My new personal campaign is for vegetarian choice in restaurants, not simply for a vegetarian option.
I'm tired of going to restaurants with pages of meat, fish and fowl meals on the menu and only one or two things I, as a vegetarian, can eat. In the past I've eaten the same starter twice since it was the only thing on the menu I could eat. Why did I do that? I don't know really, maybe I was still thinking that meat was the norm and I, as a freaky hippy sandal-wearing pogoing wierdo, had to put up with it.
I went on a cruise down the Nile from Luxor to Aswan in the '80s and I lived on boiled potatoes and cabbage for a week - that was all the "chef" on the boat could make that didn't include meat of some description. And I paid a small fortune for the privilege. The bonus is, of course, that I was probably the only person on the boat that didn't have an >ahem< stomach upset that week...
Well, I don't think it's acceptable in the 21st Century to deny me the pleasure of eating in a public restaurant so I'll be carrying out my own small protest by only going to restaurants that offer me choice. I hope that doesn't inconvenience friends and colleagues too much but I've been inconvenienced for the last 30 years and enough is enough.
I refused to go to a management dinner after an awayday at work a couple of weeks back since the restaurant only had one thing on the menu I could eat. The campaign has begun.
Anyone want to join in?
1 comment:
Hurrah! I will join your new campaign! Especially as the sole vegetarian option is generally something I find grotesque.
There are many, many times I have looked at restaurant menus and not found one single thing that I think I will enjoy.
Oh, and any meat eaters looking at this, please be aware that we can read too. We don't need to you to point at the option and tell us "that's vegetarian", we know!
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