Being a vegetarian in the suburbs is way different than being a vegetarian in the city. I’ve only ever lived in the suburbs, so I’m not used to being a part of such an accommodating society. Example: The equivalent of a 7-11 by my apartment offers a pretty rad selection of hand-made vegetarian sandwiches. Veggie cheesesteaks, Italian Sausages, even BLTs, all delicious and FROM A SEVEN-ELEVEN FOR GOD’S SAKE. When you go to a bar or restaurant this friendliness persists, deliciousness increasing at a rate humans struggle to perceive.
In fairness, outside the city vegetarian options do exist. They’re scarce though that you have your choice of roughly six food types: Pizza, pasta, eggs/breakfast stuff, veggie burgers and the dreaded grilled cheese. After 6 years, that gets pretty old.
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Ugh I feel your pain. Try being a vegan in the suburbs of a state that assumes if you don’t eat animals you eat salad every day. One grocery store near me has vegan burgers, almond milk, and tofu dogs, but other than that it’s pretty much a foreign concept.
I both love and hate tofu dogs. On the one hand, they’re tastey and I kind of miss hot dogs. On the other hand, their packaging is always horrible and you can never get them apart. Also they’re weridly brittle sometimes, just falling apart for no reason.
Where I live, we have vegetarian options AND vegan options everywhere. Like, you can get vegan chocolate cake at the grocery store. I kinda wonder what chemical substitutes they use instead of eggs…
I think most recipes for vegan desserts use applesauce or something similar instead of eggs. It’s weird because you don’t taste any extra sweetness, but then again I understand almost nothing about cooking, so maybe it’s not weird at all.
God do I feel your pain, try moving from Kentucky to Oregon. It was such a startle to have nearly every restaurant have a vegetarian option that isn’t “just pick the meat off”
Haha, “pick the meat off” definitely made me chuckle. A+.
People look at me funny every time I order something but ask for them to skip the meat, with this ‘shocked/confused/unicorns are real??’ face.
Then they thoroughly question if I am aware of my choice as if I don’t know what I’m doing.
Usually people only ask me twice if I’m “sure”, but once this happened to me:
“What? You don’t want the meat? Do you want just the chicken off or the chicken and the beef off? Neither one? Are you SURE ma’am? No meat, correct? And you didn’t want ANY meat? Not even a little? What about fish? Oh, no fish either? Well this dish is only pasta with sauce without the meat…are you sure you still want it?”
“Could you throw in some mixed veggies in place of the meat?”
“Well I could but that will cost $3 for the side dish.”
“….. do I at least get a discount for getting no meat?”
“no.”
“I’m leaving.”
I tried to make vegan chocolate cake once but it was the worst thing I ever baked and it tasted like vinegar…I’ll stick to other people’s already baked vegan cakes…
Definitely feel your pain Lillie, and I even eat fish.
I live in a college town and my options are still severely limited.
I assume that a college town would be on the edge of new lifestyles but I find myself constantly disappointed.
Luckily most desserts are vegetarian friendly. I won’t live long but I’ll still out live my neighbors who survive on beer and syphilis.
I go to Drexel in Philly. First I lolled and then I was like “Wait, what?” Is that Monk’s sign for actual *Monk’s?* Alt text confirmed. Funny story about Monk’s: We were gonna go there one night, then it rained and we didn’t want to walk over from University City, so we went to some bar in West Philly…then monk’s got hit by a bus.
http://articles.philly.com/2010-08-11/news/24972236_1_bus-accident-police-vehicle-police-officers
I was all “Yikes.” also: http://www.leadpaintcomics.com/2009/04/30/holding-hands/
Way to rep the 215. You guys are devastatingly clever and super funny.
I feel your pain, being a vegetarian in the suburbs is no fun. But u know Burger King has amazingly good veggie burgers? It’s not on their menu but if you ask they’ll put a veggie patty on your burger instead of a regular one and it’s really yummy
Feeling you on this. I, too, am a vegetarian. I work at a pizza place in a small city and one of our competitors actually uses LARD when they make their dough! Whaaat?!