To think this is not a fucking lasagna?!?

[Cocklodger]

Ok, just got in from the worst meal ever!
I'm a vegetarian, went to the pub with meat eating friends.
Thought I'd be lumbered with just chips again, but to my surprise they advertise a vegetarian lasagna.
So, I ordered it. 20 mins later my "lasagna" comes out...
in a foil dish is nothing but vegetables in a tomato sauce.
Sliced courgette, pepper, egg plant, mushrooms with sweetcorn, peas and cubes of carrot mixed into what is allegedly a tomato/bolognese sauce. Bullshit. It tasted like watered down ketchup.
I enquired about the meal with the waitress who said no that's the right meal. I then asked "well, a lasagna should probably contain... lasagna sheets shouldn't it? it's a bit odd to call it a lasagna when I'm sure pasta hasn't even been waved at it let alone anything else?" She walked off and I ate it without further complaint,
But aibu to think that it's an abomination, not a fucking lasagna?

But yeah....veggie food options sometimes are fucking awful....I dont eat out much for a reason.....mushroom risotto again ffs! I quite agree LanaKanesLeftNippleTassle.

Or even worse, pasta and tomato sauce (which you can make at home for about 10p) on a set menu when the flesh eaters get steak or expensive fish .

Australia that explains it! I have had some weird "Italian " dishes in Australia.

It really doesn't (or shouldn't)!
There are a huge number of people of Italian descent in Australia; you can get excellent Italian food anywhere. (Except, apparently, where OP was eating!)

I've never been served lasagne without pasta layers in my life. I would have sent it back and refused to pay for it!

The sliced courgette would've been used to replace the pasta as that's a typical vegetarian substitute.

But pasta is vegetarian

The sliced courgette would've been used to replace the pasta as that's a typical vegetarian substitute.

Is there a face palm emoticon?

I feel for vegetarians, halal and kosher observers!

The sliced courgette would've been used to replace the pasta as that's a typical vegetarian substitute

You don't need a vegetarian substitute for pasta.

And without the pasta it isn't a lasagne. Were the carrots subbing for the cheese?

It was probably a low calorie version, in the same way that people try to claim that spiralised courgette is exactly like spaghetti but without the calories (no, no it's not)

Pasta is non-vegetarian? Wow, who knew?

Went to a vehr naice restaurant for lunch once - they had 1 veggie option for starter and one for main. They were the same thing, just a slightly bigger portion for the main. It consisted of (admittedly very tasty) potato and carrots. Cost the same as the meatatarians' duck and steak. Had to go and buy a sandwich on the way back to the office coz I was starving.

Pasta is suitable for vegetarians but not vegans (assuming it's made with eggs), so perhaps the restaurant was covering that base as well (with their inadequate soggy vegetable offering)?

typical vegetarian substitute

Typical where>>

God that's shit. And you can guess the peas, sweet corn and cubes of carrot were just stuff they usually use as sides on kiddies meals, bunged in to make it look a bit, I dunno, more? It's just so lazy!

Like pps I've gone to nice places that only have a single, usually cheap and minimum effort, veggie option. The amount of places that seem to think €16.99 is a reasonable price for a bowl of fucking tortellini I can buy fresh, free range filled pasta in my local supermarket for €2.99.

FFS the courgette replacing the pasta? You'll be suggesting carrot batons are a substitute for chips next.

Send it back. My mum makes the best veg lasagna. With sheets and white sauce. This sounds like shite

You'll be suggesting carrot batons are a substitute for chips next.

DEAR GOD you don't......you don't reckon they would do you?

Worst ever was a Chinese restaurant that charged me £27 for some bok choi and a pot of tea.

Apart from not even being a lasagna it's a horrible combination of vegetables - must have looked like vomit on a plate.

Sounds like the person who cooked it had just rounded up a selection of all the random vegetables they had to hand and slung it in a pot.

The waitress was bloody rude, just walking off when you, quite rightly, brought the poor quality of the food to her attention.

Wouldn't have eaten it and definitely wouldn't have paid for it.

OP, I think you were served the gluten free lasagne....

Sounds more like a really shit ratatouille to me

I think there was a recipe on the TV once (Hairy Bikers??) which was meant to be a low cal lasagne and used veg layers instead of pasta. Fine to eat no doubt but it's not bloody lasagne is it?

Maybe post a proper veggie lasagne recipe through their door?!

I grew up in a particularly meat-loving part of Germany, at a time when being vegetarian was neither common, nor fashionable (a friend's grandfather once asked me whether I had a medical condition that prevented me from eating meat - ,he could not understand why you would willingly give up this most heavenly of foods).

Eating out tended to be ...interesting. One of my favorites vegetarian 'meals' was a plate of horrendously overboiled, completely unseasoned vegetables that arrived cold. I think it was sold as a garden medley or something similar.

Another was a plate of spaghetti that was both over- and undercooked (depending on which part of the plate you attempted to eat), with tinned tomatoes poured over them (again, no attempt at seasoning was made).

Living in London in 2017 does make it much, much more pleasant to ve a veggie I must say

I've had lasagne in Rome that was pasta sheets with a lovely tomato and vegetable sauce, no meat. I was veggie at the time and asked "senza carne" about all meals.

I was once served in an expensive restaurant abroad, a lasagna made with crepes in place of the lasagna sheets It tasted ok but the texture was all off!

See lifeisntallhaha I would think that was supposed to be a veggie moussaka.

Lots of restaurants are trying to use the vegan excuse for only making one meat free option. This would be fine if there was only one flesh containing option, and not even a choice between meat or fish. No restaurant would only offer one type of meat on the menu as they wouldn't get any customers, yet veggies or vegans are all supposed to be happy with either a shit veg "bake" or plain pasta with red sauce.

That's insane. And inexcusable. Even back in the 80s when I became vegetarian quite a few pubs were capable of serving a vegetarian lasagna. It wasn't usually very nice but it was recognisably lasagna, in that it had sheets of pasta, a tomato-based sauce and a cheese sauce, served in layers. It's really not a difficult concept.