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One of my old bandmates is vegan, by choice, animal by-products won't kill him or make him sick. Twenty years ago, whenever we played in France or Spain the salad would always come out with a garnish of duck gizzards, lardons or some kind of fish. He'd send it back, it would come back out with the offending flesh carefully picked off hoping he wouldn't notice.
Tony would then pull a tube of mushroom pate out of his suit pocket and have at the bread basket. Things are much improved these days but I felt so bad for him back then.
RonAsheton
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A friend of mine came to visit us in Tokyo who had a severe shellfish allergy, and, especially then, Japan wasn’t great in dietary requirements *. His allergy was severe enough that when he tested a salad to see if it contained shellfish by putting his finger on the sauce he got blisters. He mainly ate McDonalds on that trip and I very quickly learnt the words for food allergy and epi-pen.
* Vegetarian ramen, you say? Okay, we’ll just serve the regular pork bone broth but without a slice of meat in.