vegan

Not just offered, I paid got it and ate it.

Veggie tacos.

Each taco entailed:

• A cold supermarket corn tortilla. The kind that fall apart if you don't cook them.

• Steamed freezer bag vegetables.

• No spices.

Fish. "Fish isn't meat so I thought it was okay."

When they lie and try to sneak in some butter or eggs because it's "just a little bit" and I can both taste it and then definitely feel it later.

I've told my older family, constantly, over and over, that I'm vegan and I was offered corn for dinner once with nothing else.

Took one bite and the corn was obviously cooked in butter, so I loudly dumped it all in the trash and walked out.

Was backpacking in another country and quickly ordering breakfast from a place our guide was familiar with while waiting for a bus to arrive.

Ordered a veggie sandwich, assuming it would come with a variety of things, but my guide knew I wanted no animal products and explained it to them. They came back with a plate of plain white bread and lettuce because they took off the cheese, mayo, and whatever else they'd normally put on it.

They thought it was really funny and honestly I did too so I just asked for some peanut butter and ate the bread up. Woulda been annoyed if I was at home, but can only control so much when theres's a language barrier and you're in a completely different country where the word 'vegan' only entered the lexicon in the last 2 years.

Edit: I did get annoyed at another restaurant in the same country because the way they do their menus is that they have a regular one and a vegan one and everything has the exact same name. So you have to specifically say you're ordering from the vegan menu or else you get something smothered in cheese. But I didn't know that because I had only seen the vegan menu. Shoulda been more cautious though.

An eggplant parmigiana: the eggplant was mostly raw and barely heated, there was some greens based sauce that was just kale and oil blended or something, tasted awful, and a pretty simple tomato sauce that could have come out of a bottle.

To this day I don’t understand how I didn’t blow up in vegan rage at being disrespected on such a fundamental “I want edible food” level. It wasn’t cheap either.

So I was involved for a while with our local Democrats club. I got 2 meals off the top of my head.

The first was at a banquet that I wasn't even going to go to. But they "pulled some strings" and talked the chef into making me a special dish. Fucking fine sure I'll go. So the meal was a dry as fuck salad with just lettuce and carrots and no dressing for the appetizer. Then the entre was overcooked penne and severely over steamed veggies. It was fucking insultingly bland too. couldn't have even added mushrooms or beans or whatever.

The second was at a supposedly upscale Italian place and since I'm autistic I checked the menu like the day before to both make sure I can eat there and to plan what I was going to order. The meal I asked for was a pasta with marinara, mushrooms and jalapenos. Nowhere did it say it had parmesan cheese in it. First it took a goddamn hour to get to the table. And second as I started eating I noticed stringy white cheese and the telltale sign of parm sticking to the prongs of my fork. I'm not a fucking idiot and I've only been vegan for 1.5 years so I fucking know what cheese looks like. I asked them if they fucked it up and they said of course not but they could double check with the kitchen to make sure. They had the audacity to come back and say they made it vegan but will comp my beer as a generosity. Like I said I'm not a fucking idiot.

I have a thing about food waste and it was an hour of waiting so I did begrudgingly eat it and like I'm still pissed about it but mostly for being so obviously gaslit over them fucking up.

On the flip side we have a vegan junk food food truck here that is ran by a pair of sisters that I'm convinced are legit anarchists. They work with the local Food not Bombs too.

And we hav another place that just went brick and mortar that has a full vegan menu that is most of their non vegan stuff but vegan-ified. Mostly texmex which is just fine by me.

And we have a gastro-pub hister joint that has fucking amazing food and about 1/4 of the menu is vegan and they are always running vegan specials.

Those three places will always get my money.

Yves hotdog... When I was a vegetarian 30 years ago, I really appreciated them. It let me eat hotdogs with family without me feeling like an oddity. The recipe hasn't changed. They were never good, but now there's options that are good, and culturally people are pretty OK with having veggie options now

Once there were refried beans as part of a taco day at work, but by my turn it was just dried scrapings off the bottom and edge.

Also, that might not even be vegan or even vegetarian for that matter due to lard

Cauliflower steak that was just an entire cauliflower that had been steamed (I think?) and then torched somewhat.

chef at work made a vegan rice pilaf that looked like someone said the word "mirepoix" at the pan. also a vegan jambalaya that was like, a sad collection of squash and well oxidized eggplant with a sprinkling of canned diced tomato which formed dried flakes over top

sorry those who ate it, i did not have the time to make a better one u_u

my wife: a block of cold tofu and a tub of coconut milk yoghurt

work function.

Any veggie option at a work thing

A sand which that was pretty much just brocolli, celery, and lettuce. I only got this version once, I ordered it again and got cheese. Someone else I know decided to get it, cheese.