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19 Awkward Moments Every Vegetarian Understands

"Fish! Do you eat fish?"

1. When everyone with you at a restaurant is trying to help you figure out what to order.

2. Whipping out your box of Morningstar at the barbecue.

3. Telling someone you're veg.

4. When your friends want to share small plates at restaurants.

5. People who crack jokes about vegetarians because they think it makes them edgy and hilarious.

6. Family members who don't get it.

7. "So, what DO you eat? Salad?"

8. Going to French restaurants.

9. When someone invites you over to their house for dinner.

10. Going on road trips with non-vegetarians.

11. When the waiter is hovering by your table listing off the (all meat) specials.

12. The prix fixe menu.

13. Two words: holiday dinners.

14. When the token vegetarian entree is just a pile of roasted veggies, and you have to pay $18 for it anyway.

15. Lectures.

16. Having to ask for the ingredients of EVERYTHING.

17. Stores with in-house butchers.

18. Toting your own snacks everywhere.

19. People who talk constantly about how they're obsessed with bacon.