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"Fish isn't meat, it's poultry!!" (screaming it at me as i walked down an aisle in my store. .. after he asked if I ate fish and I said no, not any types of meat. The rest well..you got me. ^^ )

2007-07-31 04:22:01 · answer #1 · answered by veganconscript 3 · 5 1

The age-old protein question has to be the most genuinely ignorant. Somehow vast numbers got brainwashed into thinking meat is the only thing with protein in it...

But the most rudely ignorant thing was when I sent back a plate in a restaurant because it had chicken on it (I believe I was pretty clear about what I ordered and that wasn't it!) The waiter came back with a new plate and said, "The cook said you need to eat more beef. I would have been out sooner but I needed to get the Spanish translated. I thought he said something a lot worse." Huh? He NEEDED to get the cook's comments translated so he could pass them on to a paying customer? The cook was ignorant enough, but the waiter really needed to find a new line of work, one that doesn't involve contact with people!

2007-07-31 17:25:51 · answer #2 · answered by mockingbird 7 · 1 0

Oof, I was going to say "You have NO idea what you're MISSING!" (as if I have never eaten meat before in my life...or that I don't know what I'm doing...or that I even miss it!)

But now I'm nominating smart E's comment. Even though the -total- variety in what an omnivore *can* eat is larger, individuals' diets vary greatly in what they *do* eat, and smtrautman just happens to have quite a varied diet. It's not directly from being vegan, but just the personality types that tend to be attracted to veganism combined with the newly discovered foods from making your own meals more often and looking for substitutes. Do I have as varied a diet as omnivore TV chef Gordon Ramsay? Probably not! But since I cook so often and enthusiastically, I have much more variety than any of my family, friends, classmates, etc. and I happen to be vegan. *shrug*

2007-07-31 03:53:53 · answer #3 · answered by blackbyrus 4 · 2 1

That you need protein to maintain and build muscle.

Of course, lots of quality protein can be had on a raw vegan diet. There are raw vegan bodybuilders and athletes who can blow meat eaters away.

Also, they used to ask how you could have any energy, eating that way. Pretty ignorant considering that carbs are energy source. Eating a raw vegan diet, a person is more likely to have more useful energy than on any other diet I know of.

2007-07-31 03:09:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Well, I am told the "salad shooter" joke all the time. That has to be the most juvenile thing....
But this takes the cake:
A lady once accused me of being a lesbian. The conversation went like this:
"....YOU'RE a vegetarian?!"
"Yes."
"So you don't eat meat?"
"No."
"Do you wear fur?"
"No."
"Are you a lesbian?!"
"No."
"Are you sure? You don't seem like one, but since you don't eat meat...."

The whole time, I was thinking to myself, "I cannot believe I'm actually having this conversation".

2007-07-31 03:51:47 · answer #5 · answered by YSIC 7 · 6 0

This didn't happen to me directly, but I heard all about it :).

My fiance works with a guy who doesn't understand his lacto-ovo veg diet. He mentioned that he'd been a vegetarian for a whole year as of August 1st. The guy he works with said, "I'm surprised you're not dead yet!"

2007-07-31 03:46:31 · answer #6 · answered by Gardenia 4 · 2 0

I'm not really a vegetarian (sorry), but I did hear someone once use the argument that broccoli has a complete nervous system. I wonder if that is even true? Poor broccoli.

2007-07-31 03:02:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

well i'm not vegetarian, but it's well-known that the second i move out, i'm turning vegan. we were in subway when my best friend [i know!] asked me why the f was i buying a veggie sub. i replied simply "well where's the meat in a packet of potato chips!?"

he has also told me "see these here!?" [opens his mouth WIDE, and points to incisors] "they're CANINES. for chewing meat."
me:"uh, those aren't canines....."
him:"well they're in there somewhere for a reason!"

also " hey you know what you need!?"
"earplugs!?"
"very funny, but no, a nicy juicy medium-rare steak"
"ewwww......."

2007-07-31 03:10:05 · answer #8 · answered by lexie 5 · 1 1

non really, i keep my vegetarianism to myself unless i have to point it out in a resturant or somewhere.

one bizarre recent statement was from a local resturant owner...."we don't use vegetarian cheese in our vegetarian option, thats going too far"......as if eating dead cows is ok if it doesn't look like a dead cow.

All these cliches have appeared on Yahoo recently, no doubt they will continue to do so:
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AgByaa8oPhLwa_zSAO7VjSIhBgx.?qid=20070719042048AAf0xhR

2007-07-31 05:06:59 · answer #9 · answered by Michael H 7 · 1 1

Ok so TODAY I told 2 guys from my school that i dont eat meat. They told me im beging a girl cuz i dont eat meat. Im like how does that make me girly. There like cuz girls dont eat meat. Im like WHAT?

2007-07-31 05:58:16 · answer #10 · answered by Leftyyy 2 · 1 1

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