so we had a small party for friends to introduce new foods from the restaurant. *all vegetarian* (well, actually they were all vegan, but since that scares people we just said vegetarian)

so this guy, a friend of ours, let's call him clark...comes over. everyone makes jokes about the food not having meat, but they all eat it anyway and give us great feedback on what they would change and compliment me on it.

except clark. clark sits there, making the proud "me man--must eat meat" comments the entire time. does not taste ONE bite of my food. and it was a spread! i had burritos, portabella mushroom burgers, pasta, 2 kinds of sandwiches, 7-layer dip, home-made hummus, veggie spring rolls, baked tofu bites, and more! it was not exactly lettuce and raw carrots i had laid out.

so dinner is wrapping up and i bring out desert. i made peach pie and peach cobbler cake (both vegan) from peaches off a tree in my yard.

everyone raves about it! especially the cake...even clark eats it happily and says how good it is. THEN i say, yea and can you believe it's vegan? clark hands the rest of his cake to his wife and makes a "grossed out" face.

then he says he has to go to the store for soda. (our all-natural soda wasn't good enough) and he comes back wit BURGER KING!!! sits down in front of the massive amounts of food on my table and eats a burger and fries.

seriously, can you get any more ignorant and rude????

No! That is absolutely horrible. I can't stand when people do stuff like that. And you KNOW they are doing it just to irritate you!!!

It sounds like your party went really well, except for that one person. I wouldn't be inviting Clark over to dinner again. :) I can't believe he went to Burger King and brought food back to your place.

That's just absolutely rude. Clark sounds like immature idiot who never got past the neaderthal (sp?) stage of development. If absolutely nothing else, he should have stayed at Burger King and ate the food there and not brought it back to your place.

Yep, that's one jackass that would NEVER be invited back to my home. Which would probably be fine with him. :brood:

i bet everyone else was thinking "wow, what a jerk" and his wife'll probably tear him a new one when he gets home too, lol. it sounds like he felt like a bit of a world class muppet for not realising about the peach things being vegan, and for screwing up his own little game of being unsociable and narrowminded, and fought back the only way he knew how.
there's always one -don't let him get to you, you gotta rise above it or he's won already. if i was you, i'd feel really proud of myself for pulling off the event, and really sorry for him for being so childish.

I really hope you don't let this horrid behavior get to you! You were so kind as to make a huge meal and invite him, and he treats you like that!? :no:

so we had a small party for friends to introduce new foods from the restaurant. *all vegetarian* (well, actually they were all vegan, but since that scares people we just said vegetarian)

so this guy, a friend of ours, let's call him clark...comes over. everyone makes jokes about the food not having meat, but they all eat it anyway and give us great feedback on what they would change and compliment me on it.

except clark. clark sits there, making the proud "me man--must eat meat" comments the entire time. does not taste ONE bite of my food. and it was a spread! i had burritos, portabella mushroom burgers, pasta, 2 kinds of sandwiches, 7-layer dip, home-made hummus, veggie spring rolls, baked tofu bites, and more! it was not exactly lettuce and raw carrots i had laid out.

so dinner is wrapping up and i bring out desert. i made peach pie and peach cobbler cake (both vegan) from peaches off a tree in my yard.

everyone raves about it! especially the cake...even clark eats it happily and says how good it is. THEN i say, yea and can you believe it's vegan? clark hands the rest of his cake to his wife and makes a "grossed out" face.

then he says he has to go to the store for soda. (our all-natural soda wasn't good enough) and he comes back wit BURGER KING!!! sits down in front of the massive amounts of food on my table and eats a burger and fries.

seriously, can you get any more ignorant and rude????

what a jerk!! :notvegan:

I wouldn't have let him in my house with Burger King! (If I had a veggie house, I mean.)

What did his wife say?? I'm sure she didn't take too kindly to being embarassed like that!

That SOB! I would have slapped him one good hard time and told him never to darken my doorstep again. People are so dum, and Rude!

Thanks, guys. :)

As for his wife, I don't think she cared. She always just sits there in a daze.

As for his wife, I don't think she cared. She always just sits there in a daze.
Maybe she was afraid of being dragged off by her hair if she said anything.

Eekamax, you should definitely invite US to your next vegan dinner. We'll scarf it down, loudly belch our compliments, and ask for more! :up:

PS: Actually, come to think of it, I'm having a hard time imagining why this guy "Clark" would even come to a dinner he knew was "vegetarian" if he's really that anti-veg.

If I were you, I would definitely "disinvite" this couple to all future social gatherings at my house. Who needs a jerk and a zombie at your dinner table?

wow, that would get a big black mark out in my address book.

nah.... just invite him again, and this time, pick an opportune moment to point across the room, and say 'oh my god, there's some tofu over there!!!' in a dramatic voice, and when he looks across at the direction of your pointed finger, with fear and dread in his eyes, suruptisiously sneeze into his bk flame grilled whopper, and then smugly watch him chomp away at it over the course of the night. if you feel less evil you could just stealthily slip some veggienaise in there instead, but i'd go with the sneeze myself- seeing as he was such an @ssh0le last time.

-i'm kidding, but summoning up the visual image when you feel p!ssed off at him might at least make you laugh.

Man, don't invite them back, that stinks.
I don't care what kind of food it is, coming to a meal that someone has prepared, whinging about it the whole time, and then going off and coming back with food you've brought because what's been prepared for you isn't good enough is the rudest thing I can think of right now.
I hate it when people use their stance against veg*nism to justify taking a holiday from their manners.

so we had a small party for friends to introduce new foods from the restaurant. *all vegetarian* (well, actually they were all vegan, but since that scares people we just said vegetarian)

so this guy, a friend of ours, let's call him clark...comes over. everyone makes jokes about the food not having meat, but they all eat it anyway and give us great feedback on what they would change and compliment me on it.

except clark. clark sits there, making the proud "me man--must eat meat" comments the entire time. does not taste ONE bite of my food. and it was a spread! i had burritos, portabella mushroom burgers, pasta, 2 kinds of sandwiches, 7-layer dip, home-made hummus, veggie spring rolls, baked tofu bites, and more! it was not exactly lettuce and raw carrots i had laid out.

so dinner is wrapping up and i bring out desert. i made peach pie and peach cobbler cake (both vegan) from peaches off a tree in my yard.

everyone raves about it! especially the cake...even clark eats it happily and says how good it is. THEN i say, yea and can you believe it's vegan? clark hands the rest of his cake to his wife and makes a "grossed out" face.

then he says he has to go to the store for soda. (our all-natural soda wasn't good enough) and he comes back wit BURGER KING!!! sits down in front of the massive amounts of food on my table and eats a burger and fries.

seriously, can you get any more ignorant and rude????

I can't believe someone would do that!

GRRR i want to sit him down and force feed him veggies for that.. so rude.
Sounds like you had GREAT food at your party tho. forget about the dumb guy and remember the FOOD :sunny: hehehehe

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funwithyourfood

My father in law used to pull that cr@p all the time. Refusing to eat my food--going out for other food, rolling his eyes and pretending to stick his finger down his throat and make gagging noises at the table. We moved from the US to the UK so we wouldn't have to put up with it on a weekly basis. Now we only see them once or twice a year--and when they come here it's all vegan and there's nothing he can do--he's trapped at my house and has to eat what's here. He can't go home and get meat. He always acts like he's dying from lack of protein but I noticed last time he went back for seconds on a few meals (all the while complaining "where's the meat?") but he did eat it. I never understand people like this. Good food is good food. A person can go without meat for a week without dying. Especally when there is a realy nice spread in front of them.

He always acts like he's dying from lack of protein

Hah! :lol:

Wonder what his numbers (cholesterol, BP, etc.) look like. I'll bet they're way too high, and he'd probably think it's mainly "genetic". "What? All that red meat raises my numbers? Impossible!" :surprised

Yeah, he's really more of a carnivore--as he doesn't like to eat any veg unless it's fried. I've known him to order a meat platter (hold the veg) before. It came with ribs, bbq chicken, steak and a pork chop. And every bite had to be pushed under mynose on the fork with phrases like "mmm" or "you sure you don't want any?"

There are so many amazing foods to eat that don't include meat. I do not know why some people can't enjoy good food if it is different. And like the pie/cake in the original post---most people can't tell the difference until you tell them. Why does that change the taste of it somehow? Unfortunately I can't fool him because he knows all we eat is vegan. If he sees us eating it, he won't want it because it is "hippy food". Maybe what I need to do is make 2 and not eat one so he thinks one is vegan and the other not. ha ha

I actually laugh when I think of it as we do have something in common---we check our food and scrutinise ingredients for animal products as much as he does--it's just he wants them in the food and we don't. We both waste a lot of energy getting food that suits us especially in restaurants. Unfortunately, we WON'T eat his food and he very reluctantly has to eat ours.

And yes, his colesterol and blood pressure is unbelievably high. He has diabetes that he manages poorly (he refuses to eat a cookie made with a wee bit of maple syrup and no other sweetners but drinks orange juice like there's no tomorrow) He has arthiritis and gout and weighs about 350 pounds. He's had one heart attack already. Sad really.

That's one 'friend' that I wouldn't be referring to as a 'friend' any longer. What an immature way to present himself as! If I were you, I wouldn't ever call him again. The way that he acted was inexcusable.

That was really inexcusable. I would have said something I think. "The kids' table is over there, your manners might fit in better"
"Excuse me, dead flesh was not on the invitation, please refrain from bringing into my home."
"Excuse me, I find your behaviour highly offensive and respectfully ask you to bring it elsewhere."

This person has no right to call you his friend, nor does he deserve a friend like you.

I definately wouldn't be calling them again.
I had a friend like that once I was having a veggie bbq and invited a lot of people. She came and knew what was in store, anywho she took a look at my grilled veggies with marinade and went to Wendy's instead.

It is a good friend of my husband. He was offended too but I doubt he will "dis" invite them. Whatever. If he hated it that bad, maybe he won't come next time.