Entitled Vegan Funtime!

[2cuxi]

 Over on thequestionclub , someone posted the following:

Do you call yourself a vegetarian but eat fish?
No, I'm an actual vegetarian.

Would people who do this make you mad?
Yes. Fish are animals. Saying vegetarian is supposed to mean you don't eat animal flesh. HELLO! Calling yourself a "pescetarian" is stupid. You just want to sound/feel more righteous. You're an

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[lobotomysoup]

Better than the college here. You get your choice of Taco Bell or Subway.

[2cuxi]

Are you even kidding? That's so unhealthy. Sorry, that sucks!

[lobotomysoup]

There might be a cafeteria for just the dorms, but I've never been in them.

[rainbow_gash]

The best part of being vegan is pissing other people off. <3

That said, holy shit. I've been in two different residential colleges and neither could provide food for me on even a semi-regular basis- and if so, it was something like steamed veggies and nothing else. Arseholes should be happy with having that. People forget that hardly anyone is vegan from birth, and acting like a PeTAtard isn't doing us any favours. D:

[2cuxi]

I doubt the reality that they once used animal products never crossed their minds before they did this. If they find a cheeseburger so offensive, why would they strive to do something MORE OFFENSIVE?!

The veggie meals were pretty awesome. We're not talking about steamed rabbit pellets here! That stuff was GOOD and we specifically hired the head chef to be creative with this sort of thing. These girls were so damn spoiled rotten I don't know what they're gonna do in the outside world.

WE HAD:

BBQ vegan ribs, tofu stir fry, eggplant lasagna, vegan Silk pie, vegan cupcakes, vegan chocolate cake, the worlds most awesome falafel, fresh sprout and veggie wraps made to order, and veggie dogs, boca burgers, you name it.

The BBQ ribs were my favorite meal to be honest. All the deliciousness of meat without the stomach ache and bones. IT TASTED REAL!!

[jinkun2702]

Are you fucking serious? I'd have killed to see tofu at my college...or any vegetable other than corn.

[2cuxi]

It was amazing. They even used soy cheese and it didn't taste like plastic. The vegan breakfast burritos... well you basically had to cut some bitchez to get yoself one because they were GONE fast.

The meal plan could be expensive, but for things like that it was worth it.

Oh and they also did special order meals all day every day for girls with gluten allergies.

[kadaria]

I went to Wilson College in PA and while we had 1 giant dining hall (We also had a grand total of like 4 educational buildings and 5 dorms) they did a great job providing excellent veggie and vegan meals that were separate from the meat. So good in fact, that I tried being a veggie/vegan for a year and found it wasn't for me.
Part of it not being for me was that when I moved home tofu was very, very expensive and had made up a lot of the recipes while I was at school. In fact, my cheapest protein option was to get a doe license of all things.
My veggie friends were sad that I had lapsed but the truth was, my salary could not support the veg habit (without me being super unhealthy). Something that a lot of them don't seem to want to talk about.

[2cuxi]

Yeah I noticed that many of the vegans at my college liked to dodge the classist aspects of veganism and the organic movement in general. "Good" food is expensive.

[jinkun2702]

I feel you. I'm a vegetarian but I'm on the opposite side of this pretty picture. All my friends are omnis and they can't STAND that I don't eat meat. Now, I don't preach, I don't look at them funny. I do me and they do them. That's how I live. I don't comment on anything. But they insist on calling me names like "Rabbit" and saying shit like "yeah you eat that shitty salad, I'll sit here eating my delicious steak." Seriously? Shit like that makes me want to pick up a knife and kill them. If I can respect your choices, shut the fuck up about mine.

At my college there were NO vegetarian options. At. All. It was pasta. That was it. All the entrees were made with meat stock or had meat all over it. Even the vegetables had bacon. I... will never understand why. If you went down to the bistro and paid FIVE DOLLARS for a veggie burger...you could eat. But you'd be out of money real fast. So, if I were them, I'd shut the fuck up and be OVERJOYED that there's fucking options for food. Goddamn PETA people piss me off. They're so goddamn

[rainbow_gash]

This. As soon as someone finds out I'm vegan, they tend to become extremely defensive. And I identify with the college thing- maybe, MAYBE if I was lucky I could get sides of veggies but then I had to eat at a different time to everyone else, it was bloody stupid.

[jinkun2702]

PETA Veg*ans just piss me the hell off. They give the rest of us a bad rep. Whenever I tell people I don't eat meat they just immediately assume I'm an asshole. Damn. It's ridiculous.

[2cuxi]

And that's a stupid assumption, because if you were one of the PETA type, it would have been pretty apparent from the start. With those sorts, every damn conversation ends up devolving into talk about their veg lifestyle.

That's the minority of course. A lot of the veg peeps I know actually openly lament how much they miss eating certain meat items.

[cfchica]

I go to a ghetto-ass cash-strapped state college, but dining services somehow manages to accomodate everyone, maybe not at the level that some entitled students would like, but both vegan and vegetarian students can find stuff to eat.

I'm veggie, most of my friends are omni, and that's fine. I don't get in people's faces about what they eat. I also know that since I'm in the minority in most dining establishments, it's up to me to find stuff to eat.

But storming around, demanding separate dining quarters, etc. Hell to the no.