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Vegetarian distraught after eating meat for first time.

  • 30-12-2013 04:26PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭Gillo


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,749 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    "'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.


  • Administrators Posts: 56,569 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭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. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭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?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,346 ✭✭✭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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,195 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,037 ✭✭✭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.


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭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".


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭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.


  • Administrators Posts: 56,569 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭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.


  • Administrators Posts: 56,569 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭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.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 495 ✭✭bootybouncer


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,923 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Their logo is even a chicken ffs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,529 ✭✭✭✭Dempsey


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭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:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,983 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,414 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭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!




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭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.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,983 ✭✭✭Raminahobbin


    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!


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