Yuck...
Posted by edd677 on Oct 11, 2009 · Member since Jul 2009 · 86 posts
I was eating naan bread that I found sitting in the kitchen... after eating about 90% of one I realized it really didnt taste right. I looked on the ingredients... gasp! buttermilk, cream, clarified butter. I feel contaminated... I really need to get better at checking labels. Some things I just assume to be vegan too easily. But anyway I thought I might ask you guys/gals to share your bad stories like this if your absent minded enough like me to have any.
I don't have a story, but wanted to say hi. Welcome to vegweb.
i do the same thing... i assume and then i actually look and it has crap in it... ya u always gotta read even stuff that was vegan might change and not be vegan so watch out... it sucks
I had bought a loaf of sandwich bread from Target a few weeks ago and I swear I checked and it was vegan. So I bought another loaf of the same thing a week or so ago, and looked at it while making a sandwich one day to see that it has milk in it! I was really sad, but I am gonna finish the loaf rather than let it go to waste. And at least the milk is the last ingredient, which means that hopefully there is very little in there...
I'm sure I've done this a number of times. (We won't talk about the cheese I ate at a restaurant on Friday because I'm still too traumatized.)
Here's kind of a funny story from a couple years ago. I had bough this fancy sweet sauce for my mom for Christmas, and worked pretty hard trying to find something she'd like that (I thought) was vegan. Later, I was trying to get my niece to eat something at my mom's house. I got out this sauce for her to put on toast and told her "It's really good." She read the ingredients and said "You ate this?" ??? I said I had and she pointed out that it contained "buttered pecans." :-[ Busted by an 8-year-old. After that she felt the need to read the ingredients on everything she saw me eat. ::)
Once i was at quiznos and they got in grapefruit juice, so i got it. Just as i was about to open it i had this urge to read ingredients.
There was carmine in it!!!! WTF?! beetles in my juiceee?
Luckily i know everyone there so they were cool with giving me something else.
I lived with these Romanians for a very long 1 1/2 months. They thought it was absurd that I didn't eat meat. I'd have to check the labels on everything they tried to feed me. After a while, I checked less (they were always pissed about me checking them.. they'd say "What, you think we're going to poison your food with meat?".. One day they made up some Asian stirfry (from a bag) that they insisted was vegetarian.. I was already iffy about it. After taking a bite, I knew I shouldn't have. After requesting to see the bag, I found that there was oyster sauce in it. SICK.
i've always been so careful and have often not bought things if i wasn't sure about the mono- and diglycerides and whatnot even. today i was at whole foods with my mom and picked out a few things from their prepared foods in the cases. everything looked so good, and i love that they have the ingredients on little cards for everyone to see. somehow i ordered my things and had overlooked that the apple-raisin-quinoa salad had HONEY in it! aaaaack! i had already taken a few bites, though, before i read the ingredient label on my container and didn't want to waste the rest. :/ i can't believe i overlooked that. but seriously, why couldn't they have just used agave?!?!
I learned my lesson about two years ago when I was still an ovo-lacto. I bought a box of fig cookies at the Mediterranean market and later discovered they had beef fat in them! BEEF FAT IN COOKIES?!!! I never expected that! For a while I was reading labels twice, I was so paranoid.
It's happened to me a lot.
It happens when you've read sooooo many labels..
you begin reading them even faster, not noticing things you should.
I don't think it's ever happened with meat, but it has happened with milk, eggs, and honey.
I'm always afraid someone who I like/trust will end up giving me something with meat or whatever in it, and I'm never going to want to speak to them again. (poorly worded sentence, and I'm not fixing it). It's betrayal. Thankfully, I don't think it's ever happened.
I'm always afraid someone who I like/trust will end up giving me something with meat or whatever in it, and I'm never going to want to speak to them again. (poorly worded sentence, and I'm not fixing it). It's betrayal. Thankfully, I don't think it's ever happened.
This... exactly! I'd be more understanding if it was a tiny oversight, but I'm always paranoid someone is going to drip meaty juices from whatever piece of animal they are eating onto my vegan burger on purpose.
I'm always afraid someone who I like/trust will end up giving me something with meat or whatever in it, and I'm never going to want to speak to them again. (poorly worded sentence, and I'm not fixing it). It's betrayal. Thankfully, I don't think it's ever happened.
My mother is like that... not that she wants to intentionally, but she really does not seem to care if it happens accidently. In fact if I even get suspicious she gets angry. Thank goodness I am outta here in less than a year.
This weekend I was out shopping for some good winter shoes, and my boyfriend picked out a pair of men's work boots for me to try. They fit perfectly and were exactly what I was looking for. Assuming the bf had checked to make sure they weren't leather, I shelled out the $70 for them. I get back to school last night, only to learn that they are leather. I feel really bad about it, but at the same time I keep telling myself that it was an honest mistake (since I haven't been doing the whole reading labels thing for that long). I'm going to keep them, because they are what I was looking for and they will probably last for years, and once they fall apart I will buy something non-leather.
This weekend I was out shopping for some good winter shoes, and my boyfriend picked out a pair of men's work boots for me to try. They fit perfectly and were exactly what I was looking for. Assuming the bf had checked to make sure they weren't leather, I shelled out the $70 for them. I get back to school last night, only to learn that they are leather. I feel really bad about it, but at the same time I keep telling myself that it was an honest mistake (since I haven't been doing the whole reading labels thing for that long). I'm going to keep them, because they are what I was looking for and they will probably last for years, and once they fall apart I will buy something non-leather.
They may as well be put to good use. I use a few leather belts my sister was going to throw out. I hate waste, the last time I ever ate meat was 3 or 4 weeks after I went vegetarian. I was eating at some thanksgiving thing with a friend and he was going to throw out a huge helping of perfectly good turkey. Shameful. I ate it all. Did my part for the poor turkey... didn't die just to be trash.
I'm always afraid someone who I like/trust will end up giving me something with meat or whatever in it, and I'm never going to want to speak to them again. (poorly worded sentence, and I'm not fixing it). It's betrayal. Thankfully, I don't think it's ever happened.
This... exactly! I'd be more understanding if it was a tiny oversight, but I'm always paranoid someone is going to drip meaty juices from whatever piece of animal they are eating onto my vegan burger on purpose.
That's why I'm afraid to anger the waiters/cooks at restaurants haha.