Hosting Etiquette?!
Answers: As a meat eater,if I invite my vegitarian or vegan frineds over for dinner, I will research a recipe outside my repitior and practise a new vegitarian or vegan meal. On the other hand if I go to thier place for dinner, no consideration is shown to me regarding my chosen meat eater diet. Is this considered fair or selfish? what would I be if I disregarded thier diets?
It is kind and polite of you to go to the trouble of learning a new recipe for them.
It would be pointless to serve up a dish that had meat included to vegan/ vegetarian friends. It's probably ok to cook meat separately, and serve them only the veggies that go with it, however this would probably defeat the purpose of having invited your friends in the first place. But it should not be offensive.
It is of course, entirely possible, that your friends try to make their 'meatiest' recipe when you come over. But it is their diet that is more limited than yours, so it is fair for them not to cook meat for you.
Consider if they were allergic to peanuts, it would not be unfair of them not to serve you peanuts.
Just remember, the idea of having friends over for dinner is to have a good time. Enjoy the experience of cooking for them and increasing your repetoir. As well as enjoying the food they prepare for you.
You would be well within your rights old boy. Your right of course if you went to there house for dinner it would be rabbit food for starters and mains. I suggest you serve up roast swan to your veggie dinner guests. Tip top.
Well, if they don't eat meat, then I guess don't serve them meat. If they eat seafood, then serve that. They are omitting meat from their diet. Basically, you eat everything they eat, with meat as an extra thing, so why would they cook you a juicy big steak, contaminating their pan, when you eat the same stuff they eat? Because they are so used to cooking it it probably tastes nicer even if it is rabbit food! You could always take yourself round a barbecue chicken... LOL
a complete plonker.
You show them respect when you entertain them they are reurning your hospitality.
If you you think they are selfish then dont bother going.
I'm a meat eater.
why bother
Simple- As an omnivore you eat meat and non-meat foods.
So if they serve non-meat foods you can eat it and they aren't being rude.
I would find it sad if every single meal you had needed to contain meat. Enjoy the vegetarian meals.
It's unusual for anyone to eat only meat; most meat-eaters sometimes eat meals containing no meat, and enjoy them. Few if any meat-eaters object to vegetables on moral grounds.
Your veg*n friends don't eat meat, and may very well object to it on moral grounds. Do you really think it's reasonable to expect them to cook you meat? Especially when a meal containing no meat is almost certainly perfectly acceptable to you?
They can't eat meat meals and; you can eat vegetarian meals - simple as that. It would be unreasonable to expect someone to buy, prepare and serve meat when they have a moral objection to doing so.
Well done on doing research and making an effort to cook different and interesting meals - if more meat-eaters did that we wouldn't have to eat so many baked potatoes.
Wow. Well, if cooking a new dish is that much trouble for you, why even have dinner parties with your vegetarian or vegan friends? There's movies, concerts, sporting events and all kinds of other possibilities for spending time with them where food isn't the primary focus.
First of all, I think it's awesome of you to try new recipes to accomodate your vegetarian friends. It's very thoughtful of you.
And no, I don't think it's the least bit unfair or selfish that your vegetarian friends don't serve you meat when they host you. Would you expect a Jewish friend to serve you pork or lobster?
And keep in mind: we're vegetarians, we're not idiots. (Well, most of us aren't, anyways.) We know that if we're cooking for a non-vegetarian, we're gonna prepare something that you'll enjoy - why would we waste our time, money, and effort on a meal you won't eat? We're very well aware that you're probably not going to dig a kelp casserole with a tall glass of wheatgreass juice.
If you disregarded your vegetarian friends' diets, well that's your perrogative, but you can be sure you'll be eating alone.
Frankly, it doesn't bother me that much if served a purely vegetarian diet when visiting a vegetarian's home. I can always eat later anyway which I often do if the food sucks vegetarian or not.
As for you serving a vegetarian meal, think of it this way. If your guest is a diabetic, you are probably not going to serve anything loaded with sugar right? Because there is a restriction in the diet? But since you are an omni, meat AND pant foods are okay with you so being served a purely vegetarian meal is not being particularly rude. And for example, you don't expect to be served pork in a Islamic household simply because you eat pork do you? That's not rude right of the host right?
Besides if they are your friends, the food is secondary to the conversation and the camaraderie. Like I said, just do like I do: have a cheeseburger after.
You would not be a very nice friend if you disregard their diets! It is their choice to not eat meat so then you cannot give it to them. If you go to their house then you don't eat meat for one meal - however are you really suffering? Are you left starving? There are so many tast veggie dishes that I am sure you will not even miss the fact that you are not eating meat.
It is the same with other diets. If someone cannot have lactose, you are not going to give them a bowl of cream now are you?
If you want to eat meat all the time, then bring a piece of meat with you...
Not everyone eats meat, as you have discovered. However, just about everyone eats plant foods, so if they cook you a pasta dish or a stir-fry without meat, are you really going to object because it doesn't have meat in it? They're not disregarding your diet when they cook a vegetarian dish for you because you have no moral objections to vegetarian food, right? But vegetarians do have objections to meat dishes and will not cook them in their homes.
You can even cook vegetarian and vegan dishes for yourself, even if no veg friend is coming over; many omnivores will do meatless days or have the occasional meatless meal because that's what they want.