# Fuck You, You Overgrown Brat
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-overgrown-brat/177967
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [May 28, 2003, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-overgrown-brat/177967 "2003-05-28T06:29:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Keith\_Berry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keith_Berry)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2003, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-overgrown-brat/177967/1 "2003-05-28T06:29:41Z")
Being that it was my birthday last week, I figured that I was due for yet another obligatory encounter with a fuck-head who goes out of their way to piss me off with their mindless, self-important views. That’s how my life works, usually.
I decided to invite a few people over last Thursday for some beers and movie-watching. Nothing major, just three friends and three co-workers. One of my co-workers asked to bring his new girlfriend along, which I said was fine.
So we all sat around for a few hours drinking, telling stories, and discussing whatever random subject came up. A very casual and laid-back time, which I thought was appropiate given my 29th birthday was the next day and my desire for beer-bongs and strip poker is only occasional as of late.
Around 3am, I got a bit hungry. Everyone else said they wouldn’t mind a bit of food either, so I put a couple of frozen pizzas in the oven for them and made a bacon sandwich for myself.
I returned to the living room with my sandwich, and began to eat it very slowly.
My co-workers girlfriend looked over with distaste. “What is that, a bacon sandwich?” she asked haughtily.
I replied that it was.
“I don’t see how people can eat that kind of stuff.”
“You don’t like pork?” I inquired.
“No, I don’t like meat in general. In fact, I don’t eat any kind of animal products.”
“Oh,” I said. “Well, both the pizzas have meat on them. I’ve probably got some stuff in there you can eat, though.”
She got up and went to rummage around in the kitchen. The rest of us kept on enjoying our beers, and were laughing at something on the TV…but every so often you could hear a sigh from the kitchen, a sigh that was so delicate but yet of such utter disdain and disbelief…_huhhhhh…_
I got up and went in to check the pizzas. She had found some kind of ghastly looking frozen noodle-and-vegtable dish in my freezer and was poring over the directions. The pizzas were done, so I got them out and starting slicing.
“Does your microwave work?” she asked.
“No, it’s broken. Haven’t gotten a new one.”
“Well, shit,” she said, “how am I supposed to cook this?”
I pointed to the oven and hoped my expression didn’t look as condesending as I felt inside.
“You’ve cooked meat in that oven,” she said, “I don’t want to put this in there with that meat aroma. It makes me sick.”
Everything in her tone of voice, and every small facet of her body language seemed to indicate that this was some type of conspiracy I had cooked up. I just shrugged. She angrily put the frozen dinner back in the freezer and went back to the living room. I followed along with the pizzas, and everybody but her dug into them greedily…while she sat, chin in hand, staring crossly at the TV set.
Later on, I heard her make a snide comment about how “some people in this world just don’t make proper hosts”…presumably a comment about my failure to supply food and cooking appliances suited to her taste.
So here’s my thoughtful rumination on this episode:
Fuck this stupid, childish, self-centered whore and the high horse she’s got crammed into her crotch. I refuse to feel guilty over not being able to meet her dietary requirements when IT WAS JUST SUPPOSED TO BE A BEER-DRINKING NIGHT and no one bothered to inform me that she’s not only a vegan, but can’t even cook a goddamn frozen dinner in the same oven where meat has been.
She acted like I had lured her there under false pretenses only to screw her over.
It is the height of rudeness indeed to come into a stranger’s house and criticize them simply because they can’t meet your particular needs.
I’ve been to parties thrown by vegans, and indeed some of their food wasn’t to my taste. Did I act like a fucking crybaby and demand that they serve up a London Broil immediately to satisfy my meat-loving needs? No, I didn’t. I ate the food that was served with complete politeness and made no attempt to impose my own dietary desires on them. Because I was their _guest_ and it was their house, their kitchen, and their party.
I should have thrown this hoity-toity bitch out on her ass. The respect I have for my co-worker was the only thing that kept me from doing such.
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### Author:  [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2003, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-overgrown-brat/177967/2 "2003-05-28T06:34:25Z")
She’s a witch!!!
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### Author:  [@Shadez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadez)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2003, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-overgrown-brat/177967/3 "2003-05-28T06:48:20Z")
Geez, she’s picky. I don’t like anything on pizza – not even the cheese. What do I do? I pick it off (not in public of course, and I always warn anyone who doesn’t know my habits first) ;p
But really, the coworker should have warned you.
The only way I could see her side is that while you don’t like vegan foods, its a lack of something (meat), and you can still stomach a lack of something better than she can stomach too much of something, but thats even a stretch.
And really, if I know I won’t like the food somewhere (was she EXPECTING you to be vegan? geez.) Better to be on the safe side and eat more before I go, or bring a purse and a few snacks.
Utimately, the blame is defintely hers.
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### Author:  [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2003, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-overgrown-brat/177967/4 "2003-05-28T06:48:33Z")
I think you spell witch with a B **Zenster** , but that’s certainly what she is.
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### Author:  [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2003, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-overgrown-brat/177967/5 "2003-05-28T06:58:15Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Caught@Work \*
> \*\*I think you spell witch with a B **Zenster** , but that’s certainly what she is. \*\*
Witch, bitch, BURN HER ANYWAY!!!
And **Shadez** , isn’t pizza without anything including cheese just round flat bread?
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### Author:  [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2003, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-overgrown-brat/177967/6 "2003-05-28T07:07:40Z")
mmmmmmm bacon sandwich
::drool::
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### Author:  [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2003, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-overgrown-brat/177967/7 "2003-05-28T07:10:50Z")
What a whore. I’m surprised at how you kept your cool. But your co-worker should’ve told you about this prior, though.
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### Author:  [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2003, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-overgrown-brat/177967/8 "2003-05-28T07:11:31Z")
I’m vegetarian, and I’d never dream of acting like that.
Around here, vegetarians are really really common, so it isn’t usually a problem. I do try to warn my hosts ahead of time (and offer to bring a vegetarian entree to the meal), but usually they are cooking a vegetarian option anyway. If I do find myself in a situation where a meat based dinner is served, I’ll fill up on side dishes and only mention my vegetarianism if I’m asked about it. There have only been a few meals in my life where I have been outright unable to eat anything. I’d never dream of rooting around anyone’s freezer. Or commenting on what they choose to eat. Egads.
One thing I won’t do is pick stuff off pizza (unless it is still frozen). Pizza meat leaves giant puddles of meat grease. Ick. I won’t eat “just a little bit” of meat. But I won’t be rude about it.
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### Author:  [@Shana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shana)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2003, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-overgrown-brat/177967/9 "2003-05-28T07:11:56Z")
Ick. She sounds ghastly!!
Hey, happy birthday Keith!🙂
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### Author:  [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2003, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-overgrown-brat/177967/10 "2003-05-28T10:17:13Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Shadez \*
> \*\*Geez, she’s picky. I don’t like anything on pizza – not even the cheese. What do I do? I pick it off \*\*
Don’t want to hi-jack, but I have to know: you pick off _everything_? Why not just eat a big round piece of bread and save some money?
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### Author:  [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2003, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-overgrown-brat/177967/11 "2003-05-28T10:44:53Z")
She was obviously just trying to be bitchy - either that, or she’s monumentally stupid. (Perhaps both.) Otherwise, why would she find a microwave acceptable but an oven not? I’m a vegetarian - not a vegan, I do eat dairy and eggs - and if I’m worried about food, I eat beforehand or make plans to leave when I’m getting hungry.
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### Author:  [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2003, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-overgrown-brat/177967/12 "2003-05-28T13:31:38Z")
If she didn’t tell you, then that’s HER problem, and she was being a bitch. Is she vegan, or vegetarian? If she was vegan then the pizza was out, but if I was a vegetarian in such a situation (and had forgotten to alert my hosts) I’d probably just pick the meat off the pizza and consider it to be my problem.
People like that give reasonable vegetarians/vegans a bad name.
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### Author:  [@Siemsi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siemsi)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2003, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-overgrown-brat/177967/13 "2003-05-28T13:37:58Z")
She’s a friggin’ bimbo. Talk about poor guest manners. **Tsk tsk tsk**
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### Author:  [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-overgrown-brat/177967/14 "2003-05-28T13:39:26Z")
What. Does she think you would only put vegetable items in your microwave? What’s the deal with meat being cooked in the oven? Strange bird. I’d ditch her.
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### Author:  [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2003, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-overgrown-brat/177967/15 "2003-05-28T13:56:05Z")
There should be a law against having assclowns anywhere near you on your 29th birthday.
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2003, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-overgrown-brat/177967/16 "2003-05-28T14:08:43Z")
Ewww, in the same oven where you’d just cooked a noodle dish? She’d get witch-smell all over it!
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### Author:  [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2003, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-overgrown-brat/177967/17 "2003-05-28T14:17:19Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by whiterabbit \*
> \*\*People like that give reasonable vegetarians/vegans a bad name. \*\*
Yup. I’ll tell you exactly how it works: veg’ns like yourself and **even sven** have a low-key “live-let-live” approach to your own eating habits viz-a-viz the eating habits of others. You all almost never make a big deal about your veg’nism, so people who don’t know you very well aren’t necessarily concious of your culinary stance. Therefore, veg’ns like you and **even sven** are not particularly remembered by faint acquaintances as “people I’ve met that are veg’n”.
On the other hand, **Keith Berry’s** veg’n guest made herself eminenty memorable – in a negative way. So veg’ns who act like her stand out starkly when recalling “people I’ve met that are veg’n”. The bad seeds make the deepest impressions.
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### Author:  [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2003, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-overgrown-brat/177967/18 "2003-05-28T14:25:54Z")
Veg’ns (I like that word, bordelond) by definition eat a _restricted diet_, same as diabetics, or those with allergies, lactose intolerance, whatever. If you eat any sort of restricted diet, you should inform your host what you can and cannot eat if you intend to consume food at a gathering.
Not informing your host, then complaining that he can’t support your restricted diet is just plain rude.
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### Author:  [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2003, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-overgrown-brat/177967/19 "2003-05-28T14:35:14Z")
I’m confused. Was she of the opinion that you never cooked meat in the microwave??
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### Author:  [@j.c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j.c)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2003, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-overgrown-brat/177967/20 "2003-05-28T14:39:23Z")
You should have told her that the beer was made from baby calf blood.
Good lord. She’s allowe to come over and hang on YOUR birthday, and when the party gets late and you decide to rustle up some snacks, she makes a scene. That’s … it’s beyond. That’s all.
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