Being meat-free during the holidays is always difficult, especially when 99.9% of your family is a bunch of meat-eaters. This is my 6th Thanksgiving since cutting meat out of my diet, so you would think it would get easier right? No. I still have family members that make comments about the fact that I don’t eat meat. Here are 5 things that this vegetarian gets sick of hearing at Thanksgiving dinner.
1. “Oh no! What are you going to eat?!”
I mean… You have mashed potatoes, vegetables, rolls on the table and there’s about 20 different desserts over there on the counter, but I guess I’ll just starve.
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Apparently not eating meat correlates to “I can only eat leaves.”
2. *Family member looks into your soul with a mouth full of Turkey and chews it obnoxiously* “MMM, don’t you want a bite?”
Okay, first off, that’s just plain disgusting. Why do you not have any table manners just because there’s a vegetarian sitting next to you? Can we talk about the fact that I never ate Turkey on Thanksgiving for the simple fact that I’ve never liked it. You just look like a jerk.
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3. Any time I put something on my plate: “Oh, you can eat that?”
Apparently at every family function I need to reiterate that I don’t live off of just oxygen and have to explain that I just do not consume animals. I didn’t think it was that confusing.
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4. When the turkey gets put on the table and everyone looks at you.
It’s as if my whole family thinks that I’m going to have a Kim Kardashian meltdown over their meal.
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5. “Did you get enough to eat?”
The only response I can give…:
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Duh… and I’m still going to stuff some dessert down my throat.
All jokes aside, I am thankful for my crazy family. Happy Thanksgiving to all my vegetarians, vegans, and meat-eaters!