It’s pretty concerning, you’re right. I actually wrote a list of things that are vegan and vegetarian to keep in the back because some of my coworkers would give random answers when people asked about them (and we for some reason have chicken fat in our omelettes, so they seem vegetarian but aren’t).

Yeast is a fungus, honey is an animal product

Yeast is a fungus, honey is made by bees. I used to be pretty neutral about honey, but we don’t adequately protect bees from the cold and other perils when we keep them.

I can’t tell if H is a troll or just really stupid (or both). She and I clash about several subjects and she does sometimes straight antagonize the rest of us, but she’s also weirdly ill-informed about a lot of things and 67 years old. A lot of the antagonism seems to stem from her expecting everyone to defer to her because of her age, but because she’s not very smart, she orders us to do things that don’t make sense, then gets annoyed when we don’t.

I mostly just try to ignore her and don’t accept any food from her unless it’s prepackaged and I know what it is.

Habits are a weird thing. I always try to imagine doing the same thing the other way around. You eat meat? All meats? Even fish? So you just don't care, oooor? They have. A nice soup, but it has no meat in it, you think that's fine for you?