accidently eating meat

I am sure this has happened to you weather you realize it or not.

1. Lady: Would you like a sample of this?
Me: As long as it is veggie
Lady: It is
Me: *eats it*
Lady: Good huh? It has (lists many ingredigents) and crab

2. Girlfriend: Try what I made!
Me: Is it your usual recipe?
GF: yah, see what I made
Me: Eats it
Gf: I added tuna this time too

3. Chef @ Greek resturant: "Here is your veggie musaka"
me: *takes a bite, subcociously assuming chef could not possibley mix up plates among four people* Ummm...guys (to my three friends), I think he switched plates and gave me the musaka and you (my gf) the veggie musaka.

It is tough, but all three have happened.

What do you do in those situations?

 

Cry... but hey accidents happen

Here's one:
My boyfriend: Hey Lady wanna try this noodle?
Me: No thats okay its in seafood juices
My boyfriend *accidentally drops it in my soup*: Well you may as well eat it now
Me: Yeah I guess it doesn't matter fine whatever *My boyfriend puts it in my mouth forgetting for a second that its not a noodle it is calamari and I spit it out the second its in my mouth and yell at him for a while*

I need to get him back, any suggestions? He's not a jerk don't worry, just a spacey jokester.. that one wasn't nice though haha

 

I had a few bloopers when I got started. Most people will.

When in doubt, I won't eat it. Needless to say, this doesn't go over well with someone who cooked you something special only to find you can't eat it.

But they'll learn. So will you.


x

 

what you do is move on with your life. it's not a big deal, nothing to worry about if you accidentally eat it. unless of course you're a religious vegetarian and you are concerned about purity.

nothing like that has ever happened to me because i don't trust people. i always check.

 

You yelled at your bf?

see I yelled at my girl for the same thing and she could not understand why I was mad. As far as she was concerned, I over reacted. But a vegetarian is a vegetarian, 100%!!! She COULD NOT understand.

 

i would shoot him. no hahas, no lol's,....shoot him.

 

Ouch! I see several different scenarios here.

#1 sounds like your typical "fish isn't really meat so it's still vegetarian" lady. Probably didn't mean any harm... maybe a gentle explanation of what does & does not constitute "meat" could be given?

#2 sounds like she knew, and wanted to see your reaction. Guess it sounds like she found out what it was, huh?

#3 sounds like an honest mistake to me. Yeah you took a bite of something you'd rather not, but... no harm done?

Magical Fire Lady... I'd have taken his head off... at the knees for that! That's downright disrespectful!

But I'm an overly grumpy, over-opinionated old fart, so don't take MY word for any of this
love,
mom

 

eh what u gunna do about it once uve eaten it? throw it up? LOL

i mean shit mistakes happen..yeah its disgusting. usually if i found out if i accidently ate something with meat in it , i drink something after or eat something "veggie" so i can "feel better"

anyways u sound too obsessed about vegitarism. its not a life threating situation. i dont see vegitarism is some sort of "image". its not like, "omg i accidently ate meat...what will people think? im a VEGITARIAN!" big deal? people make mistakes..YES even vegitarians. and accidents happen to people...even to vegitarins!!!!! (p.s i know i keep mispelling vegitarian!)

 

I almost NEVER eat outside my own home. On the rare occasion I go to a party/eat with friends, etc. I usually offer to come early and help out. I love to cook anyway, my friends find it helpful, and I can be there to put my mind at ease about what dishes are vegan, what's vegetarian, and know that there's no big issue with cross-contamination.

In the case of restaurant eating... well, I do this even less often anyway. When we went back out west a couple months ago there were lots of hip veg-friendly restaurants and I didn't worry so much. Whenever I eat somewhere else, I'm generally really careful - most large chain restaurants have nutritional info on websites now, and that helps. I usually know exactly what I'm getting and how I'll order it before I'm even in the door.

 

And I agree that it's not the "end of the world" - BUT in the case of a loved one doing it purposefully it signifies a major respect issue. And remember also, that after you've been veg for a long time your body will no longer process meat well, and it can make you seriously ill.

 

trust me I'm not.

Just saying it happens.

And the 2nd one with my gf, I could never stand tuna even when I ate meat! I hate it. Luckily everything else was veggie and dominated the dish. But once I tasted that tuna, uggghh.

Anyways, 1 and 3 aren't a huge deal. Just saying, like others have said, shit happens.

I am sure at cookouts, people put veggie buggers next to burgers or put a veggie burger where a burger just was...some people FLIP over that! For me, if it happens, it happens. I am not as obsessed as some I have seen.

I don't think it is that. She is not that kind of person. She could be like the lady in the first story.

Plus, in France, the veggie diet isn't as huge as it is in America. She has one friend who is veggie, who sometimes eats organic meat when she is feeling weak. So maybe she either thought fish is not meat or figured all veggies eat a little meat from time to time, like her friend.

When I went to France as a veggie for 6 weeks, I really noticed what a meat eating country they are. It is big in many dishes. I didn't notice the first time I went when I was a meat eater, but it was apparent during my second trip.

I felt bad shortly after yelling at her. As she was proud of what she made and simply wanted to show me.

 

I hate places that advertise for "veggie cheese steaks" or "veggie hoagies" if it has meat in it. I never buy a veggie cheese steak from a non-vegetarian place just so that i'm on the safe side.

 

My ex was a horrible man
We were invited to a party and he told me hed let the people cooking know i as veg
They brought out this massive pie-like thing, with LOADS of green stuff ontop, packed with veggies, looked really good, and i was told it was for me so i ate it
I kept noticing some more chewy bits than usual, and towards the end of the meal noticed they were pinky-red
I asked what they were
The lady said duck
I said "didnt he tell you i was vegetarian?"
*shocked expression* "No! He said you loved duck!"

 

The last time i ate meat as a VEGAN was at a party with work colleages. We were at a chinese place and they barely spoke english nevermind know the word "vegan". I picked out something that looked like just veggies and later noticed it contained squid

I felt pretty gross after both incidents. I know how it feels

 

Yesterday DH and I went to our favorite hole-in-the-wall burrito place and instead of my usual (egg, potato, onion, cheese) I decided to get an egg and bean burrito. I asked the waitress if the beans were made with any kind of meat, and she said "ohhh, no. just beans!" so I was happy. After taking about three bites I noticed an odd flavor.. the cook happened to be standing nearby so I asked her if there was meat in the beans. She said "No, no, I don't put meat in them." So I continued eating but started feeling kinda queasy and the flavor was bothering me... I stopped eating about halfway through. The waitress came back by and asked if I didn't like it. I mentioned that it tasted like meat, and since I'm a vegetarian it didn't taste right to me, but it was no big deal. She said "Well, there's no meat in there but maybe it tastes that way because she cooks the beans in bacon grease..." Blech.

 

Traditional beans are cooked in lard, etc. Most eateries follow suit.

I only eat at one Mexican restaurant, where I know the beans are made with vegetable oil.


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I've been given fake crab and Egg Beaters by people who don't understand how food is made. I've had to gently explain that fake crab is still made of fish and Egg Beaters are still made of egg whites over and over again. It just comes down to the fact that people are very ignorant of how their food is made. They are also ignorant about what it means to be a Veg*n.

I was once at a Asian restaurant in Las Vegas, and I ordered tofu in sauce. I asked to make sure there was no animal broth or fish in the sauce, and was told that the sauce was vegetarian. When the meal arrived, I took a bite of the tofu, only to discover that the tofu was stuffed with a prawn! I was unable to convince the chef that shrimp are not vegetables.

 

I have another story to add! This one happened over the weekend...

I ordered eggplant parmesan at a restaurant. It came with a side of 'spaghetti with meat sauce,' so I specified that I waned meat-less marinara sauce on the pasta. The meat-less marinara is supposed to be on the eggplant already, according to the menu and the waiter. I did stress to the waiter, 'NO meat.'

when the food came, the spaghetti was fine... the eggplant looked okay, and since it's supposed to be in a vegetarian sauce to begin with, I took a big huge bite.. and discovered that below the top layer of cheese, the eggplant was covered in meat sauce. We got my meal for free.

 

Okay now that is really really fucking mean! Good thing he is your ex!

See what my boyfriend did was not mean like that. He just likes to joke around with me a lot... I honestly think he did forget it was calamari when he stuck it in my mouth, he is a spacey pothead haha.
So don't worry my guy is a sweetheart I promise... I mean I'm still gonna get him back though