The Vegetarian Torture

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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.