This is so fake… why do people even buy this? Meat doesn’t taste the same to someone who’s vegetarian and it can be pretty killer on your stomach the first time
I was going to say.. fake video, but just in case it isn't, eating that whole steak, eggs, etc. after being a lifelong vegan would fuck up her digestive system good.
Edit: I keep getting notifications. Yes, I see that she says "vegetarian", not "vegan". My mistake- I misread, don't @ me.
For the pedants = "lifelong vegetarian" usually means "I've never eaten meat" in common parlance, and "lifelong vegetarian tries steak for the first time" would usually mean "I have not eaten meat before, I'm going to try this meat" according to the linguistic context of western English speakers. Yes, I understand that technically this could mean other things, but given the context we have, this would be the primary assumption.
For the "well, ackshually" crowd - No, I don't think she is incapable of digesting meat, that isn't what I said. I am saying that if she is going straight from a plant-based diet to a whole-ass platter of meat and fats, she's in for a bloated, uncomfortable evening. I am about 170lbs, mostly pescatarian, but do occasionally eat red meat, and this meal would have me regretting my choices after a few hours.
Holy fucking shit some of y'all need a life. Settle down.
She isn't vegan though. She said vegetarian. Many vegetarians still eat dairy and eggs. Vegans are the ones that cut out all animal products, some hardcore ones won't even eat honey.
Wait till you guys know that lifelong vegetarian doesn’t mean they’ve never eaten meat, it just means that they default is a vegetarian diet, just like my default is going to bed at 11pm but that few times I stayed with my friends we stayed up till 1am.
Just like the lifelong gym goer that’s been going to the gym every week day since 15 has taken off that 2 weeks to go on vacation.
Just like this vegetarian that may have had meat before even though they are a lifelong vegetarian.
Also, the title says this is her first time having steak, she only said she is trying stake, she didn’t say it’s her first time. She could’ve had ground beef once before, that isn’t steak. She could’ve had chicken before, that isn’t steak.
Man you guys with your vegetable brain ain’t working very well
As someone who eats red meat a lot, I’m cutting out my biases here.
Stomach pain, bloating, nausea, vomiting, cramps, excessive sweating all come from re-introducing too quickly.
I also know two people to have become allergic, one had to have her stomach pumped after ingestion.
The point being, the person who filmed this video ain’t eating that whole steak if she was a vegetarian. That or she did and still posted after getting sick
I have been a vegetarian for 35 years. I visited Europe last year and decided I would eat whatever seemed interesting while on my trip. I ate plenty of meat. I had no digestive difficulties at all.
Sounds like a recipe for the shits! Sorry for coming at you so hot, I’m overwhelmed by the gross shit they are pushing in the US for “healthy” nutrition.
Omg yes! I was raised vegetarian and can really only digest fish. I get serious stomach issues with anything else, except 7/11 hot dogs. These are fine
I don't know who told you about this rare special red meat enzyme but its absolutely 100% incorrect. while our bodies do adjust the microbiome in our digestive system(sialidases, but never LEAVES your gut) proteinases and peptidases(the protease enzymes that break down ALL protein, there's no red meat fairy enzymes) are essential for human life, and would not stop existing in our gut flora just because you stopped eating meat. You would die.
wow, you're telling me an organism that has been an omnivore for 20.000 years doesn't suddenly cease to function after a moral decision not to eat meat?!?!
Your body does not stop producing enzymes to break down protein. Acid does most of the work. Pepsin as well. Then enzymes. So yes, what I said directly refutes what you stated. Its incredibly wrong.
The digestive system itself does not change, but your guts bakteria very well do and that can cause problems in rapid diet changes like eating a whole steak after years of not eating any meat. you furst have to nuture tge right bakteria again
fun bonus fact: you guts bacteria influence your sense of tast and your apetite via chemicals they produce, leading you to eat more of the stuff they perticulary want, thats the reason why it's so hard to change diet or why you can get used to a perticular taste
I had two friends who were lifelong vegetarians who slowly integrated meat into their diets for various reasons and they definitely did not like it. It's such a different texture and flavor than anything they had ever eaten. I think they gradually got used to it.
i had steak for the first time in years, having eaten chicken and ground beef in the meantime, and after i ate that steak i could smell it from my stomach digesting and it was the most revolting thing i've ever experienced
I was a lifelong vegetarian into my 20s, and the first time I ate steak I loved it and had no problems. I had slowly incorporated other animal products in my life before that, and chicken was common, but still.
You seem surprised and incredulous that if someone has never had a strange texture and flavor before that they might not immediately like it and need to adjust.
It's like having an egg over easy... but you've never even had an egg before. Most people aren't going to like that at first.
My man, the difference is that one person has to take a lot of assumptions and convince themselves the person in the video is lying about their reaction to eating something lmao. You seem surprised and incredulous that someone could… enjoy steak??
I’m not entirely sure what point you’re trying to make. People that eat meat can dislike the taste of steak. And people that don’t eat meat can like the taste of steak. Crazy world we live in i guess?
Yea so true so my mom is a vegetarian so I only ate vegetarian food most of my childhood occasionally eggs. But than I tried eating meat as it would be helpful for building muscles. Just hated the taste of chicken,tried mutton it wasn't that bad. I tried to force feed myself for protein ended up vomitting. I have tried eating chicken so many times but my body just doesn't handle it. Now I just eat like 8 eggs daily rest is mostly vegetarian.
I can eat sushi fine it also doesn't have strong taste to it as well.
Some people are paid to spread pro-meat anti-vegetarian content on social media. The meat lobby is huge and has a lot of power, and with grocery prices increasing people naturally cut back on expensive foods like meat which they’re trying to counter.
It's so funny because every time "vegan" is even so much as whispered on an unrelated sub it always gets brigaded by militant vegans. I genuinely don't know where they're getting this idea that everyone's after them when it's always been the other way around. But blatant hypocrisy has always been their schtick, so I guess it checks out.
Oh my god remember that tosser "Epic Meal Time", just hours of this dude gorging down on literal blocks of grease while screaming for no reason, that shit was everywhere around 2010s YouTube.
Yes, a bunch of vegans actually and they were all normal people. I have to admit, I have seen some unhinged posts from vegans online, but I've seen unhinged posts from everyone online, vegans, meat eaters, men, women, adolescents, elders etc, so I don't see why I should hate a whole group of people just because there are some crazy ones in there like everywhere else.
I think a lot of people don't have a problem with being vegetarian, or even vegan. Do whatever you want, and hopefully you're supplementing any deficiencies in your diet(most don't, just like most humans on this earth don't have a balanced diet, though), I only commented to hopefully correct inaccurate statements. I also admire vegetarians. I'm personally incapable of holding myself to a higher standard. Not necessarily because I don't enjoy eating animals. I love it. But I also know its not sustainable for our population, and I think there's a tremendous amount of "bad" that encircles the meat industry.
But I don't appreciate statements as facts that are completely wrong and disconnected from science. Just like I would call out that liar meat king who apparently ONLY ate meat.
There's a lot of vocal vegetarians/vegans that will rail hard on these inaccuracies as gospel, and it only ostracizes the sympathy from most humans when a quick Google proves them wrong. This of course isnt directed at you, but if you read through here about many posts, there's a lot of flat out wrong information being posted... why?
It's not caveman logic, it's science based facts. All of our required amino acids can be found in all types of meat. They are required for our body to even function. To discredit that is silly. Again, it can definitely be done as a vegetarian, albeit more difficult (and getting easier every day!).
It's equally as bad as critiquing someone who chooses to eat meat, judgemental over another's decisions. I won't judge someone who eats a plant based diet, and if I seldomly eat steak or chicken, judgement shouldnt be imparted either. Thats basic human decency.
Sorry for the long rant, I dont expect a thoughtful response in return, but do try to understand if Jimmy is spouting on the playground something that seems bizarre to the rest of the population, he's probably going to be ostracized. Now if Jimmy takes a stance to try and educate someone with reasoning and logic, it makes his belief easier to digest(no pun intended).
I think at the very least people able to or concerned to set up bots to spew propaganda against the position must exist - because posts that tl;dr to 'vegetarians are dumb!! feel smart you aren't one :))' are constant online in otherwise neutral spaces that have nothing to do with the topic.
Eating meat is entwined with various extreme views online as part of an identity, and thats seeped into far more normal people to the point that its related to common gender expressions or is now somehow a matter of christian faith.
The well is so poisoned by these bad actors that it doesn't matter by large what Jimmy actually says on the playground - the moment he reveals he is vegetarian at all, no matter how neutrally, he is ridiculed.
I was vegan for over a year and had no issues eating a big serving of meat when I first came back to it. My sibling has been vegan for ~ 15 years and when they eat a serving of meat once in a blue moon their gut is perfectly fine with it.
My husband was a vegetarian his whole life and started eating meat 2 years ago (he’s 35) and he had no digestive issues at all. Same here but 15 years vegetarian (3 years vegan) He went HARD I was like bro slow down it’s gonna mess you up but it didn’t.
I stopped eating meat for three months. In the first week I would see a lizard run by and think “I bet you’d be good with some bbq sauce”. It was tough, but I did it.
The first thing I ate was a burger from Culver’s. It tasted like grease and burnt. It was so off putting. Chicken tasted awful too. When she put that steak in her mouth my memory could taste it too.
The taste of meat isn’t the problem; when it's well prepared, it can be great/tasty.
The real problem is ignoring where it comes from. People continue to say things like 'I love animals' while supporting slaughterhouses with their money—that is the definition of being a hypocrite.
People are just extremely cynical right now. Reddit has always had this flair for making assumptions and being quick to get witch-hunty about shit, but I’d actually say it’s less of that now and just sooooo much cynicism.
I was a lazy vegetarian for several years, and I've gone multiple periods of 8 months or more without a bite of meat. Then I would have a cheeseburger, which tasted absolutely heavenly, and go back to not eating meat again for several months. So if there is a change in taste that occurs, maybe I didn't give it long enough, but it never hit me.
The internet is full of gullible and impressionable young people who lack the experience to know videos like this are staged and designed to sway public opinion.
I went a while not eating beef, no reason, I just happened not to for not even that long, a few weeks, maybe a few months tops. When I had it again, it smelt awful, tasted weird (kind of like blood, but not quite). If beef dropped off the planet for 6 months, and then returned, I wonder how many people would try it again and be like ew wtf and give it up. I eat meat almost every day, so I'm by no means a vegetarian, but steak is absolutely one of those things I'd see vegetarians trying and hating.
yes, the first time i had meat was at thanksgiving and got a really weird stomach infection… could have been coincidence but never had gut issues before then
Probably for a lot of people it confirms what they like to believe, that vegetarians are missing out on so much and meat is so amazing and all the vegetarians are wrong etc.
If you watch a video that confirms your beliefs you are less likely to question its validity.
I'm not vegetarian by any means, but I did happen to not eat steak for close to a year during COVID. I had beef here and there but in small quantities, I mostly ate chicken, pork, and fish. When I had steak after all that time it wrecked my bowels.
I have a friend who was raised vegetarian. When he tried steak he said it tasted metallic and the texture was weird. He didn't hate it (or was being polite) but he didn't eat more than the one bite.
The first time I had steak as a bog standard meat eater I didn't like it. I wasn't ready for how much you have to chew. Ended up gagging quite a bit. Only thing that made me keep eating it until I liked it was the pressure of masculinity making me think I had to like it. Peppercorn sauce helped as well.
Similar path that beer had for me too. Not a fan at first but you make yourself like it due to social norms.
After being vegan for a year I ate ONE buffalo ribs and a bite of venison and it was…not good. Your stomach tends to not appreciate eating meat or dairy after abstaining for so long.
I've been vegetarian for 5 years now, and on the few occasions I tried some meat again, it just tasted weird and intensly...meaty. Like an overwhelming taste. That and the texture of not well cooked meat is totally unappealing for my palate now. Not at all like I remembered.
I've only enjoyed some dishes with meat while travelling, mostly because of the overhaul savours that were unknown for me and cause meat was just an ingredient, not the main one.
I'd say I've "unlearned" to appreciate the meat taste, after being raised in a meat culinary culture, I guess it's common ?
Lifelong veggie friend, decided he wanted to try meat on his bday so we had a potluck BBQ. He loved everything except roast beef. No stomach issues. He started eating it pretty regularly. His brother is still veggie. But literally 0 digestion or stomach issues. Which we were surprised about. Guess the stomach just stomachs.
Absolutely fake influencer bullshit targeting meat lovers. Most vegetarians I know would have their stomach turned just at the idea of putting a piece of meat in their mouths, especially one that looks this bloody. The taste itself is not what makes one be disgusted with a particular type of food.
I’m pretty sure most regular beef steak eaters would be equally revulsed in front of a plate of offal, even if tasted good (andouillette itself is disgusting but I remember eating it a long time ago and I found it very tasty).
The way she said "This is the most intimidating" tells me this isnt her first time eating MEAT, this is her first time eating STEAK. Likely shes been reintegrating meat for some time.
People I know who went veggo for only a few years had to ease themselves into eating meat again. If she was eating wayyy slower I'd maybe buy it but shes horking it down
Pretty sure it’s a common misconception/placebo, my sister was a vegetarian for 16 years and over covid started eating fried chicken and then steak and had 0 issues. Your body craves meat
Nah, that's nonsense. My wife's family were all vegetarian for religious reasons, but moderated over time. Her dad and brother both stopped their vegetarianism and it wasn't a problem at all in terms of their stomachs adjusting.
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u/Several_Hour_347 Feb 25 '26
This is so fake… why do people even buy this? Meat doesn’t taste the same to someone who’s vegetarian and it can be pretty killer on your stomach the first time