What is your worst vegan Nightmare/Reality?
Let me explain.....I thought mine was the time that my parents came and my mom made my dad a deli turkey sandwich on MY kitchen counter and then opened my cupboards and silverware drawer with her turkey greasy hands......but then....this happened:
When we bought our house out of state, we coudn't move yet financially, so we decided to rent it out until we could move. We hired a company since we were out of state and didn't know anyone. We desperately needed the money, so we were on edge hoping they would find someone. I got a call a couple days later saying they found 2 guys to rent it. I found out later that they were managers of a HOOTERS restaurant! All I could think about was wing sauce and the subsequent poops they would be making in my toilets. I really thought there would be sauce all over the counters, etc....my husband thought I was being crazy :o
Well, when we finally saw the place after, my vegan nightmare had come true. The kitchen was filthy dirty, and when we tried to wipe it clean, our towels were orangish. We actually got rid of a nice wooden stool because it always felt sticky even after we cleaned it! They did some other damage too like breaking windows and doors, but by far the worst of it was thinking of their disgusting wings in my kitchen. We are in the process of replacing the counters and floors, btw. (and I replaced all of the toilet seats).
ALso, the neighbors tell me there were people in and out all of the time! Party house for the Hooters!
Lesson learned: never rent your house out to Hooters guys (or girls) even if you are desperate for money.
So, my worst vegan nightmare/reality is having "Hooters Guys" rent my house!!!! UGH ! Can you beat that?
Oh man. That sucks! I would never rent out a house to men. If there is no woman around, it usually gets out of control.
I can't think of much to beat that except all of the times my "friends" tried to trick me into eating meat. One friend (when I was still lacto) made me a cheese sandwich. Turns out he put turkey in it and didn't tell me until I was halfway through! I guess I had forgotten what turkey tasted like! Another friend worked at a deli. I would always go visit him at work and one time he made me laugh from behind the counter and then THREW a piece of meat into my open mouth! WHAT THE HELL??!?!?!
Anyway, I'm sorry about your house. Are you moving in now? At least you can make sure it's all friendly and meat free from now on. And congratulations if you're moving in! :)
Oh man. That sucks! I would never rent out a house to men. If there is no woman around, it usually gets out of control.
I can't think of much to beat that except all of the times my "friends" tried to trick me into eating meat. One friend (when I was still lacto) made me a cheese sandwich. Turns out he put turkey in it and didn't tell me until I was halfway through! I guess I had forgotten what turkey tasted like! Another friend worked at a deli. I would always go visit him at work and one time he made me laugh from behind the counter and then THREW a piece of meat into my open mouth! WHAT THE HELL??!?!?!
Anyway, I'm sorry about your house. Are you moving in now? At least you can make sure it's all friendly and meat free from now on. And congratulations if you're moving in! :)
wow, yours is pretty bad too!~
We have actually been here over a year now. We still lovingly refer to it as the "Hooters Kitchen". I still won't eat something if it has fallen off and hits the counter. OK, I am a bit of a germaphobe too. ;)I know none of you will never want to eat here now. :'( Soon to be transformed! I have concrete counters in the works as we speak!!! :)
both of those things sound terrible. i don't think i have one. 8)
OOOHHH concrete counters are the best!!! Nice choice.
I can't think of an instance at the moment but I'm so sorry those things happened to you, Little and CYETS- that's horrible!
Ok...I had a nightmare that caused me to become vegetarian (aspiring viegan)
I had a nightmare over 10 years ago that I was at a banquet. Long story short, I went up to the buffet table and there was a dish on ice and it was live lobsters!! Still alive and not in their shells!! It was gross to say the least!!!
I woke up smelling the worst smell in my life! I barfed. Sorry for the visual. This is where I learned of the greatness of lavender.
However, I had this dream every night for 2-3 months!! Made me sick every time and that is what got me to looking into animal rights. My husband at the time was no where even supportive.
That is where the other nightmare/reality kicks in. He did a lot of cooking and used to slip chicken broth or meat in to my food because he thought my beliefs were stupid. He wanted to show that I could eat meat by slipping it in. >:( >:(
I used to have nightmares about eating meat. Where I would forget what meat was and eat it, or eat meat without realizing it, only to discover I had.
There have been a few (rare) times in the 5 years that I've been veg*n where this has happened (I eat something without realizing it isn't vegetarian), usually when it's food that's been prepared by someone else and they tell me it's vegetarian/vegan.
I never actually wound up eating the food. It would just really bum me out because in most instances it was soup made from chicken stock. I love how people seem to think that chicken stock is vegetarian... um, no. I can always smell chicken stock and I find it absolutely revolting. :(
My husband at the time was no where even supportive.
That is where the other nightmare/reality kicks in. He did a lot of cooking and used to slip chicken broth or meat in to my food because he thought my beliefs were stupid. He wanted to show that I could eat meat by slipping it in. >:( >:(
Hope you didn't stay married to that a-hole for long! What a jerk.
Reality: My friend and I were tasting all the bread samples at Central Market, and one of them turned out to have chunks of meat *in* the bread!
Combination (probably partly based on the above, too): When I worked at an elementary school, a teacher was talking about her vegan kindergarten student and bragging about how she had sneaked meat into his food. The other teachers applauded her. I subsequently dreamt that I was in a school cafeteria eating what I thought was bread, but it turned into meat somehow.
Seriously, though, I sometimes worry about what will happen to my (currently nonexistent!!) kids in public school. What if they forget their lunch on the bus or something? Ew, people who abuse power over kids creep me out.
Combination (probably partly based on the above, too): When I worked at an elementary school, a teacher was talking about her vegan kindergarten student and bragging about how she had sneaked meat into his food. The other teachers applauded her.
What a b*tch! I would've seriously find out who the parents of that little kid were and told them what the teacher was doing. Is she so stupid that she doesn't know that could've made him/her sick??? I'd also have gone to the principal, superintendent (sp) and possibly even the press to not only to embarrass the woman but also to have gotten enough negative publicity so that she either quit or got fired.
Combination (probably partly based on the above, too): When I worked at an elementary school, a teacher was talking about her vegan kindergarten student and bragging about how she had sneaked meat into his food. The other teachers applauded her.
What a b*tch! I would've seriously find out who the parents of that little kid were and told them what the teacher was doing. Is she so stupid that she doesn't know that could've made him/her sick??? I'd also have gone to the principal, superintendent (sp) and possibly even the press to not only to embarrass the woman but also to have gotten enough negative publicity so that she either quit or got fired.
Yeah, did you say anything to the teacher? That is SO wrong!
Right in downtown Chicago a live hog transport lost his load. There was pig parts all over the road and the entire district smelled like pig entrail. It was not good lol.
Now don't read this if your sensitive!! When I was a kid a guy died in his apartment and wasn't found for three days. The smell of the hogs massacre was VERY similar. It might be the reason I've always thought of going veggie. That and also, that people who have eatten human flesh say it tastes like pork.
Globally pork is the most eatten meat. It's a horror beyond words.
Combination (probably partly based on the above, too): When I worked at an elementary school, a teacher was talking about her vegan kindergarten student and bragging about how she had sneaked meat into his food. The other teachers applauded her.
What a b*tch! I would've seriously find out who the parents of that little kid were and told them what the teacher was doing. Is she so stupid that she doesn't know that could've made him/her sick??? I'd also have gone to the principal, superintendent (sp) and possibly even the press to not only to embarrass the woman but also to have gotten enough negative publicity so that she either quit or got fired.
Yeah, did you say anything to the teacher? That is SO wrong!
i agree. i hope you did something. sick.
Combination (probably partly based on the above, too): When I worked at an elementary school, a teacher was talking about her vegan kindergarten student and bragging about how she had sneaked meat into his food. The other teachers applauded her.
What a b*tch! I would've seriously find out who the parents of that little kid were and told them what the teacher was doing. Is she so stupid that she doesn't know that could've made him/her sick??? I'd also have gone to the principal, superintendent (sp) and possibly even the press to not only to embarrass the woman but also to have gotten enough negative publicity so that she either quit or got fired.
Yeah, did you say anything to the teacher? That is SO wrong!
i agree. i hope you did something. sick.
I wanted to let the kid's parents know on the sly, but I never met them.
I explained to all the teachers present that a kid who's never had a food that hard to digest can get sick from it, and suggested not sneaking meat to veg kids you're in charge of unless you're willing to deal with some pretty awful diarrhea. I think that scared them some, and I doubt they would have responded well to the suggestion of respecting the family's diet, especially coming from me. I was an hourly wage diaper-changer, and the tofu in my lunch had spurned the whole discussion.
Elementary school is a terrifying place.
Wow, now I am even more motivated to home-school my 4 1/2 year old vegan girl!! Unbelievable.
My worst vegan nightmares are real, as in when I get meat in my food in restaurants. So many cooks are just unaware of how important it is to not let bits of meat get in non-meat items. This has happened so much that I don't even like eating out anymore!
But worse...My most recent thing was getting lamb soup when i ordered dahl. I had never had an incident before in an Indian restaurant, so I was pretty surprised. They tried to tell me it was ginger! I had never even eaten lamb in my life....until then. I pretty much lost my appetite the rest of the day.
The other worst time was when i was in a semi-veg place and ordered a soy sloppy joe. I kept bugging the server...are you sure this is veg?? He said it was & that he too was a veg, so I ate the whole plate...about a cup of filling. Well, I found out when I went to pay that it was, in fact, BEEF.
They said not to worry, they would take it off my bill. Yeah. I pretty much went into a dark place for the rest of the day. It was interesting though, as it made me realize how different vegan food makes me feel. Aside from wanting to barf for the rest of the day....After eating all that meat, I felt so heavy and even less clear-headed...It felt like I was sort of underwater, consciousness-wise. Hard to describe, but interesting.
They went out of business shortly after. :-\
I wanted to let the kid's parents know on the sly, but I never met them.
I explained to all the teachers present that a kid who's never had a food that hard to digest can get sick from it, and suggested not sneaking meat to veg kids you're in charge of unless you're willing to deal with some pretty awful diarrhea. I think that scared them some, and I doubt they would have responded well to the suggestion of respecting the family's diet, especially coming from me. I was an hourly wage diaper-changer, and the tofu in my lunch had spurned the whole discussion.
Elementary school is a terrifying place.
I am so thankful that my son's teacher is vegetarian. I requested her, before I even knew it! She is interested in veganism too. He has had issues at school with aftercare and gelatin, plus the art teacher teaching about meat from farm animals, but his classroom teacher has been very supportive and has connected with Noah about diet in a lot of ways. She likes to sit with him because they eat their veggies together at lunch!
Also, I have his 2nd grade teacher picked out who is also vegetarian...again, i just found out after I had already decided I would probably request her. I guess I am just naturally drawn to other herbivores! :)
I agree though....elementary school can be scary. I taught at a school who took 4th grade on a field trip to an ag center, and they got a diagram of a cow and all the things made from it....marshmellow, candles, meat, etc.....and it was in favor of doing this, not against it! Hopefully it made one smart little kid think.....
This week I am going to post the ingredients on the label of the school milk. If I recall, the first ingredient was not milk, but high fructose corn syrup. I am going in to the cafeteria to write it all down. I read it briefly last week and I was appalled!
I forgot my latest nightmare that I posted about a few week ago: I licked some beef gravy thinking it was balsamic vinagrette, since it was in the dressing containter! It was so gross!
Once, I ate chicken based soup at Macaroni Grill because the guy told me it was vegetarian. I only had a few sips and I could tell. Beware of that place!
Wow... a lot of people mentioned in this thread need to get sued or dumped or both.
My nightmare is that my veganism will come between me and moving somewhere... like if I get a really cool job somewhere where its just not possible to be vegan, or even *shudder* not possible to be vegetarian... I would probably choose veganism over such an opportunity, but oh, it would hurt.
Also, I used to have meat-eating dreams too... I neither enjoyed it nor was disgusted by it, I was just hugely disappointed in myself. "WHY am I doing this? This is MEAT, I am a VEGAN!" But those stopped about three years ago, for whatever reason.
Wow... a lot of people mentioned in this thread need to get sued or dumped or both.
My nightmare is that my veganism will come between me and moving somewhere... like if I get a really cool job somewhere where its just not possible to be vegan, or even *shudder* not possible to be vegetarian... I would probably choose veganism over such an opportunity, but oh, it would hurt.
Also, I used to have meat-eating dreams too... I neither enjoyed it nor was disgusted by it, I was just hugely disappointed in myself. "WHY am I doing this? This is MEAT, I am a VEGAN!" But those stopped about three years ago, for whatever reason.
actually, same with me (moving somewhere/ traveling somewhere) it has already pretty much Xed out the peace corps for me (i heard it is almost impossible to be vegetarian, let alone vegan)... and i also had those dreams when i first went vegan. thank goodness not for a loong time, though.
Yeah, I have a good friend who is vegetarian. She was in the Peace Corps (about 10 yrs ago) and said she had to eat fish there (the Philippines) or else she said she wouldn't have survived. I think all they ate there was white rice and fish. Yikes!
FYI, she is as skinny as can be, but said she gained 10 lbs on that diet.
I have friend who did the Peace Corps in the Phillipines. She wasn't a vegetarian, but she always told servers that she was, because if you told them that they would put about half as much meat as usual in your food ::) She said that people took "vegetarian" to mean basically that you liked vegetables more than meat. And apparently, dishes are normally very VERY meat heavy there.
i also decided not to go into the peace corps for this reason. and it's apparently some serious buerocratic bulls**t to deal with.
reading about the husband and teacher sneaking meat into peoples food is really making me sick. like i'm going to cry and puke. if a teacher told me she snuck meat into a vegan kids food i would punch her. break her nose and lose my job, and be labeled an asshole extremist.
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