Sunday, May 3, 2020

Dad Cooks Bacon, Vegan Daughter Isn't Having It


This dad took to Reddit to ask folks whether or not he was in the wrong for wanting to continue his enjoyment of bacon, even though it created distress for his vegan daughter's lifestyle. Folks seem to agree that dad isn't doing anything wrong at all. 

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Text - WIBTA for refusing to stop cooking bacon in my kitchen due to my teenage daughters vegan lifestyle? Not the A-hole Dad here, old fart, loves his daughter to pieces but I'm struggling to see eye to eye with my teenager and wife on this one. We've always been a meat eating family, we live in the rural Midwest and bacon for breakfast is pretty much a given. This year my 14 y/o daughter decided to go vegan, and I jumped onto her support team with enthusiasm. We learned how to substitute ingre

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Text - None of this has been a problem for me until recently. She saw me cook bacon in a pan, and then I rinsed it out to load in the dishwasher. She exploded in anger (teen years, I'm not too fussed about the anger explosion, I know she doesn't mean it) and said that that was HER pan for vegan food. I was completely floored and said, kiddo this here is a family pan, older than you, it's not YOUR pan. She asked me to purchase her a pan that she can solely use for vegan food. I didn't want her to

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Text - That wasn't good enough. Now apparently the dishwasher is 'contaminated' with animal product, and the fridge has 'bacon grease fingers' on it (because I eat bacon and then touch the fridge) and she's asked me and her mom to completely stop eating meat at home. I don't mean I literally touch the fridge with greasy bacon hands, because I wash my hands, but it's clearly enough that it upsets my daughter. frankly I'm on team hell no, her mom is much more amenable and strongly wants me to cons

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Text - RonDeGrasseDawtchins • 184d • Supreme Court Just-ass [126] NTA, obviously. You've been supportive of her new diet choice and have been very accommodating by getting her pans to use for vegan food. She can't expect you to change your whole lifestyle to cater to her. Meat needs to be kept in the fridge, and if the dishwasher is tainted then maybe she should try washing a dish by hand GASP.

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Text - PommeDeSang • 184d · Asshole Aficionado [13] Pfft had a vegan roommate in the past. He used the fridge and dishwasher just fine. Time for a real world lesson for her - she's not always gonna live with people who share her food lifestyle. She's got to learn to compromise. There is no reason to inconvenience yourselves and others because she's being a dramatic teen. Compromise - She has her own cookware and her own meat free section of the fridge.

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Text - 13rahma • 184d • Colo-rectal Surgeon [41] S 1 Award NTA. You're already being as supporting as you can, but at the end of the day it's your house. You don't need to bend the knee to your daughter over this.

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Text - LifeExplorer64 • 184d • Pooperintendant [69] NTA many vegans cohabitate successfully with meat eaters, your daughter is pushing the line here and being unreasonable. You have gone out of your way to support her dietary choices (I'm assuming that she washes her own pans and dishes by hand herself rather than using the contaminated dishwasher lol) it is time for her to learn how to coexist peacefully with people that dont think exactly like she does. I think you wife is 100% wrong here and

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Text - Zauberspruch • 184d • Asshole Enthusiast [9] S 4 Awards NTA. She's 14. There is no middle ground at 14. My condolences, as it's going to be a long winter. 8.3k

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Text - purplegirl1511 • 184d • Pooperintendant [57] 1 Award NTA, and I say that as a vegan. "cross contamination" is BS that militant vegans make up to make themselves feel superior to other vegans. And she has to understand that there's going to be meat around. I get that it upsets her, really, but unless she only lives with vegans for the rest of her life this is something she is going to have to get used to. A compromise might be too keep the meat in a drawer in the fridge rather than getting

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Text - brandonnavi • 184d • Partassipant [3] You know the answer, I'm assuming this is for your wife You are accommodating despite it being irrational. It's now being pushed to a new level of irrational. Explain to your daughter that you're trying to be as accommodating as possible but this is too far for you and there's no grounds for farther arguing because you don't have the same perspective as her. She might be mad at you, but when she has her own living space and gets to make the rules, she

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Text - DoffyTrash • 184d · Asshole Aficionado [12] 3 12 Awards NTA. Get her a special sponge she can use to wash her own dishes so she didn't have to use the "tainted" dishwasher.

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Text - Withamoomoohere • 184d • Partassipant [1] NTA You sound super cool, to adjust your eating habits and offering buy her a new set of pans. But yikes, just like you would never force your lifestyle on her, she can't force hers on you. Is this a recent behavior? Because that's the same type of extremist vegan behavior that puts a lot of people off from veganism

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Text - PartyCat78 • 184d • Certified Proctologist [21] Um NTA. So without going into all the opinions I have here, might I suggest you kindly remind her that even at a restaurant that serves vegan food, she's likely to get it on a plate that once had a burger on it. She is being a ridiculous teenager. Don't indulge her.

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Text - 3_littleByrds • 184d • Asshole Aficionado [15] NTA: You've been more than accommodating thus far. She's just seeing how far she can push it. Changing you & your wives diet is unreasonable.

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Text - Hennahands • 184d • Asshole Enthusiast [7] 3 3 Awards NTA, but this actually sounds really complicated. Teenage girls can have very contentious relationships with food, and that can express themselves in a lot of ways. I think you need to get more information going forward. She might just be a teen pushing limits and seeing what she can control. She might also genuinely be struggling with ideas about, "cleanliness" as it related to food. 739

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Text - TheRagingScientist • 184d 3 3 Awards As a teen who's trying to go vegetarian, your daughter is acting ridiculous. "The dish washing machine's tainted"? What kind of bull is that? And she shouldn't be forcing you guys to go vegan in your own house if you don't want to. You've been very supportive as it is, buying separate pans. YWNBTA Edit: and, if she really wants to change your diet, she should try and give you info on how bad the meat and dairy industry is, and how unhealthy large amoun

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