“You should order the Steak” “I’ll get something else, I’m a vegan” “Man, you guys just won’t shut up about it, will you?”
I work at a bakery and am vegan. Whenever we get a new cake or vegetarian sandwich, my coworkers ask me to try it. At least one of them, H, is always surprised to learn that dairy products are in fact made from milk.
On the other hand, one of my coworkers brought in sesame sweets made without dairy, eggs, or honey and H didn’t believe they were actually vegan and kept making jokes about my cheat day.
I feel your pain, and I’m concerned about someone who works at a bakery not knowing where ingredients came from.
I’m not even vegetarian but I worked at a vegan/vegetarian restaurant where random people would come in to complain we didn’t have any meat on the menu. Like legit walk up to the host stand, pick up a menu, shout “Is there any meat?” and leave in a huff when we tell them no.
Their loss. I made a kick ass curry and put black bean burgers on the menu.
It’s pretty concerning, you’re right. I actually wrote a list of things that are vegan and vegetarian to keep in the back because some of my coworkers would give random answers when people asked about them (and we for some reason have chicken fat in our omelettes, so they seem vegetarian but aren’t).
tbh I think H is such a massive troll, if you weren’t vegan, they would just find something else incomprehensible.
I can’t tell if H is a troll or just really stupid (or both). She and I clash about several subjects and she does sometimes straight antagonize the rest of us, but she’s also weirdly ill-informed about a lot of things and 67 years old. A lot of the antagonism seems to stem from her expecting everyone to defer to her because of her age, but because she’s not very smart, she orders us to do things that don’t make sense, then gets annoyed when we don’t.
I mostly just try to ignore her and don’t accept any food from her unless it’s prepackaged and I know what it is.
I work in hospitality, and if there was one group of people that were the worst to serve, it would be vegans. They’d never tell you before they got here that they were vegan, and yet still expect a full meal at a place that does a fixed menu
You’d at least expect somebody who has such a strict diet to check the menu beforehand and tell the place. We don’t have the same problem with FODMAP or coeliacs. Just bloody vegans
Maybe Americans are just particularly insufferable but I’ve lived in France and the UK and nobody vegan ever went too hard or long about it. Just hasn’t been my experience, maybe that was more accurate a decade or so ago?
I’m a north American who is currently around a number of vegans and they’ve all been quite respectful around non-vegans. These jokes/memes confuse me and one of the ways it makes sense to me is that’s it’s a projection. A mental twist to give themselves a moral high ground or less guilt to justify all their own talking about preparing and eating meat.
I’m more likely to hear a meat eater complain about how difficult it is to not eat meat. Some that I have been around act like it’s the only source of protein available. It gives me the subtle vibe that they can’t imagine other people in the world can be healthy by eating differently without meat.
Maybe it was true a number of years ago but I wasn’t around many vegans back then so I have no personal experience either.
My guess is that saying stuff like this spread like wildfire from and among the same right wing douchebags that come up with gems like ThE RaDiCaL FeMiNiSt lEfTiSt wOkE LiBrUhL GaY FoRcEd dIvErSiTy aGeNdA
Funny that you never hear anything from the quiet vegans.
a north American who is currently around a number of vegans and they’ve all been quite respectful around non-vegan
“I have issues the stereotype of movement behind my food choices.”
I’m more likely to hear a meat eater complain about how difficult it is to not eat meat.
“I agree and promote the stereotypes of people who aren’t part of my movement.”
American here, have heard orders of magnitude more people complaining about vegans than I’ve ever heard vegans complaining.
One of my best friends is a vegan, married to a vegan, and raising two kids who are chegans (like, mostly they’re vegan, and sometimes they eat some chicken nuggets at Grandma’s). Through him, I have met dozens of vegans. The most I’ve ever heard a vegan “go on” about veganism is if they’re specifically asked about it. Occasionally, you’ll hear them bring it up in discussions around related things (like if you’re talking about climate change, they may mention that animal farming is a massive contributor, or something to that effect). But mostly, it’s just a diet and they do their own diet thing.
The real issue is when someone asks “hey, wanna go to x restaurant tonight?” And they reply “lemme check the menu and make sure I can!” And then the person who originally asked the question wants to pretend like they’re Christ on the cross because they’re being so put out by the audacity of this filthy hippy to want to eat somewhere they can actually eat, instead of just sitting there and drinking water while everyone else eats.
In Oz, they certainly fucking do.
Went camping, set up the public BBQ, lit it. Vegan comes along and insists that we can’t cook meat on it because it will contaminate whatever she was cooking.
She turned a particularly interesting shade of green when I reminded her that it was public, had been used by a bajillion meat eaters, and meat contamination was the least of her worries - given druggies and drunks would piss on it in the wee small hours every public holiday.
She left soon after.
Yeah, it’s the American part that’s the real issue, but they’d rather blame it on the Vegan/Linux/crossfiter/etc thing instead
#MillennialHumor
I didn’t sign off on this.
He uses Arch btw
He brings his fixie bike inside with him, announces he’s not ordering anything because he’s straight edge, then asks the barkeep if he has a minute to talk about Jesus.
One day, chilling behind the counter at my liquor store job, two middle aged guys walked in all wobbly and flushed. Placed two ‘light’ tall cans by the till and had a short but cute fight over who was paying. Umprompted, told me all about how they started going to crossfit together and how great crossfit is and on Sundays they treat themselves to a couple beers to go with the high protein lunch they make together.
I saw them often after that, they were straight as hell, and the loveliest damn boys I’d ever seen. I loved hearing about how much fun they had at crossfit.
> Linux user
> Crossfitter
Bold of you to assume Linux users would be a gym bro.
The most ripped gymbroest guy I know works out with an Arch tanktop.
Fair. Most Linux users I know cycle.
Much more gentle on the joints too.
And more efficient! First you’re combining two tasks (commuting and exercise), and second you’re burning the calories of a walk around a supermarket to get 6-7km away at about 15-20mph!
At least he’s not a Harvard grad
He asks if they serve Celsius drinks.
I guess the activism must be working then
Cash only? That’s fine because Bitcoin is actually an electronic cash system.
No self respecting linux vegan would proselytizes for Bitcoin. They might begrudgingly use them for their original purpose, but if asked about electronic payment, they talk about gnu taler.
Too mainstream… OCCCU please and thank you.
Hah. Yep I know this guy too except for maybe the crossfitter part. He’d definitely be a crossfitter if he wasn’t lazy.
