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.

I'm not really surprised at the lack of empathy on here

I personally can't empathise because I've never been in that situation and never will be so I personally cannot imagine how I would feel.

BUT

there is sympathy on this thread. If anyone came on here and said they were a vegetarian had been served meat by accident and had been sick, I doubt you would get many people saying "get a grip".

But what is she achieving by contacting the media (it's in The Mirror as well). This is clearly a common mistake as posters have proven, which is why I can only sympathise so much.

In fairness to the woman the story has been put round by a news agency. she hasn't individually contacted the newspapers

I'm not vegetarian, and never have been, but I do feel for the poor woman though.

Nasty thing to happen.

Parmesan, fuzzywuzzy?

I think those that say she overreacted are rude and unkind.

So you don't think her being sent home the next day because she's so distressed and her selling her story to the papers is a tad overreacting?

ok....

Think i should have gone to papers about ds. They could have killed him

Ffs Akak, saying you have 'no time' for vegetarians is just bigoted and borderline racist with millions being veggie for religious and cultural reasons.

You ought to be ashamed to be so ignorant.

I think out of some morbid curiosity I would like to taste cooked human meat. If it tastes good I see no reason why it could not replace animal meat. Of course, it would be a delicacy because we wouldn't intensive farm humans would we, we'd never get away with it. Perhaps people would donate, at least we'd have their permission. Or maybe reap from those on death row.

Just a thought.

happened to me in McDonald's. I was a year into being veggie (thought I'd give it a go) , ordered this veggie burger thing , I rarely have mcdonalds and when I have its always wrong so I inspected it and they had given me a chicken legend instead. luckily I didn't eat it but I didnt lose the plot just gave it back and said be careful in the future someone might not be so nice next time

Well said Laurie

Parmesan, fuzzywuzzy?

Parmesan isn't Vegetarian, it contains animal products.

I am now wondering... what did she think might happen?

does she want someone to get fired?

I actually do understand it would be a nasty experience for her , but

now what though?

this 28 year thing? is that her party piece?

Randyrudolf - I really don't think I could eat human (am I being really gullible? Are you joking/trying to make us understand how the woman must have felt?) It might make me a hypocrite as I do eat white meat and fish but no, actual people is a gazillion steps too far for me.

keemanaan - no, no diabetes or physical reason why I couldn't have drunk the coke. I'm anorexic. Not really the same as vegetarianism but comparable in that they're both choices as oppose to physical intolerances I suppose.

Was the cheese vegetarian or did it contain rennett?

Take a dump love atomic

I do have sympathy when vegetarians inadvertently scoff meat, but yes this woman is taking the proverbial.

I've not read the article (refuse to click DM links since some shocking reporting a while back) - does she spin that tosh about "meat putrefying in your gut for weeeeeeks" at any point?

she's some model wannabe type so I suspect she has an appearance on This Morning and maybe Celebrity Big Brother in mind

'Parmesan, fuzzywuzzy?'

Animal rennet used to make the cheese. If he's a strict vegetarian, he'd stick to cheese made with an acceptable alternative.
Rudy, have you read Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest proposal'?
His satirical solution to famine in Ireland was to eat the young of the poor,

Bleugh at animal products in parmesan!

Manic - I'm deadly serious. I think if you can eat animals there is no reason why you couldn't eat human meat.

Could the staff not tell what they were dishing out?

Is the onus on her to have checked before she ate rather than believe what she was handed?

(Supposing that she was told it was halloumi)

Vegetarians aren't a race FFS! That's the funniest thing I've heard all day.

No rennet in halloumi.

A model wanna be? Good god, she looks at least twice her age in the photos.

I'm with you, Randy. If I ever have to eat meat, it's no holds-barred.
A nice plump, organic MN toddler could keep us going for a week.

fuzzywuzzy:- "I used to work with a Hindu guy who ate Parmesan as a garnish on his food by accident, he was really sick afterwards, honest to god physically sick because his body had never had to process meat he couldn't tolerate it."

I don't understand. Since Parmesan is not meat, I assumed you must be referring to the fact that it contains rennet. I just looked up 'halloumi' and apparently that contains rennet too, so was the 'halloumi' from Nando's a specifically vegetarian (i.e. non-animal rennet) version meaning that it was suitable for a Hindu or other vegetarian? Nando's website does not say that the halloumi is vegetarian (although I accept that the menu you get at the restaurant may give more info).

I'm puzzled that your Hindu friend could not tolerate the Paremsan because he couldn't process meat, if it is OK for Hindus to eat cheese, which it must be for this woman to have ordered it.

vegetarians always look old