It was on this list that someone suggested that being vegan was a form
of eating disorder. I've thought about it since and am becoming more
convinced that that's the case. Yours in one example. Here's another.


I was visiting with a group of friends. We all went out to eat at a
large deli-style restaurant. The vegan in the group saw split pea soup
on the menu, checked with the waitress that there was no ham in it,
ordered it and ate it. Normal, right? The next time we were at the
friend's house, the hostess, knowing that this particular guest was
peculiar about what she ate, offered her water. The guest wouldn't
drink it because it wasn't bottled water! This was water from a safe
municipal supply, but it wasn't good enough. I noticed the
inconsistency. Surely the soup at the restaurant used the same
municipal water, but at the restaurant it didn't matter. The next time
the hostess picked up some bottled water. No good. It wasn't the right
sort of bottled water.


If that isn't enough to convince you (the general you, not you in
particular, Dave) that it's not about the food, it's about the person
refusing the food, nothing will. There must be something grand about
watching people run around getting something special for you.


--Lia


Dave Smith wrote:
>
> 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.
>