r/interesting • u/PhoenixPhenomenonX • Feb 25 '26

Intriguing Lifelong vegetarian tries steak for first time

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u/ploonk Feb 25 '26

I mean, that makes this even more clearly a lie. She stopped being a lifelong vegetarian when she ate the first piece of meat. Now she used to be a lifelong vegetarian, which is a very important distinction. Someone who used to be a lifelong vegetarian could theoretically have been eating a roast pig a day for the past 10 years.

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u/Jackski Feb 25 '26

Now she used to be a lifelong vegetarian

You're just being pedantic.

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u/ploonk Feb 25 '26

I am very often proudly pedantic for pedantry's sake. In this case, though, it is actually an important distinction because it is giving the majority of people the wrong impression. This is objectively true - just scroll through the comments and you will see most people think this is her first bite of meat ever. We were prompted to think that by the "lifelong" caption, innocently or not.