I'm not taking TOO much effort to hide who I am, but, mods, please do not unmask me as the hosts of the party I am about to discuss might turn up here.

So, the swmbo and I have been invited to a party. In the 1920s, she would not have been invited, because she is of Afrikan descent. In the 1940s, if she were male, she would not have been invited because a "friend of Dorothy" was only invited to the most avant-garde places.

This is different - a number involved with the party are strict vegetarians, and I have been told that it's very simple, no dead animals on the premises.

Well, I'm not trying to force others to eat meat or fish. And I've been to and attended a number of BBQs that provide a separate BBQ for vegetarians or observes of halal or kosher ritual. I've been to one BBQ where there was in attendance a chap so allergic to fish that the table cloth on which I prepared and served a fish dish (well away from the chap in question) had to be burned after use.

Does "No dead animals on the premises" strike anyone as a bit intolerant?