I was finishing a jar of extremely hot peppers (7 pot primos) that I had fermenting on Thanksgiving day. I made a hot sauce with them and cantaloupe. I had them in a pan at a low simmer to meld the flavors. The problem was the steam coming off was potent as hell. It filled the house when everyone was arriving and coughing from the hot sauce in the air, me included. We had to open all the windows, dig out the fans to get it out of the house, freezing everyone in the process.
A buddy was having a BBQ and I got grill duty. One of the people there was a vegan and I, being dumb, used the same utensils for vegan and nonvegan foods. Looking back it was getting contaminated being on the same grill with nonvegan foods anyway. But I didn’t fight it.
Veganism isn’t a food allergy. Wouldn’t expect people to have much of an issue with that. Not that I grill with a lot of vegans.
To many vegans/vegetarians, it’s just genuinely repulsive. Either they adopted the diet, because they found meat gross from the start.
Or, for many folks, even if they started from purely a moral conviction, it still becomes repulsive over time. You just don’t really think about whether you find something gross or not, when you eat it regularly, grew up with it etc… Taking that step back, allows you to re-evaluate.
Appreciate your response. Do you think when friends/family cook you food they should make the effort as if you did have a food allergy?
Well, me personally, yes. I’m much happier, if you just give me some salad and some noodles and I can throw together a makeshift noodle salad than if you expect me to eat a fancy vegan burger soaked in meat juice. But yeah, every vegan will have a different stance on that…
Fair enough. I’ll keep it in mind.
I’m a relatively recent vegan, but a lifelong vegetarian. If you share dairy or chicken utensils, I’ll be fine. If my food gets contaminated by pork or lamb (possibly others, I don’t intentionally try them), I will shit my pants. I’m sure there is a tolerable limit, but it’s lower than sharing utensils. It’s also less than sharing a pan, but I’m not sure about a grill, because you can clean a grill relatively easily by just letting the heat flare up.
Yeah, although vegetarian / vegan is a choice, it can definitely become a food allergy because we stop making the enzymes to digest certain proteins if we don’t eat them.
I still eat food from conventional restaurants, like veggie burgers and stuff, so maybe I get enough exposure that it’s not an issue for me (yet)
Is that actually true? I don’t think that’s even the case with lactose. You’re either born with the gene or not.
Most people eventually lose some degree of their ability to digest milk, because adults don’t rely on it as much. If you’re worried, a full serving of dairy a couple of times a month is more than enough for most people to keep up their digestive ability.
I’m not sure if I lost the ability to digest fatty meats or never had it, because I’ve never intentionally eaten pork, and was 26 the first time I ate lamb. My doctors have advised me not to try eating red meat, as it would be too hard for my body to digest it now. That could be an old wives tale, but it’s good enough for me
I think it’s more about the cross contamination no?