How Not to Be the Punchline of the Vegan-at-a-Dinner-Party Joke

The Outlier Health Podcast

Matt Frazier

Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2015

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

NMA Radio co-host Doug recently attended a bachelor party, where while discussing meals for the weekend, it became clear that one of the guys wasn’t comfortable with Doug’s being a vegan. "We’re all having meat. What are you going to eat, Doug? Carrots?" We’ve all been in this situations like this. It’s that moment at a restaurant, party, or dinner when all of a sudden people realize you’re vegan or vegetarian, and don’t know how to react. Before you can even say a word, someone gets defensive or pokes fun of your diet. So what do you do? Usually, we react in one of two ways. Either: 1) You use it as an opportunity to make a point, defend your diet choice, and maybe even convince a few people, or 2)You brush it off and keep the mood light, in an attempt to make veganism appear as normal as possible. I’m not saying either of these better than the other; I respect both choices. But I know the one that I choose, almost every single time. In today’s episode, we discuss these two approaches, and how Doug and I handle the uncomfortable situations at parties, with family, and while out to dinner. We also share the rest of Doug’s story, and how by the end of the weekend, he got that same guy to take interest in the vegan diet.

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0:33.6	Matt, I have the best story today and it actually plays into the topic we're going to be discussing in the podcast.
0:40.0	I love good Doug Hayes story, so the fact that this is the best one makes me really excited.
0:44.5	Well I don't know if it's the best one but it's pretty good and it doesn't have to do anything
0:48.4	with paddleboarding it actually relates back to what we're talking about.
0:51.9	All right so as I've mentioned before,
0:54.6	and I mentioned a few podcasts ago,
0:56.4	I was recently in Vermont for a bachelor party,
0:59.6	and we were staying in these cabins,
1:01.4	and you know, just a bunch of guys hanging out in the cabins and
1:06.3	we were grilling one of the one of the actually the groom is a
1:15.0	barbecue and so it was they were planning on having a lot of barbecue a lot of ribs and different things that he was going to be cooking
1:22.0	real man fest. Real manfest, exactly, you know, just hair on your chest kind of thing, right?
1:27.6	And of course here I am the vegan who doesn't even know half the people at the party.
1:33.0	You know, kind of bringing everybody down, right?
1:35.0	But it started out.
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