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AIBU to hate the veggie option?

430 replies

BabooshkaKate · 11/11/2016 10:57

It's always halumi.

Why? Why must it always be halumi?

How many different ways can you do halumi?

Why do restaurants never think outside the box?

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SpeakNoWords · 11/11/2016 21:48

Ah that carrot thread is hilarious!

Laythelawdown · 11/11/2016 22:07

I haven't read the whole thread but you've chosen to be veggie so suck it up. Yabu.

BlackeyedSusan · 11/11/2016 22:10

Test match special has been interesting, two of the commentators seem to be, a bit grouchy with each other... one was commenting on the other's disgust at only having veggie food to choose from and how he had apparently necer eaten vegetarian food before.. Grin

I think the probelm with the veggies hating, say mushrooms is that many restaurants only serve one option and if you do not like it you are stuffed, and you tend to get the same thing everytime you go and eat with friends. Imagine that whenever you go out you only get to eat a reheated chicken ready meal that is the same in every restaurant.

ExitPursuedBySpartacus · 11/11/2016 22:11

Wish you were my friend.

TaterTots · 11/11/2016 22:16

Some of this makes quite bemusing reading as so many ingredients are loved by some and loathed by others, but that's just personal preferences. Non veggie dishes are no different. Duck, venison, and black pudding are probably the meat equivalent of goat and blue cheeses

This is it in a nutshell. No one would battery and eyelid if meat eaters didn't like those foods - and most of the time it wouldn't even come up, as they'd choose one of the dozens of other dishes on offer.

I think the main thing you should think about for your pub/restaurant is choice. It doesn't matter if ten people on here have said they hate mushrooms; if they could choose one of two or three other options it wouldn't be an issue. However, I would personally avoid goat's cheese tarts or similar, as it suggests an imagination bypass.

New careful about attempting cuisine you don't make for meat eaters - eg if you don't do meat or seafood pasta, don't make veggie pasta your only option. It wouldn't reassure me that your chef was any good at Italian food.

Mushrooms are ubiquitous because people assume veggies are all on the verge of death from lack of protein. Peppers get chucked in everything to 'give it a bit of colour' (the irony being that most meat is brown and most fish grey...) Try underused vegetables - cooked beetroot is getting more popular, celeriac is an unusual alternative to butternut squash, and red cabbage is a tasty splash of colour.

Whatever you do, pay attention to your sides. I remember going to a well-regarded English restaurant years back with family and seeing the most amazing vegetable accompaniments coming out with everyone's meals. Then my lasagne arrived with a bit of limp salad. I despaired.

TaterTots · 11/11/2016 22:18

I haven't read the whole thread but you've chosen to be veggie so suck it up. Yabu.

I can see how reading might be a struggle for you.

foxtrotoscarfoxtrotfoxtrot · 11/11/2016 22:18

Finally, I've had a chance to run through everyone's suggestions, and you guys are great. Thank you. So many ideas, and all of them delicious. I can't wait to get some on the menu.

I think chef would enjoy a few meals out at some of the recommended restaurants to get some ideas, possibly a cordon vert course (so than you for those ideas), and then we'll get cracking.

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DanGleballs · 11/11/2016 22:27

My local independent restaurant. ..
Starters
Samosa's

Spinach & Chick Pea Dahl
£5.75
Goats Cheese

Toasted Goats Cheese, Apple & Blackberry Compote
£6

Main

Tagine

Mediterranean Vegetable Tagine, Feta Cheese, Crispy Onions & Chilli Oil

Yummy

FeelingSmurfy · 11/11/2016 22:40

My ideal would be a meal that didn't stand out as being different, so if everyone is eating a roast dinner then I would like a vegetarian roast dinner (nut loaf or quorn with it) if everyone else was eating pizza and pasta then i would want pizza or pasta.

My other ideal is places that have separate sections to the menu have something in most sections (obviously not steak section but things like pasta, burgers etc)

I hate going to places and everyone spending a while deciding what to get when I have found the solitary vegetarian option and am stuck with it, there are even things that could be vegetarian but aren't, it would save them money making them without bacon or whatever and I doubt they would see a drop in sales, but they stick bacon on it and remove another choice from us (I would ask if it can be done without but some places prepare stuff in the morning, or even buy frozen)

RufusTheSpartacusReindeer · 11/11/2016 22:49

I went to a christmas do and the starter was a lovely cheese and caramelized red onion tart

The main was a larger version of the same tart...with potatoes

AteRiri · 11/11/2016 23:03

Isn't haloumi a cheese?

EastMidsMummy · 11/11/2016 23:10

My ideal would be a meal that didn't stand out as being different, so if everyone is eating a roast dinner then I would like a vegetarian roast dinner (nut loaf or quorn with it) if everyone else was eating pizza and pasta then i would want pizza or pasta.

A real restaurant is not going to start fucking about with pretend food like Quorn.

PickledCauliflower · 11/11/2016 23:22

I've had the butternut squash soup as the only veggie starter - followed by butternut squash rissoto as the only main.

Just a bit of imagination is all I ask. We don't get charged less for the cheaper food (and vegetarian is cheaper). We often spend loads on booze in your restaurant, so give us some half decent food please :)

EastMidsMummy · 11/11/2016 23:35

My ideal would be a meal that didn't stand out as being different

Have the meat then.

YouMeanYouForgotCranberriesToo · 11/11/2016 23:37

Where are you going that has all the halloumi? I want all the halloumi! I love it!

sofatrainer · 11/11/2016 23:37

COUNTER
Filone bread
£1.5
Focaccia Pugliese , taralli biscuits, filone bread
£3.5
Bella di Cerignola olives
£2.5
Marinated grape-hyacinth bulb, artichokes, aubergine, stuffed pepper

Chinlo · 11/11/2016 23:38

Have the meat then

Don't you have anything better to do? You're behaving like an attention-starved child.

Chinlo · 11/11/2016 23:38

Where are you going that has all the halloumi? I want all the halloumi! I love it!

Nandos, basically.

SpeakNoWords · 11/11/2016 23:38

That's obviously not what was meant. It was a straightforward point about having a type of dish that fits in with whatever the other options are. I wonder why you're so belligerent about other people's choices?

Supermam · 11/11/2016 23:48

EastMM - people just want more choice. Being a veggie isn't exactly niche, these days and some religious groups don't eat meat!

Cocklodger · 11/11/2016 23:53

eastmids
Cocklodger - you don't want to be served 'shit' but you wouldn't mind 'Quorn'?? I've heard it all, now.

I prefer not to in general but TBF I'd take quorn over a badly seasoned stuffed mushroom any day.

Cocklodger · 11/11/2016 23:54

and while I do generally prefer other things, whats wrong with quorn?
:s

PickAChew · 12/11/2016 00:04

Where do quorn trees grow?

That's the problem, right there.

SpeakNoWords · 12/11/2016 00:08

Well it's a fungus so it wouldn't grow on trees. It grows in a vat. I guess it's a bit like yeast.

PickAChew · 12/11/2016 00:44

It's fungus apart from all the stuff mixed in to make it palatable.

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