To be disappointed with a veggie only menu?

[Chewbecca]

We booked an event at our local wine shop ‘summer Mediterranean supper club’. £45 for 3 courses including paired wines. Menu tba.

Event is tomorrow and the menu has arrived today and it is 100% veggie. I do enjoy veggie food but can’t help but feel a bit ‘short changed’ and my committed meat eater DH is really unimpressed.

It is a fab venue with great owners that always put on a good evening.

AIBU to be disappointed?
Would you tell the venue you were a bit disappointed?
If you would, how would you say it, terribly nicely?

Thanks.

but arancini can have all sorts of stuffing, including meat, do they specify veg? we would have evenings where the only food is arancini in a variety of flavours and maybe salad or vegetables as sides, maybe it's something like that?

I don't suppose a casual mention of an environmental burden would be of any use here?

That is a particularly crap menu.
I wouldn't have ever booked anything without knowing in advance what was on the menu .
Hope you still have a good time though.

I think in years to come (and not that many years), this will be the norm. The health concerns around red meat and processed pork, welfare and contamination of cheap imported chicken, and climate impacts mean that meat at every meal will soon be viewed as unhealthy, unethical and totally unnecessary.

I wouldn’t bother to engage with Yabbers on this topic. Just sayin’.

I think for the price YANBU really.

Give them a ring and ask if there is a near option? If enough people comment they may see the error of their ways and put some meat on the menu.

My only guess is that because there is no choice they wanted to be inclusive vegetarians.

I love my veg but I wouldn’t be happy getting something I didn’t order.

Of course you eat vegetarian food - you've listed some!

Bacon roll - bread is vegetarian, you just add meat.
Chicken salad - again, salad is vegetarian.
Tuna sandwich - bread is vegetarian.

You also say you would eat margarita pizzas, cheese on toast and tomato soup, all of which are vegetarian.

Unless your diet is made of 100% meat and nothing else, you eat vegetarian foods!

I assume you'd check every pack of crisps to make sure the flavouring had animal extract in and avoid the (vast majority) of crisps that don't?

Not really a crisp eater.

The cheese in my fridge isn’t a vegetarian one.

I'd be disappointed. It's very basic and very cheap. Ice cream for dessert? And feta cheesecake sounds bloody awful.

They've definitely gone for the cheap options and I do think they should have flagged it was a vegetarian menu beforehand.

Bacon roll - bread is vegetarian, you just add meat.
Chicken salad - again, salad is vegetarian.
Tuna sandwich - bread is vegetarian.

Sure. When I buy a tuna sandwich the label says “suitable for vegetarians (except from the tuna)” 🙄

What a ridiculous comment. Would I eat just bread and just salad? No.

They are having a bubble.

I can imagine being disappointed by a specific menu but not be the fact that it's veggie per se. What's actually wrong with the dishes served? If you're quite a fussy eater they may well have been meat dishes you didn't fancy too.

Of course some vegetarians avoid food which is not actually vegetarian.

I just think it's very sad, and also bloody ridiculous that you refuse to eat so many foods just because vegetarians eat them.

Oh don’t be so ridiculous. Where did I say that? I don’t eat those foods because I don’t like or can’t tolerate those foods.

The original comment was “everyone can eat just vegetarian food” Well, actually, I can’t. Unless I expect someone to invite me to a meal and serve a bowl of shreddies and some bread, which is apparently highly likely given some of the comments here.

And just to add generally try and shame away all you like, I’m happy with my diet and have no intention of changing. Carry on if it makes you feel better, but it is actually just a waste of your time.

@ Yabbers if you're so fussy you can't eat any vegetarian food (which would make you exceptionally fussy) you shouldn't sign up for a meal unless you've seen the menu so you know it can cater for your very particular tastes.

The vast majority of people who claim they don't like any vegetarian food are just incredibly childish. There is no way the planet can support us all eating meat everyday so pretty soon those people will just have to grow up.

Meat-eaters can and do eat vegetarian food.

Very true, I ordered the mushroom risotto at our daughter's wedding, totally confused the staff as I also had the smoked salmon!

a lump of cold cheese for a main is just not on.

I'm vegetarian and would be very disappointed with that menu. Such a shame - they seem to be missing a real opportunity here.

Just hope they have some lovely sides to cut through all that stodge

I make amazing arancini- they don’t have cheese filling, though. Didn’t know that was a “thing”.

I'd eat it, I bloody love cheese. Maybe every other customer is veggie (apart from you and your pals) and so they've done a menu for the majority

I think they have gone for the cheese and wine theme too.

I don’t think the environment is going to be any better off if humans go entirely vegetarian. Land use would be vastly altered meaning trees and hedgerows are the first to go - hello massive growing rooms bye bye wildlife. And they would be direct competition for anything growing outside - you’d need massive culls of any creature that could damage crops, birds, mammals whatever.
We are all going to end up drinking/eating synthetic food ( aside from the super rich who can do gourmet real food).

Why are people saying it’s a cheese heavy menu? The main course has feta, obviously.......

Potentially a bit dairy heavy, perhaps, depending on the type of semi freddo we’re talking about.......