Tessa Thompson Said She's 'Never' Had a Hamburger 'In My Life', Only Recently Tried an Egg

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Tessa Thompson Said She's 'Never' Had a Hamburger 'in My Life', Only Recently Tried an Egg https://t.co/MFJBJMcTDx
- People (@people) March 14, 2023
While at Vanity Fair's annual Oscar party on Sunday night, Tessa Thompson said, "I've never had a hamburger in my life." She was then asked if she is a vegetarian, and Thompson said, "No

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[miss_pants]

This is a weird thing to lie about

[deerlike]

Yeah, I don't buy that she's never eaten an egg. She's at least eaten food made with eggs, since eggless baked goods weren't too common until recently.

[flawed_x_design]

This was my first thought. Tell us why. Elaborate. Like you've never had a cookie or cake, (or most baked goods) or mayo or Asian noodle or fried rice dishes? Like eggs are in lotssss of things. Just say you don't have anything more interesting to say and you don't know anything about food and go lol.

I don't find the hamburger thing as unbelievable. Improbable but not impossible. I prefer steak sandwiches over burgers tbh. I don't like most burger buns, and steak is healthier/less unknown ingredients lol. The rest of the ingredients are the same tbh

[escalena]

Maybe this is like Julie & Julia where she has had things with egg in them, just never an actual egg by itself, like a soft boiled egg

[vespertinev]

but that's not the same as eating an egg, is it?

[deerlike]

I suppose it depends on the semantics. 💁

[aleksie]

I don't know if I'd count baked goods as eating an egg. They wouldn't necessarily taste like an egg.

I do find it difficult to believe she's never had an omelette, quiche, fried rice, something where you can actually tell you're eating an egg.

[deerlike]

I'm probably recalling all the times I've eaten baking attempts that had too much egg in them and so they tasted eggy to me.

Counterpoint: brioche (does taste/is supposed to taste eggy).

Seconding the doubt that she's never eaten any of the egg foods you listed, especially fried rice and omelette.

[aleksie]

I could believe she didn't have like brioche.

In addition to the stuff I named, I'm now thinking of French toast (which tastes kinda eggy to me), egg salad, macaroni salad, and so on. There's probably more things I'm forgetting that prominently have eggs that I assume most people who grew up in the US would have at least tried unless they're vegan, have allergies/food intolerances, or some other reason.

[marsdiamonds]

Yeah, sounds like a lie… or everything I have been taught about Americans food habits is a lie. I even looked up her nationality and girl is from LA… unless she had a strict upbringing in therms of food? Or is a picky eater maybe?

[henolam]

she should’ve stopped at hamburger, theres no way shes never had breakfast