religious but Im sure nowhere in the bible does it say "and on the 8th day god said...kill animals and eat them or you shall burn in hell"
alsoI had one person ask me "why aren't you anorexically thin, vegetarians are becasue its a scientific fact its bad for you" so basically callign me fat (which Im not!) and then sayign science had said we're unhealthy...whcih is the complete opposite of the truth obv!
I;ve had "but we need meat to live we'd die if we didn;t eat meat" ok so I'm dead then? WOW! call the news this is front pqage stuff if you;re talking to a dead girl!
I've also been told that I lack intelligence for beign vegetarian as its not good for the brain....I must be doing the PhD in Law for dummies then....
ahhh hilarious stuff some meat eaters are surely deranged!
its ok to hurt a carrot then? how rediculous can people be?
irritant #1 : "but brooke, what about killing the plants. they have feelings too. its just as bad."
irritant # 2 : "i'm just worried your not getting enough protein/calcium/food" (i'm vegan, not anorexic)
silly : "oh your vegan, okay. do you want blueberry pie or canolies?" that came from my mimi. though she's 86 so i just don't think she gets it. :)
My favourite is 'no you're not'. along with
'what about chicken?'
'so what do you eat?'
'god gave us the teeth we have so we could eat meat'
'thats why animals are on the earth'
'so you don't eat sweets?'
'tree hugger'
various rabbit food comments..
and of course the winning one - 'WHY??'
Someone asked me if I was a vegetarian because I hated plants, and if so, was that why I wanted to eat them. It was really weird...but I think they were joking.
My funniest thing was said to me by a co-worker. I don't even know how we came onto the topic of my vegetarianism, but after I told her I was vegetarian she said "I could never be vegetarian, I don't have enough room in my medicine cabinet for all the vitamins." I just nodded my head, and said nothing.
Another funny story was last week I was invited to go to a restaurant. The only thing that could be considered vegetarian was the house salad, so I said I wasn't really enthused about going. My mother turns to me and say "can't you just pretend like there is no meat in some of the dishes. If you don't know for sure then what is the difference."
My mother used to tell me corned beef was OK to eat as it was not real meat. Left over beef also passed the test as it was cold!
it makes me laugh when you get accused of missing meat because you eat quorn. 'why do u eat it if you dont crave meat then?' they say....
i say......'same reason you drink milk..i like it and its good for me....unless, or course you are just CRAVING your mothers breast milk.......??????'
that shuts them up.....
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