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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just found out that my MIL intentionally sneaks meat products into her "vegetarian" dishes and does not tell SIL about it. [b]She'll tell SIL that she used vegetable broth when she really uses chicken broth.[/b] She'll cook things in bacon fat or add some bacon fat for flavor. She isn't sneaking a steak into a smoothie or anything but she's been serving quite a few vegetarian meals with meat products. MIL things being a vegetarian is stupid and she is already being gracious enough to pretend to accommodate SIL.

If I tell SIL, MIL will know it was me. I'm on the fence about whether to say anything or not. [/quote]

NP here. I wouldn’t lie directly like this, but I use chicken broth in a few no-meat dishes I make and it wouldn’t occur me to warn people it has 1/4 cup of chicken broth in it.[/quote]

Really? If you were making a meal for people who straight up told you they are vegetarian, it "wouldn't occur to you" to tell them that it has meat in it? [/quote]

Because it's not meat, no.  Some people really don't think of the broth as meat in that sense.  [/quote]

I've been vegetarian my whole life and have never drawn a distinction between chicken broth (made of chicken) and any other part of chicken. If I told you I was vegetarian before coming to your house for dinner and later found out that you'd made something with chicken broth and told me it was vegetarian because chicken broth "isn't meat in that sense", I would feel extremely disrespected.

I truly don't understand why this is hard for you. It's CHICKEN broth. Why on earth would you consider that to be vegetarian?[/quote]

Because it’s not meat?  Vegan and vegetarian are different, right?  Milk comes from cows but you can use it in vegetarian dishes, can’t you?  Chicken broth is just water a chicken sat in.  It’s arguably less “from the chicken” than milk is.  Then again, best to ask and clarify what is ok/not when cooking for someone with dietary restrictions.  Some people are just dumb and think “no meat” = vegetarian and obviously there is no meat in broth, that’s what makes it different from soup.[/quote]

If a chicken had to die to make a dish, most vegetarians wouldn’t want to eat it. It’s not about if there’s muscle tissue physically present in a dish. It’s usually about if an animal was slaughtered and it’s body was used in some part of the creation of the dish. A chicken sitting in water gives you a bird bath, not broth. Cows don’t have to die to give milk. You seem to only be considering which food group the animal gives you rather than if the animal was killed in the process of giving you food. [/quote]

Chicken broth is not vegetarian and as a vegetarian I would not eat it.  No vegetarian would eat it, not most.  If you would eat it you are not a vegetarian.[/quote]

I meant most vegetarians as people identify themselves. I guess I should’ve said some “vegetarians” are okay with animal based broth but it’s not acceptable to strict (real) vegetarians. [/quote]

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