You wouldn’t think it would be so hard to be a vegetarian and to travel, we don’t require too much extra catering, in fact we should be easier to cater for than a meat eater, we have only cut something out rather than insisting on something extra.
Yet, when we were coming back from visiting relatives recently we had the misfortune of stopping at a motorway services, in the future I am going to be more organised and make sandwiches, because the food we had was no less than absolutely disgusting.
We had purchased bean burger kiddie meals, as they were the only vegetarian option (apart from just chips) at this particular burger palace. My girl had one bite of hers and couldn’t eat it, I managed three bites and with every single bite felt it burning down my throat, not with heat, but with how spicy it was. So we left them and ate our chips, we should have only ordered them in the first place. For the rest of the journey I had the most painful indigestion.
I don’t understand why a child’s option would be so spicy, the only thing we could think of is that the adult spicy bean burger had been cooked by mistake.
I have since written to Burger King and await their response.
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My friend, who has been veggie for over twenty years, has all sorts of eating out horror stories, ranging from when she went to Italy and spent the entire two weeks eating plain pasta, as everything had either fish or meat or both in a sauce on the top, to conversations with waitresses along the lines of:
Friend: ‘What have you got that is suitable for a vegetarian?’
Waitress: ‘Beef enchiladas.’
Friend: ‘But I’m a vegetarian.’
Waitress: ‘How about the chicken?’
Friend: ‘Um, I’m a vegetarian.’
We are back to chicken again, some people get confused and seem to see chicken as a vegetable, odd.
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The vegetarian society has some really good information on eating out, visit http://www.vegsoc.org/info/eatingout.html.
They also provide guidelines for practices in catering and what vegetarians should expect, along the lines of work surfaces and chopping boards, utensils and all other kitchen equipment and facilities to be either kept separate from those used for non-vegetarian food preparation, or cleaned thoroughly before vegetarian food preparation, etc.
For further details visit http://www.vegsoc.org/info/definitions.html.
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