Phillyist: Monday Manners: You Are Not What You Eat

Stephanie Mannis

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:59:50 -0500

I hate being asked, "Are you sure you don't want to eat _____" YES I AM MOTHER EFFING SURE! Ha ha... actually, I feel the same way about vegetables. I know I should eat them but I hate them. And when I tell someone that, they invariably ask if I'd like some salad. Last time I checked, salad was made of vegetables. And I'm sure I don't want any.

Spencer Williams

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:14:11 -0500

It's not the pans/pots thats the huge problem. The real problem lends to when you cook meat and vegetarian food at the same time and they grill it up in the same dish/pot. I've been to a bbq where they grill hamburgers and then right after the veggie patties. Regardless to say I wouldn't eat it. I'm not a vegan but I have strict dietary needs, some of it's principle, most of it's for health reasons. All I say is please respect people's dietary needs/preferences. I hate being asked, "Are you sure you don't want to eat _____" YES I AM MOTHER EFFING SURE!

Ross Currie

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:16:10 -0500

It's one thing to keep pots separated within a single meal, but in the situation Stephanie has proposed, where the pot may have been used for meat a week, a month, a year beforehand, then it's absurd for your vegetarian friend to have a problem. Of course, if the person is that militant, then they're probably not associating with omnivores anyway, because, let's face it, every pot and pan belonging to an omnivore has had some meat product on it at some point.

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:43:46 -0500

I've never had it happen to me at home, but I worked at the Kelly Writers House for four years, and for a while there, if we were cooking we had to be super vigilant about keeping the meat and veg pots separated.

Stephanie Mannis

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:36:49 -0500

Maybe I'm a jerk, but if I cooked pasta for a vegetarian and they refused to eat it because I boiled the noodles in a pot I once used to make chili, I think I'd let 'em go hungry. I mean, c'mon--I if scrubbed the pot in between and there wasn't any meat stuck to it to contaminate the noodles, who cares? Luckily, none of my veg friends are militant like that.

bruhinb

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:52:10 -0500

"In fact, diners can order just the salad bar for $19.50, at lunch and dinner." http://www.fogodechao.com/reviews_detail.php?pubID=113&pageNum_Reviews=1&totalRows_Reviews=115 Veggies will not be paying for meat they are not eating. They just need to be able to still enjoy their salad while around others who are chowing through small herds of large animals.

Mallory Politz

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:25:48 -0500

Kudos on this post. I (a vegetarian) will never forgive my friends for taking me out for Pho without telling me what it was, and then sitting there eating it while I quietly drank a glass of water.