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Australia has a very meat-heavy culture and you often feel excluded.
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When your national food is a meat pie, you can't help but be resentful towards it.
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You know you'll never experience the romance of "being porked".
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You also can't help but wonder if sausage rolls taste just as bad as those servo station spinach and feta rolls.
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Explaining to people why you're a vegetarian is a full time job.
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Receiving an invite to a summer barbecue is a bittersweet moment.
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Your "vegetarian alternative" always looks rather sad in comparison to what everyone else is eating.
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In fact, you'd like to find the person who invented the frozen veggie patty and punch them in the face.
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You have an internal panic attack when you see the veggie patties being served with the same utensils as the snags and steaks.
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And you feel a pang of guilt when you let your meat-eating friends know that it's bothering you.
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Everyone keeps telling you to try chicken-salted chips, because it doesn't actually have any chicken in it.
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In fact, all your meat-loving friends keep telling you that most meat-flavouring is artificial.
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The likelihood of finding an option for you at any seaside restaurant is slim-to-none.
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When you ask a waiter what their vego options are, 9/10 times they'll ask "Do you eat chicken or fish?"
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And if they do have vego options, they're rather half-hearted.
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Or only their entrees are vego, but their mains are not.
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There's only so many times you can order a haloumi beetroot salad.
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Before going to any Chinatown restaurant you must prime yourself for failure.
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In fact, any time you visit any Asian restaurant, you have to specify that fish and oyster sauce are not vegetarian.
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And if you're lucky you'll end up with some overpriced vegetables and boiled rice.
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When you're in charge of dinner plans for your group, you try really hard to find something ~everyone~ can be happy with.
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Your skepticism of anything marked "suitable for vegetarians" is unwavering.
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Making a Macca's run at any time after 10:30 a.m. is just plain disappointing.
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But even though it can be overwhelming, there's nothing you'd change about being an Aussie vegetarian.
