to think the vegetarian who was served and ate chicken by mistake in Nandos is overreacting?

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She asked for grilled halloumi cheese pitta and was served chicken. Which she ate half and didn't realise as she was talking to her friend.

She tried to make herself sick and had to sent home from work the next day as she was so upset and feels her body is not her own anymore.

How you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between cheese and chicken is a little beyond me. The cheese would be gooey and runny and chicken would have chewy - and they both have completely difference tastes??

It doesn't mention this in the article but the server always comes over and says - "chicken burger with medium sauce" etc so surely they probably said chicken pitta to her too??

But maybe iabu because she has never had meat before for religious reasons.

Amber - you may be right, my response may be OTT. But there are plenty of people out there who by implication think that coeliacs should not eat in most places. I think that restaurants have a duty to cater for people with dietary requirements. Medical ones are in my opinion (and yours) the most crucial, but religious/preference are also important, especially when they are a totally mainstream one like vegetarianism!

I suspect she was probably just after some compensation (cynical)

Silly woman!

I don't think restaurants have a duty to cater for people with dietry requirements. They are businesses, not government services, but, they are missing a trick as people who need a gf diet would give business to anywhere willing to make the effort to be gf.

The problem is, if you eat something containing gluten, you probably wont know until later when you are wrapped around the toilet bowl, so it really is a risky chance to take when CC is so easy. Also as shown with the nandos thing, human error is an issue too.

Someone needs to open a totally gf place. Because that is realistically the only way to 100% rule out cross contamination.

Yes, YABU. it's no different to a Muslim being served bacon by mistake or someone giving me macaroni cheese.

‘I was in shock and started crying in the restaurant. I cried all night and couldn’t sleep,’ she said.

‘I can feel it sitting there in my stomach. I feel like it’s not my body any more.’

She was still distressed the following day and was allowed to go home early from her job as placements officer at the University of Birmingham.

Well of course she's overreacting. She cried all night? Over chicken?
That's her lookout and completely disproportionate to what occurred. Drama queen.

'...I was a Nando’s fan but I will never go there again.’

How was she a Nandos fan? Fgs, it's a chicken restaurant that specialises in chicken! A true fan will have eaten the meat products aswell the vegetarian options. Fan my arse.

We all know that there are very few purely vegetarian restaurants.

However, there are plenty of restaurants which are not ALL about the meat, that surely it make a bit more sense to go to, if you're so hysterically vegetarian that you'd have this sort of reaction to eating meat.

Nandos is all about the chicken. Burger chains are all about the beef. Seafood restaurants are all about the fish. Etc.

But it is entirely possible to find a slew of restaurants that, yes, serve meat and fish, but that don't sell themselves as meat specialists. In fact, I'd say the vast bulk of restaurants fall into this category.

Nandos is a chicken restaurant. Flogging chicken is their main business.

If you're the sort of person who is so hysterically vegetarian that you have this sort of reaction to eating meat, then why oh why would you go into a chicken speciality restaurant in the first place?

I'm not saying that it's OK to inadvertently feed a vegetarian meat. It's patently not. But - once again - if you're so vehemently vegetarian that you go to the press about eating meat, then I cannot for the life of me understand why Nandos is somewhere you would ever even set foot.

As I say, there is no way that she has not eaten chicken by-products every other time she has been there. Clearly she is OK with that. Why is it now such a huge problem?

Remind me of the time I was served a vegetarian pizza with very obvious slices of ham on it. 'But ham is not meat' came the waiter's reply. he may have a point
I explained veggieness and he went and peeled off the ham and brought it back with a slam and probably a bit of spit so we walked off.
Have many similar tales. Can't quite believe this has made the papers though - even if it is the Daily Wail.

Should point out - it was in Spain.

But ham is not meat' came the waiter's reply. he may have a point

What is it then?

pumpkin, twas a little joke in reference to the amount of non-meat stuff that is generally added to processed ham. It was meat enough for me not to want to eat it though.

Poor girl. YABVU, and I don't think you understand the place of vegetarianism in a Hindu belief system.