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It's still bad in a lot of places. Japan and many places in the east, Malaysia, Thailand etc iny experience.
Also, I know it's being picky, but it's annoying that most places now have vegan choices replacing veggie. So I want don't want vegan cheese in my veggie burger, I want regular cheese for example.
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And I don’t want a plant based burger, I want. Veggie burger!
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I don’t think it’s economical to have a vegan, a gluten free, a veggie, and normal versions of similar dishes in most places.
A regular annoyance is cafes where the only brownie option is a vegan, gluten and nut free version. I understand why, but I miss the occasional chewy buttery heart attack inducing snack.
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Korea is getting better, but a non chain restaurant is still very likely to give you a tuna sandwich if you said you were vegetarian.
With the majority of soup stocks being made from dried anchovies, or meat, and kimchi containing fish/shellfish, truly vegetarian or vegan food is probably only guaranteed in specialist restaurants in big city centres.Friends from France and Netherlands are massively impressed by how easy it is to cater for restrictive diets / allergies in the UK, both in food places and supermarkets.
Not a gluten free or vegan bread or pastry option to be seen in the local bakery where I am at the moment in Normandy. Pastry with nuts, peanuts, almonds etc happily displayed along with the rest.
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Don't worry, I think it's going back the other way. some restaurants are using the term 'plant-based' for something that is mainly not animal-sourced. I was very fucking surprised by this, but apparently Harvard agrees with them
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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.