Comments on: Veggie Tales

By: Tina

Tina — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:18:25 +0000

Scribbles, how do you know she didn’t suggest that restaurant? All she says is that he picked her up. Maybe he was trying to avoid drama in the first place by letting her pick.

As far as cross-dietary couples, I’m an omnivore but my husband was vegetarian growing up. A lot of the things he make don’t have meat. Who cares? He’s a good cook and makes delicious food.

By: Ella May

Ella May — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:06:57 +0000

Yeah, why didn’t his vegetarianism come up earlier, in their online conversations, certainly before choosing a restaurant? Her smoking comment shows youth and ignorance, not just ignorance of this issue, but that she doesn’t know how to sort her thoughts clearly. She’s comparing things that have no relationship. But everyone does that sometimes, it can be very tempting to lump behaviors into categories like that. The people just seem ill-suited, they annoy each other and have different assumptions, right down to the end where something she thought was a deal-breaking fight had not been for him, but it’s still over. It’s not THAT bad a date story though.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:15:43 +0000

I agree with the majority of the posters here. I was raised vegetarian, and I choose to eat meat myself nowadays, but I know people just like the OP. If her vegetarian fixation was as big a problem for OP as it obviously was, why bother going out on the second date for that matter? And I got the opinion from her language and the way she presented the relatively inoffensive guy that she was sort of fucking with him, like she thought he was kind of silly. Which is fine, she has the right to be an asshole. But don’t act like you’re interested in dating him. Honestly, the dude really dodged a bullet. OP sounds like Sarah Palin on the prowl.

By: Scribbles

Scribbles — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:19:58 +0000

So…nobody in this entire thread stopped to think why this guy took her on a date to a restaurant that had “no real options” for him to order?

If you’re already vegetarian and it’s not something you WANT to get into a discussion about, why not just pick a restaurant that has vegetarian options as well as non-vegetarian options? Lot less drama.

By: cats

cats — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:27:29 +0000

Maybe you should not have brought up his vegetarianism. It’s not a good dinner topic most of the time. Smoking has nothing to do with vegetarianism. You were the rude one! Don’t pester us because we choose not to eat meat!

By: Canaduck

Canaduck — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:28:44 +0000

All the guy said was that he didn’t eat meat. And what if he were a human rights activist and a smoker–would you have asked him why he smoked then? That was kind of an irrelevant question.

I suspect that the reason he gave you the short answer of “for the animals”, which I agree was pretty inadequate as far as information goes, was that he didn’t want to argue or preach to you. Though of course since you’d asked, he could have taken the chance to give you some info.

If you’re genuinely interested in why he was doing it “for the animals”, I’d suggest checking out:

http://liberationbc.org/issues/farmanimals

http://www.veganoutreach.org/whyvegan/

By: meaty girl

meaty girl — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:06:11 +0000

i eat meat and my long-term boyfriend’s a vegetarian. i used to be a vegan and had a meat-eating boyfriend at the time. it isn’t and wasn’t an issue in either case.

By: rawr

rawr — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:37:07 +0000

Lisa,

My parents are an example of a vegetarian man and omnivorous woman having a successful relationship. They’ve been married for almost 22 years and their relationship is just dandy. Food is a non-issue to them.

By: goatlady

goatlady — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:15:39 +0000

I’ve been a vegetarian for 14 years and the worst thing anyone has ever said to me because of it was, “God made animals for you to eat.” Seriously. Like God will be pissed I had beans in my taco instead of beef.

My boyfriend is an omnivore. Because we don’t have a lot of money we don’t really go out to eat. When I cook though I only cook vegetarian meals but he eats them and says they’re good. I guess if the vegetarian cooks there’s less of a conflict.

When my boyfriend asked me why I was a vegetarian I said, “Because I don’t eat meat.”

By: shitakeshake

shitakeshake — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:53:17 +0000

It’s the condesending “So you smoke” argument that makes me think that the OP wasn’t being cool about his eating habits. She could have very well just ended the date and not ever seen him again instead of probing him since she already knew that he was uncomfortable. Do people run around asking other people why they’re whatever religion they are, how long they’ve been going to church, chide them for not reading enough bible verses and oh hey, you sin that’s not very christian… And yes, some people take vegetarianism as serious as religion- a few preach about it, others quietly practice.