My best friend’s husband is like this. I can’t eat with him. He’s so vegan he’s even against products that are designed to mimic meat because he thinks that supports the concept of animals as food. Before I knew this about him we went to a carnival together and I got my most favoritest carnie food: meat-on-a-stick. He scowled and made really ugly comments about how some poor sweet cow died and had it’s flesh stripped from it’s body for my pleasure. I was embarrassed and it ruined my good time. If I’d known he felt that way I probably would have stuck with funnel cake because I don’t eat meat to upset anyone and he looked like he was about to break down in tears. This was at least 30 years ago and as many times as I’ve met with my best friend I will never dine with him.
Same here. Like I mentioned, I dated a number of them and have friends who keep vegetarian , and they were all in high school and college, so it’s not so much an age thing, I think. All the vegetarians and vegans I’ve known have been very kind and empathetic people. I know there’s militant assholes out there, I guess, but my experience has been universally positive with vegetarians and vegans.
I would certainly order vegetarian if it sounded like one of the better things on the menu, and/or the place was famous for a particular item. Pizza - sometimes the vegetarian one does sound the best. Especially with sufficient cheese. 
“I’m paying for dinner so if I want you to suck my dick, you need to do it…It’s not like it will shorten your life ,or save the planet, or improve your chances of getting into Heaven.”
You’re a jerk.
If I’m eating with a vegetarian I’ll order the biggest steak the restaurant has - cooked blue. Then I’ll grab it with my bare hands and wring all the juices out on my plate.:eek: Holding plate to my mouth, I’ll noisily slurp up the juices along with a few burps. I’ll soak any remaining film up with the bread and devour it making dinosaur chomping sounds.
OR
I’ll just order what I want.
You mean to tell me you don’t sneak meat into their food while they go to the restroom? What kind of anti-vegetarian are you?
Should I be more impressed with your logic, or your civility?
I’ve been in this exact situation but with a vegan (as opposed to vegetarian). I found a few things on the menu that appealed both vegetarian and not, and then asked him if meat items would bother him and ruin his meal. He said no, so I just ordered whatever (trout, I think), but if he had said yes I would have selected a vegetarian dish. Assuming you like the person (or don’t dislike them, anyway, if you’ve just met) skipping meat for a single meal so they can better enjoy theirs doesn’t seem like a big deal to me.
I eat what I want to eat. It’s my stomach.
Diets should be for personal tastes or health reasons, not for ideological reasons. Anybody who judges my food choices can bugger off.
If I know members of the party are vegetarian, I’ll always suggest an Indian restaurant, as they consistently have the best and widest range of non-meat dishes, and the meat dishes they do have tend to be “meat in a sauce” rather than huge hunks of meat (except for Tandoori chicken.) If I was compelled to eat vegetarian for life, I’d have to move to a primarily Indian or Pakistani neighborhood.
Are we talking about a first date or a 5th date? First date, I’ll try to impress her by ordering what she does. 5th date? Not so much.
At least you aren’t resorting to cannibalism. That always seems to upset the vegans for some reason.
There’s my answer. And if it would, I would consider eating something vegetarian. Not to say that I would definitely do it, though. Guess it depends on the place.
Just today I went to lunch with a group of ladies I didn’t know very well. We were all taking a class and the one lady was one of the teachers. She recommended a cafe she eats at frequently because she’s vegan and the menu “has something for everyone”. To me this indicated that while she was vegan, she didn’t care what others ate in front of her. I was right. Some ordered vegan, some ordered vegetarian, some order food with meat. No one was offended.
I wouldn’t hesitate to order a steak, or other piece of meat. I would try not to order a game hen, or a lobster, or other dish usually served with the entire, recognizable body of the organism. That’s not to suggest that a person who did so would be wrong; no one has a right tho dictate the dietary choices of a new acquaintance. I just think it would be kinder not to make them watch me butcher the animal.
Up to you.
Do you sneak pork in to meals with your friends that keep kosher or halal as well? Or just heckle them? What’s the heckle factor if you stack rank a vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian and those who keep kosher and/or halal versus just a picky eater?
Says the man who likes to heckle others for their food choices.
I don’t discriminate. Well, maybe if they are members of a protected class, I might heckle them for that, too.
jtur88, don’t troll this forum. Either you are sincere but posting in a dleibertaly provocative manner, or only posting to provoke. Either way, enough.
No warning issued, but stop it.
China Guy, do not insult posters in this forum.
No warning issued, but keep it polite around here.