On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:40:53 -0500, Julia Altshuler
> wrote:

>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.
>>

The wife of a friend of mine claims to be allergic to practically
everything... UNLESS it's in something she likes!.....
She'll speak tirelessly about how she's allergic to tomatoes.. and eat
spaghetti ,, pizza,, ,,, etc.. but if it's on her sandwich... you'll
have to throw the whole thing away because it might have a drop of
tomato juice on it.. Same thing for garlic... If something contains
garlic,,, including something real obvious as garlic toast.. she's
ok.... But refuses to eat something like chicken cooked in garlic
because she's allergic to it..

Orders from menu things that spell out what's included in the dish..
and waits till it's placed in front of her to then list the things she
can't have "touch" her food...and sends it back to be re done
She eats a LOT of spit...

All this just to be the center of attention..
You'd expect it from the younger crowd.. but she hasn't outgrown it..
she's now in the mid to late 30's..

Chuck (in SC)