"Ate at this restaurant last night as a party of 10 colleagues, with myself being the only non meat eater. We ordered a banquet with many different dishes, and my colleague requested that some vegan dishes be included. This seemed to astonish the waiter, and he asked who the vegan was. When I said it was me, he said ah, an extremist! and proceeded to conversationally attack me on my reasons for going vegan in front of my entire office. I wasn 't much interested in getting into the preachy details as this would have made my colleagues feel awkward, and as soon as I started to defend myself, my colleagues advised him not to pursue the discussion, to which he replied it 's OK, I have a good argument! . His big argument: VEGETABLES HAVE SOULS. I am incredulous by this point, not only because my food choices were being criticised and mocked by a waiter during the ordering process, but because I couldn 't believe he could come out with something so inherently stupid and not be joking. I asked him three times if he was serious, and each time he responded with a deadpan face that he was. My colleagues cut off the conversation as I was just awkwardly laughing, I am all for a bit of banter at my expense but I am also known to speak my mind when the occasion calls for it, and they could see that it was getting to that point. I then had to put up with comments such as how 's the [milk dish] guys? good? you should tell her what she 's missing! etc The only reason we chose to eat at this restaurant was because of the selection of non-meat dishes for me, which is ironic considering the prejudiced and downright disrespectful service I had to endure. My colleagues all agreed that it was the most unprofessional and awkward service they had ever experienced. The food itself was OK but nothing interesting. If you 're still wondering why I 'm vegan, waiter, go and look up dairy is scary on youtube and then please tell me more about how I 'm the extreme one."
