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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP again. I guess what I'm saying is being a vegetarian (at least in this person case) is a choice. It's not like she's handicapped. But I feel like she expect to be treated extra special when she's invited to other people's homes. Accommodated as if she had a handicap. [/quote]

I agree with you that there are vegetarians who act like this and that those people are irritating. However, let me share another side. I was raised vegetarian. I'm 35 and I grew up in the Midwest, so being vegetarian was not the every day occurrence that it is here and now. Do you know how much meat was/is in everything? Weddings had the meat option and the chicken option when I was growing up. At Thanksgiving, I could eat the mashed potatoes, but not the gravy, because it was made with turkey. Salads often had ham in them, or bacon on top of them, or had chicken on top of them. School lunches never, ever had a vegetarian option. Even now, lunches at my office that are catered are always "sandwiches" and that usually means that there's a turkey sandwich, a tuna salad sandwich, a roast beef sandwich, and then if I'm really lucky, there's some kind of a roasted vegetable sandwich. Meat is a staple, and it's kind of a hassle to avoid. I know adults who don't even consider a meal without meat to be "a real meal." An adult who makes this choice on their own has a certain amount of agency over their diet decisions. A child brought up in a vegetarian household has a lot less agency. I was the kid who spent her childhood eating only the fries from school lunch, or who was constantly picking pepperoni off her pizza, or who was politely saying, "No thank you, I ate before I came" whether that was true or not because at faculty BBQs at my dad's small Midwestern school, the food options were hamburgers or hotdogs and the potato salad had bacon or ham in it and if I just ate chips and pickles, I would have to talk about why I was just eating chips and pickles.

I've been to Capital Grille plenty of times as an adult vegetarian and have never had a problem finding something to eat. Their mashed potatoes are awesome. They have plenty of salad. If she eats fish (which frankly makes her NOT a vegetarian as far as I'm concerned), they have fish options. I think your relative is being very self-centered and do not disagree that this is a problem she's bringing on herself. But I also think that until you are a person who doesn't eat a particular thing, you may not really realize how difficult it is to avoid that thing.[/quote]

I think you're sort of proving the OP's point a bit.  My take on it is, go for it vegetarians.  However, no one cares if you don't meat and no one cares to hear you complain about how difficult it is to avoid meat.  Much like I'm sure you don't care what I'm eating.

I do agree, however, that people who eat fish and call themselves vegetarians (and I know a few) are annoying.  You're not a damn vegetarian.  Shut up and order the fish.[/quote]

I never disagreed with OP's point. My point was really just that some of those asshole vegetarians (of which I'm not one - I swear!) have a point that EVERYTHING has meat in it. I understand getting frustrated with that, if only because it's 2:50pm and I had a bag of chips and a cookie for lunch at a surprise meeting that had turkey, tuna salad, and roast beef sandwiches. I've worked here for almost 5 years, so you'd think they'd know that I don't eat that stuff, but here we are.[/quote]

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