how do you answer when people ask, "CAN you eat cheese?"
Posted by longer_look on May 10, 2010 · Member since Feb 2010 · 369 posts
i get so irritated when people ask me crap like this... i always answer... "i can eat whatever i want. i chose not to."
is that nit-picking?
it really bothers me.
My dad used to alway ask me "can you eat X?" and I too would answer "I can, I just choose not to." Now he always says something like "read the ingredients on this, do you choose to eat it?" He says it in a kind of tongue-in-cheek way but I think it's funny. :) Love my dad.
Heh heh. Yeah, my sister sometimes stops herself now when she starts asking if I "can" eat this or that. Love my sister. :)
I just say something flippant like 'no, I'd burst into flames on contact,' or 'no, it'd cause a malfunction in the matrix.'
I just say something flippant like 'no, I'd burst into flames on contact,' or 'no, it'd cause a malfunction in the matrix.'
hope you don't mind, but I'm totally stealing this response!
"Yes, as long as it is made without the secretions of animal extortion." Usually shuts people right up.
I punch them in the nose as hard as I can
I think I will adopt your answer, except I am going to aim quite a bit lower with my male friends.
I'm another one who usually goes with some variation of "I can, but I choose not to." In fact, I've said that phrase so often around my nephew and niece, who are 10 and 8, that now if their mother or someone asks if I can have some non-vegan food, one of them nearly always pipes up with "She can, she just chooses not to." :)
Too cute! Kids GET IT! It's the adults that get confused.
people are usually ungodly curious. i'm from wisconsin, so the the cheese question usually gets people going. i tend to to use a response that i bummed from my friend mike, who always said when people asked him why he was vegan, "i just like it."
like, "hey, i'm just eating the foods i like to eat." hard to argue with that, and it's usually the best way to avoid conflict. i really only use ideologically divisive responses if i can sense the person is picking a fight. then the gloves come off.
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