The 9 Most Annoying Things That Have Been Said To Me About Being A Second-Generation Vegetarian

Cee R.
2 min readApr 3, 2021
Illustrated fair-skinned woman holding cooking utensils and surrounded by vegetables. The vegetables are kind of just floating, y’know, like they do
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I was raised Vegetarian.

So even as Vegetarianism and Veganism has become more main-stream, I’ve been sat here in a unique kind of space, that not many people get to see.

I’ve spent my entire life as a Vegetarian.

Which, especially when I was younger, before it became popular, did create some tensions… not least because nothing used to be labelled with a ‘V’ or whatever.

So, because some of the things that have been said to me I now realise are hilarious af, and some are just unbelievable, I give you the 9 most annoying things that people have said to me about being 2nd generation Vegetarian:

1. But chicken isn’t like… a chicken.

Yes, yes it is. The only difference is one is alive, and one is dead.

2. Pork/beef/sausage/insert-food-here isn’t meat!

…we need better education in this country.

3. But fish isn’t alive!

Could’ve fooled me, tbh.

4. But what if you tasted meat by accident and really…

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Cee R.

Writer, poet, (book) blogger @ dorareads.co.uk , Queer, weird, & a tad peculiar. Bookish rebel. Welsh as a tractor on the M4. Buy me a coffee @ ko-fi.com/ceearr