Re: Marmite Crisps - Slightly pregnant

Isn't it just as unremarkable, where you are, that a
colleague on a night out has the veggie option,

That depends. If it's just choosing a dish that's vegetarian-friendly
because that sounds the best that day of the things on the menu, it's
unremarkable. I do it myself, reasonably frequently. If it involves
mentioning (or, too often, complaining) that the veggie option is
"the only thing you can eat", it becomes noticeable. When choices of
where a group goes involve the question "Is there anything there Tom
can eat?" it can become a bit annoying. But mostly it's taken in
stride.

Umm, talk to me about it Evan, I've had 25 years of traipsing round
town centres to find the right sort of place to eat - not just a
particular cuisine but one you can trust, precisely based on the stuff
you've quoted below. So Indian is OK, Italian is, Chinese isn't, Thai
is borderline. To be fair the number of times I've seen on a Chinese
menu: 'Vegetarian Dishes: Pork with Vegetables: Duck with Vegetables:
Chicken with Vegetables' you can see her point. When we were in the
states we found Mexican was a good bet, but sadly Mexican restaurants
are rare in the UK.

A few years back I went off for a few days on a cycling trip in France
with a friend. It was a revelation; for the first time in years I could
go in a restaurant and have the various menus options, instead of
eating bloody crepes with cider or sitting in a pizza joint. I also
got to eat oysters for the first time in my life...


We
also had some weird stuff about vegetarians not eating food
touched by animals or people - I think that's a different group of
folks entirely.

But I've known more than a few vegetarians who had the same sort of
"contagion" notion that people who keep strictly kosher and have two
sets of dishes do. And it doesn't seem to be either uncommon or
specifically American.

Well yes, that's exactly how Mrs C approaches her food, and I think
it's no coincidence that she grew up in and out of the houses of
friends from observant Jewish families in North London. She often
talks about that thing of having two sets of utensils - not that we do
that, thankfully. Her last boyfriend before me was both Jewish (yes, I
know...) and a strict - and militant - veggie. One of the things she
also used to see as a safe veggie bet was Tivall and other kosher
vegetarian foodstuffs - I used to really like the veggie schnitzels.

For instance:

Another thing a vegetarian has to watch and often has to trust is
how they cook your food. Some restaurants advertise and sell so
called vegetarian food, yet use the same utensils that have just
been in contact with meat. Fried food could be cooked in the same
fat as say fish. It shouldn't happen if the product is actually
marked up "Vegetarian", but you are still going on a certain
amount of trust. It's often best to actually tell the restaurant
you are vegetarian and ask them if your food is cooked separately.


http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/discussion/vegetarian-labelling/421445/

Can anyone recommend good, CHEAP restaurants (counter-style is
fine) for a vegetarian inside the parks? This is for someone who
will eat eggs and dairy, but won't eat any other animal products,
including a veggie burger that was cooked on the same grill as a
hamburger.

....but I'd say that you're right about risking cross
contamination with a veggie burger. Salads can even be suspect if
the same utensils are used.

http://www.talkdisney.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23977

The vegetarian items at the food court, such as veggie burgers and
grilled cheese that must be grilled on demand, cannot be
considered vegetarian if grilled on the same surface where several
meat products have been grilled, using the same utensils for meat
and vegetarian products.

<url: http://media.www.dennews.com/media/storage/paper309/

news/2004/04/05/Opinions/Vegetarian.Menu.Misleading-651367.shtml>


To be honest, I think that's all absolutely fair enough, though. It
doesn't stike me as extreme; if you want to make sure you minimise the
chance of eating meat products accidentally, you're going to have to do
that stuff.

DC, on the way out of this thread
.

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