How many people here are Vegan, and do yall get disappointed when…?

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you want to try out a new place to eat, and find out you wasted your time and have to find the usual veg restaurant? Or when traveling and don’t know the area get disappointed when it just seems to be making your life harder by restaurants not offering connivance to other diets like Vegan?

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I have the most trouble finding breakfast places that serve a good tasting Vegan breakfast, instead of just ordering grits with no butter (and make sure they use water and not milk), and stuck with hash browns cooked in veg oil. I can eat that stuff AT HOME. So when family or friends drag me out to eat for breakfast, I’m always VERY disappointed. Supposedly IHOP has fake eggs, but their not real fake eggs they still come from an animal source, if they were really trying to get people who were allergic to eggs or had a non-egg eating diet then why can’t they just make Tofu Scrambler or something?!?

If I’m gonna eat out for breakfast, then I should be able to teat myself to waffles! Instead of buying vegan waffles from the store, or making vegan pancakes from scratch. It’s things like this that got me to learn how to COOK, but a break now and then would be nice. Especially since I still can’t cook as good as my BF LOL, I don’t know what I’d do with out him, YUM he’s the greatest Vegan Chef (and he’s not vegan LOL).

Yeah I know I can eat fruits when I go out to eat for breakfast, but sometimes I want something HOT and filling to eat. That and I see my friends with big pancakes and waffles and I just want to leave the restaurant and go to the store and bring it back to the restaurant and be happy LOL so mine will be just as GOOD with all the fruit toppings LOL. So why can’t I find that instead of going to a STORE for a Vegan version! Once I was in the Deep South visiting family and they took me out for breakfast, I thought it was gonna be ok since I was in the mood for fruit, guess what that restaurant had NO fruit and the grit were pre-made with butter in it, and the rest was all these meats like pork and beef on the menu, I got stuck drinking OJ.

"Restaurants don't carry many, if any, vegan products because vegans are a very small portion of the general public. The products usually go bad and end up being thrown away and therefore cost the restaurants money. Nobody is in business to lose money. You can't be that far outside the norm in your food choices and expect restaurants to cater to you. It's just not going to happen."

Ok I understand this in cetant areas of the country (and out of the country), but the area I live in is FULL of Vegans, and there is a few Vegan resturants too (I'm in NC, the triangle area, Durham/Raleigh/Chapel Hill), mainly b/c Chapel Hill is filled with Health Nuts and Yuppies and Carborrough is filled with old school Hippies.
I'm just made that none of them open for Breakfast (except for this one Vegan place but it's VERY exspensive). I'm wondering, some of the normal resturants have cought on, but there are a few big chains that still do not offer anything.

Answer 1

im vegan and where i live there are no restaurants that serve food i can eat so i either cook or eat a salad with nothing on it.
when we travel i hate trying to find a store or restaurant that has food i can eat....so yes i do tire of it.lol

Answer 2

Restaurants don't carry many, if any, vegan products because vegans are a very small portion of the general public. The products usually go bad and end up being thrown away and therefore cost the restaurants money. Nobody is in business to lose money. You can't be that far outside the norm in your food choices and expect restaurants to cater to you. It's just not going to happen.

Answer 3

I'm not vegan but often look at the veggie options on a menu and think they are really sad. People must get so sick of eating the same things, risotto for example. I used to be vegetarian but got really sick so have started to eat a tiny little bit of fish again, I just cannot eat meat as I can't stand the taste of it and it hurts my tummy to eat it. I don't think I could cope being a vegan

Answer 4

being vegetarian is a personal decision and we need to respect that decision.i m vegetarian eat everything but meat,breakfast options are immense for me i love smoothies,pancakes,fresh fruit platters,cottage cheese rolls,fig and honey treats.theres so much to choose from

Answer 5

Eating meat is 100% natural.

If anyone wants to spend their life eating weeds, that's okay by me... it's their lives but geez... what a waste.

Answer 6

I'll never be vegan

Answer 7

never be a vegan