Do Vegetarians and Vegans Think They Are Better Than Everyone Else?

Some nonvegetarians squeal like the proverbial stuck pig when there is no meat on the table.
Vegetarians, on the other hand, tend to quietly restrict themselves to salad and or nonmeat side dishes when no meatless entree is offered.

I just have never experienced vegetarians complaining or being preachy.

The person who started the thread is the one who said his conscience requires him to serve meat.

 

Now we are cutting to the chase.

 

Do you have Ragu on ignore?

 

I've never thought of him as preachy about his diet because I've only seen him post about it on threads such as this one - when the topic is diet/food/recipes/etc.
I just haven't seen him interject his diet as a topic unless it was relevant to the overall discussion.

 

No. No one should complain. If you want to whine on the way home, that's your right. Complaining about the hospitality of friends who invited you to their home and fed you is some ungrateful bullshit.

On the other hand, inviting someone to dine at your home and not providing anything they can eat is similarly rude.

 

My post was tongue-in-cheek. Partly.

I was in a meeting last year in which the four other people, as the meeting was just forming up, got sidetracked into a 10-minute discussion about the delights of a vegan recipe one of them had tried. They all were vegans, as it turned out. I sat there politely, since I could offer nothing to the discussion, but they still managed to throw some jabs at me.

I guess, by my silence, they assumed that I am a meat-eater, and that led to a couple of really snotty remarks. I didn't even know these people well, but right away I was The Enemy or something. I smiled politely, and finally the meeting moved on. But what a fucked-up dynamic that was.

I realize it works both ways. And I can find something to eat, or go without, at almost any party or group setting.

Don't much want to hang out with militant vegans, though.

 

Shitty people are shitty people. But you (assumedly) wouldn't go to a Sunday Dinner Party with any of those people.

 

But office teams are social settings, too.

 

What snotty remarks did they make?

 

Here's a thought: Don't go.

Or, as was covered earlier in this thread, if you want to go to an event but you're afraid your host will not offer meat and you have to have it, do what vegetarians and vegans have been doing forever: Eat before you go or bring your own food.

 

Not to mention, if it's Thanksgiving there's probably going to be plenty of other basics: stuffing, potatoes, rolls, yams, veggies, etc etc. Stuff yourself on those goodies unless you just *have* to have turkey because it's Turkey Day.

Easter? Eh, I'm Jewish so I don't know how to respond to that one. Eat peeps all day then stop for a pretzel-bun cheeseburger at Wendy's on the way home.