The Vegetarian Place

[NikolaiI]

As if Lit-net needs another hang-out place! :lol: This is in the line of Coffee thread, Blokes thread, just a place like those... for guys and girls... you don't have to be alcoholic or caffeinated, or even vegetarian really, anyone is welcome. NOT a debate thread, lol! Okay, sit down and have a baba ghanouj or whatever you veggies eat...

[SleepyWitch]

:wave:
I'm a veggie.
I have a question for my fellow veggies: What do you do when you're on holidays in a country where vegetarianism is unknown and there are no local or traditional vegetarian dishes, fast food etc?
do you:

- buy the ingredients at a supermarket and cook your own veggie
food?
- eat salad, bread, fruit
- bring stuff from your home country
- make a fuss and ask restaurants, hosts etc. to cook special veggie meals
for you?
- ???
I usually eat meat and fish when I'm in a country where vegetarianism is unknown. E.g. I went on a field trip to Mongolia with univ a couple of years ago. In Mongolia vegetarianism is restricted to Buddhist monks. Everybody else eats lots of mutton. A "vegetable soup" means a soup with lots of mutton and some veg, as opposed to a meat soup, which is only mutton with zero veg. Why did I eat mutton? Well, we had a cook working for us and she cooked for 20 people. I was the only veggie, so I could hardly expect her to cook a separate dish for me. To be honest, I enjoyed Mongolian food very much. What's more, I tend to think that "cultural research" outweighs vegetarianism. I.e. I like to try local food when I travel, because it's part of the country's culture.
Anyway, what's your take?

[Tsuyoiko]

Hello, I'm Tsuyoiko and I'm a vegetarian :blush:


I have a question for my fellow veggies: What do you do when you're on holidays in a country where vegetarianism is unknown and there are no local or traditional vegetarian dishes, fast food etc?

Simple, I stay right here in the UK :thumbs_up

[SleepyWitch]

Hello, I'm Tsuyoiko and I'm a vegetarian :blush:



Simple, I stay right here in the UK :thumbs_up

:lol: does that mean you deliberately avoid travel in order to avoid meat-eating countries or is it because you don't travel anyway?

[Helga]

I am a vegetarian and I'd rather just make food myself or eat salad. I'm often critizised for being a vegetarian but I don't let it bother me.

[kratsayra]

I have a question for my fellow veggies: What do you do when you're on holidays in a country where vegetarianism is unknown and there are no local or traditional vegetarian dishes, fast food etc?
do you:


I'm a vegetarian, and I have been for my whole life. so this is a very important question for me. as much as I think it's great to taste local foods, I simply cannot eat meat, poultry, or fish because I never have, ever. It would be equally weird for me to "try" a hot dog or some other american meat-related food because it's part of american culture. I would never do it.

when I lived abroad in Cameroon, my host family made separate food for me. and at restaurants there was one dish I knew how to ask for, which was made without a problem or fuss. I could still very much enjoy and appreciate some significant aspects of food in cameroon - plaintains and fresh tropical fruits like mangoes and pineapple. yum!

when I briefly went to Senegal, I had a much bigger problem. all of those tropical fruits are not indigenous there. and fish is in everything If I went back to Senegal, which I plan to do someday, I plan to primarily cook for myself.

What concerns me more is if I were visiting someone and they offered me food. I would feel so bad turning them down, but I would feel equally strange about eating meat. I really don't know what I would do if I were in such a situation.

[NikolaiI]

I'm generally a vegetarian except I did have eel in sushi the other day. The only country I've ever visited was Canada, which is not too much different, food-wise. Luckily I haven't been criticized for being a vegetarian for a long time. I'm not likely to eat much meat even if it's a cultural thing, I guess for all the reasons I don't in the first place, but also it might make me sick.