Picking on RHOA's Pinky is showing off your meat-eating insecurities
If you don't have a problem with omnivores salivating over seafood, chicken and beef, stop nitpicking the Slutty Vegan
Several years ago, a relative graduated from high school. I flew out to enjoy the celebration with approximately 20 other family members. When the graduation ceremony was over and I found out what restaurant everybody was going to, I quietly checked my phone for the nearest plant-based restaurants, gave everybody the deuces, grabbed my rental car keys and quietly exited in the opposite direction of the parking lot. I had the time of my life at one restaurant (and had already enjoyed eating alone at another one shortly after my flight landed) and popped up at the graduate’s parents’ home with a full belly.
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Although I noticed a couple of quizzical looks and the eyeroll-worthy comment about how the other restaurant “had salads” and “probably had something you could eat,” I said, “The restaurant I went to had a full menu of items I could choose from” and quickly changed topics.
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I’ve heard the overused “salad” comment more times than I can count in 21 years. I even went to a restaurant with a few co-workers who were pescatarians. They chose a Mexican restaurant that had nothing but meat and fish. I couldn’t even order a go-to vegetarian snack: guacamole and chips. I sighed and ordered the same thing Pinky Cole, the CEO and founder of Slutty Vegan and one of the newest cast members of “Real Housewives of Atlanta,” ordered: French fries. I was ready to leave this restaurant almost immediately after the fries arrived.
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And the more I watch the newest season of RHOA (after taking a two-year break because I couldn’t stand one more millisecond of Kenya Moore), the more I hear snarky comments from both cast members and viewers about Pinky’s vegan lifestyle. Pinky clearly has the same condos in Phaedra Parks’ head that Cardi B. once rapped about. And even my favorite cast member Porsha Williams had a couple of jabs about why Pinky should eat meat.
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But what confuses me most is the hostility whenever Pinky brings up being a vegan while at a restaurant — as though that’s not the most obvious place to bring it up. Imagine asking a vegan to go on a girl’s trip but then telling her she should’ve brought snacks. Add Cynthia’s restaurant choices to the laundry list of vacation-hosting fails, especially considering there are 3,755 vegan and vegetarian options in Texas and 283 of those restaurants are in Dallas, where the RHOA crew vacationed. Cynthia picked zero.
Angry social media comments criticize why Pinky didn’t ask about the grease used for the fries, whether she’s wearing cruelty-free perfume and the material of her clothing. Meanwhile, none of the anti-Pinky critics have an issue with the rest of the cast loudly gushing over eating oysters, shrimp, chicken, beef, steak, lamb and any other meal that used to have eyes. Keep that same Food Police energy with everybody!