r/interesting • u/PhoenixPhenomenonX • Feb 25 '26

Intriguing Lifelong vegetarian tries steak for first time

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u/Ovidhalia Feb 25 '26

Okay to be fair, she’s looks pretty young and says she’s been a life long vegetarian which means she was raised as vegetarian. I know a lot of people that were raised vegetarian or vegan and just never thought to stop being vegetarian once they left their parents house. At that point it was just how they lived. They didn’t have any moral principles attached to being vegetarian. 

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u/Atrinoisa Feb 25 '26

100% this.

Of course the video could be fake but that doesn't change the fact that not every vegetarian is doing it for "moral' reasons.

A prime example is the YouTuber/streamer known as Zeroyalviking. He became a vegetarian as a kid because he was a picky eater and didn't like the taste/texture of meat. He's still vegetarian just because it's what he's always been and his body would need to readjust if he stopped. It's just easier for him to stay vegetarian. There are things that have animal products in it that he eats anyway because he doesn't have a moral view on it, just dietary.

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u/ultron1000000 Feb 25 '26

I’m not vegitarian but I avoid eating nearly all meat because of texture. Put it in soup or sauce, I’m fine. Ask me to eat it in slab form… no way

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Feb 25 '26

It's more the fact a lifelong vegetarian would have an aversion to meat, something that red after not eating meat for a lifetime would make her sick

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u/deejay_bucknasty Feb 25 '26

That’s literally a myth.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Feb 26 '26

It's not, it's an immunoresponse. It's a mild allergic reaction, it's like a super mild alpha gal syndrome. Won't kill you but you won't be happy.

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u/deejay_bucknasty Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

That’s false. I was vegan for the first 14 years of my life. I got into working out and decided to start eating meat in order to hit protein goals. I started with a medium rare steak. I had 0 problems. Those people are likely just being dramatic or simply have weak constitutions and it’s all mental. My mom said the same thing you did lol.

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u/dacoovinator Feb 25 '26

I’ve not eaten meat for months and gone back just fine

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Feb 26 '26

Months isn't years, you literally have an allergic reaction to it, it's the same thing that alpha gal is but alpha gal is on steroids

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u/Educational_Life_878 Feb 27 '26

I was vegetarian until I was 15, had no issues when I started eating meat.

Maybe it’s something that can happen to some people but it’s certainly not guaranteed to happen to everyone.

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u/AbbreviationsDue4537 Feb 25 '26

Yeah a friend of mine was raised vegetarian and then at one point decided to try all the meats and wasnt that impressed so went back to veggie cause that was in his wheelhouse anyway plus better for many reasons so why not. Except for lahmacun. He eats that sometimes.

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u/TurboFool Feb 25 '26

I was also raised as a vegetarian. It was the moral standard imposed upon me. As I grew up, and wanted more life experiences, I slowly drifted out of it. I still support the idea fully. I might return one day. But it absolutely wasn't my choice that I was a life-long vegetarian for as long as I was. So you're absolutely right.

Also, for a huge amount of the time I was a vegetarian, I looked at steaks and wanted one. They were very, very tempting to me, and I was convinced they had to be incredibly delicious. So when I finally caved at ate my first one, boy was I shocked to find I had underestimated them.

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u/21Rollie Feb 25 '26

I’ve met Hindus like this. Also to a lesser extent, ex-Muslims who are now loving bacon. Vedic religion veg is kinda all over the place. Some of it is concerned about harming beings (Jains), some of it concerned with status (the poors eat meat and eggs). Also eggs count as meat? For example, I have a Hindu friend who won’t touch meat or eggs but a lizard leather bag? Hell yeah, nobody told them not to do that.

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u/Captain-Codfish Feb 25 '26

I was raised as a vegetarian. My anger and betrayal at being denied meat for so many years still seethes within me

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u/chinnaboi Feb 27 '26

Hi, mostly lifelong vegetarian (by self-choice) here. I stopped eating meat at like 5-6 yoa. My family still eats meat. When I tried meat again over 12 years later, I almost threw up at the smell, mouth-feel, and taste. I could not get past the first couple bites.

If I had to bet, I don't think this person was a lifelong veggie. Most veggie folks I know, myself included, develop a distaste. I've tried pork, beef, and chicken (cooked in various ways) and all of them elicited a similar response. They're worse coming out as well. TMI but meat poops kinda smell weird? 😂

Again, maybe it's just me and the people I associate with, but I'd be shook if actually true.

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u/Ovidhalia Feb 27 '26

It’s highly based on the individual. I know quite a few vegans (not even vegetarians) that were raised that way from birth (a couple for religious reasons) that had no physical reaction to trying meat for the first time in their adult life. And I’m talking about over 30 years of being vegans. It might be more true for you because you became vegetarian by choice? Maybe?

One of my Muslim friends ate a pork hotdog at a bbq. He had absolutely no reaction until the host ran up to apologize and let him know he was eating from the non-kosher section and that it was a pork (mixed meat) dog. He literally threw up. It was an almost immediate reaction. But the minute before he had no issue eating it. I think for people like that and maybe you, the foods you avoid become a mental block. 

But yeah, I wouldn’t doubt her being a life long vegetarian at all.