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Southern Erope :When told my Portuguese friends that a friend of mine was coming over who doesn't eat fish or meat and were there any popular vegetarian dishes or a good vegetarian resuarant they looked at me in a puzzled manner and asked if she was ill or had an allergy.
 
Southern Erope :When told my Portuguese friends that a friend of mine was coming over who doesn't eat fish or meat and were there any popular vegetarian dishes or a good vegetarian resuarant they looked at me in a puzzled manner and asked if she was ill or had an allergy.

Portugal is well known for not being easy for veggies.
 
Southern Erope :When told my Portuguese friends that a friend of mine was coming over who doesn't eat fish or meat and were there any popular vegetarian dishes or a good vegetarian resuarant they looked at me in a puzzled manner and asked if she was ill or had an allergy.

Back in 1999 I spent 3 months in Argentina with a vege who just couldn't eat meat. That was a challenging time.
 
Back in 1999 I spent 3 months in Argentina with a vege who just couldn't eat meat. That was a challenging time.
I'll tell you what's more challenging than that...

...being the veggie who can't eat meat :(

France is a complete nightmare - you're just a wrong'un.
Germany, they think there's something the matter with you.
Belgium...well, sausage isn't actually meat. Anything further East gets you blank incomprehension.
 
Portugal is well known for not being easy for veggies.
There are stacks of veggie/vegan places in the cities but not in the countryside . Locally they do a few dishes a nice veg and bean soup ,tomato rice ,and ive seen vegetarian fejoda but thats about it oh and salads.
 
I am a vegetarian, and it kind of pains me to say that if somebody says to me if you eat that bacon sandwich then Lord Buckethead will oust Boris Johnson in his constituency in the forthcoming election, I still wouldn't eat that sandwich.
 
I find catering for veggies a piece of cake (no pun intended). Vegan food I find more challenging, certainly when meaning to offer a full meal including dessert.

Luckily the vegan friends who have come to dinner are a bit flexible and happy to overlook minor vegan infractions, such as certain brands of beer not being strictly vegan, or some food products because they have been prepared in factories where non vegan food is also present in the same area.
 
Going back to the bacongate story reported upthread, I suspect there was pre-existing beef ;) between mother and daughter, because if it was a first infraction kicking her out seems a wholly OTT reaction. However I don’t blame the daughter for being royally angry if she had previously made her feelings known though. Certainly for cooking and eating bacon, which ticks many boxes from the killing of a highly intelligent mammal to perfuming the house with a distinctive and potent smell. As well the fact that there plenty of tasty breakfast alternatives available anyone who’s not a dickhead should be able to cope without eating the offending food for a few days.

Having said that, given that I despise the taste of all alternative milks I’ve tried, if I went to stay with a vegan relative and they tried to ban me from bringing a pint of milk with me to put a wee bit in my morning tea or coffee, I’d see it as a cunt’s trick, moral convictions or not.
 
When vegans get on their high horse about being 100% purist about their diet, it can always be pointed out that many animals get killed in the production of the plant based food they eat. There is no such thing as a diet where no animals die, unless you become completely self sufficient. Veganism may be the way of eating that is the least damaging to animal life but millions of animals which live off plants and crops used for commercial food consumption have to be killed for those plants and crops to flourish.
 
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