Grr....

[jarandhel]

So, the other day I got some Buffalo burgers at Wholefoods. Cooked them up for me and Dusk for lunch. (VERY good, btw.)

While I was still eating mine, our housemates came home. Almost immediately, I was confronted and asked not to leave plates with blood (from the defrosted meat) lying around the kitchen because we have a resident vegetarian. Now, I was going to clean up the kitchen (including this plate) as soon as I got done eating anyway, and if it hadn't been for one little thing this whole incident probably wouldn't have bothered me...

... but the thing is, the girls themselves left a dish FULL of bacon grease sitting on the kitchen counter for TWO DAYS. It was still there while they were complaining about the plate! How is liquified animal fat any less offensive to a vegetarian than a little bit of blood? And this got me thinking...

This vegetarian has sat down with me and her partner before as her partner and I have consumed a big fat christmas turkey, even taking a small nibble of it herself. She is not a vegetarian because of beliefs about cruelty to animals or anything like that, it's just a personal preference. So how is her vegetarianism at all relevant to the situation with the plate? It feels to me like her vegetarianism was not the issue, and was just being used as a weapon, and that bothers me... because I can't figure out what the underlying issue actually was. Considering their bacon grease dish, it certainly couldn't have been a cleanliness thing, unless they were being REALLY hypocritical. The whole thing just gets under my skin...

Comments

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

Possibly, though it was really a very small amount of blood. You don't get THAT much blood from just defrosting three burgers.

[silvaerina-tael.livejournal.com]

Maybe not, but with some people *any* amount will set them off with a whole host of ideas, most of which border of superstition. Never mind, that with a lot of meats, especially beef, red food colouring is added to give the appearance of it being blood when these products have been fuully drained and cleaned of such.

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure in this case it was the real thing. These buffalo burgers came from Whole Foods and were supposed to be 100% organic, I believe. (And they were VERY tasty, though I was surprised at how damned fast they cooked... almost burned them by accident.)