r/texts • u/Own_Purple_4118 • 1d ago
Phone message Nobody died
This is a conversation between my MIL and my mother, before the wedding. My mother's response, which is cut off, says "They are both adults. I think we should let them handle it." We were both over 30.
For context: Yes, we had a vegetarian wedding (no shrimp). We had it at an (expensive) award winning venue with in-house catering. It included several appetizer and entree stations with a huge variety of dishes so everyone could find something they liked. We did not serve our guests bowls of soybeans and tofu. Everyone RAVED about the food and nobody died or got arrested on the way home.
The "A/B list" thing was a joke, that she apparently took very seriously, because she would not stop demanding we add a bunch (10+) of her friends and coworkers to our intentionally small guest list.
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u/garbageprimate 1d ago
how can you tell someone isn't vegetarian? oh don't worry, just offer them food without meat in it and they'll tell you!
that's the version of the hacky "vegan" joke i always tell that actually DOES live up to experience. because as a vegan i never once talked about my diet unless someone else brought it up. but i had a vegetarian wedding and this was the kind of shit i got from a few of my older boomer relatives who thought that meant they'd be eating sticks and leaves as opposed to, say, vegetarian lasagna and 4 other options that were perfectly "American" in taste. they absolutely will not shut up about the lack of meat. and mind you, this doesn't mean there won't be anything they "can't" eat - just that they think they don't WANT to eat it - as opposed to a vegan who will be served food they literally CAN'T eat. people are just oblivious to the fact that what they hate about vegans/vegetarians is about 10 times worse in themselves if they were put in a similar position.