It’s pretentious to serve Indian food at a wedding?
Are options required if you serve BBQ?
I could have patience for this if it was a permanent requirement. It seems childish to have a tantrum over eating one meal without meat and milk products.
Again, I’m a picky eater. I often find myself with a plate that’s mostly stuff i don’t care for. Somehow, i manage.
Although, i once ate with friends at a Thai restaurant where every item we ordered was too spicy for me. (The waiter didn’t speak English, and i was not able to ask him about it.) Every dish except the white rice. You know that story about the smell of food and the sound of money? Yeah, i held a small bowl of the chicken coconut soup where i could smell it as i ate the white rice for dinner. There’s almost always something on the table i can eat.
That vegan meal probably includes a completely unremarkable salad. It’s probably accompanied by completely unremarkable bread or rice. The dessert is probably unremarkable too. Oh, and the beer and wine are also unremarkable. You can skip the beans or tempeh if you don’t care for them, and eat a bit more protein at your next meal. But you don’t have to go hungry.
Yes. I have enough vegetarian friends that I’d need to offer something that isn’t meat, and hasn’t touched any meat.
Fwiw, vegan foods I’ve served at parties include:
Falafel
Roast root vegetables (cooked with a nice olive oil)
A hearty tomato-sauce based pasta dish
Grilled mushrooms
An Indian chick pea dish that my omnivore friend devour
A pot of lentils
Fruit salad
A vegan friend sometimes brings a big plate of roast potatoes to my parties.
There’s a difference between serving food that someone cannon eat any of it (too spicy, allergies) and serving food that people might not like or prefer. I can be picky but I can eat bread or sneak out to the car and eat a clif bar. It’s one meal. What would be rude is inviting a bunch of vegans and having dairy, meat, and honey in every dish.
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This thread reminded me of a FB reel I saw but can’t find now where there is a dinner party and one guy goes into the kitchen and asks the host what’s for dinner. The host responds with a list of vegan dishes and the guest asks what about the entree? And the host says this is the entree, we’re vegans, remember. And the guest says, 'Yes, and when we invited you over we made a nice vegan risotto for you. I expected you would have the courtesy to do the same for us." It went on with some pretty funny dialog.
I guess often when I think of vegan dishes, while I realize many are ones I would probably make and serve as side dishes, I expect fake meat like entrees which often fail pretty hard at faking it.
My experience eating with vegans is that they are less likely to have a singular “main” dish with some sides, and more likely to have several comparable dishes. Or, like anyone else being lazy, they might just have a one pot meal. But it would be something like bean soup rather than beef stew.
I think fake meat is more what people who are trying to eat less meat eat.
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Yeah, for now I’m not going vegan, but am cutting back on meat. My go-to for a veggie meal beyond canned cream of tomato soup has been sheet pan gnocchi with broccoli, tomatoes, onion, feta cheese and onion with thyme and za’atar for spices in addition to salt and pepper.
I’ve also discovered an amazing home made cream of mushroom soup recipe from hello fresh.
I recently bought an immersion blender and am planning to try making potato leek soup and cream of tomato soup from scratch.
Probably Mitchell and Webb?
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That’s the one except every version I saw cut off earlier. Why would they cut off that awesome ending.
On board with what?
Your friend dating?
Dating a girl? (aren’t they considered women in college?)
Who was a vegan?
Who was into vegan cooking?
Did she cook for you?
Vegan events are still rare enough to warrant a “heads up.” Especially if it was at some sort of catering place. Most poeple’s idea of wedding food is generally to be given the choice of a red meat/poultry/fish dish(es) and maybe (maybe) a vegetarian option.(even kosher in some places)
And what exactly was on the menu? If it was lots of tofu and beans, lots of people don’t like that stuff.
If you want to push your vegan agenda at your wedding, fine. Just don’t spring it on people.
My guess is that didn’t didn’t tell everyone because there would probably be a sizable portion of the invitees who would decline.
Wedding meals aren’t free.
Pushing vegan agenda?
Who said there was meat on the pizza?
As long as it isn’t the engineered super-processed packaged slop like you can buy at the store, well-done happens-to-be-vegan foods can be amazing.
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I have a constant stock (see waht I did there) of broths in my freezer. When I run low, I make more. It’s super simple.
Right now I have at least a gallon of: chicken, beef, veal and vegetable broths/stocks. I think I have a quart of fish stock left. I was gonna go fishing this weekend, but it never panned out.
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I’m just happy I’m not friends with any vegans. There are a couple vegetarians, but it’s for health reasons and not any hippy sentiments.
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Eating vegan food, she made us all dinner one time