Dated a vegan with a closet full of running medals. She literally had a closet bar dedicated to those and nothing else on it. She jogged 5-miles a day as her normal routine. At 51, that woman was ripped.

Unfortunately, vegan and (I forget the word about living a simple, stuff-free life) was about all she could talk about. She had very little interest in anything else, but was nice to enough to listen to my ramblings on all the things.

Lol

bUt de PrOtEiN!!!!! hE nEEdS dE PrOtEiN!!!

I don't think people are born vegetarian.

Broccoli is incredible.

I don't like eggs. I don't like the smell, I don't like the taste, I don't like the texture. I'm not allergic to them, but they make me gag. Whenever it comes up with someone who doesn't know me, I'm typically drawn into a tedious recounting of why I don't eat eggs and then the inevitable "You'd like my eggs, I make them differently." Oh, do you now? You've got a magic recipe that makes them not taste, smell and feel like eggs? If that's the case, what's the point of eating them?

All that to say, people should be left alone about their food preferences. In fact, there should be no conversation about what's on somebody else's plate beyond "that looks/smells good" and even then, only if they are dining together.

Except in the case that they're eating human meat; Questions are required.

This is my step mom, and lesser degree my mom.

Step mom compliments me on the vegan dish being absolutely delicious, then goes right into you have to have meat, and then talks about all the favorite rib dishes and butcher places to get good meat. WTF, obiously I have zero interest in a butcher, and don't need to be "sold" on meat since I grew up with the guy she married and he took me hunting and we brought home game for food.

My mom asks if I'm still vegan when I visit, and I say yes, so she asks if quiche is OK because its just a bit of egg and milk. So I just order take out and show up with my own food, but then she asks if I want yougurt and fruit for dessert. Still vegan here mom...still vegan.

That doesn't sound like a typical vegan, we typically have to research food places and ensure they can provide a meal otherwise you travel to a place and you get salad as the only option, or vegabs avoid meat serving places altogether. Sounds like you just get entitled people or people where friends made the booking and the vegan had no clue where they would end up.

Enjoy your permanent ban. I don't care.