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**soonahonsefalh** · 09-24-2011, 03:34 AM

sangom,

re your post # 38

My wife and I eat out regularly.

Yesterday, for example, we went to an Italian restaurant: we had a variety of choices of vegetarian food, and just not an odd item or two. Below I give you the url of the menu, and while one may suspect the rennet in the cheese, the food, otherwise is fresh and tasty.

I think in the usa, it has become the norm, to label the food, as vegetarian or vegan if applicable. I have seen the same in England.

The current trend, even in my office, is to go out of the way to accommodate minority preferences. Recently we had a pizza lunch in my department (48 people). Me and another white lady wanted veggie pizza, one other white lady wanted vegan pizza (no cheese), and the rest opted for non veg.

At the end of the session, we had one 11 slices of vegan pizza, 9 slices of veggie pizza left, which nobody wanted. Ofcourse there were some leftovers of non veg pizza too, but no way in proportion to the amount ordered and the number of people who ate it.

Personally, I have found the west increasingly vegetarian friendly past 20 years or so.

Tutto Pronto - Fine Food To Go

Kunjuppu,

I think the ordered pizza lunch is very different from what one may be able to get late at night in the office, unless the office has a 24 hours' canteen. I understand that most employers started skimping on such peripheral benefits like coffee, canteen etc., during the bad days two or three years before and have not yet reinstated these. May be yours is a very different set-up and may be Canada is different but what I said related to US (Atlanta) and London. I have no reason to believe that the feedback given to me was not factual.

09-24-2011, 03:34 AM	#40
soonahonsefalh Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 603 Senior Member	sangom, re your post # 38 My wife and I eat out regularly. Yesterday, for example, we went to an Italian restaurant: we had a variety of choices of vegetarian food, and just not an odd item or two. Below I give you the url of the menu, and while one may suspect the rennet in the cheese, the food, otherwise is fresh and tasty. I think in the usa, it has become the norm, to label the food, as vegetarian or vegan if applicable. I have seen the same in England. The current trend, even in my office, is to go out of the way to accommodate minority preferences. Recently we had a pizza lunch in my department (48 people). Me and another white lady wanted veggie pizza, one other white lady wanted vegan pizza (no cheese), and the rest opted for non veg. At the end of the session, we had one 11 slices of vegan pizza, 9 slices of veggie pizza left, which nobody wanted. Ofcourse there were some leftovers of non veg pizza too, but no way in proportion to the amount ordered and the number of people who ate it. Personally, I have found the west increasingly vegetarian friendly past 20 years or so. Tutto Pronto - Fine Food To Go Kunjuppu, I think the ordered pizza lunch is very different from what one may be able to get late at night in the office, unless the office has a 24 hours' canteen. I understand that most employers started skimping on such peripheral benefits like coffee, canteen etc., during the bad days two or three years before and have not yet reinstated these. May be yours is a very different set-up and may be Canada is different but what I said related to US (Atlanta) and London. I have no reason to believe that the feedback given to me was not factual.
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