Oooooooookay I am PISSED.

I had to go eat dinner at my step-fathers mother's house. I went in the kitchen and observed the food. Since she knows I'm a vegetarian, she told me what I could eat and could not. I had some rice with peas in it and salad and that was all. The rice tasted good. I got seconds and thirds. The salad was good too. I poured it on my plate.

The next week I was at the grocery store and I was on the rice aisle looking for that same kind I had at Cindy's. So, I look at the pictures and notice only one of them had peas in it. But I was confused, because the title said, "Chicken and Vegetable". I frantically turned the box over, reading through the ingredients. It was then I realised I had eaten THREE servings of chicken broth rice.

How could that woman miss the giant word, CHICKEN, on the front, then have the nerve to tell me ITS VEGETARIAN.

I will never eat at her house again. Suddenly, I think I dont really like her anymore.

 

Ya see its people like you that make want to go out and kill every living life form i see

There are problems, with your post thats really Moronic to me,

One: Its a simple mistake

two: It said chicken BROTH!, Had no meat whatsoever so dont go bitching to her for this misunderstanding of your damn ethical beliefs

Three: Well...if i say what i wanted to say to you id be banned

 

Hey Moonbeam, it seems people think chickens are plants. Straaaaange world we live in.

Chives ) I'm a Vegan too

 

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i agree. this is completely mindless. suddenly, you don't think you like her anymore? you are a complete freak out; it could have very easily been a simple mistake on her part, and if not, a misunderstanding. i doubt very much that she is "out to get you" and force meat products down your poor unsuspecting throat.
i say, if you're going to someone's place for supper, who is kind enough to cook you a nice meal, and this is truly THIS big of a deal- the eating of chicken broth, that is- then it's up to YOU to check over the ingredients yourself.

*sigh*... reading that made me weary.

 

Well I do agree with everyone else about the fact that you shouldn't make a big deal out of it in respect to your step-dad's mom. It could really have been an honest mistake.

But I do sympathize with your feelings about being upset over having eaten something that goes against your beliefs.

 

It's human to make mistakes. She probably just forgot it was chicken broth. People don't always read the box while they're cooking. Just tell her not to cook that for you again. She made an honest mistake and you shouldn't judge people by that.

 

maybe it was an honest mistake, but plently of times meat eaters serve up meat to veg*ns and they are aware it is an animal product.

I don’t think you are overreacting, Imo "chicken and vegetable" flavour is obviously NOT vegetarian...

I think many times meat eaters just don’t care, and think they can get away with serving it/getting you to eat it etc. Someone in my family outright lied to me about a meal having animal fat, knowing it did but thinking they could fool me. This happens a lot with some people. Some corpse eaters, think your beleifs are not important, so they think it doest matter to fool you into eating it. You got to point it out to them, if needed throw a fit so they will remeber.

 

yeah i dont mean to say throw a fit at her. Id give her benefit of the doubt, might be honest mistake, some people think chicken is a vegetable... if it kept happening i would worry.
Also maybe she would appreciate some vege receipes? cause rice and some salad doesnt sound very filling for dinner.

 

I know the feeling moonbeam.


while i can't comment on wheter or not it was accidental, i've got to say it really sucks when people belittle your beliefs.

similar things have happened to me, in cases where i know it was deliberate. the feeling that something you genuinely care about is of so little value, or even a joke to others is really horrible. Especially when it's people you trust about that are trampling all over your system of values.

Maybe it was just a mistake. in any case i'd recommened ignoring the retarded posters having a shot at you on this thread. you've got to vent your frustration somewhere, and while a different perspective can be useful, some of that stuff is just plain malicous.

 

alot of times...my friends will want to go to mcdonalds or something...when i explain that theres nothing on the menue that i would eat..theyre always like 'no its ok..they serve chicken and fish there too'...alot of people dont understand that those 2 qualify as meat. especially if theyre catholic (no offense to those who are)...because theyre raised on the belief that fish and poultrys arent meats...i believe.

 

I think using the word "retarded" when referring to people you are unhappy with is worse.

 

Do you wonder why some omnivores are not considerate of your vegetarian predilections when you, like so many vegetarians, are so friggin' condescending and derogatory toward "corpse eaters"?

Why does being a vegetarian have to include this bullshit holier-than-thou, look-down-your-nose-in-pity attitude? If you constantly deride others for their choice (to eat meat), why would you expect them to respect you?!

Blue skies,
-Jeffrey

 

very well put, jeffrey. two thumbs up!

 

Uh, no, it's probably because there are a lot of people out there who refer to themselves as "vegetarian" who DO eat fish and chicken! I know several of them. I work with two, and my sister is another. So if people know "vegetarians" who eat those things they could easily come to think that that's what it means to be a vegetarian, or that this is acceptable to vegetarians, especially if they don't know any hard-core vegans or anything.

Blue skies,
-Jeffrey

 

the same thing happened to me when i was a veggie except it was real bits of meat in some bread or something. you know what i did? i said, hey, she's probably not conspiring against me.

.....and then i forgot why i was vegetarian. i guess it's your choice. to each his own, but the more i think about it the more pointless it seems. IMHO of course.

 

sssh lets everyone take a breather

your negative vibes are really bringin me down

 

meat is a corpse, pork is pig corpse, beef is cow corpse.... etc, why are you being upset when i say it how it is? Lets stop calling animal body parts by pretend pretty names and lets call them what they really are..... pork chop= chunks of dead pig body parts, beef steaks=slabs of dead cow...
is that offensive? and why is it offensive?

do you find it offensive to say "corpse eater", more offensive than someone actually eating the corpse?!!!!

 

There's a world of diffrence between a neutral statement of fact and a statement of fact with lashings of bitchiness.

Actually they aren't pretty names, the words beef, pork etc derive from French. This is because way back in the 11th century the aristocracy was mainly French (Norman conquest, 1066, look it up) so that's what they called meat. Then eventually the words caught on with common people.
Words like chicken, rabbit etc slipped the net because they weren't eaten by the aristocracy.

Learn something new every day.

I really think everyone needs to exit the thread, leave the room, have a good scream/swear or whatever to calm down then come back calm.

 

it's just a generic insult where i come from. i don't know whether you are referring to the fact that i resorted to name calling, or that it's a politically incorrect name. in the first instance you are probably right, there are better ways to express dislike.
in the second case, i'm surrounded by people who use it on a regular basis, so much so that to me it's detached from its original meaning, like the way some people will use gay as an insult with out actually meaning homosexualism. i used it without thinking, and if i offended you i'm sorry.
However i still don't think listening to someone you don't know making a careless post is worse than having to wonder if people you trust are deliberately walking all over what you believe.

 

Yeah, people that eat meat usually don't look at ingredients, or know very much about food and what is in it. I know people who didn't know mayo was from eggs, and people that didn't know that Gelatin was in fruit snacks, because meat eaters usually eat what tastes good, while vegs eat things that tend to be a little bit more healthy, and they look over the ingredients to make sure there is no meat or dairy, she probably didn't even think at the moment about chicken broth being from meat, because she is so used to everybody she knows just eating it and she is not used to making meals for vegetarians.

Peace and Love,
Dan