‘No’ is a good word. We need to use it more often.
An award-winning restaurant has hit out at ‘holier-than-thou’ vegan customers after it received backlash over its new menu, which does not include any main courses suitable for them.
I wouldn’t go to a vegan restaurant and get all offended because they wouldn’t serve a steak. Although more people are adopting a plant based diet, there is no obligation on outlets to accommodate them. It’s a business decision – they may lose money over it, they may not, only they can make that decision. But, of course, the vegan extremists are outraged that they aren’t being pandered to, which makes the restaurant’s reaction all the more delicious.
Addressing its critics, it said: ‘If you want vegan food, go to a vegan restaurant’.
It gets better.
The popular high street restaurant in Ventnor said that while it used to serve some vegan food they decided to stop due to a ‘militant minority’.
You can almost hear the blood vessels popping from over the Solent. But this is how you deal with these people – you tell them where to get off. You refuse to accommodate their demands, you offer them the sex and travel option, you don’t budge an inch. You tell them ‘no’ and mean it.
One user commented, ‘No vegan mains!!’ to which the restaurant responded, ‘No!’
Good. Well done. This needs to happen more often.
Vegans shouldn’t be doing business with anywhere that sells meat products. They’re just being the awkward sods that they are.
Read the article in the ‘newspaper’ this morning, it brightened my day! Someone, somewhere is finally telling these members of a tiny minority who refuse to believe that we humans are omnivores to get stuffed. I agree that ‘No’ is a much under-used word.
Another mental illness.
Surprised they have enough strength to complain.
I would suggest that various degrees of vegetarianism are quite common now and, as long as they are not going to be obsessively religious about it, they will find something that they are willing to eat. Veganism is on a whole different level, excluding all dairy products and even honey from the diet makes catering for these people a difficult and complex process. For the tiny minority that they represent, I suspect that it isn’t worth the trouble.
Apparently, Heywards Heath in sussex has just signed up to the “plant based treaty” (plantbasedtreaty.org if you must. I did and the sheer, smug, self righteous ignorance hits you like a depleted uranium round).
If we do – as seems likely – get power cuts as a result of this “green” childishness this winter, I will be interested to see what these arrogant fanatics will be saying this time next year.
Going to be particularly fun in the fatherland by the look of it. I’ll be very interested to see what a rapid de-industrialisation does to the toytown Austria-Hungary Schilling.
I’ll be interested to hear what remainiacs are saying this time next year as well.
When it comes to ‘sheer, smug, self righteous ignorance’, that advert with the small child badgering her mum to buy ‘plant based’ food instead of chicken takes the biscuit….
Alas the response I would have got – don’t eat it then but you won’t be getting anything else – does not seem to be an option.
Doubtless it would be seen as abuse and justification for removal of said brat for placement with somebody deemed suitably doctrinally compliant.
JuliaM
That’s arguably one of the most offensive ads I have ever seen.
“Treaty”, eh? I expect Plod will be around any moment. Only the sovereign power has the right to sign treaties.
On the subject of Rushdie, has anyone seen the piece in today’s Graun?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/15/salman-rushdie-free-speech-tyranny-satanic-verses
I couldn’t make it past the headline (‘If we don’t defend free speech, we live in tyranny: Salman Rushdie shows us that’) because if I read any further, the hypocrisy and double standards would make me bloody furious. The Graun are absolutely *not* supporters of free speech, especially when it comes to topics such as ‘the religion of peace’ or transsexuality. If you have the ‘wrong’ views on that kind of issue, the Graun would happily silence you or censor you. Note that this is one of those “Comment is free” pieces without the ability to comment. The Graun are probably aware that if they allow comments they’ll be attacked for their hypocrisy.
The Guardian is on the axis of evil.
A friend of mine who works in a supermarket told me that every day they throw away huge amounts of vegan food which no one wants. Personally I agree with your correspondents. Veganism amounts to a mental illness. Who wouldn’t enjoy eating meat, fish and dairy. Of course a prominent vegan is Jeremy Corbyn. Says it all really !
Not surprised.
Last time I walked past the vegan ‘meat’ section, just the look of that stuff made me want to gip.
Who wants to eat that shite??
That doesn’t surprise me at all. Quite often my local Aldi is low on items on the meat aisle, but the shelves are always still laden with the veggie and vegan crap. The other day, when it was roasting hot, I went in to the store and unsurprisingly all the ice cream products were cleared out. Except one freezer, which was full of vegan ice cream. Even when its 35 degrees outside no-one wants it.
The popular high street restaurant in Ventnor said that while it used to serve some vegan food they decided to stop due to a ‘militant minority’.
I’ll bet a pound to a penny that the ‘militant minority’ were complaining because the restaurant used the same pans, plates, pots, etc that they used for preparing animal products.
Yes, that’s exactly what they were complaining about if you dig deeper into the story. But they wanted to eat at the same restaurant…
Reminds me of one of my wifes friends who was vegetarian/vegan. We went out as 3 couples (me under protest) to a small cafe which had 6 choices on the menu – three vegetarian, three carnivore. Linda threw the menu down in disgust exclaiming “there is no real choice there”. She was the only vegetarian in the group.
Oddly enough, when she fell pregnant, at about the 4 month stage, she went out and bought a pound of liver, cooked and ate it “pink”. her body was telling her that she needed the protein and iron. Odd, that, eh?
I have always described vegan as “hard core vegetarian”, but until now I hadn’t really thought of it as a mental affliction.