I don’t live in the area, but if I did I would be offput that vegetarians weren’t even considered. I have more to say on the topic but will do so in a separate thread.
Did you read the menu? I find it hard to believe that earnest vegetarians could be sincerely unhappy with that menu, but I accept that it could be made marginally better and I’m open to making or buying additional vegetarian food.
Again, I’m not in the area so don’t worry about my particular preferences. And I wouldn’t exactly go home hungry with that menu. But those things are all stuff that I’d classify as a side dish rather than a main course. One of the hardest things about being vegetarian is not finding veggie-food period, but finding veggie food that has the satisfying substance of a main dish. (My experience anyway)
My preference would be a pasta, casserole or stew.
OK, thanks for telling me your preferences. I was trying to avoid carbs because I’m better at cooking protein. Counterfactual you can eat as many portabellos as you want though. They’re $4.79/pound at the Berkeley Bowl.
Heh. An additional individual quirk of mine is that I just don’t like mushrooms (I’m trying to wean myself onto them, but it’s slow going). I currently do eggs and dairy so the protein incentive isn’t really there.
If I were a respectable vegetarian who ate mushrooms (I get heat from hardcore vegan friends for not liking them, as well as from incredulous omnivore friends operating off of vague stereotypes), then maybe I wouldn’t have felt as excluded looking at the list. Dunno. I didn’t quite care enough to comment until I saw Benthamite’s reply and how that played out.
I don’t live in the area, but if I did I would be offput that vegetarians weren’t even considered. I have more to say on the topic but will do so in a separate thread.
Did you read the menu? I find it hard to believe that earnest vegetarians could be sincerely unhappy with that menu, but I accept that it could be made marginally better and I’m open to making or buying additional vegetarian food.
Again, I’m not in the area so don’t worry about my particular preferences. And I wouldn’t exactly go home hungry with that menu. But those things are all stuff that I’d classify as a side dish rather than a main course. One of the hardest things about being vegetarian is not finding veggie-food period, but finding veggie food that has the satisfying substance of a main dish. (My experience anyway)
My preference would be a pasta, casserole or stew.
OK, thanks for telling me your preferences. I was trying to avoid carbs because I’m better at cooking protein. Counterfactual you can eat as many portabellos as you want though. They’re $4.79/pound at the Berkeley Bowl.
Heh. An additional individual quirk of mine is that I just don’t like mushrooms (I’m trying to wean myself onto them, but it’s slow going). I currently do eggs and dairy so the protein incentive isn’t really there.
If I were a respectable vegetarian who ate mushrooms (I get heat from hardcore vegan friends for not liking them, as well as from incredulous omnivore friends operating off of vague stereotypes), then maybe I wouldn’t have felt as excluded looking at the list. Dunno. I didn’t quite care enough to comment until I saw Benthamite’s reply and how that played out.