Your diet is completely personal to you, and whether you choose to eat meat or prefer to keep your meals vegetarian, nobody should make you feel bad for your lifestyle.
When hanging around with certain people, however, you may feel like you have to pull the wool over their eyes a little in order to 'fit in' with them - especially if their ideologies are particularly strict.
One man was left baffled when his "strict vegetarian" girlfriend pretended to be a vegan around her colleague, pretending not to eat any animal-derived meals as she said she didn't even want to be anywhere near where cheese was served.
For some reason, the boyfriend felt the need to out his girlfriend at Easter dinner as a vegetarian, rather than a vegan. As a result, his girlfriend's friend was really mad that she'd been "bulls****ing her", and his girlfriend told him he should've kept his mouth shut - she was really "upset" with him.
He took to Reddit's 'Am I the a**hole' forum to explain that his girlfriend is a "strict vegetarian" but had been fabricating the truth to a "younger girl by the name of Sheila."
He wrote: "Back in December, she met someone new where she works, a younger girl by the name of Sheila. Sheila is a vegan, and doesn't even want to be around a place where cheese might exist.
"She's been chatting with my girlfriend, Michaela, frequently, and Michaela apparently has been telling Sheila and their other workmates that Michaela is a vegan. She's gone so far as to put on Facebook ridiculous posts such as, 'loving my vegan lifestyle!' 'Salads for lunch, being a vegan is great!'
"The whole time she's making these comments, I'll see her eating cheese, drinking milk, etc. She's still keeping with her vegetarian diet but is definitely not a vegan by any stretch of the term."
He said that he'd been trying to "ignore it", but at Easter dinner he snapped at Sheila's attitude, and outed his girlfriend.
He continued: "So when Michaela and Sheila struck up a conversation in which Sheila proceeded to insult our food once again, I interrupted, saying that, 'it really isn't a problem for Michaela, given that she's not a vegan. In fact, I watched her eat an omelette just this morning.'
"Michaela began to deny it and claim that I was lying, but Sheila looked a little upset that Michaela had been 'bulls******g her'.
"Long story short, Sheila is mad at Michaela for faking veganism for months, and now Michaela is upset with me because I 'should have kept my mouth shut.'"
The man then proceeded to ask whether he was in the wrong for outing his girlfriend as a veggie, rather than vegan.
People were confused in the comments, with one writing: "Michaela's behavior is bizarre. Are those the qualities you want in a partner?"
"Really though, the original poster needs to take a step back and think about why Michaela is trying so hard to impress Sheila", someone jibed.
Another added: "The original poster is not the a**hole for keeping it real. Michaela needs to stop being a people pleaser and stop pretending to be something she ain't!"
A Redditor defended the boyfriend, saying: "Going to someone's house and insulting their food is rude as f***. I'd question my wife if she was trying to impress someone like this."
What would you do in this situation? Let us know in the comments.
