Holier than thou vegans...

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anonymous-user

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60 months

Saturday 13th August 2022
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So a news story popped up in my Google feed quoting the above. It's about a restaurant who take vegan food off their menu because of 'holier than thou' attitude.

vegans that I've come across all seem to share a similar entitlement and their attitude towards establishments who don't cater for their needs is appalling.

I imagine buying produce for vegans is vastly more expensive, more challenging to prepare and more difficult to leave the same satisfying taste as regular food, all for a tiny market.

So if I had a restaurant, is not want to cater for these either.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/12/restau...


anonymous-user

Original Poster:

60 months

Saturday 13th August 2022
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One for NP&E surely? Thank god.

Tyre Smoke

23,018 posts

267 months

Saturday 13th August 2022
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charltjr said:
One for NP&E surely? Thank god.
Indeed. Not a GG thread.

Dingu

4,225 posts

36 months

Saturday 13th August 2022
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I’ve always found vegetables to be more expensive than meat…

Op You don’t come across any better than the vegans you are complaining about.

FourWheelDrift

89,455 posts

290 months

Saturday 13th August 2022
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biggbn

24,715 posts

226 months

Saturday 13th August 2022
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Mr Spoon said:
So a news story popped up in my Google feed quoting the above. It's about a restaurant who take vegan food off their menu because of 'holier than thou' attitude.

vegans that I've come across all seem to share a similar entitlement and their attitude towards establishments who don't cater for their needs is appalling.

I imagine buying produce for vegans is vastly more expensive, more challenging to prepare and more difficult to leave the same satisfying taste as regular food, all for a tiny market.

So if I had a restaurant, is not want to cater for these either.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/12/restau...
Absolute bks...

anonymous-user

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60 months

Saturday 13th August 2022
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Dingu said:
I’ve always found vegetables to be more expensive than meat…

Op You don’t come across any better than the vegans you are complaining about.
Oh right. That's because I'm vegan

Olivergt

1,558 posts

87 months

Saturday 13th August 2022
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Do vegetarian restaurants offer a meat option?

gazza285

10,118 posts

214 months

Saturday 13th August 2022
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I'll just leave this here...


Pit Pony

9,129 posts

127 months

Saturday 13th August 2022
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Olivergt said:
Do vegetarian restaurants offer a meat option?
We...know that is a rhetorical question, but the answer is usually...
Er No. Why do you ask ?

sherman

13,743 posts

221 months

Saturday 13th August 2022
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As a restaurant server I have found the instagram Gluten Free customers (ceoliacs excepted) to be more problematic than the vegan/vegetarians

ZedLeg

12,278 posts

114 months

Sunday 14th August 2022
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This is just someone inventing a person to be mad at.

Like, most vegans don’t have high expectations for choice at a restaurant so it shouldn’t be too much to ask to get one dish.

As for vegetarian restaurants doing a meat dish. Why would they, it would be like the chicken maryland on a chinese menu.

nails1979

612 posts

147 months

Sunday 14th August 2022
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Haven't been to that one in a few years but it was always nice food and decent service.
Considering their area/plot on a busy seafront they could probably get away with half arsed servings and still make a decent take but I was pleasantly surprised the few times i have been.
Honest job adverts isn't a bad thing, if it's not for you then you don't apply, rather than a half dozen words that doesn't tell you what you'll be working, when you'll be working or how much you'll be working for so you have to go through the rigmarole just to find out.

sherman

13,743 posts

221 months

Sunday 14th August 2022
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ZedLeg said:
This is just someone inventing a person to be mad at.

Like, most vegans don’t have high expectations for choice at a restaurant so it shouldn’t be too much to ask to get one dish.

As for vegetarian restaurants doing a meat dish. Why would they, it would be like the chicken maryland on a chinese menu.
Same could be said to you.
Why would go go to a steak restaurant or a fish restaurant and expect a vegetarian dish on the menu when you know what it specialises in ?

Mobile Chicane

21,125 posts

218 months

Sunday 14th August 2022
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gazza285 said:
I'll just leave this here...

In the interests of balance:


Dingu

4,225 posts

36 months

Sunday 14th August 2022
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sherman said:
ZedLeg said:
This is just someone inventing a person to be mad at.

Like, most vegans don’t have high expectations for choice at a restaurant so it shouldn’t be too much to ask to get one dish.

As for vegetarian restaurants doing a meat dish. Why would they, it would be like the chicken maryland on a chinese menu.
Same could be said to you.
Why would go go to a steak restaurant or a fish restaurant and expect a vegetarian dish on the menu when you know what it specialises in ?
This is pistonheads at its absurd intolerant worst. Not sure why I’m surprised actually.

InitialDave

12,190 posts

125 months

Sunday 14th August 2022
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Dingu said:
This is pistonheads at its absurd intolerant worst. Not sure why I’m surprised actually.
Oh, this is nowhere close to PH worst, I'll at least give them that.

gazza285

10,118 posts

214 months

Sunday 14th August 2022
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Olivergt said:
Do vegetarian restaurants offer a meat option?
Why would they?

LunarOne

5,725 posts

143 months

Sunday 14th August 2022
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ZedLeg said:
As for vegetarian restaurants doing a meat dish. Why would they, it would be like the chicken maryland on a chinese menu.
I'm about as far from a veggie as it's possible to be. I love to eat meat and I make my own charcuterie, such as Spanish-style black pudding (morcilla), pork rillettes, hams, chashu pork, and slow cooked lamb is a specialty of mine. I'm also well-known amongst my friends for producing unlikely offal dishes including the use of tripe, intestines, kidneys, hearts, brains, testicles, pigs' ears and my favourite of all, sweetbreads, my recipe for which lives somewhere on PH in the food and drink section.

But I can completely see that having a few vegetarian options on a menu should not be much trouble for any restaurant. I have vegetarian friends and guess what, we like to eat out together. Why should vegetarians eat at places that only cater to vegetarians? It's not like vegetarian food is a cuisine. If we want to eat Chinese, or Italian, or Lebanese food for example, all those cuisines have a healthy tradition of both meat and vegetarian foods. I can see that if going somewhere like Gaucho Grill, you would expect that the menu is going to be pretty meat heavy, but they still have vegetarian options. How hard can it be?

Du1point8

21,667 posts

198 months

Sunday 14th August 2022
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gazza285 said:
Olivergt said:
Do vegetarian restaurants offer a meat option?
Why would they?
That's the point... don't go into a non-vegan restaurant and start demanding vegan dishes and kick-off when they don't have them.

If they cater to vegans, they will advertise it.