Veggie restaurants

[willowman]

Has anyone ever gone into a vegetarian restaurant, said they were not vegetarians and asked for the meat alternative?

[flip-flop]

.............or gone to a dinner party at a veggies house and asked for meat as they don't eat vegetables.

Why is it acceptable for veggies to be a pain in the arse by not eating properly when invited to a dinner party, but not vice versa.

And why are some (not all) of them so bloody pious about being a veggie.

[flipflop104]

I can understand the dinner party thing cos I don't like vegetables, but why would you go into a veggie restaurant and ask for meat. That's like going to the Chinese and asking for Indian???

[Boo2]

*Yawn* Another round of veggie-bashing. Boring.

[heathfield]

Was once taken by a friend for lunch at 'Cranks' in London. I've never got over just how unhealthy all the other diners looked !!

[spinchimp]

Boring question.

[Chappers]

Yeah let us for once be the difficult ones who make a scene in restaurants because we are not catered for as much as everyone else! Let us announce to anyone with ears that we are meat eaters, we are special, we are different than you, we are the downtrodden and uncatered for!

[-=JR=-]

I would say that there are probably as many veggie restaurants that don't offer a meat or fish option as there are normal restaurants that don't offer a veggie option. So fair's fair.

How about, "Yes we have a meat option. It's a dirty old burger we'll just pull out of the freezer."

I eat meat by the way.

[WoWo]

I honestly can't think of a single resturant I have been into that doesn't have a veggie option, granted most of them are rubbish but the "fair's fair" argument doesn't wash with me ;)

In a rather bizzar spooky way "Meat is Murder" by the Smiths is playing on my iPod right now.

[flip-flop]

Well **** off and find a question that doesn't bore you you plank.

[TheMan]

sorry to hi-jack your thread willowman but I think the
-=JR=- looks terrific - wish I'd gone for that!!

Carnivore man ;-0

[TheMan]

sorry got it slighty wrong on the outer -------!!

[Backdrifter]

Unless you're a meat-eater who eats ONLY meat, i.e. meals consisting entirely of different bits of meat and nothing else, all the time, it won't be a big deal to go to a dinner party or veggie restaurant and not have meat for ONE meal, unless you're a whinging whiney pillock who insists on making it into a big deal.

A lot of non-meat-eaters will avoid meat for various kinds of ideological reasons, sometimes religious, sometimes health-related. Some of those reasons may make it objectionable for them to handle and prepare meat for others, whereas it's unlikely meat-eaters will have the same kinds of objections to preparing vegetables for non-meaties, beyond the "pain the arse" factor mentioned above.

It's one of those issues that needn't be an issue. It becomes one partly through some vegetarians, as has been said, being pious and preachy about it; but it has to be said it's also partly down to some easily-baited meat-eaters bristling a little too readily at any mention of vegetarianism, suggesting they're a tad over-sensitive about their eating habits, for some reason.