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[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]
i'm not this person, and I see that chicken broth is nonvegetarian.  But I also can understand why you wouldn't even think about it.  For many people, chicken broth is more like slightly flavored water.  For example, I use it instead of water for rice, but it's so automatic, it's like water.  If you're not vegetarian yourself, you're just not thinking so hard about that line between vegetarian and nonvegetarian.  It's an oversight, but I could see it happening.[/quote]

+1 broth doesn't automatically trigger thinking meat for non-vegetarians.  My daughter is vegetarian (I'm not) and when I started cooking for her I made the mistake once.  I also did it with refried beans...I just had no idea that lard was used in a can of refried beans.  If you're not vegetarian, you don't think about stuff like that.  Now I do because I'm used to cooking for her.  
Anyways, doesn't really matter because it sounds like MIL is well aware. [/quote]

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