Mom Freaks Out When Stolen Candy Isn't Vegan

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Eric Lund
Nov 7, 2020 1:00 PM EST

The feared "candy tax" is well known among many circles, but it's usually just localized to one's own family. This mom overtaxed her non-direct subjects and felt the swift lash of unwanted gelatin. Honestly it seems like the kind of thing any self-respecting vegan would know about. But this lady is a candy baron. For another one, here's a heartbroken vegan having to learn that mayo isn't vegan.

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    Text - r/AmItheAsshole - Posted by u/MySuperSecretAccnt 6 28 12 hours ago 3 10 12 AITA for not telling a vegan mom that the candy she stole from my kids and was eating, wasn't vegan? This happened on Halloween and the day following. My neighbor, 38F (super vegan) has 2 kids. I (26F) also have 2 kids. My apartment complex didn't do traditional tick or treating on Halloween. Residents were advised to set out prepackaged individual candy bags on their patios/front door areas if they wanted to parti
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    Text - So, Halloween comes and the kids are all dressed up and each building has a scheduled time where the kids go door to door. I ended up having to work late so my neighbor offered to walk my kids around with hers at our buildings scheduled time. About 45 minutes later my kids came home with a small bucket of candy (6 little goodie bags each from individual apartments that participated) everything was fine, and my kids didn't say anything weird had happened. They were just excited to eat cand
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    Text - She said that since she Is the one who had to take the kids out, she took FIVE bags from each of my kids as a "tax." Her son then chimes in and said “you only took two bags from us!" she responded with "but I'm your mom, I was doing OPa favor so they get a higher candy tax" I was thinking about how to respond when I noticed that she was holding a starburst candy and decided to just smile and nod and go back to watching my kids. I let her continue To finish off the bag of candy and then sa
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    Text - She was horrified, googles it and then told her kids that they were leaving. She said something about how she was going to be sick and stormed off. Now she's giving me dirty looks every time we see her and won't let her kids play if she shows up at the park and we are there. My husband thinks I'm an asshole cause I should have either- not said anything about the gelatin, or said something right away when I noticed. I don't think itť's my job to tell a vegan what is and isn't vegan though,
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    Text - bratthecat Partassipant [2] 24.0k points · 13 hours ago NTA gelatin is like the first thing you figure out isn't vegan anyways and I say this as someone who did try veganism. It's takes 0 effort to google that and also 0 effort to not be a dick to kids.
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    Text - spookybae95 Partassipant [2]] 2.0k points · 12 hours ago NTA. You would be if she had an allergy to something and didn't tell her, but this was just good petty revenge. She's the asshole. Literally taking candy from babies? What kind of person is this?? She took almost have of your kids' candy. That's insane. It would have been bad enough to take a bag from each child, but two from hers and five from yours? No. What a horrible person. Also, I was a vegan for seven years and don't know how
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    Text - ResponsibilityGold88 1.4k points · 12 hours ago Not only is that lady a terrible adult (stealing children's Halloween candy? How low can you go?) bit she's also a terrible vegan. Seriously what kind of vegan doesn't know not to eat gelatin? NTA
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    Text - bluebell435 Asshole Aficionado [15] 354 points · 11 hours ago · edited 9 hours ago r/pettyrevenge. NTA. I am a vegetarian. I remember learning that Starburst had gelatin. While it was very disappointing, it wasn't anyone else's job to educate me. I think she's kind of the AH for claiming to be vegan without learning what that meant (and also for stealing candy from children. Come on, it's $10 a bag in the store).
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    Text - Heerreewego Partassipant [1] 270 points · 11 hours ago NTA. My parents took a "candy tax" growing up but it was always a few pieces which was not a substantial amount of our haul. But to rub it into the kids face or to take candy for someone else's kids then rub it in the parent's face. Yeah, not cool. I commend you for that smooth move!
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