Veggie Advice

[Arriba]

the safest bet is an indian for veggie food.plus it's the best food on the planet anyway.

also people who say i'm veggie but eat fish and chicken are not veggie at all.
it's still the flesh of an animal they eat.

[Chubbs]

the safest bet is an indian for veggie food.plus it's the best food on the planet anyway.

also people who say i'm veggie but eat fish and chicken are not veggie at all.
it's still the flesh of an animal they eat.

those people do my head in!!!

[jonny72]

I know what you mean but you can always just ask whether the other dishes listed as veggie have fish/oyster sauce etc.

There is no point asking them as them as they don't get it and so there could be god knows what in any of their dishes. Simple rule is that if they list any fish content on their veggie section it's not safe to eat there. Indian restaurants are a very safe bet as they do get it, pretty certain they've had veggies in India for a long time.

The other one to watch out for is parmesan cheese, which isn't veggie - a lot of places fail on that one.

[Forza_Swindon]

Most decent Chinese/Thai places will offer a reasonable veggie selection as well. Rendezvous is good as is Thai Orchid on Vic Hill. Actually, not sure if that's still going, but if it is, it was nice about 18 months ago

Thai Orchid is indeed still going, and it's yummy!!  Big fan of that place.

Don't rate La Carbonara though unfortunately...

[Arriba]

i dont see the point of just being veggie.veggie food still leads to animal suffering.
dairy products,eggs, etc.
if it's because you dont like meat then fair enough i suppose?
i understand the vegan stance more easily than a veggie one

[jonny72]

also people who say i'm veggie but eat fish and chicken are not veggie at all.

Don't get me started on those people. Though its the ones that still eat quarter pounders that do my head in.

The number of times people who don't get it that have quizzed me on being a veggie is unbelievable and its always the same conversation;

Me : I'm a veggie.
Them : What you don't eat any meat?
Me : No.
Them : What about fish?
Me : No. That's meat.
Them : What about chicken?
Me : No. That's still meat. White meat is still meat.
Them : What about quarter pounders.
Me : No. I don't eat any meat. That includes burgers. If it used to have eyes I don't eat it.

[Chubbs]

i dont see the point of just being veggie.veggie food still leads to animal suffering.
dairy products,eggs, etc.
if it's because you dont like meat then fair enough i suppose?
i understand the vegan stance more easily than a veggie one

not really arriba, i am veggie and i eat dairy, eggs, milk, cheese. The stance i take on it, is i will only use free range eggs, eggs that are laid naturaly by the chicken and not forced (aka Caged/battery hens) same with milk, milk is a natural bye product of cows, if you didint milk a cow it would die, again, i only drink milk that it naturaly milked, you get some farms which force feed cows special diets to produce more milk, more than naturaly possible, thus putting the cows life at risk.
Admitidly, if i could be vegan, i would, but i stuggle eating a healthy diet as a veggie at the moment. :-)

[jonny72]

i dont see the point of just being veggie.veggie food still leads to animal suffering.
dairy products,eggs, etc.
if it's because you dont like meat then fair enough i suppose?
i understand the vegan stance more easily than a veggie one

It depends.

I don't like the taste or texture of meat and never have done and going veggie was the easiest way of making sure I never had to eat any ever again - I was in my early teens at the time (so over 20 years ago). I'm not particularly keen on eggs or milk either, but I'm fine if they're processed - so I just avoid scrambled eggs and the like. I can't eat any meat substitute products either, I hate them as much as the real thing.

I really don't get the people that do it due to the animals being killed / cruelty etc. Its all part of the natural food chain and a lot of the animals wouldn't have been born in the first place if they weren't going to be eaten. Though I won't touch battery hen eggs if I can help it - increasing the suffering to save money is sick and shouldn't be encouraged.

I don't understand vegans either (unless its for health reasons), they're just fucking weirdos.

[Fred Elliot]

I only wanted an idea of where to go

 

[Jamiesfuturewife]

But not everyone is Veggie due to animal issues are they? some people just dont like meat? I have quite a few friends like that - they dont like the taste or the texture

[Arriba]

cows produce milk for their young like all mammals.no calves=no milk.
the calves get slaughtered to allow for humans milk consumption.
there is not cruelty free way of producing milk unfortunately.

sorry for turning this into a debate fred

[jonny72]

Except the cows they use for milk have been bred for that purpose, so no real cruelty. Though I believe they slaughter all the male calves at birth don't they, or something like that?

[Simon Pieman]

Go to Cosmo's, they do veggie food which is a snip at £101.04

[Chubbs]

I only wanted an idea of where to go

 

come on fred, this was allways going to turn into a debate, and here's my input,
firstly, i liked meat, i like the taste of it, i liked the smell of it, i didint argee with the inhumane treatment of animals, this is where me an johnny clash. I appreciate everyone has their own views and as soon as this debate turns into a free for all im outa here. but if you go way way back to the earliest years of human life form, you will actualy find that the very first homosapiens on earth were infact vegatarian.
I know eating animals is a way of life, and thats never going to change. which is why you will never see me preach my beliefs, but its my choice and i will stick to it. But if there anyone ever interested in vegetarianism im happy to give advice.

That is all.

[Chubbs]

Go to Cosmo's, they do veggie food which is a snip at £101.04

haha, i literaly kicked myself mate, how was i to know. :-)