OK, here I go.
The first and most annoying thing to me, personally, is if I think I’m getting something completely vegetarian, like beans, or tortillas, or rice or mushroom gravy, or cheese enchiladas, or something described as “veggie” only to find out that it contains lard, chicken broth, beef broth, gelatin, animal rennet, bacon, natural flavors (which could mean anything from basil to dead horse carcasses) carmine or chochineal (red beetles that make things look red, including fruit juice). I guess this is not really a minor problem, since it’s a deal breaker for me.
Finding out that there’s MSG in certain all natural products.
Finding out that a product that is promoted as healthy, has a 100 ingredient long list full of chemicals. Including things that I don’t even consider food, like carnauba wax.
Heating up a frozen pizza in the microwave, on one of those microwave “silver disks” and have the pizza end up tasting like chemicals (if you ditch the disk and use a toaster oven, you don’t get that problem).
Having the awesomely delicious looking picture on the cover of the microwave box of whatever, not come even close to what the actual product ultimately looks like.
Eating corn on the cobb at work or in a public place in which you are not at liberty to excuse yourself and floss your teeth.
Having your toast cook for what seems like 10 minutes, and not be anywhere near done, then adding 1 more minute to the toasting time and coming back to find your toast burned to a crisp.
Making sure you get all of the cheese up into the center of your frozen pizza, and then still finding gobs of melted cheese all over the inside of your oven (toaster or regular) in places where it’s hard to get to it to clean it.
Wishing that Spaghettios would actually taste good. I love the idea of canned spaghetti. There are plenty of great tasting canned and jarred spaghetti sauces, unfortunately not one of the brands of canned spaghetti uses those sauces.
Knowing how delicious canned nacho cheese sauce tastes. Then realizing how bad canned nacho cheese sauce is for you.
Knowing that most frozen veggie burgers and veggie bacon and veggie sausage (which are quite delicious) come in ridiculous, non-resealable packages. By the time you use the stuff the next time, even if it’s only a week later, it’s covered with ice and freezer burn.
Fresh pineapple is one of the wonders of the world. Prepping a pineapple for consumption is a big fat pain in the neck, and it’s way too expensive to justify buying it already prepared.
Knowing that making one or two baked potatoes in the oven, is not worth the energy consumption utilized to make that happen. It often takes an hour to bake 2 potatoes in a conventional oven. If you make more, they won’t taste good if you have to ultimately refrigerate them, and if you microwave the potatoes, it’s just not the same thing.
Kraft macaroni and cheese tastes fabulous when you first make it. It does not taste fabulous if you have to refrigerate and re-heat it the next day.
Finding a piece of meat in your vegetarian bean burrito, or order of French fries.
Going to a buffet and thinking that there seems to be a lot of vegetarian options, like collard greens, barbecue beans, pinto beans for burritos, veggie stir fry, pizza, sauerkraut, braised cabbage, mac and cheese, vegetable soup, broccoli cheese soup, minestrone soup, hot and sour soup, chow mein, mixed vegetables, black eyed peas, and spaghetti, only to find out that those things are crawling with fish cakes, beef stock, chicken stock, ham hocks, meat sauce, pepperoni and sausage, lobster, chunks of ham, chunks of beef, chunks of pork and lard.
Freezing bread (because it lasts much longer and doesn’t encourage mold growth like storing it in the fridge does) and then finding the slices so stuck together when you take it out of the freezer that you end up breaking off chunks, instead of slices.
Having other people put stuff in the freezer, even in nice tupperware packages or freezer bags, but neglecting to label what is in the containers, or provide a date from when those packages were frozen. Could be lentil soup from last week, or it could be beef stew from 4 years ago.
Going to a random restaurant with a group of non-vegetarians and having to endure the proverbial Buddah’s Feast (overly cooked broccoli, water chestnuts and canned mini corn in a gelatinous sauce) or a grilled eggplant sandwich (which makes me vomit a little bit in my mouth just thinking about it).
Green salads at random restaurants that come with bacon bits poured over the top.
Iceberg lettuce salads served at random restaurants with the proverbial ½ inch thick slices of cucumber, canned pickled beets and stale croutons. No broccoli, no cauliflower, no carrots, no ripe tomatoes, no feta cheese, no fresh mozzarella, no pepperoncinis, no kidney beans, no pumpkin seeds, no raw fresh beets nor microgreens.
Mealy pink tomatoes on salads at random restaurants.
Scalding hot cups of coffee served at most restaurants without an offering of ice or ice water or cream (of which you’d need at least a gallon to cool it off).
“Fresh brewed” iced tea at certain restaurants that taste like either chemicals or super-sweet fake gnarliness. Gotta hand it to Denny’s, they always have delicious fresh brewed, unsweetened tea.
Going to some type of event, like an employee luncheon, and pizza is ordered, there will usually be 5 to 10 pies ordered. Only one of them will be a vegetarian pie, but it will be covered with every single veggie item known to man (even though most of these things do NOT belong on a pizza) including tons of onions and wet, mealy tomatoes, olives and green peppers and pineapple and eggplant (always eggplant). And there will be only one cheese pizza. The cheese pizza will be devoured by the meat eaters, before the vegetarians even have a chance to get near it. The rest of the pies will all be covered with meat.
Going to any take out restaurant and ordering your whatever without onions, and then when you get home, finding out that it has onions on it.
Going to any take out restaurant and saying, “I would like a bean burrito with no onions and that will be to go.” And then having the cashier ask you if your order is for here or to go, and then putting onions on your burrito, anyway.
Having to pay extra for avocado on a veggie sandwich at Subway, even though I am NOT getting any of the meat at all.
Realizing that Sonic is disgusting. They have only one item that is “suitable” for vegetarians. A grilled cheese sandwich. Turns out that it is actually a microwaved piece of “cheese product” between 2 thick slices of soft (not grilled or fried like it’s supposed to be) sickenly sweet white bread. And their limeade is NOT limeade. It’s lemon-lime soda pop.
Things that I think are gross: marzipan, fondant, meringue, eggplant and most soda pop.
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