I make bacon-wrapped shrimp and pretend it's vegan when my vegetarian friends come to visit
Wow, seriously? Have you really done this in the past?
I do it all the time
I think that you should tell them the truth! It is not okay to pretend that it is vegetarian when it is really not. That is fake!
My vegetarian friends still eat my cooking and they didn't mind at all.
That's because they did not know, and faking that it is vegan could really harm them. What if they're allergic to shellfish and that's why they don't eat it? You should be more careful.