food faddism

[suzee blue cheese]

I just want everyone to be able to enjoy the great big meat pie I'm planning on cooking and that I know will be delicious...

Find out who likes meat pie, and invite them over. That way you can appeal to everyone's tastes.

Otherwise, it is a case of serving up the best thing you can come up with that everyone can enjoy.

Or the two best things if requirements are totally opposed eg meat/non-meat.

I quite like a culinary challenge meself..

 

[Dhimmi]

refusing to be considerate to your guests and calling them awkward because they have likes and dislikes is beintg a bad host

So would you extend that to a vegetarian host who refuses to cook meat for a guest?

 

[Thora]

So would you extend that to a vegetarian host who refuses to cook meat for a guest?

Yes, if the guest could only eat meat.

 

[fudgefactorfive]

It's a sign of our prosperity that we can afford to be picky.

tell that to the millions of low caste vegetarian Hindu families in India

"threat to social eating" indeed

 

[Agent Sparrow]

tell that to the millions of low caste vegetarian Hindu families in India

"threat to social eating" indeed

I saw this thread and I though this ^^^

Really, I don't see the problem, and I find it a little sad if a meat eater would be so horrified at cooking a veggie or vegan meal if one person in the party was veggie or vegan.

I mean, would it be the same problem if a guest was Jewish, Muslim, Hindu etc.? Way I see it, you don't have certain beliefs which restrict you eating a certain way, but someone you know does. But it's still OK to eat their food. What is the problem with going their way for one night? You never know, you might discover a dish you really like...

 

[Dhimmi]

Yes, if the guest could only eat meat.

What if they just choose to?

 

[Thora]

What if they just choose to?

If they chose to only eat meat? Then if I had a problem with cooking meat I probably wouldn't invite them to dinner. I wouldn't invite them, and then only serve something they were unable/unwilling to eat though.

 

[Dhimmi]

Just wondered when I was a veggie I was happy to feed folk meat but a lot of veggie chums took it as the worse form of treachery.

 

[toggle]

Just wondered when I was a veggie I was happy to feed folk meat but a lot of veggie chums took it as the worse form of treachery.

it's entirely your choice anyway. Vegetarianism can be for many other reasons than for believing that it is wrong to chop up little fluffy animals.


i'm also wondering whether someone who chose to only eat meat would live long enough to make it to dinner. it wouldn't be healthy

 

[fudgefactorfive]

Just wondered when I was a veggie I was happy to feed folk meat but a lot of veggie chums took it as the worse form of treachery.

i'd never cook meat for anyone - if they want it, they can help me make the entire meal and do a meat dish for themselves and whoever else absolutely demands it, though wouldn't be wild about having it on my pots and pans either tbh (but could get over it)

no way am I paying for it for anyone though

the point is that you gather together and eat and share each other's company - not what you eat - someone demanding that everyone eat exactly the same and that you should eat whatever the mob, sorry, i meant the democratic dinner party, demands you should eat ... that's obsessive

i mean, uhhh, it's only food, not a ritual

 

[Dhimmi]

it's entirely your choice anyway. Vegetarianism can be for many other reasons than for believing that it is wrong to chop up little fluffy animals.

Quite, I always took the opportunity to get them to try a bit of veggie grub which they generally expected to taste of cardboard.
One of the best Indian restaurants we ever found was an orthodox Hindu place off the Hampstead High Road (?), lovely grub, lovelier folk and there's something fascinating about food, especially good food, created with the chef's god in mind.

i'm also wondering whether someone who chose to only eat meat would live long enough to make it to dinner. it wouldn't be healthy

Oh you know what I meant...

 

[Dhimmi]

i'd never cook meat for anyone - if they want it, they can help me make the entire meal and do a meat dish for themselves and whoever else absolutely demands it, though wouldn't be wild about having it on my pots and pans either tbh (but could get over it)

Well that's an accomodation and one I'd be happy to meet.