Comments on: THE VEGETARIAN AND HER FAMILY

By: Christy

Christy — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:42:01 +0000

The comments here are just too funny. My father often referred to my “damn liberal arts education” as the root of all my flaws in his eyes. I think he’s given up on any hope of forcing his opinions and only complains in under-his-breath mutterings or when I’m not around.

Just tell the family that you’re allergic to meat. No one seems to question or condemn when it’s an allergy.

By: Kristina

Kristina — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:48:29 +0000

Okay, I’m Kosher, but my mom doesn’t know it yet. We avoid a lot of this because we only see each other, at the most, once a year. My in-laws are supportive, but I’m sure my children will pig out on pork when they go to visit them. And, eating a resteraunt is almost impossible unless I eat vegitarian when I’m out. You know that EVERYTHING is cooked with dairy? Ugh!

The thing about diet is that you’re doing something that can only improve your health. If you were to do something unhealthy, I could understand the concern. But, what you’re doing is outside the “norm” and so, apparently, causes concern. You’re her baby and may never quite live up to her standards. I’m sorry.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:07:51 +0000

It’s like your mom is worried about you not getting your daily allowance of Little Debbie snack cakes. And Skittles are now vitamins.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:20:41 +0000

That’s it Jen. It all stems from the brainwashing and our liberal educations. I just think my mom needs to have something to criticize. She used to be able to do that with my weight. She can’t do that any more because I’m not fat Cindy any more. If she wasn’t criticizing my diet, she would be on me about my clothes, hair, fill in the blank. It’s just a never ending struggle to please her. She needs to be happy with herself and her life and because she’s not, she takes it out on us.

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:00:59 +0000

My Mom is this way and all I have done is go organic and high fructose corn syrup free. So she always gets me tons of Hostess stuff, Dr. Pepper, and gets hamburger from wal-mart because she just can’t understand why i would pay that much for something just because they “claim” its organic. I just can’t seem to get her to understand that I am not 16 anymore and I don’t wanna eat that crap anymore. She always makes some little comment about she guesses I can’t eat anything that she cooks or it isn’t good enough for me. She thinks it all stems from the brainwashing I got at “That Liberal Arts College”. She called me last night to let me know they stocked up on Little Debbies and Dr. Pepper. Ugh.

By: Limon

Limon — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:36:37 +0000

I like when Chris rants. It’s always dead on.

Maybe your mom (wrongly) thinks that you are going to judge her meat-eating habits, and she’s acting out because she feels threatened. I don’t know. People are just weird sometimes.

Anyway, you go with your veggie ways. More power to you.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:24:36 +0000

I’m a complete carnivore, but things like that just make me want to say, “You know what? Until you guys can pull your heads out of your asses, and make a fucking effort to do more than open a can of green beans, or overcome your belief that somehow a goddamn side salad qualifies as an acceptable vegetarian “meal”, we’re outta here. Obviously, you care so much about us visiting that you can’t be bothered with whether or not there’s anything on the dinner table we can eat, so you and your lack of culinary imagination can go fry a pig and cram it up your ass!”

I mean let’s get something straight. The following places are not vegetarian friendly: McDonalds, Sonic, and that burger place in town. And just because the steakhouse serves chicken doesn’t mean that it’s a good place for a vegetarian to eat. So don’t fucking suggest them.

Seriously. I’m not the vegetarian, but I’m done putting up with this shit.

By: Tiffany PinkDog

Tiffany PinkDog — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:56:01 +0000

When Tom and I went veg we had trouble with this sort of thing. We still get a little static from some parts of Tom’s family, but it has dwindled to almost nothing. Well, almost no comments. But still weird treatment.

When we go eat at Tom’s parents’ everything is meat or meat-garnished except Tom’s mom will open a can of green beans for us. And that’s it. Canned, microwaved green beans and rolls.

And (turns out we’re staying home, but) this year Tom’s mom and sis-n-law made a big deal of how they were going to make a “vegetarian” gravy for the mashed potatoes. I thought a) oh, I guess it’s not canned green beans for us this year; it’s mashed potatoes, and b) gravy has MEAT in it? Since when?

Tom has GREAT Thanksgiving recipes. I’ll have him send you the one for our main dish, which is some kind of enormous orange squash.

By: Katrina

Katrina — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:08:08 +0000

I worried about you when Melissa wanted BBQ, but I thought we could cross that bridge when we got there. I did not hear your Mother nor did your brother, or I’m sure something would have been said. Oh, well, it was just great to have the family together, (except Thomas & Bud).

By: janell

janell — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:31:13 +0000

Daniel noticed those jibes too and according to Amanda he was giving some good ones under his breath back at mom.