The Vegetarian Torture

QTip · #1 06-25-2006, 04:47 PM

A couple invited my wife and I over for dinner. We don't know them well.

We get over to their house and they seem like a normal, happy family.

Dinner time comes and I'm starving. We sit down, and the wife starts bringing out this creative vegetarian crap. I'm sure she worked hard to prepare it, but there wasn't anything there that if put into my mouth wouldn't make me convulse into involuntary vomiting. I was starving, but I couldn't even have some bread and butter because the bread had all sorts of weird crap in it too.

What's a polite way to handle this?

Doesn't it just seem to make sense to have something "normal" prepared when you live in some weird diet world? Should I invite them over for meatloaf and mutton pie?

I was speechless at the time.

mattw · #2 06-25-2006, 04:51 PM

the hosts were unkind in not mentioning you will be eating rabbit food. invite them over and have bloody red meat?

TexArcher · #3 06-25-2006, 04:52 PM

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What's a polite way to handle this?

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Go get a burger and fries and sit back down to the table.

edfurlong · #4 06-25-2006, 04:54 PM

They were probably just trying to impress you. I don't think its rude or strange to not serve meat at a meal. Is it possible that it was good food that you just weren't used to?

Edit: If they were raw foodie freaks you should have knocked the table over and walked out.

[censored] · #5 06-25-2006, 04:56 PM

the polite thing to do is to not act like a little kid and eat the food like a normal person. It's not going to make you vomit, just be an adult and try something new, it's [censored] vegetables not cow dick

QTip · #6 06-25-2006, 04:57 PM

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Is it possible that it was good food that you just weren't used to?

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I'm sure it was good for the body. However, this wasn't like eggplant sandwhich or something. Apparently they're like herb lovers or something.

Tron · #7 06-25-2006, 04:59 PM

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the polite thing to do is to not act like a little kid and eat the food like a normal person. It's not going to make you vomit, just be an adult and try something new, it's [censored] vegetables not cow dick

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It'd be difficult to be more correct.

meep_42 · #8 06-25-2006, 05:00 PM

I'm surprised to see that reaction from you, Q. Eat some of it, if you don't like it, don't eat that much, just tell them you're feeling a bit under the weather or some other face-saving excuse.

-d

TylerD · #9 06-25-2006, 05:01 PM

ummm, eat it and pretend to enjoy it?

QTip · #10 06-25-2006, 05:03 PM

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the polite thing to do is to not act like a little kid and eat the food like a normal person. It's not going to make you vomit, just be an adult and try something new, it's [censored] vegetables not cow dick

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Yeah, that's the route I tried to take. So, I scooped some of the stuff in this brown broth, and put it in my bowl. I didn't ask what is was, but it appeared to be like something out of a pond scum. I tried it, attempting to be a mature adult, but it was just god-aweful. So, I just sipped the broth from a spoon until it was gone, and left the rest in my bowl. I felt horrible, but I don't think I should.