A U.K.-based survey was released this earlier this week, and it found that over a third of vegetarians eat meat when they’re drunk.
Even better, a third of that third admitted to eating meat every time they were drunk on a night out.
Surveying 1,789 U.K. vegetarians, a research team from the leading U.K. money saving site Voucher Codes Pro asked participants the simple question, “When drunk, do you ever eat meat?”
37 percent of the respondents admitted to eating meat while drunk. Presented with a set of answers to the question of how often, they were then asked to select the response that best applied to them. Of the 37 percent of vegetarians who admitted to consuming meat when consuming alcohol, 34 percent did so “every time [they were] drunk on a night out”, 26 percent did so “fairly often”, 18 percent ate meat when drinking “occasionally”, and 22 percent “rarely” succumbed to their drunk cravings.
Occasionally-meat-eating vegetarians spend, on average, £4.80 (or $7.36 USD) on meat on a drunk night out, with 39 percent favoring kebab meat, and slightly fewer preferring burgers, bacon, and fried chicken—the things that would probably be at the top of the list if this survey was conducted in the United States.
And of course, most don’t tell anyone when they’ve stumbled. While the study doesn’t survey how many vegetarians regret eating meat on a drunken night out, 69 percent of them don’t tell anyone they did so. Of course, this could be out of fear of judgment or a desire to maintain an identity. For the other 31 percent, which may also make up the 34 percent of respondents who eat meat every time they drink, it could just be a part of their routine, and perhaps allowing themselves to cheat under specific circumstances (being tipsy) keeps them grounded the rest of the time.
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