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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 12:36 am
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 1:52 am
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D: *hugs* You can only try your best, but whenever you do go out to eat, ask questions like you wouldn't believe. smile Ask as much as you feel you need to know before ordering(and afterwards, tip generously). If you find a reasturaunt you like/trust, stick with it. The local coffeeshop owner knows I'm a vegan, and when I didn't realize that the banana smoothie had milk in it, he noted he'd switch it for soymilk. If you go to a place fairly often, the owner/employees will remember you, and treat you super amazingly because you bring in so muc money. sweatdrop (i go twice a week cuz i need dinner before classes after work, lol)
But yeah, if you use happycow, note to the waiter/waitress that you found them via happy cow and other veg*ns seemed to like the place, (still ask questions).
*hugs* This kind of thing happens to everybody. Back when i was a vegetarian(before veganism) I ordered an innocent sounding mushroom soup, which stated nothing but veggies. The broth looked like beef broth, and I worriedly ate it because I didn't want to upset my "great-aunt". Things like that happen, and even if you are too cowardly to raisse your voice, the best you can do is simply not go there again. smile
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 10:34 am
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 5:32 pm
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 12:45 pm
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I hear you. Even as a vegetarian, when I order what someone tells me is "vegetarian", I always wonder about it. I ordered something that was considered a veggie item, but when I got it, I started noticing pink textured pieces on my plate. When I began to investigate, segregating the pink from the plate, my family started asking questions. "Hey, it's vegetarian, what are you doing?" I told them that I didn't think the order was right. They thought I was being "silly" about it, and that I should eat it. I offered it to my family, who eat meat, and decide if it was the suspected chicken that I thought it was. They refused. I was just being "avoiding" or something.
I asked the waitress. She said that it was chicken. !!!
"Oh, doesn't vegetarians just not eat Beef?" That's what they thought a vegetarian was.
...Wonderful, just wonderful. Now, I order vegan food mostly when I go out.
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Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 4:08 pm
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Nadira I hear you. Even as a vegetarian, when I order what someone tells me is "vegetarian", I always wonder about it. I ordered something that was considered a veggie item, but when I got it, I started noticing pink textured pieces on my plate. When I began to investigate, segregating the pink from the plate, my family started asking questions. "Hey, it's vegetarian, what are you doing?" I told them that I didn't think the order was right. They thought I was being "silly" about it, and that I should eat it. I offered it to my family, who eat meat, and decide if it was the suspected chicken that I thought it was. They refused. I was just being "avoiding" or something. I asked the waitress. She said that it was chicken. !!! "Oh, doesn't vegetarians just not eat Beef?" That's what they thought a vegetarian was. ...Wonderful, just wonderful. Now, I order vegan food mostly when I go out.
Ugh... that sucks. I hate how people think you're just being silly when that happens. It feels like they don't respect our morals (or whatever reasons for not eating meat we may have). sad At Asian resturaunts they usually don't consider fish to be meat, so I always asked them if it has fish or meat... but even then a lot of times they don't understand. I wish they would just tell me they can't understand, especially if it's a Chinese resturaunt because I can actually speak Chinese.
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Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 10:39 pm
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Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 1:50 am
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 9:38 am
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 7:35 am
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 7:54 pm
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 8:03 pm
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This happens to me and my vegetarian friends really often. I get so paranoid at restaurants when I see anything or taste anything that resembles meat. It drives everyone else at the table crazy -_-" I feel for you, though. Thinking you ate meat accidentally and having no one believe you is the worst feeling because then you never actually know if you did eat meat or not, and there's usually no way to find out. It just ruins your meal in general.
Sometimes if I'm sitting at a table with an omnivore, I'll ask them to taste the part of my food that's bothering me, and they'll usually tell me it doesn't taste like meat. Also, I once accidentally ate meat when my father baked me a frozen pizza, and I'll tell you this... When you stop eating meat, and then you eat it again, you can usually tell it's meat because it tastes horrrribllleeeee. It was midnight, and I thought it was a pizza just with veggies on it, and I didn't really look down at what I was eating. The whole time I was eating it I kept asking my dad if he thought this tasted sorry, or if he thought it might have went bad. My dad later figured out that it was a chicken pizza, and he hid the box on top of the fridge so that I wouldn't find it in the trashcan or something -_-" Well, a week later I found it. I cried for awhile, and I was really upset, but there was nothing I could really do. The thing I learned from that little experience is that meat, when you're vegetarian or vegan, tastes sour because your taste buds aren't used to it.
Anyways, sorry about my little rant >.< I just know how it is to be suspicious about your food.
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Posted: Sun May 22, 2011 9:29 am
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