Vegetarians

[FerretInYourTrews]

My husband is a chef and tonight is doing a seven course meal which he has been planning for a good couple of months. He has made sure that there is a vegetarian choice but has been informed today that one of the vegetarians going doesn't eat vegetables or quorn.
What the hell is that about? AIBU to be think this is totally ridiculous and to feel really sorry for dh?

Riven you won't have a clue who I am as I'm a newbie who's only just starting posting but I am SO glad to see you back here. You are legendary in this place, and have educated so many of us on so many issues. Thank you.

Quite a few people have allergies to quorn, it being fungus based. Also not sure all quorn products use free range eggs.

Quorn is vile - just have to add to the group voice

fair point re quorn although i am puzzled why it would be included in a posh menu; my neighbour eats a lot of it since she started her Slimming World diet but it has no place outside the home IMO. i would bake a camembert and serve with crudites

Are they a vegan?

As a vegetarian, can I just say that I'm impressed that a chef is doing a vegi option. Many chefs seem to be of the Gordon Ramsey school of thinking.

easy. a boiled egg.

Glass of chilled tap water

cardboard crisps

shredded paper soup

playdough pie

grilled bubble wrap

plastic bag souffle

After Eight Mint (wrapper only)

Your poor husband! This vegetarian gives him full permission to serve the awkward customer an apple and a glass of water!

I used to date a very talented chef who cooked with the same ease as breathing so I could never understand why he would roll his eyes and mutter, "Fucking vegetarians, there's always one!" when he received an order from one.

I think your OP has enlightened me!

tomato

He is going to love this thread! He's an army chef so always does veggi options and if I do say so myself he is very good. He'll be finished at about midnight so will post what he did tomorrow. Hopefully there was no goats cheese tartlet as it doesn't seem very popular. The person wasn't a vegan

I'm a fishocrite, & I'd be surprised to be offered Quorn by a chef anyway, tbh.

Don't particularly dislike it, & we probably eat too much of it as dh (veggie) & the dc (mostly pescetarian) would cheerfully eat it at every meal, but it's a convenience food, not an ingredient.

I have a similarly awkward veggie friend who won't eat anything green. I've got one recipe for roasted red/yellow peppers with feta, tomatoes & olives which she'll eat.

Oh god help that guest! My aforementioned ex-boyfriend was an army chef too... I can imagine that your DH will be doing the same rolling eyes, "fucking vegetarians, there's always one!" routine!

Lol Vallhala; chefs are normally 'difficult' but am sure army chefs are even worse.He actually took it really well as more and more people are veggies now he has more difficulties with vegans (normally) because he can't use cream etc. He wouldn't normally use quorn but thought maybe if someone didn't like vegs they may like that, surely they have to eat something.

I am a meat eater but cannot stand meat pizzas.

S a veggie pizza would go down well. Stuffed peppers? Some miso soup for starters, amd a glass of water for dessert??

Good to see you back Riven.

YANBU

I don't think the chef is difficult! He is dealing with a guest who isn't a vegetarian but just has freaky eating patterns.
I am surprised that people have pandered to this person for so long-they shuld let him organise his own food everywhere. I would bet you could list on two hands the food he actually eats. If he doesn't eat vegetables, I would bet he only eats potatoes as chips and that the suggested mushroom stroganoff is off because he doesn't eat rice or mushrooms!
I know an adult who eats only pizza, and one particular pizza at that, but at least he says in advance and he doesn't spout rubbish about being a vegetarian who doesn't eat vegetables!

What horrible manners! I am sure the meal he had in mind had something in it they could have eaten. Honestly!

I'm a vegetarian, I do like quorn (but would be surprised to be offered it in a restaurant) but actually dislike most vegetables. HOWEVER, I am fully aware that that is my personal thing and I wouldn't have the right to impose that on people. For instance, if I was eating round someone's house, I'd tell them I was veggie but would never (like most people) start listing things I merely didn't like. If I was served peppers, for instance (revolting things, and in every veggie dish ever created it seems), I'd eat them, unless the person knew I didn't like them and was happy for me to pick them out.

I don't think I've ever failed to find something I like in a menu. And I do love goat's cheese tartlet :-D