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Vegetarians are a pain to cook for at a BBQ

There is nothing worse than when a vegetarian, or worse still a vegan with holier-than-thou morals turns up to your BBQ.  What on earth do you do to feed them?  Do you source out some cardboard burgers or point them in the general direction of the salad bowl?  What do you cook for the vegetarians who turn up to your BBQ?

I know they think they’re being good and pure, not harming animals and being ultra civilized, but it’s just downright inconvenient for the rest of us who have to cater for them and put up with their snide comments; wouldn’t mind if it wasn’t for the attitude.  Us meat eaters normally tend to hang out with fellow carnivores, but somehow or other when it comes to a social gathering you’ll occasionally get a veggie with chip on their shoulder.  A chip that must not have been cooked in animal fat I hasten to add!

Hamburger on a barbecue, not suitable for vegetarians with attitude

They’ll try to convert the meat eating hordes to their way of thinking.  Eating meat is bad.  It’s not healthy and think about the cruelty and suffering to the animal.  What’s the matter with them?  Have they looked at their teeth lately? Those pointy ones might be a bit of a clue, because I don’t think the thousands of years of evolution were for nothing!  To hell with them I say, when in Rome do as the Romans do.  If you don’t like sausages I'm not going to force you to eat them, you can feast on the cheese roles and salad for all I care.  You don’t have to eat meat, but if I want to partake of dead flesh then I will and what’s more I will enjoy it.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not setting out to deliberately offend vegetarians.  After all, one man’s meat is another man’s poison or so they say.  It’s the ones that don’t respect my opinion and criticise the fact that I eat meat that I have a problem with.

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Vegetarianism is pretty mainstream and not difficult to cater for, I find. Veganism takes a bit more thinking about.

I know two sisters, one of whom has been quietly vegan for twenty years; the other, normally a meat eater, became vegan for all of three weeks in which time she annoyed everyone by calling their meals "corpse and two veg". After that she went back to eating bacon butties.

Starfish,

Someone can be a vegan but eat nothing but chips, fried food and cake! Many vegans that I know chose the diet more for what they believed were health benefits to them though and not for ethical reasons.

You can eat a healthy diet as a meat eater, vegetarian or vegan. I try to follow the 80/20 rule. 80% healthy choices, the other 20%, whatever I like. It seems to work for me.

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Petra - 5-Aug-11 19:57 

Just because you are a vegetarian or a vegan doesn't suddenly mean you are free from any potential diseases - not eating steak and stuffing in sweets, vegan or otherwise, isn't really going to help. Just because you are a vegetarian doesn't mean you always magically make all correct food choices. Are you -more likely- to, yes. But it isn't a guarantee.

And for all those people who say they've never known a militant, judgemental vegan, they are out there, here's one bit of evidence:

http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/07/06/self-righteous-vegan/

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Starfish - 4-Aug-11 21:34 

It's hard to cater for vegetarians because there are 'degrees' of vegetarianism, ranging from totally vegan, to those who call themselves vegetarian but eat fish, or even in one case I know, chicken! Some 'vegetarians' won't eat fresh pasta, as it has egg products in it, so they are really vegans, and so it goes.

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MikeP - 25-Jul-11 17:55 

I'm sick of going to establishments that dont offer any choices for vegetarians and people with food intolerences. I went to a restaurant today and was offered some left over veg and yorkshire pudding, is it really that difficult to knock up a pasta or egg dish or maybe veg in a sauce. It's about time restaurants stopped living in the dark ages and started catering for every need. I thought thats what these establishments are for to serve the public or is it to discriminate?

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Angry vege - 25-Jul-11 17:17 

MikeP - I've read a lot of your comments on these pages, and you are one sound bloke!

I've met a few vegetarians who don't take the holier than thou attitude with meat eaters, but they are few and far between. No problems with Vegan though, they don't have the energy :-)

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AOD - 11-May-11 08:55 

Did she move out because you bullied her all the time? or was it when she caught you rummaging through her underwear draw?

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Kullprit - 8-May-11 14:40 

I lived with a vegetarian for three years, eventually I got used to it but her constant snide remarks about me 'eating dead animals' were irritating and inappropriate. Out of respect for her, I never ate or kept meat at home, but when I went out with friends for a proper meal, she'd complain when I got home. I never complained about her eating rabbit food or dead plants!

Vegan is quite a different story, far more difficult to cope with, they can't even eat things like fresh pasta, which have egg products in them, and some claim this is for 'a healthy life style', but I have one vegan friend who drinks alcohol (a lot) and smokes. To me this is hypocrisy.

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MikeP - 8-May-11 13:41 

We are meat eaters, but I'd never have a problem cooking for vegetarians, it only takes a little imagination. What I don't get is when we are invited to a meal with our vegetarian friends, we have no option but to eat the same vegetarian food they eat, but when they eat with us, they wouldn't accept non-vegetarian food. I think I'd have a bit more trouble catering for vegans though, a bit of research would be necessary.

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Weston Babe - 8-May-11 12:01 

'idiot-free' how is it offensive? The poster has an opinion how is it offensive? Im a chef myself and yes vegans are a pain in the kneck! Vegetarians I can handle, but why do vegans bother eating out??

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Rafa - 27-Apr-11 15:41 

Your article is extremely offensive to veg*ans. How old are you? 5?

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idiotfree - 12-Apr-11 13:09 

Seeing as I'm vegetarian I really should take offence to this but I don't, because I simply see your point of view.

I do find it annoying having a few vegetarian friends that won't eat anything cooked in animal fat or whatever because I do eat things if they've been cooked in animal fat or whatever if I really HAVE to.

If you encounter vegetarians at barbeques, then cook quorn burgers, salad or pasta in a vinegary sauce. Sandwiches even can work.

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Imogen - 27-Mar-11 22:08 

I must agree what is every vegetarians problem if peopl want to eat meat then so be it you cant exactly tell them to stop. i'm a vegetarian myself but i'm a very open minded easy goin kind of person. aahahaha eat what you want to eat aslong as they dont make me eat it then am okaii hahaha

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Julie - 26-Mar-11 01:50 

Get a life, and a spine! Take the offender to one side to 'view a rare plant' and quietly tell them you respect their vegetarianism, but not their evangelism when it's on your property among your friends and ask them to either grow up, behave and desist or leave, please!
As a sort of vegetarian I will sometimes have a bowl of porridge before going out so I can live safely off cheese and salad and bread. My resaon for not eating meat is that it is full of garbage these days, anti-biotics etc and it literally makes me sick. Free range, organic, matured Scottish Angus is fine, no problems at all.

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Kylena - 12-Feb-11 22:00 

Stupid idiots. Cannot cook vegeterian food? For god sake, it is just a bit of vegetables but of course you have no imagination. Just stick a meat loaf up your jacksy and enjoy!

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I love cooking, baking, grilli - 18-Dec-10 09:36 

I agree with Chris.If you want to eat your own body weight in Big Macs,go on and do it. I don't care if you end up in hospital,you should have thought of the consequences before you ate your own body weight in Big Macs!

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DSG - 15-Dec-10 18:30 

Huh.Humans have "herbivore teeth" and yet we don't eat grass all day.

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DSG - 27-Nov-10 23:10 

It is fine to eat meat. Just as it is fine for people to eat Veg.

It's up to the individual about the choice of diet or the lifestyle they lead, not everyone elses.

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Chris. - 20-Aug-10 15:50 

Get a life, you sad people. You have no respect for other people.

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Nosh - 20-Aug-10 14:46 

I doubt if your 'pointy teeth' would get you far if you sink them into the back of a live wild boar and try and rip off some flesh. How many natural carnivores need to have their meat pre-ki11ed, butchered, marinated and barbecued to make it fit for consumption. Do a bit more research. We have grinding herbivore teeth. Even horses have a couple of pointy teeth and I don't think anyone would suggest that they are meat-eaters.

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Caroline - 3-Jul-10 11:08 

Nobody knows, as a meat eater, the least I can say is I know that I am doing wrong, there's no real need for me to do it, but just about everyone I know does it, and thinks nothing of it,

My view is that vegetarians are in the right by not eating meat.

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Gainsborough lad. - 1-Jun-10 10:24 

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