Is a Vegetarian/Vegan menu SO hard for restaurants?
With Thanksgiving coming up, I've had food on my mind(can't wait for my Mama's Banana Pudding *yum*) and an old pet peeve of mine came back. Like I said in my introduction, I'm a vegetarian(not a vegan. I'll never be that hardcore) and I know I live in Meat-Loving Mississippi, but eating out shouldn't be such a pain in the ass!
Not just the local places here, but the national ones. I like to want to have a real lunch break when I'm at school or at the mall. Not having to rely on my protein bars(which are expensive) to get me through the day. Sometimes, you just need a meal. When there's a special occasion with my family/friends and we decide to go out to eat, I do not want to have worry if I will get to enjoy my meal like everyone else. Not wanting to scream at every menu I see that doesn't have anything vegetarian/vegan and having to go against my principle to avoid starving. Honestly! I'm not a business person at all and even I know that having a vegetarian/vegan option will get you more money. It doesn't even have to be a whole section. Just the option of something of something like a Veggie Burger will make me happy. Is it that freaking hard? I know the reputation/stigma that gets put on vegetarians and vegans, but I figured restaurant owners wouldn't be stupid enough to pass up the chance of getting more business. Come on, non organic grocery stores know not to leave us out. |
So once a restaurant has been chosen by whomever is organising the trip, call the restaurant to ask what, if any vegetarian options they have, or look at their website/online menu if they have one to check.
If they don't, ask them if they could please make one for you as it's a very special occasion for the family and you would love to use their restaurant, and not have to change to another because they can't provide a vegetarian option ect ect *lie through your fucking teeth * |
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It's also not fair for you, being in the extreme minority of a group, especially when it is a personal choice, to walk into a restaurant demanding accommodation. |
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You can't expect restaurants to cater to a demographic that gives them less than a percentage of their annual income. Who the fuck are you? If you're looking for a restaurant with guaranteed veggie options, go to a vegetarian restaurant or bring something yourself.
I can understand if your rant is only that you dislike the fact that vegetarianism isn't as convenient for you when eating out, but don't blame the restaurants. They make what people want to eat. The large majority of people eat meat. ALSO. I find it funny that you are so anxious for vegetarian options at your local restaurants when you obviously have no qualms about eating meat so that you don't "starve" when there's nothing appropriate on the menu. Obviously your values and morals pertaining to vegetarianism aren't that strong anyways. Either that or you're a massive bitch. Boohoo, I can't eat at this restaurant, I shall die if I don't have something. GIMME THE MEAT . I am a vegan and I can always find something on any menu to eat. There has only been ONE exception to that rule when I went to a mexican restaurant that dipped everything in lard, including the chips-and added it to the guacamole. Stop complaining, learn to bring snacks, and make use of your menu. Either that or call ahead. |
It might be late, yet I actually make recipes that are easily converted to vegetarian meals. Enough to make a whole dinner for the holidays. The site has tips on converting recipes to be meat free. One tip is the use of vegetable broth. It adds flavor. Margine, is an obvious tip.
http://naomieshomerecipes.blogspot.c...exitarian.html |
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This site has a lot of info about big chains: http://www.veganeatingout.com/ And Happy Cow has a lot of vegetarian and vegetarian friendly restaurants on its database: http://www.happycow.net/north_america/ Some things really should have vegetarian options, like dining halls on campuses, and then you have options like getting students to petition, but when you're going out to lunch you do have options. |
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*lets out a long, heavy sigh* I'm trying so hard to stay here. Number One: I don't expect restaurants to cater to me. I know damn well the meat eating customers are the majority and seem to be staying that way for a long time and that vegetarian meals are expensive. I just would like(not demanding to you and others who seem to think that) that there be at least one vegetarian/vegan option since vegetarianism/veganism is growing. Number Two: Like I've mentionend, I talk a little about where I stand as a vegetarian in my introduction post. Since you obviously didn't read it like many haven't(like it would kill them before they post since I've only joined recently), I made it pretty clear that I'm a vegetarian for my health. Not because I'm an animal lover. I'm also a realist who can and will choose survival over pride. If that makes me a poser in your eyes then that's your own damn problem. Number Three: If I wanted this to be a serious discussion then I would have put in the General section and with a completely different tone. I posted this for myself. To vent, rant, whine etc. whatever the hell you want to call it. I didn't expect for anyone to reply, but if they wanted to that's fine. What's not fine is how, in the Whining section, when I decide to let out a little frustration that I know damn well won't be fixed anytime soon; I have people like you who feel the need to jump down my throat because I dare to have an opinion you don't agree with. Disagree, I don't mind at all, but to talk down to me. I don't play that. *Takes a deep breath* I don't like conflict, I try to avoid it, and keep the peace as much as I can; but I know I can't always do that and I'm not a pushover either. I don't like having to show the side of me that can and will be the bitch that you may think I am, but you and a few others are really pushing it. That's "who the fuck I am?". |
... Man, you're annoying.
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I think Otis Driftwood has something to say....You're message Otis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMIvw...8F25E&index=46 |
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This is a perfectly valid rant, and vegetarianism is a lifestyle that is growing quite fast. Frankly it doesn't make sense that restaurants don't have more vegetarian options and it really does not make sense that people are bitching specifically at you.
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The rant iitself is perfectly fair. It's the pomposity and the whole holier than though act while taking shit way too seriously that get my goat.
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Maybe it's because some vegetarians are annoying little shits like you are and they don't want that sort of clientèle. Stop ruining the reputation of nice vegetarians. Bellend.
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Have you tried going to Asian restaurants? Perhaps an Indian restaurant... it has been my experience that if one wants vegetarian dishes.. those are the kinds of places to hit up... cultural restaurants where vegetarianism is more abundant.
It makes more sense to me to find those sorts of places than to go to a rib joint and wonder why they don't have vegetarian dishes. |
Wait, so you mostly eat vegetables, but you'll eat meat if there's nothing else there?
That's not being a vegetarian, dude. |
Vegans fucking suck, that's why nobody caters for them.
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Fuck you. Eat meat, twat. We're at the top of the food chain for a damn reason, I didn't go through millions of years of evolution to eat spinach.
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Spinach is good, however, it is the adaptation on the part of our ancestors eating meat that allowed for the mutation that caused large, hungry brains to evolve, and flourish, instead of dying out like 99% of species before us.
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Of course Gnet makes an excellent case for surviving Neanderthals being among us. Zing! |
Ha! Like any self respecting Neanderthal would be caught dead on gnet!!!
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I was just pointing out that she's getting pretty pissed about places not serving vegetarian food, but since she'll just eat whatever is there (which she said herself), including meat, she's not actually a vegetarian, so why get pissed? |
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