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Devastated vegetarian

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SundaySimmons · 30/12/2013 16:19

A vegetarian who had never eaten meat before in her life was left outraged after she ate most of a chicken sandwich served to her by mistake at a restaurant.

Roshni Barot, 28, was served the meal at Nando's in the Bullring, Birmingham, after she had ordered a grilled halloumi cheese pitta.
She covered her dinner with peri peri sauce and salad and had eaten most of the meal before realising it was chicken.

Ms Barot, of Tividale, West Midlands, said: 'I wasn’t paying attention as I was talking with my friend.

'I never would have thought that I would need to double-check my food. I trusted them and they have let me down. I was in shock and started crying in the restaurant. I cried all night and couldn’t sleep.'

Ms Barot grew up in a Hindu household where none of the family eats meat.

She was also still distressed the next day and was allowed to go home early from her job as placements officer at the University of Birmingham.
The manager at the restaurant apologised and offered her vouchers for another meal, which she refused.

She said: 'They can never say or do anything to make this up to me. Nothing can compensate me for those 28 years.

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I am a vegetarian but always check what I am eating/served when I haven't prepared the dish myself.

Is it too much to ask that people take responsibility for themselves?

She is so dramatic and are the sort of person always looking to put the blame on someone else!

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MrsPresley · 30/12/2013 16:24

How did she not know she wasn't eating cheese?

I've never tasted halloumi so don't know what the texture or taste is like, is it similar to chicken?

SilverApples · 30/12/2013 16:28

Come and join us, we have photos and cannibalism and everything.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1951889-to-think-the-vegetarian-who-was-served-and-ate-chicken-by-mistake-in-Nandos-is-overreacting

MyNameIsKenAdams · 30/12/2013 16:31

Halloumi is very similar to chicken in texture and coated in lashings of peri peri I imagine the taste of either is negligible.

Basic service levels means a customer hould be served what they asked for.

claraschu · 30/12/2013 16:34

I think she has every right to be extremely upset.

TwerkingNineToFive · 30/12/2013 16:37

My mil gave me meat once after 20 years of being a vegetarian so I've learned my lesson and I always get dp to check food if I'm not sure (no apology by the way).

Mintyy · 30/12/2013 16:40

Oh I don't know what it is about you SundaySimmons but you just sound insufferably pleased with yourself all the time! Are you really as perfect as you make out?

I think, you (one) really should be able to rely on the waiting staff in a restaurant to give you the correct dish. I am not at all surprised she is so upset.

SundaySimmons · 30/12/2013 17:04

As a vegetarian I would not feel pleased at all at another vegetarian accidentally eating meat.

All vegetarians that I know or have met are like myself and double check what we are eating. Roast potatoes can be roasted in goose fat, desserts may contain gelatine etc etc

We are the ones that are stipulating and adhering to a special dietary need and therefore we must take responsibility for ensuring we are eating foodstuffs that are suitable for vegetarians.

If I am not sure, I don't eat it.

Halloumi tastes nothing like chicken even if covered in peri peri sauce!

If she had taken a bite and then seen something was amiss, then of course she would be upset, but she managed to eat the whole bloody thing!

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OneStepCloser · 30/12/2013 17:15

Tbf she said that she had piri piri sauce on it so it probably disguised the taste and as she has been a life long Vegetarian she wouldnt know what Chicken tasted like.

I must admit, as a Vegetarian I always check my food, its not uncommon to be served the wrong dish, its happened to me. I can understand her being distressed though.

tallulah · 30/12/2013 17:21

Does it need 2 threads?

buttercrumble · 30/12/2013 17:21

I think she's just moaning for attention and try to get compo , I mean fancy going to a bloody chicken restaurant when your veggie Hmm

Solo · 30/12/2013 17:25

Halloumi doesn't even have the texture of meat ime!
She does sound like she's overreacting, though it's understandable that she's upset.

Perhaps she really enjoyed the sandwich and is more upset about that than at being served it in the first place?

specialsubject · 30/12/2013 17:58

no religion sends you to hell if you eat something forbidden by mistake, if that is her concern.

she is entitled under food safety rules to get what she expects; she could be allergic to chicken, for instance.

but she badly needs the PC equivalent of a good slap, because this behaviour belongs in the playground. How will she cope if something bad happens to her?

SilverApples · 30/12/2013 18:06

'Halloumi doesn't even have the texture of meat ime!'

if you've never eaten meat, how would you know? I've forgotten what it tastes and feels like, it's been almost 40 years after all.

scottishmummy · 30/12/2013 18:10

What a disproportionate fuss,see she composed her self enough to alert dm though

HumphreyCobbler · 30/12/2013 18:11

I would be very pissed off in her shoes. I am not a vegetarian.

I don't understand the reference to 28 years wasted - surely vegetarianism is not accumulative?

perplexedpirate · 30/12/2013 18:13

Getting a bit fucked off with people saying vegetarians shouldn't go to Nando's.
It serves several vegetarian options, which are very nice.
But maybe we should just segregate ourselves entirely, so no-one need take any care what they serve. Hmm

SilverApples · 30/12/2013 18:15

'I don't understand the reference to 28 years wasted - surely vegetarianism is not accumulative?'

Depends if you see your body as a temple of purity or not. Now contaminated.

grimbletart · 30/12/2013 18:58

I was served Quorn once in a restaurant by mistake for another diner - I never knowingly touch mushrooms and there I was being served disgusting fungus in error. I felt nauseous when I realised what I had just eaten the foul stuff.

Maybe I should have gone off work sick or threatened to sue or even better alerted the Daily Fail.

I have vegetarians in my family (even a vegan) but none of them would be so utterly precious as that silly woman.

scottishmummy · 30/12/2013 19:02

Who has a dodgy meal,and in their despair manages to call daily mail
And sent home early,inconsolable

NiceTabard · 30/12/2013 19:13

I also think she has good reason to be upset.

scottishmummy · 30/12/2013 19:18

I'm wnot disputing upsets,that's justifiable.bid sad indignant face in dm,not usual response
It's not the normative response,contact press,await Press and photographer

Bunbaker · 30/12/2013 19:30

"Halloumi is very similar to chicken in texture"

Utter nonsense. They are nothing like each other in texture. Nando's were wrong to put chicken in the sandwich, but I'm afraid that I think the vegetarian has massively over-reacted.

I must admit that it wouldn't occur to me to eat in Nando's if I was vegetarian. I thought they only served chicken, plus sides.

MerylStrop · 30/12/2013 19:34

All she had to do was pay attention to what she was eating.

Mistakes happen, not negligently or maliciously.

I'm pretty appalled that she didn't even register the appearance, the texture or the taste of what she was eating after purported 28 years of vigilance.
If your body's a temple you don't generally get a Nandos and shovel it down

I say this after 30 years of vegetarianism with a stint of vegan ism thrown in.

coffeeinbed · 30/12/2013 19:35

Chicken is nothing like haloumi.
Haloumi is nothing like chicken.
I've happily eaten tons of both. Not in Nando's I must add.

How she could not realise she wasn't eating haloumi is frankly astonishing.

scottishmummy · 30/12/2013 19:36

I've eaten nandos,weans love it.halloumi is distinctly not like chicken in taste or texture