Vegetarian distraught after eating meat for first time.

Cantona's Collars

Maybe I'm just insensitive but I really think this woman overreacted after eating some chicken by accident.She even had to go home from work the following day she was so upset.What would have happened if she had a eureka moment & realised that she really loves meat & had been missing out on it for all those years.

'I feel like it is not my body anymore': Devastated vegetarian ate meat for the first time in her life - after Nando's served her chicken by mistake

Roshni Barot ordered grilled halloumi cheese pitta at Nando's restaurant
She ate most of her chicken pitta without realising what it was
She was so distraught she tried to make herself sick when she got home

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2531093/I-feel-like-not-body-anymore-Vegetarians-outrage-going-Nandos-served-chicken-mistake.html#ixzz2oyKazSEL

Gillo

Surely one bite in, she'd have thought it tasted pretty weird?

landsleaving

"'I never would have thought that I would need to double-check my food."

Seriously? I'm a veggie and I always do. Been served meat a couple of times accidentally. Sent it back politely. No harm done. It's easily done in busy restaurant.

But then again, it is the Daily Mail, so the story is probably a few truths shy of reality.

Cantona's Collars

Gillo wrote: »

Surely one bite in, she'd have thought it tasted pretty weird?

But if she never ate meat,how would she have known what it tasted like?

Lapin

Just listening to a debate on this story on LBC.

I think she's after compo myself. She comes across as someone who needs to cop on a bit.

I think the restaurant manager in Nandos is more distraught.

flutterflye

Sure she'll just sh1t it out in a day or 2 and then her body will be hers again, or whatever nonsense she was going on with.

wes

Mistakes happen, and if you have dietary requirements that are outside the norm, you should probably double check things. I do find it hard to believe she wasn't able to taste the difference.

Femme_Fatale

landsleaving wrote: »

"'I never would have thought that I would need to double-check my food."

Seriously? I'm a veggie and I always do. Been served meat a couple of times accidentally. Sent it back politely. No harm done. It's easily done in busy restaurant.

But then again, it is the Daily Mail, so the story is probably a few truths shy of reality.

Well vegetarians ARE one of its enemy groups so a story about an extremely neurotic vegetarian = win-win.

awec

Never mind the taste - you'd think she'd realise that what she was eating hadn't the texture of cheese.

"Nothing can compensate me for those 28 years" - yea, right.

Gillo

zerks wrote: »

But if she never ate meat,how would she have known what it tasted like?

She ordered something completely different, shouldn't it have tasted like what she ordered?

No Pants

Lapin wrote: »

Just listening to a debate on this story on LBC.

I think she's after compo myself. She comes across as someone who needs to cop on a bit.

I think the restaurant manager in Nandos is more distraught.

She's certainly using all of the right language.

My name is URL

They took away my choice about what to put in my body

No they didn't you silly bitch.. they made an honest mistake

Corruptedmorals

Being annoyed and feeling strange about it are fairly normal reactions I would think. But the melodrama is ridiculous...she was served by humans, not infallible robots and she should have checked first. Sounds like a recipe for emotional damage case, which hopefully will be thrown out of court if it gets that far.

Plazaman

Gillo wrote: »

Surely one bite in, she'd have thought it tasted pretty weird?

Covered in Piri Piri sauce, everything tastes the same. You could have a small dogs turd in there, but Piri Piri will make it taste like halloumi any day (which also is part of the dog shít family).

Compo case methinks, she looks shifty.

Stheno

awec wrote: »

Never mind the taste - you'd think she'd realise that what she was eating hadn't the texture of cheese.

"Nothing can compensate me for those 28 years" - yea, right.

Grilled halloumi has a very meatlike texture

landsleaving

awec wrote: »

Never mind the taste - you'd think she'd realise that what she was eating hadn't the texture of cheese.

"Nothing can compensate me for those 28 years" - yea, right.

"I have found in your favour, and you'll receive exactly the compensation you suggested..."

is something a judge would probably never say... but wouldn't it be brilliant.

Cantona's Collars

Gillo wrote: »

She ordered something completely different, shouldn't it have tasted like what she ordered?

She said that it was smothered in piri piri sauce,that'd mask the taste of anything.

My point is that she seems waaaayyyy too needy & going by the comments she made,you swear she got AIDS instead of a mouthful of chicken.

You never hear of cases of meateaters saying "I'm traumatised by eating a salad roll by mistake".

Artful_Badger

I find it odd that some vegetarians think the problem is actually eating the meat rather than the morality issues associated with perpetuating meat eating.

awec

If she is so up tight about it then she shouldn't let other people prepare her food for her.

Someone made a mistake - she'll get over it. No big deal. Hopefully she doesn't get a penny for it.

awec

Stheno wrote: »

Grilled halloumi has a very meatlike texture

If I took a mouthful of cheese expecting chicken I am pretty sure I'd notice immediately.

bootybouncer

she looks like a **** and talks like one too.....................self centered biatch

o1s1n

Their logo is even a chicken ffs.

Pumpkinseeds

I'm a veggie and I always double check my food when I eat out. I've had restaurants and cafes make mistakes in the past and put meat/chicken in. Like another poster, I always politely send it back. I cook meat for my husband and I've got no problem doing that, but when I see meat/chicken on my own plate it does make me feel a bit queasy.

Dempsey

I'm sure her outrage can be bought with compensation. Hope she doesnt get anything tbh.

padd b1975

awec wrote: »

Never mind the taste - you'd think she'd realise that what she was eating hadn't the texture of cheese.

"Nothing can compensate me for those 28 years" - yea, right.

No point taking legal action so.:cool:

Raminahobbin

She's just going for compensation. This isn't a story about 'vegetarians' this is a story about people suing for stupid exaggerated reasons.

I hope she gets nothing: it'd be different if someone swapped the cheese for meat deliberately. It was an honest mistake, and if she was THAT concerned about meat going in her gob she shouldn't have gone to Nandos! There are just certain establishments where I, as a long term veggie too, wouldn't go near.

I've had chinese food where there was a definite fishy flavour, chicken burger where I ordered veggie burger, chips cooked in the same oil as the sausages etc etc. The risk of cross contamination is too great in certain places, so you send the food back and avoid them going forward. Unless it's a food allergy that you have, there is absolutely no need to sue.

griffdaddy

What's the point of being a vegetarian and eating in Nando's? Surely you shouldn't support a massive chicken restaurant chain in anyway if you're so staunch in your believes

MadsL

I have no issues with vegetarianism - I was one for six years; but this is hysteria in it's finest form.

As a Hindu you vehemently disagree with the commercial exploitation of animals for food production and restaurant sale yet are prepared to give one of the larger fast-food consumers of chicken your money because they offer a vegetarian option.

Really? Really?

padd b1975

zerks wrote: »

You never hear of cases of meateaters saying "I'm traumatised by eating a salad roll by mistake".

I say that all the time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krT4fsLYpsU

Chain_reaction

I was veggie for years and a lot of my friends still are, any time we are out for dinner they will check the food before eating or have a meat eating friend double check by tasting if they are still not sure.

No sympathy at all.

Raminahobbin

Chain_reaction wrote: »

I was veggie for years and a lot of my friends still are, any time we are out for dinner they will check the food before eating or have a meat eating friend double check by tasting if they are still not sure.

No sympathy at all.

Exactly. You are aware that omitting meat is not every chefs priority, and pretty much every dish you get when eating out goes through an evaluation process out of habit as soon as you get it. We all know, or learn pretty quickly, what to look out for!

Dozen Wicked Words

Wait, did she just say she used to be a dude?

Legs.Eleven

I used to work in a bagel shop in Dublin and served a man chicken with his cream cheese accidentally and he was a veggie. He was absolutely distraught and I mean REALLY distraught. I can't remember a time in my life when I felt more guilty or apologised more than I did that day. He told me it was like eating human flesh to him.


Ooopsadaisy.

Cantona's Collars

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

I used to work in a bagel shop in Dublin and served a man chicken with his cream cheese accidentally and he was a veggie. He was absolutely distraught and I mean REALLY distraught. I can't remember a time in my life when I felt more guilty or apologised more than I did that day. He told me it was like eating human flesh to him.


Ooopsadaisy.

How many times had he eaten human flesh so as to know what it was like?

Legs.Eleven

zerks wrote: »

How many times had he eaten human flesh so as to know what it was like?

Never got round to asking him.

WilyCoyote

I think she's full of wind and self-righteousness. After all it was only a chicken. A pity the article didn't specify if the offending bird was a capon, pullet or a cock so the boardsie amateur psychologists could enlighten us.

SpaceTime

If I were that vegetarian, I'm not sure that Nando's - a restaurant that specialised in cooking entire chickens serving them up in hot sauce - would be top of my list of places to eat!

ArmaniJeanss

Logically some poor sod at another table must have ordered the chicken and ended up with her Halloumi Cheese Pitta.
Someone spare a thought for that person.

Jimoslimos

Gillo wrote: »

Surely one bite in, she'd have thought it tasted pretty weird delicious?

FYP

Cantona's Collars

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Never got round to asking him.

Maybe it was for the best:p

Daqster

awec wrote: »

you'd think she'd realise that what she was eating hadn't the texture of cheese.

Maybe she's BLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIND!

Legs.Eleven

zerks wrote: »

Maybe it was for the best:p

Yep, I reckon so although it would've been a great reply. I got a bit distracted by the wailing and sobbing to think of any clever comeback though.

robinph

I'm more shocked that there is a story on the Daily Mail website and I agree with most of the comments that are getting up voted. :eek:

WilyCoyote

"Carnivore devastated after being served vegetable", The Daily Getsmuchworse

Also in today's issue: How to pickle yourself if you're in a stew: Beef Tomato fricassée

bootybouncer

bootybouncer wrote: »

she looks like a **** and talks like one too.....................self centered biatch

We're talking about the woman's reaction to inadvertently eating meat, and how she felt very distressed at doing something completely opposed to her belief system. I personally feel she over reacted, but I have some sympathy.


You appear to have this confused with a discussion of her general appearance and speech.







*I genuinely hate how things so frequently boil down to what someone looks like or sounds like, more usually women.

lollsangel

Guess theyre sorry they told her it was chicken now?

J_E

I'd be fairly annoyed if I was served meat as a vegetarian, mainly because it's so tasty.

My friend is a vegetarian to help him maintain his weight. He'd love the likes of bacon or steak. If he had meat it would be fairly hard for him to go back veggie.

This reaction is a little over the top but fundamentally I could understand a degree of the upset.

awec

Candie wrote: »

We're talking about the woman's reaction to inadvertently eating meat, and how she felt very distressed at doing something completely opposed to her belief system. I personally feel she over reacted, but I have some sympathy.


You appear to have this confused with a discussion of her general appearance and speech.







*I genuinely hate how things so frequently boil down to what someone looks like or sounds like, more usually women.

It's hard to have sympathy - if her beliefs are so vehemently anti-meat then why go to a restaurant famous for serving meat and why allow someone else to prepare your food for you?

If I was so strongly anti-meat I would either go to a restaurant with noted vegetarian options where the food is prepared by a trained chef or I would cook for myself.

Nando's is glorified fast food (it's probably a step up from McDonalds, but still fast food) - the people who work there are not chefs. They churn out food as fast as they can - mistakes will be made.

For vegetarians who just don't like meat I am sure it's perfectly fine - but for people like her where it's a strong belief then you're always taking a risk. Person gets served meat in specialised meat restaurant - shocking.

WilyCoyote

Quote:
'I feel like it is not my body anymore': Devastated vegetarian ate meat for the first time in her life - after Nando's served her chicken by mistake

Roshni Barot ordered grilled halloumi cheese pitta at Nando's restaurant
She ate most of her chicken pitta without realising what it was
She was so distraught she tried to make herself sick when she got home

Hey Chucken!
I thought we'd lost you to a vegetarian carnivore. Just one key away from being cooked and three-quarters eaten.


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awec

awec wrote: »

It's hard to have sympathy - if her beliefs are so vehemently anti-meat then why go to a restaurant famous for serving meat and why allow someone else to prepare your food for you?

Yes I agree, that's why I said I think she over reacted.

I don't understand why she'd show up in Nando's, but at the same time she's probably eaten there on a number of occasions and had no problems, and subsequently had her guard lowered.

Or if I was being cynical, I'd wonder if the lady has fallen on hard times.

Over reaction or not though, if she ordered a menu item and it was not as described, the restaurant had questions to answer, although that doesn't absolve her of her personal responsibility to be vigilant.

awec

Candie wrote: »

Yes I agree, that's why I said I think she over reacted.

I don't understand why she'd show up in Nando's, but at the same time she's probably eaten there on a number of occasions and had no problems, and subsequently had her guard lowered.

Or if I was being cynical, I'd wonder if the lady has fallen on hard times.

Over reaction or not though, if she ordered a menu item and it was not as described, the restaurant had questions to answer, although that doesn't absolve her of her personal responsibility to be vigilant.

They offered her a free meal - that's more than fair IMO.

We can't start sueing restaurants because they get an order wrong.