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AIBU that a veggie burger shouldn't be white with a bright green inner

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Oliversmumsarmy · 18/07/2016 11:36

Just that really
Visited a local largish chain pub/restaurant for Sunday lunch and ordered the veggie burger.

It tasted even worse.

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acasualobserver · 18/07/2016 11:38

I think I would like that colour scheme.

SeparatedByMotorways · 18/07/2016 11:39

Was it one of those horrific ones made of mashed potatoes and frozen veg chunks? Those things are the absolute worst, and are in no way whatsoever a 'burger'.

BreconBeBuggered · 18/07/2016 11:50

What was it meant to be made of? I like bright green things. Even better if they come with chips.

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Oliversmumsarmy · 18/07/2016 14:22

I think it was a hard flour crust. It was tasteless and the inner was a patty made of squished peas, spinach and I think endamame. It had a strange taste a bit like cabbage on the turn.

Don't get me started on the chips. How can someone mess up oven chips. They weren't exactly hard but they did need a serious chew to grind down the outer bits

I to like green foods but this was truly awful.

Mashed potato and frozen veg chunks would have been preferable. I think someone was trying to be clever and inventive.

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SteviebunsBottrittrundle · 18/07/2016 14:26

Sounds rancid... But I don't know, I've had so many different kinds of veggie burger now. I don't think there is a "should" with them anymore. It's not like food which you can eat in its natural state. They're pretty unnatural looking whatever they're made of IMHO.

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Oliversmumsarmy · 18/07/2016 14:39

This is the latest in a long line of restaurants we have tried. Dh was working away a lot and we used to go out for Sunday lunch but had given up trying to find a good restaurant after a year of trying we are seriously thinking about giving up.

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mrgrouper · 18/07/2016 14:41

It sounds like it was not cooked properly and still a bit raw.

BreconBeBuggered · 18/07/2016 14:47

Cabbage on the turn. Delicious.

Some places have an odd idea about vegetarian food. We once had a veggie chilli full of carrots that were going off. I didn't know carrots were capable of being rancid until that moment.

JennyBunn · 18/07/2016 14:53

I had Quorn lasagna in a supposedly excellent restaurant. It had sweetcorn and green beans in it and absolutely NO seasoning. Utterly vile.

rosiecam · 18/07/2016 15:01

Anything described as a "burger" YANBU to expect it to be the protein part of your meal and therefore not to be mostly potato and green veg.

EastMidsMummy · 18/07/2016 15:05

I had Quorn lasagna in a supposedly excellent restaurant.

Does not compute.

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Oliversmumsarmy · 18/07/2016 15:37

Are there any excellent restaurants out there?
We have been to ones that take so long to serve your starter another waiter comes to give you the dessert menu. That one meal took 4.5 hours to get through. One that was recommended and had rave reviews that served 5 pieces of ravioli for £9.50, or the one where the kids menu said pasta and tomato sauce £4.99 and was eaten in one spoonful. The one that when we asked for vinegar for the chips brought it out on a saucer. Then the oil for the salad was cooking oil in a vinegar shaker. I could go on. This was just the latest in a long line of s**t food and bad service.

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Notso · 18/07/2016 15:56

Most chain pubs are pretty crap tbh. My in-laws love them because they think 2-4-1, 2 for £10, or meal and a pint for £6 is good value but they would save more money buying a ready meal from the supermarket because that's about the standard they are getting.

MarklahMarklah · 18/07/2016 16:00

Where are you based Olivers?

I was at a local RHS garden yesterday and they did a veggie option on the BBQ; quinoa & chickpea burger with tomato salsa and a huge wodge of mixed salad (you could help yourself from 6 different combos). The thing you were given sounds horrendous.

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Oliversmumsarmy · 18/07/2016 16:34

This was not a 2 4 1 type of pub it was quite expensive. I get where you are coming from Marklah but give the same business a roof over their heads and staff and we turn up and the huge wpdge of salad will be reduced to a lettuce leaf, a quarter of a tomato and 2 thin slice of cucumber which was what I was told was the mixed salad for £3.

I don't know if it us. We get told of amazing places which seem to go to sh*t when we arrive.

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MarklahMarklah · 18/07/2016 17:21

Chef & Brewer pubs do fake fish & chips (with halloumi)
Tas restaurant chain in London do loads of veggie stuff

It does seem to depend on the chain that you go to. Giraffe & Zizzi both do some good veggie options as do Wagamama.

StartledByHisFurryShorts · 18/07/2016 17:35

I was given a veggie burger with a rasher of bacon in it a few weeks ago. That was a surprise.

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Oliversmumsarmy · 19/07/2016 13:42

C&B was the one that had the £4.99 kids meal that was eaten in 1 spoonful. Myself and dc do go to Zizzis and Girafe occasionally but dh is a meat eater and wants to go where he can get a good roast beef Sunday lunch. Trying to combine 3 veggies and a meat eater seems to be a tall order.

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Oliversmumsarmy · 19/07/2016 13:47

There is a very upmarket think 5* hotel in a certain university city that would serve a chicken salad when I ordered the vegetarian option during a works do.

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MarklahMarklah · 20/07/2016 21:43

I have a feeling that the Toby Carvery chain now do a veggie option. Not been there for a while though.

MarklahMarklah · 20/07/2016 21:44

Not sure why anyone would think chicken (or bacon) was vegetarian though... having said that, years ago I had a German friend who I visited. She knew I was veggie, but when we got to her flat she offered me ham pizza, because she thought I'd eat that. Not sure I understand the logic as her English was impeccable.

Nanunanu · 20/07/2016 21:47

I love the veggie burgers that are potato and veggies as a patty.

I love halloumi

I hate the Linda McCartney type of fake meat veggie burgers. I just hate the chemical taste

Your white and green mush sounds rank!

gaggiagirl · 20/07/2016 22:20

I know two people who are (well, claim to be) vegetarians but will eat chicken. So for them the vegetarian option of chicken salad would be great!

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Oliversmumsarmy · 22/07/2016 00:53

We find now that a lot of places just don't offer vegetarian, especially the smaller restaurants.

I am off to Devon for 3 one night stays over the coming weeks. I will probably take a tub of hummus and a packet of crisps for the room. Last time I was down there I was asked what a vegetarian was

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nocoolnamesleft · 22/07/2016 02:35

Whereabouts in Devon? Totnes always used to have a reputation for vegetarian/vegan eating places, compared to the rest of the county.