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[bigyetiman]

A friend of ours had the same problem, her mother in law did the same thing with gravy, and she was really sick.
Like the current fad of using coconut oil to cook with, that makes me violently sick, as my daughter found out as she has started to cook with it.

 

[LadyA]

I've had the same problem with tinned vegetable soup (beef stock) and always have to ask what kind of stock or fat they use if I eat out. Meat products make me ill. Eating in Germany used to be a nightmare- I'd order a vegetarian salad, emphasising "vegetarian " & they'd sprinkle it with bits of ham or bacon...

When I first got together with my now husband, his mum would serve up two jugs of gravy at dinner & say that one was vegetarian. After a couple of times when I then spent the rest of the day in the bathroom being sick, she stopped putting meat juices in it...

I was vegetarian before I got married. I've never gone fully back to it, but I wouldn't eat meat often. But I remember one occasion when, visiting friends in a fairly remote area of the country, their mother, having been warned I didn't eat meat, served me a plate of cabbage for dinner. Nothing else. Just cabbage. Not even any potatoes, which she served everyone else! She had just been thinking "vegetables", and didn't count potatoes as veg!

 

[Icemaiden]

Sounds familiar- an ex-boyfriend's mum was like that. I was always given cold tinned peas. You wonder whether they do it as a punishment for being veggie...

 

[MrsBiscuit]

30 years ago in France I remember ringing up a local restaurant to ask if they did/would cater for vegetarian friends. I was told well no, but they could eat the vegetables (whatever came with the meat dishes), couldn't they?

Here in this part of rural Portugal, being vegetarian is still very unusual, but the difference is that most places are delighted to knock up something. At a relatively posh local place, we all had our food, but my friend, who had ordered a salad, was still waiting. In this part of Portugal, a salad is always lettuce, tomato and sliced raw onion. When her salad arrived, it was in a gigantic bowl, enough for about 4 people, with every sort of veg you could think of, cooked and raw, a real triumph. We still talk about it. This is the same place that, when my MIL ordered a pineapple juice, and it still hadn't arrived after about 15 minutes as we were tucking into our wine, we asked where it was. They were super apologetic. It then arrived.....a freshly squeezed whole pineapple, served with plenty of ice and mint, in a jug, all for her!

My mother has coconut oil on her shopping list. Its not for veggie/vegan reasons. She uses it as a hand cream!

 

[bigyetiman]

That reminded me of a pub in Amlwch on Anglesey. We both ordered a prawn sandwich which took forever to turn up. Because they had to cook the prawns then peel them. Best prawn sandwich ever. Followed by a walk around Parys mountain copper mine. Amazing like an alien planet