Re: Marmite Crisps - Slightly pregnant

Django Cat wrote:
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.

If you're ever in Oxford, try "The Pink Giraffe" where they make all veggie versions of Chinese dishes, including vegetarian "meat". The veggie beef is my favourite and the veggie duck is an acceptable substitute for the real thing, although nothing like it. At least it gives me a chance to fiddle about with the pancakes like everyone else!
I have never encountered these dishes in any other Chinese restaurant - only versions of tofu and plates of frozen mixed veg.


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...

I also know that feeling. My first experience of a New York kosher Chinese restaurant was a revelation and to go to eat at a place where I can eat anything I choose off the menu is still a great delight on the rare occasions when it happens.

[..]


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.

Has that changed? Tivall products are still quite widely available - I see them in Holland & Barrett, for example.



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Laura
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