Have you ever just had the equivalent of a 'fruit salad' as a meal because the caterers forgot to ask about dietery requirements?

[chomalungma]

Watching the Apprentice last night.

Ooops.

A fruit salad - on the bright side, she got a bottle of wine.
Has that happened to you?

Because vegan is the new 'fad'. Gluten intolerance will be dropped out now.

On a flight from Australia to America - they said they didn't get the memo! A lovely family behind me who were all veggie said they had ordered a meal for a family member who couldn't make the flight, the not very lovely staff at United Airline refused to give me the spare meal. 12 hour flight - no food!

A burger restaurant recently got pissy at our group for leaving after they said they were out of their two veggie options. Over half the party was veggie. Wtf did they want us to do?

In Paris in September, I ordered a vegetable casserole and got ...... a little casserole dish with boiled vegetables inside!

I'm a veggie.
At a wedding I was given a starter of ham and melon. When I pointed out that I didn't eat meat they took off the ham.
Yum. A 2 melon ball starter.

I didn't think I had anything... Then I remember chips and beans at a wedding!

They had one of those fancy burger vans. Chips and beans was the veggie option.

There was a free bar for the first few hours. Unsurprisingly there was a lot of very drunk guests.

DS (then age 9yo) is a fairly restrictive eater. I easily forget all about this . DS had 2 bread rolls & butter & chocolate for each of 2 x 11 hour flights. + maybe some water? Luckily he has a small appetite.

It’s a shocker reading some of these! DH and I are both veggie (but inevitably when we book hotels etc, this gets translated as I’m veggie but he isn’t because clearly real men eat steak...). Both of us veggies for more than 30 years and over that time the dietary adventures have included: being shouted at in a hotel in France, moved to a separate table and given pink cards to carry denoting our status; DH styling it out when confronted with green beans and rice as a main; me at a BBQ many years ago asking for salad and a baguette as nothing else for veggies...clearly pointed out I was veggie... and the guy serving dunked the baguette in hot meat fat before plonking it on a plate. He looked surprised when I said ‘so....just salad, then.’ I can laugh now.

I will say this, though, that the time I did a ten-hour flight (on a route I normally suffer jet lag on) on nothing but cabin crew fruit donations (!), I was hungry on landing, but felt a lot better and more alert and fresh than after eating and drinking more.

I believe fasting on longhaul flights is a fairly accepted way of combating jet lag, but it was the first time I’d actually (involuntarily) done it.

Sorry, stayathomegardener but I've been giggling all day over this:

"So sorry we've run out, the only main is Toad in the hole but we could take the Toads out?"

My experience in Spain some years ago a whole fish complete with head and tail and tuna sprinkled on absolutely everything! Vegetarian not eating fish just didn't compute, the response was always but it's not meat!

CraftyCorvid you were given pink cards to carry?? My God. I'm surprised they didn't sew yellow crosses onto your backs and drive you out of town.

Eoin. I think the maitre’d really wanted to!

crafty

We went to a thai restaurant in a large tourist group

We all sat down in our new friendship groups all in this big restaurant and then the waiter asked everyone to put their hands up if they were vegetarian

So we diligently put our hands up .....and they moved all the vegetarians to a separate table...away from everyone....like leper’s

It's the same in reverse
Do you have any vegan sandwich or snack?
Yes we have gluten free ..
Or crisps ..

At a work event in Paris, had someone had an egg and nut allergy, sign a disclaimer before allowed food. Salad for starter, larger version of the salad for main, fruit salad for pudding. No protein just veg in the salad. Everyone else tucked into soup followed by a roast dinner but they wouldn't serve it for fear of cross contamination.

Rufus your leper analogy is very apt! It does sometimes feel like people with allergies are shunned by society.

My DH is coeliac. We went to a wedding a couple of years ago, the invitation asked if we had any dietary requirements and we duly RSVP'd staying he is gluten free.
Day of the wedding arrived, each guest was served an individual pie. Caterers approached DH with a pie and said "are you the vegan?" to which he replied "no, I'm the coeliac", caterer looks horrified and disappears, then returns with a plate of boiled new potatoes for DH.

@w@ReginaGeorgeous honestly I am getting sick of being confused for a vegan. I'm not vegan! I can't eat bloody wheat! Bring me food I can digest!

It has! In fact once I was offered cheese. Cheese on its own.

@AllStarBySmashMouth

Me too! I am wheat intolerant and have been for 16 years.

Fed up of being offered the vegan option. Is that so I can feel morally balanced when I’m shitting myself driving home?

Dd has coeliac disease and is allergic to meat and dairy/lactose. Plus about 8 other allergies. Eating out just about Impossible. Even airlines on long haul flights after they’ve promised they will have something suitable don’t have anything.

Went to Waitrose today and the only option was chips......but after quizzing about the gluten free ness of the child they admitted they’d put them in the wrong fryer and were frying them with battered fish! Can’t trust anyone.

the gluten free ness of the child best typo ever, in the context of what followed!

I work in events and we recently had to guess the catering for a conference because dietarys couldn't be passed on due to GDPR

Ha ha, yes. The child is gluten free I guess in regards to diet. But it was the gluten free ness of the chips I quizzed them on! 😁

Once doing very rare weekend overtime. Boss had gone to McDonald's as a treat for us all. I ordered egg mcmuffin. Most others ordered some form of bacon and egg or sausage and egg. He came back with the order and no egg mcmuffin (there was a spare egg and sausage). When I asked he admitted to seeing a plain egg but assumed someone had forgotten to add bacon or sausage so he chose sausage.

Of course he suggest just taking the sausage out 🙄