Vegetarians

[ctdctd]

Anyone here vegetarian?

[DimPrawn]

I only eat vegetarian animals.

Does that count?

[norrahe]

I see what you mean, I seem to encounter the militant veggie or even worse the vegan.
I love pointing out to those people that they really shouldn't be drinking wine or beer if they are that serious about vegetarianism.

Having worked in the catering industry chefs don't take kindly to vegetarians or those with "look at me allergies" aka i'm not really allergic but i like to make a fuss anyway.

My worst dinner party the guest list consisted of one lactose intolerant, one gluten intolerant, one with egg allergies, one with fish allergies and a vegan.
Funnily enough I had to cancel

[norrahe]

Vegetarianism: Can in some extreme cases cause genocide

Or have you ever thought about it from the other side

[Scary]

My worst dinner party the guest list consisted of one lactose intolerant, one gluten intolerant, one with egg allergies, one with fish allergies and a vegan.
Funnily enough I had to cancel

Well the vegan includes the milk eggs and fish things so it's like cooking for a vegan and a gluten intolerant (coeliac?).

[hyperD]

I'm not a vegetarian but I don't eat meat morning, noon and night. I tend to eat meat ocasionally but make sure it's fairly tasty meat from my local butchers.

And things like pork belly are very nice, so you don't have to fork out dosh on fillet steak the whole time. And I also like my steak raw, like tartare.

The problem is, and that's not saying any of the esteemed ladies and gentlemen here are, I too have met too many vegetarians that seem to use their "ism" as an excuse to make a great big fuss about themselves and then to use it as a platform to preach all sorts of rubbish all evening about the environment in order to make us feel guilty as we're tucking into some nicely seared chicken while watching them lap up a platefull of tasteless algae with a face that looks like a dog chewing a wasp.

I'm going to start going to dinner parties stating quite loudly I'm a carnivore and that if I see single vegetable on my plate I will unleash the full forces of hell on my guests and roar at how beastly these sagging, green instruments of the gods of diarrhea are.

Yeah, and for ages I thought vegans were Vulcans because they always looked so green, thin and unhealthy.

[norrahe]

Well the vegan includes the milk eggs and fish things so it's like cooking for a vegan and a gluten intolerant (coeliac?).

This was just an annoying vegan who liked to bang their drum about being vegan and how awful we were for eating meat.
No problem that it is almost the same as the lactose and fish things.
She also didn't really like veg either if I remember.

[PRC1964]

I used to work with a chap who claimed to have a medical condition that made him morbidly afraid of vegetables. In restaurants he'd have to insist that no veg was put on his plate or he couldn't eat.

Oddly, he didn't classify chips as vegetables, but a baked potato did count

[wurzel]

If you're ever in Rome you have to go here for a veggie gourmet treat.

This is an excellent vegetarian cook book, I've promised to take the wife to the restaurant one day.

Looks fab. I have to say, when you're off the meat, Italian food is about the best in terms of offering you a full range of tasty options. I've always enjoyed Thai too but th non meat options always seem to contain tofu which, IMHO, is just like eating fried polystyrene.

[wurzel]

I see what you mean, I seem to encounter the militant veggie or even worse the vegan.
I love pointing out to those people that they really shouldn't be drinking wine or beer if they are that serious about vegetarianism.

Having worked in the catering industry chefs don't take kindly to vegetarians or those with "look at me allergies" aka i'm not really allergic but i like to make a fuss anyway.

My worst dinner party the guest list consisted of one lactose intolerant, one gluten intolerant, one with egg allergies, one with fish allergies and a vegan.
Funnily enough I had to cancel

That should have been easy. You didn't even have a single fructarian (I term a learnt the other night at said supper, though she described herself as a fruitarian!)