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Offline I went to a fast food place today because I wanted some junk. The lack of vegetarian options made me sad, I could choose between a salad (eww no) or a burger, whereas meat-eaters had hot dogs, burgers, nachos, sandwiches etc. I had the burger and the burger was nice but I wanted a veggie hot dog 🙁
In happier news though I found out Chewits are veggie 
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^ When did you become Vegetarian?
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Offline @AppleScruffJunior said
I went to a fast food place today because I wanted some junk. The lack of vegetarian options made me sad, I could choose between a salad (eww no) or a burger, whereas meat-eaters had hot dogs, burgers, nachos, sandwiches etc. I had the burger and the burger was nice but I wanted a veggie hot dog 🙁
In happier news though I found out Chewits are veggie
The same could be said about vegan places having a lack of meat choices. Why should a burger place bow down to the vegetarians, when it’s more cost effective to just sell meat burgers? I mean if you’re looking for a vegetarian option, don’t go to a place that specializes in meat.
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Offline Starr Shine? said
^ When did you become Vegetarian?
Oh golly I can’t really remember, it was more of just a transitioning thing. I hadn’t eaten pork products or gelatine in years because I find pigs are far too clever to be made into food and gelatine was such an unnecessary addition to gummy sweets when you could just use a non-animal substitute product. Everytime I went out to a restaurant I would eat the veggie/vegan option over meat/fish because I much preferred veg over flesh anyways and I never fancied the idea of something having been slaughtered just to be put on my plate.
Overtime I just stopped eating meat/fish and solely eat fruit, veg, dairy from time to time, non-meat protein and carbs and that’s where I am today.
William Shears Campbell said
The same could be said about vegan places having a lack of meat choices. Why should a burger place bow down to the vegetarians, when it’s more cost effective to just sell meat burgers? I mean if you’re looking for a vegetarian option, don’t go to a place that specializes in meat.
Well if you’re a person who goes to a vegan-specialised restaurant, you’d be a bit silly looking for meat, wouldn’t you? Just because it’s a fast food restuarant doesn’t mean it has to be a “meat-only” restaurant and frankly it’s a stupid idea for a restaurant with a broad menu to serve very few/none veggie options as you’re cutting out a small, yes, but loyal market.
I’m not saying a burger place should “bow down to the vegetarians” and besides not every burger place “specialises in meat”. I don’t think I’ve ever gone to a fast food joint that doesn’t sell at least a veggie burger, it would be an unwise business decision to have because if a veg*n person goes in looking for food the vast majority of us aren’t going to eat a beef burger just because we’re hungry, whereas you’d eat a veggie burger. The fast food joint only serving meat options loses out on veg*n money. You could get options at the place I was at that weren’t just meat/fish, it wasn’t like the second you stepped inside some big gruff man with questionable hygiene standards said “Meat or nothing bud, get out!”.
It was a national Irish chain that has a good few restaurants around the country and I guess out of about the 50 meat options they had, having 4 veg options is a bit sad. I amn’t forcing the restaurant to have half veg options/half meat and fish options, that would be a stupid business decision for a generic fast-food joint. But having a tad bit of variety, having a veggie hotdog, veggie sandwich, veggie wrap, along with the 5 other meat/fish hotdogs, sandwiches and wraps options wouldn’t exactly harm the business. It also makes financial sense because you can keep the same core ingredients for every vegetarian option, onions, mushrooms, lettuce, tomatoes, pickles etc. and just have a few different seeds or whatever to make each item “unique” from the other.
I know the second I find a place that serves good veg*n food, I keep going to that place, when you find great veg*n food it’s a place that will always be marked for you to go.
As regards the “I mean if you’re looking for a vegetarian option, don’t go to a place that specializes in meat” comment, I live in Ireland mate, population of approx. 4.5 million, around which 150,000 people are veg*n. There is no specialty veg*n restaurants in my county, the closest would be Galway i.e an hour and a half away, so how do you think I can find a place that “doesn’t specialise in meat”?
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Offline I know at McDonald’s, you can order a burger without the patty or the bun. If you are gonna do a self imposed challenge you gotta get creative.
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Offline I actually worked at McDonalds back in the late 80’s-early 90’s and I remember once some guy asked for a veggie burger, so we made him a burger without a patty and luckily for us, he didn’t ask for a refund (probably because he ordered it through the drive thru, which I was working that day). Also, on the topic of McDonalds, it pisses me off that they got rid of a lot of the more nostalgic aspects of McDonalds, such as:
Playland (what they were called when I was a kid)/Playplace (what they’re called now): nothing quite like being 7 years old and running around and eating your burger while sliding down a slide and it also is the most healthiest thing in McDonalds
McDonaldland characters: I used to love watching the McDonalds commercials back in the 70’s because they had all these great characters such as:
And although this one isn’t that nostalgic for me, it might be for you:
Sadly, They got rid of all of these characters around 2000, except for Ronald McDonald (who himself is fading away) and the new hamburglar looks more like Mark Wahlberg than a costumed cartoony character aimed at 4 year olds.
Also, it pisses me off that they are trying to make their Happy Meals healthier. Personally, when I was a kid, there were no happy meals, so I’d get a cheeseburger, and occasionally some fries and a drink. In 1979, they introduced the Happy Meal, which was a cheeseburger with fries, a soft drink, and a toy. Eventually, they decided to add milk as an option. Then they started to have milk in their happy meal commercials instead of a soft drink, then they added apples instead of fries, then they made apples and fries as a choice. If you want to be a healthier place, then you should:
A. Make sure every McDonalds has a Playland
B. Stop selling those stupid “healthy” food items such as salads or milk. No McDonalds eater would be caught dead with a salad or milk and if that’s not enough, their salads are more unhealthy than their Big Macs, so that’s a lose lose (lose for taste and lose for health)
C. Encourage the sale of your toys and occasionally throw in something like a baseball or a pop cap gun that pretty much requires you to be outside
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1 November 2013
Offline HMBeatlesfan said
If you want to be a healthier place, then you should:A. Make sure every McDonalds has a Playland
A would be a pain for the workers. Also some McDonalds are too small to have one.
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5 November 2011
Offline William Shears Campbell said
The same could be said about vegan places having a lack of meat choices. Why should a burger place bow down to the vegetarians, when it’s more cost effective to just sell meat burgers? I mean if you’re looking for a vegetarian option, don’t go to a place that specializes in meat.
There is a big difference between a food place not having many vegetarian options and a vegan place having no meat options. There is no human who can only eat meat and cannot eat vegetables, so vegan places actually have food that everybody can eat, and they also pretty much always have many gluten free options, too.
Nowhere is ASJ’s post did she say that burger places should “bow down” to vegetarians. She only said that it would be nicer to have more options than just a salad or a veggie burger, and I agree with this. I’m fine as long as there’s something I can eat that isn’t a salad (and if all I can eat is a veggie burger then it better not be a boca burger because those are gross af), but if there’s more than one other option, that’s always nice.
I try to go out to eat at places that I know have options for me, but sometimes vegetarians don’t really have an option on where they go out to eat fi they are with a group of people. It’s also hard to bring most meat eaters to a vegan place because all they do is complain when their lentil loaf doesn’t taste like a carcass.
Starr Shine? said
I know at McDonald’s, you can order a burger without the patty or the bun. If you are gonna do a self imposed challenge you gotta get creative.
Yeah, and I bet they make you pay the same amount you would if you were getting the patty, too. Plus, the fries at McDonald’s aren’t even vegetarian. I personally would never even get a drink from that place. I got a water bottle there a couple years ago and it smelled like McDonald’s which grossed me out so I had to give it to somebody else.
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Offline Little Piggy Dragonguy said
I try to go out to eat at places that I know have options for me, but sometimes vegetarians don’t really have an option on where they go out to eat fi they are with a group of people. It’s also hard to bring most meat eaters to a vegan place because all they do is complain when their lentil loaf doesn’t taste like a carcass.
I’m a picky eater, loads of places don’t have things that I eat and when I go there with my friends, I don’t eat. And ya sometimes I ask for things to be left out like the sides when I order a hot dog or something, I still pay the same with or without sides. It’s the price you pay for your self imposed challenge.
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Little Piggy Dragonguy said
I try to go out to eat at places that I know have options for me, but sometimes vegetarians don’t really have an option on where they go out to eat fi they are with a group of people. It’s also hard to bring most meat eaters to a vegan place because all they do is complain when their lentil loaf doesn’t taste like a carcass.I’m a picky eater, loads of places don’t have things that I eat and when I go there with my friends, I don’t eat. And ya sometimes I ask for things to be left out like the sides when I order a hot dog or something, I still pay the same with or without sides. It’s the price you pay for your self imposed challenge.
Well when I ask for something to be taken out of the meal, I ask for something else in exchange and they pretty much always do that for me.
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1 November 2013
Offline Sometimes I do that but the main food is filling enough not to bother.
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Offline The Hallmark Channel INSISTING on starting their “Countdown To Christmas” TWO DAYS BEFORE HALLOWEEN!!
I am no Scrooge. I love the holidays. But for goodness sake. Stop it with the sappy, horrible Christmas movies until maybe like Thanksgiving through Christmas. Two months of it is just overkill. They do it in JULY too. It’s just the whole “let’s rush Christmas!” ideology. Stores do it and cable channels do it. I’ve even seen three Christmas commercials already. 
The upside is that I do have a remote control. 
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Christmas sucks. I’m waiting for Thanksgiving (the best holiday of them all.)
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5 November 2011
Offline What makes Thanksgiving so great, Evangelicalina? Honestly, I find the idea of Thanksgiving repulsive. Not only because it paints a false story which would be called has to the known as that the Native Americans got along well with the pilgrims, but also because the tradition is to eat a tortured carcass, so not only is it based off of a LIE but it is also condoning MURDER.
Christmas, on the other hand, is about celebrating the birth of our savior and lord, Jesus Christ, who is one of the most positively influential people who has ever lived (and even if you don’t believe he is our savior, you still cannot deny the good he did for this planet).
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Little Piggy Dragonguy said
What makes Thanksgiving so great, Evangelicalina? Honestly, I find the idea of Thanksgiving repulsive. Not only because it paints a false story which would be called has to the known as that the Native Americans got along well with the pilgrims, but also because the tradition is to eat a tortured carcass, so not only is it based off of a LIE but it is also condoning MURDER.Christmas, on the other hand, is about celebrating the birth of our savior and lord, Jesus Christ, who is one of the most positively influential people who has ever lived (and even if you don’t believe he is our savior, you still cannot deny the good he did for this planet).
Ooooh that’s controversial, I know from my POV I don’t think Christianity as a whole (or organised-religion in general really) is any good for the world. Ah but alas this isn’t the forum to discuss it.
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Stupid yoke.
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14 February 2016
Offline I don’t care what Thanksgiving is about, I just think filling my gob with 5 pieces of pie is the best thing in the world.
Factually, Jesus wasn’t born on Dec. 25. Christmas is a just made-up pagen holiday.
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