When they lie and try to sneak in some butter or eggs because it’s “just a little bit” and I can both taste it and then definitely feel it later.
An eggplant parmigiana: the eggplant was mostly raw and barely heated, there was some greens based sauce that was just kale and oil blended or something, tasted awful, and a pretty simple tomato sauce that could have come out of a bottle.
To this day I don’t understand how I didn’t blow up in vegan rage at being disrespected on such a fundamental “I want edible food” level. It wasn’t cheap either.
Seconding that it’s a skill issue. Eggplants are fucking SOLID when done right.
Grilled eggplant and roasted portobello burgers are amazing.
Skill issue from the cook, eggplant parmegiana is good shit
Oh I know … it’s why I ordered it and why I should have marched back into the place and scolded the shit out of everyone who let it pass.
Fish. “Fish isn’t meat so I thought it was okay.”
i was JUST asked at a recent gathering (that had only animal products for food) if i “still eat fish” and was met with shock when i said no. do people genuinely think fish aren’t living beings or something?
I think it has to do with traditional (religious? catholics) categorization of flesh into meat, poultry, and fish. they think “animals” means “meat”
A lot of languages also don’t consider ‘meat’ to include ‘fish meat’, having entirely separate words for the two.
but yeah, I think in the US, its mostly catholicism brainworms
I know a guy that proudly calls himself “vegetarian” and eats fish and shrimp. Like pescatarian is a thing, homie. Why bother pretending? It wouldn’t bug me so much but last time we at at a thing together he was proudly proclaiming to someone that he was vegetarian as he ordered a salmon dish.
