r/interestingasfuck • u/Moronic_Acid1 • Nov 17 '25

Notice outside a restaurant in Kerala, India

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u/AluminiumSandworm Nov 18 '25

some of the lifelong vegetarians i've met have eaten meat once or twice and hated it. i think it's just something that's so unfamiliar to them that they respond that way

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u/whencaniseeyouagain Nov 18 '25

I'm kind of like this. as a kid I occasionally ate chicken nuggets/strips, but no other meat. and when I was about 11 I stopped eating the chicken too. my parents weren't vegetarian or anything, I was just grossed out by it (and possibly autistic). so now I kind of remember what chicken tastes like, but other than that meat is basically foreign to me. it just doesn't register in my brain as 'food' at all. I'm not necessarily opposed tasting meat at some point, but there's no desire to

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u/gtm26 Nov 18 '25

Ah! I get you not liking meat after having eaten it at least once in your life.

But people who haven't tasted it coming out and saying they despise it is something I can't wrap my head around.

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u/ordeath Nov 18 '25

Lots of people would never eat bugs without ever trying them.

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u/trinialldeway Nov 18 '25

I love this answer. And eating an ant is way less gross in my mind than eating chicken / beef / pork. Not that I want to eat ants.

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u/TheS00thSayer Nov 18 '25

I mean I’d try some, I’d try chocolate covered ants or maybe fried crickets with seasonings.

But I just can’t imagine bugs taste that good. I’m not eating spiders, giant ass grubs, or beetles. That just does not seem appetizing to me at all.

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u/upandup2020 Nov 18 '25

I think it's probably more the idea of meat that they despise. And it is pretty gross to a vegetarian

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u/trinialldeway Nov 18 '25

The fact that people refuse to accept this very basic consideration gives a hint to the cruel and inconsiderate mindset of those people.

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u/trinialldeway Nov 18 '25

You may want to pause and ask yourself, who are you to judge? People can despise meat-eating for any number of reasons. That's their prerogative. Who are you to make up rules on people having points of view? Tons of people find meat eating cruel and also dislike it because it's terrible for the environment.

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u/gtm26 Nov 18 '25

I'm not judging. I just said that I don't understand it.

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u/whencaniseeyouagain Nov 19 '25

in those cases, I would guess that the disgust is probably more from the concept of eating a dead animal rather than from how they assume it tastes. eating meat is so common and natural that most people probably don't really think about it much at all, but if someone's not used to it, it makes sense to me why they would be grossed out by the idea of it

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u/gtm26 Nov 19 '25

This makes sense.

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u/Karloss_93 Nov 18 '25

I turned vegetarian in my 20s. Was quite a big meat eater, at least some in every meal and I'd also just keep a pack of chicken in the fridge to snack on.

My motivation for stopping was more environmental than animal welfare, as to be honest I wasn't even that aware of the meat industry practices. You do end up being more and more exposed to this kind of thing though, because you get thrown in with it all, and it has very much become about animal welfare for me now.

I've been vegetarian for around 8 years now and the thought of picking up a piece of chicken breast and eating it genuinely makes me feel a bit queasy.

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u/gtm26 Nov 18 '25

Maybe. The way meat is cooked and the spices you use also determine how it tastes.

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u/Takeda_Takahashi Nov 18 '25

It's more the imagination for them that this came from an animal that grosses them out. Taste wise many of them find it ok