Dude, As a chef I can definitely say my experience is the opposite. The vegans who ring in advance and advise us of their dietary requirements is maybe 5% at best. The rest walk in and demand off menu food. Other people with genuine dietary restrictions manage to do it all the time.
lol, so as a chef you're mad at vegans for telling you they're vegan? Interesting. Also, how would you know if a good portion of the other people with "genuine dietary restrictions" aren't vegans doing exactly what I said they do? If there's a group of people more openly hostile to vegans than any other, its chefs. Because of what my wife does for a living and where we live, I know 100's of vegans. A minimum of 75% will tell the waiter they have a dairy allergy, they'll also ask if the oil is peanut oil because they have allergies in the hopes they'll get a straight answer if the oil is animal fat based. There are numerous things like that, that you don't know about. Most vegans are scared that the waiter or cooks/chefs will do something to their food because of the hostility or don't want to deal with the awkward BS that generally comes with telling someone you're vegan.
There's no problem doing something off menu (in a real restaurant not a chain) provided you have a warning. I've done a 10 course vegan degustation menu with 48 hours notice. We don't have an aladdin's cave of ingredients ready, it's really tough to come up with a good quality recipe on the fly if you're in the middle of a rush, you can't cost it properly, it totally disrupts the rhythm of the line. Doing it with notification is a fun challenge. Having a customer walk in and demand it without notification is pure hell.
I agree, that sucks and is docuhey of those people. But douchiness and even that specific level of douchiness is not unique to vegans. My contention was that you implied vegans were pushy about their veganism because they all will tell someone they are vegan, when that isn't the case. That being said, I respect the hell out of any restaurant that is willing to cater vegans. So in all seriousness, let me say thank you for going out of your way and doing that if no vegan has.
Working in restaurants you really notice the douchey ones. For chefs a big part of the aggro is pride. I get judged on the quality of the food on your plate and all I want is a fair chance to give you a meal I'm proud to serve. Seriously there's zero difficulty to cater for vegans provided you have notice. Also I assume you've really don't want to see another risotto or grilled vegetable stack so if I have a bit of notice I can put together something a lot more interesting for you. Without notice my options are strictly limited.
I feel like you've gotten to this point where you've used up all your funny, and now you're just throwing out as much as you can in the hopes it will make someone laugh. You're basically a telemarketer. You sadden me.
I live on a farm animal sanctuary. We rescue abused and neglected farm animals. My wife and I literally just got back last night from driving to Kentucky and back to rescue a 1 year old blind goat. We have over 70 pigs that are all rescues. Seeing an image of one being ripped apart is a little disturbing to me that's all. I can scroll passed it without seeing it, but if people start quoting it, its gonna be unavoidable lest I just not view this thread. If you go to edit post, then to go advanced, highlight that image and its img tags, then click the spoiler button (last button in the tools, black box) I'd appreciate it.
I have to ask, why is the cat hanging from the garage door less disturbing than a pigs carcus then? Lol
Not as graphic. You could have a picture of a person who died in their sleep and a picture of a person ripped apart by lions, one would be more disturbing than the other, no? If it was me, I wouldn't have posted any of them as I think they're all pretty horrible, but I'm not here to change anything, just didn't want to see that one all the time.
Keep it up and Tony's gonna visit you night after you've feel asleep drunk with your underwear on backwards again...