You know you're vegan when…
…people tell you plants can feel pain, too, you know.
…you find a recipe and while reading it, "milk" changes to "soy milk" and "butter" changes to "Earth Balance". ** Stitches
…friends come over to your house and try to decode your shopping list (nooch, TVP, Ener-G, seitan, tahini, tempeh, wakame).
…you have a habit of reading the ingredients on everything, everywhere.
…you worship seitan.
…the waiter at the pizza place looks at you like you've got a second head that just called him some slew of obscene words (instead of ordering a veggie pizza with no cheese, and slice it with a clean cutter, please?)
... you are secretly staring into other peoples grocery carts thinking "hmm...I don't see any animal products. I wonder if they are vegan too? Maybe I'll ask...". ** samanthamuffin
…you suggest a dish to bring to dinner at your mom's house and she says 'we don't want anything that tastes weird.' ** piecebypeace
…you keep having to remind grandma that no, chickens don't grow on trees and yes, fish is an animal and okay, I guess I'll have a plain baked potato AGAIN.
…beans don't help you clear the room anymore.
…you still have the occasional atomic fart that has people asking "what do you REALLY eat?!"
…you can't stop thinking about blood and pus when you walk past the dairy section.
…salad is basically the only thing you can eat when you go out with friends and family, especially when it's their favorite restaurant.
…you set down your Silk, tofu and tofutti products proudly on the conveyer belt at the supermarket, just waiting for someone to notice.
…you hear "If you don't eat meat, I will just eat two times as much to make up!", you want to say "I'm glad you'll be taking over my half of the cancer, too!"
…when you're seriously considering turning your pets Vegan... or they already are.
…you've found yourself standing in a store smelling a bunch of wallets over and over, because neither you nor the clerk can tell if they're leather or plastic. ** Porphyry
…you're out with people for dinner, and your meal is the most interesting thing ever, and everybody just has to gawk at what you got. ** Morpheus
…your favorite drunk-time snack is pita and hummus.
...you're suddenly disgusted that your family thinks the holidays aren't "right" without a large cooked carcass in the middle of the table.
…your food bill skyrocketed, and you take many more trips to the store than a usual person, perhaps the produce clerks know you by name now?
…there's no such thing as "picking the meat out" anymore.
…you don't eve assume that there's anything you can eat at a party/friends house/holiday and you bring your own.
...you get extremely excited if you even assume that there is another vegan in your town… to the point of squealing and flailing. *ShadsHarlot
…your pantry looks like the canned foods section of the supermarket.
…your refrigerator looks like the produce section.
…some people still don't know you're full-blown Vegan, because you KNOW they'd go on and on and on about calcium and milk and your poor bones and getting enough vitamins and cheese is just so tasty!
…you are just a little creeped out that meatless hotdogs feel and taste "real".
…you only shop in one third of the supermarket.
…people try to tell you that PETA stands for People Eating Tasty Animals. *** FootFace
...you see weeds in your yard and you wonder if they're edible.
...your computer bookmarks are overrun with Vegan sites.
...you get so pissed off at a company for putting eggs or dairy in an product that normally didn't have those ingredients that you call them and write angry emails.
...you have "Earthlings" bookmarked or downloaded. (Or, you should)
...you have bad dreams about hamburgers.