yep, shit like this has turned food from one of my favorite hobbies to something I get anxious about sharing with others.
and my carnist friends love to tell me about how they enjoyed some corpses because they know i'm into food and cooking and i have no idea how to respond. yeah I love food and cooking but i'm not going to compliment you for mutilating and eating a dead animal dude
Man saaaaaaame. I used to look forward to going out to eat with friends. While I'm very glad I made the change, and would do it again, I do kinda mourn the ability to go out without researching the spot ahead of time.
The problem is calling vegan foods the same as meat foods....you didn't eat a hotdog, you ate heavily processed soy mixed with scraps of vegetables and other powders and nutrients. Veggie dog, plant dog, soy stick... whatever but calling it the meat name (hotdog = frankfurter= beef/pork product) is what causes your annoyances.
Also the ikea vege dogs are literally whole chunks of vegetables. I get them because they come with other toppings that the meat hotdogs don’t come with.