Vegan goes to police after friends feed them chicken nugget while drunk

Vegetarians and vegans have been known sometimes to willingly consume meat when they're under the influence. While a lapse in your lifestyle every now and then is completely normal, one Reddit user recently took to the platform to share how they'd recently been fed meat by friends on a drunken night out as a "joke."

The user, veganthrowaway192847, asked fellow users whether they were out of line for going to the police after their friends tricked them into eating chicken nuggets.

The user wrote: 

"To preface this, I (24F) am vegan, and have been for a good 10 years. I have not eaten meat since I was roughly 3-4 years old when I found out where meat comes from (spoiler alert: there were a lot of tears). This is no secret and everyone in my life knows and respects this - or so I thought."

"Four nights ago, I was at a party and I will admit, I got white girl wasted. My friends thought it would be funny to feed me chicken nuggets as a prank. I checked with them before chowing down 'are these vegan?' To which my friends replied 'yeah, they're sunfed' (a type of vegan chickenless chicken). They tasted off to me but I figured it was just because I was drunk. I was wrong."

"I found out the next day when my sister sent me a message telling me to check my friend's Snapchat story. The story was them showing the nugget packaging, and then showing them giving them to me (including the conversation where I asked if it was vegan)."

"The and then later them mocking me and pretending to be me when I found out I ate meat (things like fake crying and yelling "the CHICKENS!!!"). I took a screen recording of the video and took it to the police, on the grounds of food tampering, and now 3 of my (ex) friends are facing charges."

"They all think that I'm overreacting to a 'harmless' prank, so Reddit, AITA? In my view, they took advantage of my drunken state, tampered with my food, and publically humiliated me. In their view, it was just a prank."

Reddit users seemed to agree that veganthrowaway192847 wasn't unreasonable. 

One user wrote: "I’m impressed and kinda think this is awesome. ETA: I think that it’s awesome you went to the police and they’re taking it seriously."

Another user added: 

"You're all forgetting that they uploaded a snapchat video making fun of her too, it wasn't just food tampering." 

While one person concluded: 

"You’re pressing charges over chicken nuggets. You have a moral stance against meat. That’s fine. But it’s not a life-threatening allergy. It’s absolutely a shitty thing for them to do. They aren’t friends. They should be ashamed. But pressing charges is just way too much."

Another seemed to agree, writing: 

"I have life-threatening food allergies, and I let people know that, obviously. I know how fucked up it is if someone f***s with my food on the grounds of not believing me or not caring because it has caused me issues in the past."

"The thing is, your dietary concern is a preference. It’s really shitty your 'friends' violated your trust like that, but outside of maybe a rough shit the next morning it didn’t cause you any harm. Food tampering charges are a felony in quite a few states. That seems like a massive overreaction to what at the end of the day was just a prank in very, very poor taste."

This article was originally published on October 8, 2019. It has since been updated.