{"id":63870,"date":"2022-07-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/?p=63870"},"modified":"2025-10-15T11:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:10:08","slug":"12-things-lebanese-vegans-are-tired-of-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/63870\/12-things-lebanese-vegans-are-tired-of-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Things Lebanese Vegans Are Tired Of Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re a vegan in Lebanon, you have probably suffer way too much from unsolicited advice and snarky comments. We\u2019ve compiled a list of 12 things you&#8217;ve probably heard as a vegan in Lebanon, be sure to let us know which we missed!  <b>1. \u201cYa3neh ma btekol lahme? ABADAN? 7ATTA KEBBE?\u201d<\/b>  Yeah, that\u2019s the whole point!  <b>2. \u201cKif hek ya Teta\u2026bokra btemrado\u201d<\/b>  We\u2019re still eating your mjardra!  <b>3. \u201cMa betkheyal hale hek no way\u201d<\/b>  Okay, but who asked?  <b>4. \u201cAkid 3ayesh 3al hummus w el tabbouleh\u201d<\/b>  And many other delightful options!  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media4.giphy.com\/media\/yWTrzwWVS9x1zHPIwT\/giphy.gif\" width=\"70%\">  <b>5. \u201cYa3neh kif btonsa7\u201d<\/b>  <b>6. \u201cBas jareb hay el le2me. Wallah ma bsir shi\u201d<\/b>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media3.giphy.com\/media\/xT0BKrCsKse91wFt72\/200.gif\" width=\"70%\">  <b>7. \u201cDon\u2019t you miss el shawrma?\u201d<\/b>  <b>8. \u201cHa tekrahne l2no ana msh vegan? Tab, would you date hadan msh vegan?\u201d<\/b>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c.tenor.com\/y2SZMEgFMN8AAAAM\/eyeroll-robert-downey-jr.gif\" width=\"70%\">  <b>9. \u201cBas eno sara7tan el ensen nkhla2 la yekol lahme\u201d<\/b>  Humans eat plants too. Shu nsina?  <b>10. \u201cFhmna enak vegan\u201d<\/b>  <b>11. \u201cYi neylkon 3m twfro se3er el lahme\u201d<\/b>  Okay we\u2019re all suffering come on  <b>12. \u201cSo you basically eat grass?\u201d<\/b>  Do we have to go there?  1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re a vegan in Lebanon, you have probably suffer way too much from unsolicited advice and snarky comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":621253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[1571],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-63870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listomania","tag-vegans"],"authorship":[121],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>12 Things 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