The British idea of vegetarian food

[gaijingirl]

That's kind of what I mean. Why would you want to go to a restaurant and pay £8 for a rissoto that you can make better at home?

I like veggie lasagne and chips.

e2a - towers are still in in Farnham. Farnham is 90s town.

We just need to find an 80s place and we can get our lasagne and chips!!

 

[Maggot]

France and Greece, agreed. Same with Spain. But Italy's ok (as long as you like pasta I suppose...)

I've never had any problem being veggie in Italy, lots of pasta and pizza dishes are meat free. Spain's not to bad either, although I'm not so strict when I'm abroad and sometimes eat seafood.

 

[vipper]

We just need to find an 80s place and we can get our lasagne and chips!!

I believe that the 80s might be coming back in fashion. It's either that or all the art college kids in Farnham are the result of a very bad acid flashback on my behalf.

 

[pembrokestephen]

Risotto. It's everywhere. I reckon a good 50% of veggie options are a risotto - usually a mushroom one. Risotto is my fall back option at home - the one thing I'll always have the ingredients for that can be made quickly and easily. Definitely not a "special" dish I'd pay someone else to make for me.

I'm always very wary about risotto, without any good reason. My mum always made it with mushrooms, which I hated as a kid, and she often tried to sneak bits of chicken in. Then, if she made me a "vegetarian" one, she'd watch me eat it, then say "Did you like that?" "Mm, yes" "Oh, I made it with ham stock".

So I learned pretty quickly not to trust food where all the ingredients weren't identifiable: I therefore rarely (if ever) eat soup or risotto, or other things of that ilk when I'm eating out. Canteens and non-restaurant eateries are the worst, IME, for making soup with meaty unpleasantness and not telling/knowing if it has been.

 

[guinnessdrinker]

Don't you have google?

not all of us want to live by the might of american mega corporations. that's why we go on urban asking our little friends what good things there are and where they are. there is such a thing as society, you know.

 

[pembrokestephen]

Or they could do what my local does: they don't do food any more, but they do provide plates if you bring your own in. And they have a stock of menus from every take-away for miles around

Yeah, the Newt and Ferret in Kingston used to do that, too. Very sensible idea.

 

[twisted_angel]

I asked what vegetarian options were available when out for a meal the other week..swanky restaurant and the option....extra carrots!

 

[pembrokestephen]

I asked what vegetarian options were available when out for a meal the other week..swanky restaurant and the option....extra carrots!

I'd have been quite...pointed about that. A restaurant which can't cater for vegetarians is a restaurant which can't cater, period.

In fact, I get sufficiently prickly about stuff like that that I may well have got up and left, depending on how concerned I might have been about embarrassing my dinner companions.

 

[cyberfairy]

I'd have been quite...pointed about that. A restaurant which can't cater for vegetarians is a restaurant which can't cater, period.

In fact, I get sufficiently prickly about stuff like that that I may well have got up and left, depending on how concerned I might have been about embarrassing my dinner companions.

My mum did when same happened to her-said very loudly that she could make a 'proper' meal at home for far less and 'with cleaner cutlery'

 

[pembrokestephen]

My mum did when same happened to her-said very loudly that she could make a 'proper' meal at home for far less and 'with cleaner cutlery'

 

[twisted_angel]

I'd have been quite...pointed about that. A restaurant which can't cater for vegetarians is a restaurant which can't cater, period.

In fact, I get sufficiently prickly about stuff like that that I may well have got up and left, depending on how concerned I might have been about embarrassing my dinner companions.

I didnt leave as it was a friends bday but i didnt eat either...me and 3 more refused to leave when told that if we didnt order we couldnt stay...It was outrageously expensive and no vegetarian option...i havent had that before even in cheap and cheerful restaurants....we stayed for my friend and of course the bday cake.

 

[pembrokestephen]

I didnt leave as it was a friends bday but i didnt eat either...me and 3 more refused to leave when told that if we didnt order we couldnt stay...It was outrageously expensive and no vegetarian option...i havent had that before even in cheap and cheerful restaurants....we stayed for my friend and of course the bday cake.

Bloody hell! That's really disgusting - they refuse to provide a suitable meal, then insist you bugger off if you don't eat what they're offering?

Was this some kind of specialist restaurant? I mean, are we talking "South Africa's House Of Beef All-You-Can-Eat Cow Pie Emporium And Barbeque" type deal, or a general English/French/"International" cuisine job...?

 

[northernhord]

Ive never understood what the problem is really with this situation, I think it basically down to lack of creativity in the kitchen, I make fuckin great veggie food with Traditional British ingredients and also with more continental stuff

 

[cyberfairy]

Ive never understood what the problem is really with this situation, I think it basically down to lack of creativity in the kitchen, I make fuckin great veggie food with Traditional British ingredients and also with more continental stuff

But its your modesty that makes it the most appealing

 

[northernhord]

But its your modesty that makes it the most appealing

Ive been at though to be fair for two decades

 

[twisted_angel]

Bloody hell! That's really disgusting - they refuse to provide a suitable meal, then insist you bugger off if you don't eat what they're offering?

Was this some kind of specialist restaurant? I mean, are we talking "South Africa's House Of Beef All-You-Can-Eat Cow Pie Emporium And Barbeque" type deal, or a general English/French/"International" cuisine job...?

It was just a general restaurant, alot of high prices, plush seating, stony faced diners and a crappy menu, even those who ate were limited with choices, but friends choice due to it being her bday, i wouldnt ever go there again...unless to start a food fight

 

[cyberfairy]

Ive been at though to be fair for two decades

That makes no sence but I understand! I've ben cooking and veggie for years but still my greatest culinary skill is my supernoodle soup

 

[northernhord]

That makes no sence but I understand! I've ben cooking and veggie for years but still my greatest culinary skill is my supernoodle soup

I used to sell all sorta veggie stuff at festivals and the fuckers were mad for my grub, guess they might have been stoned though

 

[twisted_angel]

I used to sell all sorta veggie stuff at festivals and the fuckers were mad for my grub, guess they might have been stoned though

Are you free tonight?...i have to cook for 9 and i have no idea where to start..i just dont have the energy this week.

 

[northernhord]

Are you free tonight?...i have to cook for 9 and i have no idea where to start..i just dont have the energy this week.

Ya best bet if you are a tad under the weather is making loadsa bhaji and pakora with salads and chapati, a piece of piss to make indeed

 

[twisted_angel]

Ya best bet if you are a tad under the weather is making loadsa bhaji and pakora with salads and chapati, a piece of piss to make indeed

Im recovering from mumps and dont seem to have the energy ( i even fell sleep when out last night)..the thought of doing my usual darting around the kitchen with boundless enegry making alot of sample dishes fills me with dread.
You may be on the right track though, all like spicy food and seeing as its football later will more than likely be accompanied with beer so that sounds good.

 

[gaijingirl]

not all of us want to live by the might of american mega corporations. that's why we go on urban asking our little friends what good things there are and where they are. there is such a thing as society, you know.

bloody hell - it was said tongue in cheek (look at the smileys) - calm down deirdre!!

 

[guinnessdrinker]

calm down deirdre!!

you're calling me a woman?

 

[Maggot]

not all of us want to live by the might of american mega corporations.

Yeah, using Google really means you are a slave to American Mega-Corps.

 

[Chz]

It was just a general restaurant, alot of high prices, plush seating, stony faced diners and a crappy menu, even those who ate were limited with choices, but friends choice due to it being her bday, i wouldnt ever go there again...unless to start a food fight

Name and shame, please. They shouldn't get away with it.

 

[chainsaw cat]

I keep meaning to start a thread about quorn but lack the guts! (like quorn sausages)
I don't see the problem with it at all-I eat loads of it-yes it's not earthy and natural and has scary origins but so do beefburgers and Birds Eye nut burgers. It's healthyish, you can make far more different sorts of meals out of it and it has a pleasing unmushy texture and taste. I'm veggie due to animal welfare, not health reasons-thus a quorn sausage bap is lovely veggie junk food. If quorn helps more eat meaters get used to being veggie by it aping meat texture and taste, I don't see the problem

Top tip - quorn and Cauldron are now/are about to be in the same factory and are super-hygienic and very well made.

Cauldron are just mad for good natural ingredients and lovely tasty stuff. Quorn is a bit - errr- artificial....

I dunno which will win of these alternative philosophies.

 

[Superape]

not all of us want to live by the might of american mega corporations. that's why we go on urban asking our little friends what good things there are and where they are. there is such a thing as society, you know.

..and they use google for you...

 

[pembrokestephen]

Name and shame, please. They shouldn't get away with it.

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