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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
i added that option for you rhari so you can vote now.  i did change it to say "vegetarian" instead of vegan, because my understanding is that vegans are very strict about avoiding *all* animal products including milk, whereas vegetarian can come in many varieties as we've seen.
i share your frustration about meat being "slipped in" unexpectedly. for instance, there are some prepared meals in my supermarket which i would love to buy for my lunch on days when i am working in a client's office. one of them is risotto with cepe mushrooms : apparently vegetarian. but if you read the ingredients, it is made with veal broth. 
another one is japanese vegetable dumplings. only vegetables inside, so you think they are ok. but no : they are made with chicken broth. arg ! it drives me crazy. why do they do that ???
the other thing which drives me crazy is when at a restaurant you ask if something is vegetarian and they say "oh, you're vegetarian ! but you eat chicken, right ? no ? really ? what about fish ? surely you eat fish ?" how is that vegetarian if you eat chicken ??? |
Ha ha yeah. My brothers wife is also a vegetarian according to them because she only eats fish and poultry. Hey, before I met my vegetarian wife I almost only ate fish and poultry. Poultry is a large part of the meat intake in my whereabouts.
More seriously: Usually I had at least a frozen ready-made soup or two to choose from at the supermarket which were made on vegetable stock. Today everything is made on chicken stock or veil stock. Regardless whether it's tomato soup, asparges soup or ordinary soup. Apparantly it's what people want.
hope it's better in other countries.
Can anyone tell me btw, the historical background for the reason why such a high proportion of brits are vegetarians?