If you are vegetarian or vegan...

ahmommy

This is a pure curiousity question.

If you're a vegetarian or vegan, and you eat out, are you particular about whether the utensils used to make your food has touched meat?

I was in Subway a long time ago and the girl in line ahead of me got very upset when they used the same knife to cut her sandwich as they did to cut a sandwich with meat on it. Of course I didn't know her or her reasons for not eating meat.

At first I thought maybe she wanted it to be kosher, but if you're eating at Subway, it's simply not going to be 100% kosher. And if she wasn't eating meat for moral reasons, that knife still would have cut that other sandwich whether they used a fresh one for her or not. Maybe she was allergic?

I have no clue why I still remember this after all this time.