17 Horrible Encounters With Vegans

15.

In college I took a whole group of my friends and roommates to a vegan chef seminar. They liked hummus and other things- so I thought it would be cooking lesson with new recipes. Wound up being an anti-meat diatribe. My yippie (yuppie-hippie) roommates bought it hook, line and sinker. Two weeks later – my roommate passes me eating a hamburger and mouths off at me for the third time in a week: “Are you really eating that carcass…? That is so unnatural.”

16.

My spouse is vegan, and I’m vegan most of the time. But, on the occasions when I eat meat, my spouse treats me differently, getting short, refusing kisses, and acting cold towards me.

17.

I get into a mildly heated discussion with a lady friend about whether or not milk gives you cancer. When I ask her what she believe the mechanism might be, why it differs from human milk, she simply says “I don’t know I just think it does.”

Written by Irvi Torremoro

Irvi Torremoro is an Austinite by way of Las Vegas. She's worked in various outlets in food & beverage and is now focused on writing, eating all the things, talking about Beyonce, and petting all the puppies. She runs flavorandbounty.com, a lifestyle blog about people in the service industry.