Told them that what they were eating was actually an animal product when it really wasn't, and then they fell for it?
what was it?
I ROUTINELY fool omnivores without explicitly saying anything. Wait...I don't know how to explain this coherently.
Okay, everyone who knows me knows I'm vegetarian. But whenever I have people over for a meal, I serve "normal" dishes that APPEAR to be the real deal. For example, one time when I was serving tacos, my niece passed the bowl containing the 'meat' taco filling to the person on my other side, saying, "we know YOU don't want this!" Then I said, "I don't buy, cook or serve anything I wouldn't eat." She had the MOST CONFUSED look on her face as I grabbed the 'meat' and started filling up my tacos. Finally someone else clued her in: "it must be a vegetarian meat alternative." (I use Morningstar Farms Veggie Crumbles for dishes like tacos. And it fools them every time!) I LOVE that we now have a plethora of GREAT faux meat products to choose from, unlike back when I went veg in 1988. Things were very different back then.
My grandsons had stated categorically [to their parents] that they do not like and would not eat veggie hot dogs, veggie pepperoni, veggie...whatever. But you know what? They eat them when they're here! Yep, they just gobble them right down. Because they don't know!
By the way, I use olive oil to replace the missing grease; veggie faux meat products are great, but they all tend to have the same problem: a lack of that wonderful, oily mouth feel that real meat has. So I replace that with olive oil. For example, veggie pepperoni slices--I put them in a bowl and pour olive oil over them, and let them soak for a few minutes before putting them on pizza; I drizzle the residual olive oil on the pizza. It's amazing!
I tricked my sissy once with tofutti sour cream on nachos.
Did you end up telling her?