Fast forward many meals later, many recommendations later about a food that is on the list of world favorites. And for a moment, just pretend, you are casually looking for another bit of information. Say the restaurant hours. And you go to a familiar source, lets say, Happycow.net for instance. And lets just say while looking for that bit of information you casually notice this ...
All vegan except for the soy ham which contains whey.
"What?" You say as your hands start to tremble and you nearly drop your phone into the sewer, almost tripping in front of a bus as though you'd never used your feet before. You quickly regain your senses and to no one in particular say, "Huh?"
This just cant be, you think, as if sitting in the Vatican and listening to Copernicus explain his crazy theory.
"This must be verified!"
The waitress clearly has English as a second or third language and she must check. And check she does and you know what, it's true. That ham really does have whey in it. And all these years Ive been recommending the Autumn Rolls as a MUST TRY ITEM! Why in the world would you have ONE non vegan item and not mark it.
Look, the truth is I don't care what you put on your menu. (Well of course I do ... but i don't). If you want to serve elephant, serve elephant. (Not really). But for Dog's sake put a notation there. Let us know. An asterisk, a little "V" with a line drawn through it. How about just the words "Contains whey" in the description?? I felt ... taken advantage of. How disingenuous.
Now take a look at this picture of the menu at Gobo, another place I enjoy eating at:
Look, the truth is I don't care what you put on your menu. (Well of course I do ... but i don't). If you want to serve elephant, serve elephant. (Not really). But for Dog's sake put a notation there. Let us know. An asterisk, a little "V" with a line drawn through it. How about just the words "Contains whey" in the description?? I felt ... taken advantage of. How disingenuous.
Now take a look at this picture of the menu at Gobo, another place I enjoy eating at:
See that last item? The sliders? Now truth be told I have no clue why there is such a need to have a non vegan item, (I think it was the egg wash on the slider buns if I remember correctly, and who cares, really), but it's there, for whatever reason, and it's clearly marked. So unless you're a vegan who misunderstood the word "not", (I dunno, could happen), you ain't eating any animal products accidentally at Gobo.
That's how you do it, Zen Palate. So, a big thumbs up and kudos to Gobo in the clarity department and a big old Bronx cheer to Zen Palate in the "pulling of the wool over my eyes" department. Yuck.
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