{"id":21913,"date":"2025-12-03T16:52:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=21913"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:52:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:52:36","slug":"my-vegan-meal-on-a-flight-caused-a-scene-but-i-got-the-last-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=21913","title":{"rendered":"My Vegan Meal on a Flight Caused a Scene, but I Got the Last Laugh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was on a 10-hour international flight, and I was sitting in economy, middle seat. I\u2019d been traveling for work and was exhausted. I just wanted a meal and a nap.I\u2019ve been vegan for over a decade, so I pre-order my meal every time. So when the flight attendant came around and handed me my tray first, I smiled, said thanks, and started eating quietly. It was tofu curry with rice and a little side salad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s when the man next to me suddenly leaned over and said, \u201cIt\u2019s a rule to wait until everyone gets their food. Even if you\u2019re a vegan.\u201d I almost laughed, but he looked completely serious.He frowned. \u201cThat\u2019s not fair. Why should you get to eat before me?\u201d he said. I shrugged and told him, \u201cBecause I checked a box online?\u201d He didn\u2019t like that. He stood up suddenly and walked straight to the galley, muttering under his breath. I watched as he started talking to a flight attendant, with gestures and pointing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on a 10-hour international flight, and I was sitting in economy, middle seat. I\u2019d been traveling for work and was exhausted. I just wanted a&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":234,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21915,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21913\/revisions\/21915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}