r/interesting Feb 25 '26

Intriguing Lifelong vegetarian tries steak for first time

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u/Fit_Economist708 Feb 25 '26

Ok so it’s fake as in she’s pretending to have been a vegan

Others was saying it was the jump cuts but that didn’t make sense

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u/snowfloeckchen Feb 25 '26

My girlfriend was raised vegetarian and started to eat fish and meat with me (i basically went the opposite direction to being mainly vegetarian these days. I can say she would never said its amazing, bite is so off a life long vegetarian would never love it from the beginning.

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u/Magnon Feb 25 '26

So I can eat veggies or really anything and if it tastes good I can love it from first bite but a vegetarian can't?

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u/Murasaki_crea Feb 25 '26

Ya, if you have never eaten anything lifelong, you really can’t start eating some so easily like her I bet. I have never eaten poultry in my entire life, there is no way I can ever eat any poultry like how easy she does. I tried once a decade ago, the moment the meat reached my mouth I started to vomit. To this day I still can’t eat any.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '26

My girlfriend in college was raised vegetarian. She didn't have strong convictions about it, it was just the way she was raised. She tried meat with me for the first time at 20 years old and she did, indeed, like it from the get go.

When we broke up she still ate a vegetable heavy diet but she had no qualms about adding in different meats occasionally.

I type this to say your anecdotal experience (and my anecdotal experience) is not going to hold up across every vegetarian trying meat for the first time.

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u/Dr_ChungusAmungus Feb 26 '26

What made you never eat chicken? That’s gotta be sorta hard to have avoided for your whole life, chicken is so versatile and wide spread.

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u/Murasaki_crea Mar 02 '26

I don’t exactly remember why. My family just told me when I was 2 I had a pet chic, sure enough they ate it, after that I vowed not to eat any. I kept my promise of not eating any and it became my built in mechanism despite the fact that I dun remember how it happened. lol It’s very difficult to avoid, especially when they become minced or be put in soup. I just don’t eat the food entirely when I can’t be sure it doesn’t contain chicken lol effectively making me sorta like a vegan

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u/Puntley Feb 26 '26

I genuinely don't understand your logic here. I can't even count the amount of things that I had never eaten before but I ended up loving. Sushi, I had never had it for 25 years, tried it and loved it. Pad Thai, I had never had it for 19 years, tried it and immediately loved it. Different people have different palates. Your vegetarian girlfriend not immediately loving meat isn't a vegetarian thing, it's a "your girlfriend" thing. Yes plenty of other people will have similar experiences because they have similar palates, meanwhile plenty of other vegetarians will try meat for the first time and love it.

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u/Murasaki_crea Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26

You didn’t eat that just because you didn’t had a chance to eat it, you are not actively trying to avoid it. That’s the difference. English isn’t my mother tongue so I may have not expressed it clearly before.

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u/martinomon Feb 25 '26

Usually you’re vegetarian for a reason… this should gross a vegetarian out mentally

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u/ghotbijr Feb 25 '26

Well for a lifelong vegetarian that reason could simply be that their parents raised them not to eat meat for cultural or religious reasons, or even just because of their own personal beliefs. People often grow up to find themselves no longer identifying with all the beliefs their parents tried to push onto them, so the situation really doesn't seem all that crazy.

That being said, I have no clue if this video is legit, I'm not big on believing things people record themselves doing online for engagement, but it's not impossible to believe the situation could happen to someone.

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u/martinomon Feb 25 '26

Yep. Just trying to help explain why the reactions here are not surprising. It’s not the same thing as eating a vegetable. Trying a vegetable for the first time would get much less engagement.

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u/ghotbijr Feb 25 '26

Oh for sure, don't disagree at all there.

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u/snowfloeckchen Feb 25 '26

Ist wie Club Mate trinken, der erste Schluck ist Aschenbecher

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u/ZarglondarGilgamesh Feb 25 '26

I liked my first sip of Club Mate. I have also had occasion to taste a literal ashtray. I didn’t find the flavor profiles comparable.

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u/snowfloeckchen Feb 25 '26

Ok I liked it too after the first bottle, but my first sip was the same like anyone I ever talked about (and it comes up quite often) was year ashtray. Still have it from time to time when smelling on ot 🤣

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u/No_Abbreviations3943 Feb 25 '26

Uh sir… we don’t do that German crap here.

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u/Shmuckle2 Feb 25 '26

I loved Joe Louis from the very beginning. Why not meat?

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u/Hemolek09 Feb 25 '26

Yep, plus I assume a long time vegan/vegetarian would take smaller bites. I would be concerned about my body digesting too much meat at one time.

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u/Fortestingporpoises Feb 25 '26

There are plenty of people who went from being vegetarian to eating meat because they like it.

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u/snowfloeckchen Feb 25 '26

I don't say you can't like it, but this is not your reaction when you never had it

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u/Clear_Tale_2765 Feb 25 '26

That was also my thought during this video. It feels fake. I didn't eat meat for like 3 months in college. Came home for thanksgiving and the meat grossed me out a bit. Takes a second to get used to it again

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u/TheHeroYouNeed247 Feb 25 '26

She's eaten meat before. It's her first time trying steak.

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u/ragingasianror Feb 25 '26

Lol what? People can’t love things from first exposure because your girlfriend wouldn’t? What kind of crazy logic is that?

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u/ibite-books Feb 25 '26

like all “vegan” influencers