Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:

> One step-daughter is so fussy that when the DH and I were first
> married, I thought she was a vegetarian. She isn't.

We once had a great niece show up at Christmas. We were expecting the rest
of the family but did not know that she was in town and did not know that
she had become a vegan. While I was cooking and serving up dinner for 15,
my wife is running around the kitchen offering her things. She had to
examine every label to check ingredients. It turned out that her father had
some vegan food for her but forgot to bring it.

The next time I saw the great niece as a year and a half later. She was
sitting across the table from me at a brunch buffet. I saw her pack away
bacon, ham, eggs, lobster, shrimp, roast beef. It struck me strange that it
was a real PITA to have to run around in the midst of preparing a large
dinner to try to find vegan food for her, but at a buffet where there were
lots of meatless options and other people to cater to her, she could fill
herself up with meat.