Should I include being vegan in my dating profile?

[Anonymous]

So if you are a vegan for health reasons and are really cool about it, if you go to a restaurant on a date, and they bring you a veggie burger but it turns out they accidentally put a little cheese on it, do you send it back or try and scrape it off, or do you eat it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So if you are a vegan for health reasons and are really cool about it, if you go to a restaurant on a date, and they bring you a veggie burger but it turns out they accidentally put a little cheese on it, do you send it back or try and scrape it off, or do you eat it?

I'd politely request a remake. No snark and no scene, its really not a big deal. If you ordered a cheese burger and they brought you a salad, would you not mention it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So if you are a vegan for health reasons and are really cool about it, if you go to a restaurant on a date, and they bring you a veggie burger but it turns out they accidentally put a little cheese on it, do you send it back or try and scrape it off, or do you eat it?

I'd politely request a remake. No snark and no scene, its really not a big deal. If you ordered a cheese burger and they brought you a salad, would you not mention it?

So I'm not PP but someone who is high maintenance in restaurants would be like my living nightmare. I cannot handle it. I find it almost cripplingly embarrassing. I don't know what it would take for me to send something back. If they brought me a salad when I ordered a cheeseburger I would ask if they had mixed me up with another table because it is nothing like what I ordered, if they brought me a cheeseburger when I ordered a hamburger I would absolutely just deal.

The fact that you rephrased PP's scenario to such a wild degree makes me think I could just not do restaurants with you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only think this thread proves is that Anthony Bourdain (RIP) was indeed correct when he said, “Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn."

Interesting. My take is that the meat eaters are being the real pains in the ass here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So if you are a vegan for health reasons and are really cool about it, if you go to a restaurant on a date, and they bring you a veggie burger but it turns out they accidentally put a little cheese on it, do you send it back or try and scrape it off, or do you eat it?

I'd politely request a remake. No snark and no scene, its really not a big deal. If you ordered a cheese burger and they brought you a salad, would you not mention it?

So I'm not PP but someone who is high maintenance in restaurants would be like my living nightmare. I cannot handle it. I find it almost cripplingly embarrassing. I don't know what it would take for me to send something back. If they brought me a salad when I ordered a cheeseburger I would ask if they had mixed me up with another table because it is nothing like what I ordered, if they brought me a cheeseburger when I ordered a hamburger I would absolutely just deal.

The fact that you rephrased PP's scenario to such a wild degree makes me think I could just not do restaurants with you.

Dude. Again. It sounds like you are the one with the issue. Most normal people feel comfortable asking a restaurant to give them the food they actually ordered. I hope your profile says that you can't eat in restaurants with someone who ever asks a waiter or waitress to correct an order. I would have known to avoid you if so because you sound like you couldn't stand up for yourself and that would be a real turnoff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only think this thread proves is that Anthony Bourdain (RIP) was indeed correct when he said, “Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn."

Interesting. My take is that the meat eaters are being the real pains in the ass here.

Only in your warped little mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only think this thread proves is that Anthony Bourdain (RIP) was indeed correct when he said, “Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn."

Interesting. My take is that the meat eaters are being the real pains in the ass here.

Only in your warped little mind.

Yeah. This thread is full of vegans and vegetarians saying they are flexible and can eat almost anywhere if they have to, that it's no big deal for them.

Then you have the non veg grousing about theoretically not ever being able to eat out or to share a meal or to cook for someone and how hard it would be waah waah.

Tell me. Honestly. Who is being more high maintenance here in their "needs?"

[Anonymous]

I think, OP, skip putting vegan in your profile. It will look like it is a big deal to you.

If people really don't want to date vegans, THEY should put that deal breaker in THEIR profile.

Simple solution.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only think this thread proves is that Anthony Bourdain (RIP) was indeed correct when he said, “Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn."

Interesting. My take is that the meat eaters are being the real pains in the ass here.

Only in your warped little mind.

Yeah. This thread is full of vegans and vegetarians saying they are flexible and can eat almost anywhere if they have to, that it's no big deal for them.

Then you have the non veg grousing about theoretically not ever being able to eat out or to share a meal or to cook for someone and how hard it would be waah waah.

Tell me. Honestly. Who is being more high maintenance here in their "needs?"

First of almost everyone has said vegetarians are different. Second, for me at least, it is really the long term prospects of having to cook at home that makes it a no-go. You call that not being flexible. I call it not wanting to have to be flexible every day, every meal, for the rest of my life.

It's just a different lifestyle. Not everyone wants to have to cook two versions of food half or all of the time.

[Anonymous]

But we are not talking about your preferencws, which are all good and yours. You have a right to them and I wouldn't try to change your mind.

It's saying that vegans have come.on here and acted like a$$holes when that clearly didn't happen.

It's also a little ironic to claim that vegans are inflexible while in the same breath saying you are not flexible enough to deal with them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only think this thread proves is that Anthony Bourdain (RIP) was indeed correct when he said, “Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn."

Interesting. My take is that the meat eaters are being the real pains in the ass here.

Only in your warped little mind.

Yeah. This thread is full of vegans and vegetarians saying they are flexible and can eat almost anywhere if they have to, that it's no big deal for them.

Then you have the non veg grousing about theoretically not ever being able to eat out or to share a meal or to cook for someone and how hard it would be waah waah.

Tell me. Honestly. Who is being more high maintenance here in their "needs?"

Quite honestly, we all know the supposed flexibility of vegans is dishonest bullshit, and we'll have to deal with their bitching, moaning, and pouting if things are not done to their exact specifications.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only think this thread proves is that Anthony Bourdain (RIP) was indeed correct when he said, “Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn."

Interesting. My take is that the meat eaters are being the real pains in the ass here.

Only in your warped little mind.

Yeah. This thread is full of vegans and vegetarians saying they are flexible and can eat almost anywhere if they have to, that it's no big deal for them.

Then you have the non veg grousing about theoretically not ever being able to eat out or to share a meal or to cook for someone and how hard it would be waah waah.

Tell me. Honestly. Who is being more high maintenance here in their "needs?"

Quite honestly, we all know the supposed flexibility of vegans is dishonest bullshit, and we'll have to deal with their bitching, moaning, and pouting if things are not done to their exact specifications.

+1

Love the Bourdain quote. The vegan projection is really interesting-“No you meat eaters are the ones being inflexible!” The fact is vegans are the ones deliberately choosing a restrictive dietary path that puts them in diametric opposition to the food habits of the majority. You might not like it, but when YOU choose to deviate from the norm, the onus is on you to navigate that path, and not on the majority to go out of their way to accommodate you. Some more patient types might, but frankly, you’re really mostly a pain in the rear.

[Anonymous]

And what everyone here has said is that they do navigate and deal with things, and usually low key. In the meantime, meat eaters are screaming about how they might one day one time have to do something different than is the norm for themselves.

AND. No one has tried to change anyone's minds about THEIR preferences. But you all act surprised when you throw out your name calling, nasty, and baseless accusations and people try to defend themselves.

Ask yourself. Why did the meat eaters in this thread IMMEDIATELY go on the attack when their preferences were respected?

Look, I get it is not all meat eaters who act this way, just the a$$holes on THIS thread who are threatened by people who are different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So if you are a vegan for health reasons and are really cool about it, if you go to a restaurant on a date, and they bring you a veggie burger but it turns out they accidentally put a little cheese on it, do you send it back or try and scrape it off, or do you eat it?

I'd politely request a remake. No snark and no scene, its really not a big deal. If you ordered a cheese burger and they brought you a salad, would you not mention it?

A salad and a burger are entirely different things, so your example is bad. I don’t eat tomatoes, but when I get a burger with tomatoes on it, after I requested no tomatoes, I remove the tomato and eat the burger. That’s a much more accurate comparison.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But we are not talking about your preferencws, which are all good and yours. You have a right to them and I wouldn't try to change your mind.

It's saying that vegans have come.on here and acted like a$$holes when that clearly didn't happen.

It's also a little ironic to claim that vegans are inflexible while in the same breath saying you are not flexible enough to deal with them.

Yep

They just can't see it though