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@WillMelling
Funnily enough, a few years ago, when I was writing human interest pieces for the Catholic Herald, I was meant to spend a month touring Europe, embedded with a troupe of avant-garde mime artists. Three of them were vegan, quite a few vegetarian, several pescatarian and a couple of them were on a paleolithic eating regime. Which would have made ordering food bad enough but they took their art with an almost Trappist seriousness and refused to speak at all, not just when on stage. The only one who wasn't a fussy eater (indeed he was a trencherman of some repute) was doing ok until he developed a morbid fear of cutlery after an incident in Calais.
I don't know if you have ever tried to mime the words "three vegan vol-au-vents please" but if you have then you'll know it's easily misinterpreted. There was more than one surly French waiter who thought he was being offered a night of passionate, if silent, congress.
After a week and with the thought of Germany and it's abundance of slaughter-house sausages in mind, the tour was cancelled.