Meat is not an option - my first time as a guest since being a pro

Don't like grass..." To be faire this is a pretty insulting remark.
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You are right Orkney Thomas. ap-o-logies!
Fact that most on here will eat anything and could not give a toss whether people are veggie or not guess you had to calm it down with being serious.

After all this I feel peckish... Anyone fancy a Puffin sandwich?
 
Daryl said:
Anyone fancy a Puffin sandwich?
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From what I heard bird that eat fish are pretty disgusting.

Thanks Daryl, I guess you're right this thread need lighten up a bit. My landlord brother who is a farmer always says he loves vegetarian. Specially in his plate!
 
I don't see it as a problem. I have at least one meatless main meal each week.
 
theurbanclown said:
It's probably because they don't like to encourage the murdering of animals for food, so cook you a nice meal without meat.
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you are aware i presume that if everyone was to suddenly become vegetarian there'd be a mass slaughter of sheep, pigs, turkeys etc (and to an extent cows and chickens) as no farmer can afford to keep a zoo, so if there was no market for meat all the meet producing animals including breeding stock would be surplus to requirements.

There'd also be mass deterioration in the countryside with imapact on wildlife as lowland pastures were ploughed up to gow vegetables and upland returned to scrub through lack of grazing
 
Terrywoodenpic said:
I don't see it as a problem. I have at least one meatless main meal each week.
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I can handle a meat free meal it's probably more the wording than anything. If the part about dietary requirements was sort of 'we are aware some people eat meat but due to our strict beliefs we wish to have a vegetarian only selection for the meal. We apologise for any inconvenience but we promise it will be a tasty treat' or something like that it would be a lot nicer to read than 'please note meat is not an option'
 
big soft moose said:
you are aware i presume that if everyone was to suddenly become vegetarian there'd be a mass slaughter of sheep, pigs, turkeys etc (and to an extent cows and chickens) as no farmer can afford to keep a zoo, so if there was no market for meat all the meet producing animals including breeding stock would be surplus to requirements.

There'd also be mass deterioration in the countryside with imapact on wildlife as lowland pastures were ploughed up to gow vegetables and upland returned to scrub through lack of grazing
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Yep. Don't get me started on vegetarians that drink milk.

They have no rights to moan.
 
ajax_andy said:
I can handle a meat free meal it's probably more the wording than anything. If the part about dietary requirements was sort of 'we are aware some people eat meat but due to our strict beliefs we wish to have a vegetarian only selection for the meal. We apologise for any inconvenience but we promise it will be a tasty treat' or something like that it would be a lot nicer to read than 'please note meat is not an option'
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this is true

you should respond in kind "please jam you non meat invitation up your arse" :lol:
 
I went to a veggie/vegan wedding recently. The happy couple didn't bother to warn anybody because, well, we all knew them and didn't expect anything else. And also, it seems unlikely anybody is actually going to die from meat deficiency within about 8 hours. If I'd had some kind of allergy I'd have reminded them about it as a matter of politeness.

Food was pretty good TBH. Ice cream was really good. Also, there was cake. I don't think anybody starved.
 
ajax_andy said:
I can handle a meat free meal it's probably more the wording than anything. If the part about dietary requirements was sort of 'we are aware some people eat meat but due to our strict beliefs we wish to have a vegetarian only selection for the meal. We apologise for any inconvenience but we promise it will be a tasty treat' or something like that it would be a lot nicer to read than 'please note meat is not an option'
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Even when meat is served it is normal to ask guests about special requirements.
They could have said that no meat is being served.
I do not see lack of meat as a deprivation. When I choose a vegetarian dish I do so out of preference at that time. I am far from being any kind of vegetarian.
I have a few preferences but follow no Dietary codes.
 
Daryl said:
Now that I don't get.. Milk should be fine to drink no animals are hurt or killed
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uh-oh........this is going to get messy...........

Hint: how do they make sure that there are no little boy calves?
 
I suspect its to do with that to keep milk cows in production its necessary to calve the cows regularly on rotation - and the male calves usually go for slaughter early on ( I don't see a problem with this - given i live on a dairy farm thats just as well) but I can see why a veggie might object
 
Daryl said:
Now that I don't get.. Milk should be fine to drink no animals are hurt or killed

and cheese is mega... so what's the prob with that?
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what the hell was the bloke who discovered that milk tasted good doing?!
 
ajax_andy said:
I can handle a meat free meal it's probably more the wording than anything. If the part about dietary requirements was sort of 'we are aware some people eat meat but due to our strict beliefs we wish to have a vegetarian only selection for the meal. We apologise for any inconvenience but we promise it will be a tasty treat' or something like that it would be a lot nicer to read than 'please note meat is not an option'
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An SMS couldn't handle that many characters! Completely agree that SMS isn't a suitable or even polite medium by which to issue invitations to formal functions. Maybe your reply should be in an unstamped envelope...

Daryl said:
Now that I don't get.. Milk should be fine to drink no animals are hurt or killed

and cheese is mega... so what's the prob with that?
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As pointed out, male calves almost all go to slaughter as a result of the pregnancies needed to ensure the milk flows. As for cheese, a lot of it needs rennet to set the curds from the whey and where does rennet come from? https://www.vegsoc.org/cheese

FTR, I'm an omnivore but Mrs Nod is vegetarian. However, she's happy to cook meat for me and others, she just doesn't eat it herself (and avoids rennet set cheeses and products containing gelatine.)
 
Daryl said:
......and Bacon.......... I have a Jewish and a Muslim friend who loved it when we did a Bacon butty run...... If they can break the religious taboo then so can veggie Bark boilers... No one can resist the smell of sizzling smoked Porcine!!!!!!!
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Speaking as a lapsed vegetarian, I can assure you of two things. One is that most vegetarians are actually lacto-ovo-vegetarians and so have no problem with dairy products and the eating of eggs. And the other is that many vegetarians consider bacon to be a vegetable :cool:
 
Nod said:
An SMS couldn't handle that many characters! Completely agree that SMS isn't a suitable or even polite medium by which to issue invitations to formal functions. Maybe your reply should be in an unstamped envelope...



As pointed out, male calves almost all go to slaughter as a result of the pregnancies needed to ensure the milk flows. As for cheese, a lot of it needs rennet to set the curds from the whey and where does rennet come from? https://www.vegsoc.org/cheese

FTR, I'm an omnivore but Mrs Nod is vegetarian. However, she's happy to cook meat for me and others, she just doesn't eat it herself (and avoids rennet set cheeses and products containing gelatine.)
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The SMS had a link to a website they've created which held the information... they must just be embracing the digital revolution :D
 
Really shouldn't be an issue. It's their wedding day, but only a few hours of your life, whether you go as a guest or the photographer. You have the option of declining the invitation, but I'd just tell them about my dietary issues - as they've asked guests to do - and enjoy i
 
Take one of those cameras along with a crocodile skin trim. But tell them it's artichoke.

Tell them you did a vampire wedding the week before. And the couple invited you to join them for a bite afterwards.

During the vows when they get to the bit: "with this ring I thee wed and with it I bestow... " shout out "Ah! Bisto!"
 
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CanonDjango said:
if my wife serves me a meal with no meat on the plate I just sit there staring at her silently until she realises the error of her ways and corrects it.
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By giving you divorce papers?
 
CanonDjango said:
You are a few pages too slow. That jokes already been done. Good try though ;)
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It was as far down the whining as I could be bothered to go thb :lol:
 
Serendipitous Sid said:
Speaking as a lapsed vegetarian, I can assure you of two things. One is that most vegetarians are actually lacto-ovo-vegetarians and so have no problem with dairy products and the eating of eggs. And the other is that many vegetarians consider bacon to be a vegetable
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Many do but I don't. From my meat eating days (30+ years ago) I recall that bacon smelled better than it tasted.


Steve.
 
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