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I was invited to a friend’s dinner party. Beforehand, she told everyone she was making vegan lasagna. I’m not vegan, but I like plenty of vegetarian and vegan foods, so I figured I’d give it a try.
Suspicious-Taste1572 begins her story by acknowledging that she was well aware of the fact that vegan food (and vegan food only) would be served at this dinner party. Having had plenty of vegan food in the past, she thought she would be more than okay with what was on the menu that night. She probably even had vegan lasagna before, too! Well, it turns out that this vegan lasagna was a bit different from what she was expecting…
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When dinner was served, I was surprised to find that it wasn’t really lasagna at all. There were no noodles, no cheese, and no sauce. It was basically layers of vegetables stacked together. The “pasta” layers were lettuce leaves with slices of tomato and other raw vegetables in between.
It's the description of the “pasta” layers that will forever be imprinted in our heads. Part of what makes regular lasagna so special is not just the meats, but rather the texture of the pasta layers. It's hard to actually imagine substituting my conception of those pasta layers with lettuce leaves. As several members of the comments section in this online community noted, that is not vegan lasagna. That's just salad.
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I ate my serving of “lasagna” but was still hungry afterward. I didn’t complain about the food or say anything negative about it to her, as she is just getting into the vegan lifestyle and trying new foods. After dinner, I decided to leave early.
We actually applaud the guest for staying through dinner and getting through the meal without being too obvious about her distaste for the food. Clearly, she was trying to be respectful but was likely spending large portions of the meal thinking about getting real food as soon as she departed.
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A few of the other guests ended up leaving around the same time, and we went to a local pizzeria and got dinner together. None of us made a social media post about it or anything, but somehow she found out.
What's amusing about the friend's subsequent outburst is that the Redditor left the dinner party around the same time as other guests. It's as if the host knew she did a bad job with this “vegan lasagna" and needed someone to blame that wasn't her, and her poor cooking skills.
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She later called me and said it was r*de and insulting that we went for food after she spent time preparing dinner for everyone. I told her I appreciated the effort she put in, but I was very hungry and didn’t want to ask for something else to eat in front of other guests. She says the fact that multiple people left and went out to eat made her feel humiliated and like everyone was making fun of her cooking.
Here's where the host actually goes off the rails. It's one thing to be privately resentful of the friend for going off and getting more filling food after the party. It's quite another to then call that friend up and start a conflict with her over such a silly chain of events. All the friend was doing was eating a more filling meal after she left! It's not the friend's fault that other guests were similarly unsatisfied.
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Some friends think I should have stayed longer and sucked it up. Others think if you invite people over for dinner and tell them you’re serving lasagna, it’s reasonable for them to expect something more substantial than layered lettuce and tomatoes.
We agree wholeheartedly with the Redditor in this instance. In fact, we would go so far as to say that unless all guests at the dinner party were already vegan, the host should have considered preparing something else for folks with different dietary restrictions. If the host would want to her diet to be considered at another person's dinner party, shouldn't she consider her guests' different diets as well?
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