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I could get that for you, but I won't. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 58 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Italy is just as bad with this kind of stuff, at least in my experience. I'm not even vegan or vegetarian, but I saw it happen a lot when I was there. They had the same kind of "historical diet" excuse, and I'm sitting here thinking "you fuckers didn't even get tomatoes until the 16th century and now you're acting like you invented them."

I hate food purists so much.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not many vegan options around, but one place in Sorrento made me the best vegan pizza I ever had when I asked (there was nothing vegan on the menu). No vegan cheese necessary, I think it was the crust and oil that made it. Got bored of the same tomato pasta item every night at the hotel though.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    One of the most basic pizza, the marinara (tomato, oil, garlic, oregano) is technically vegan and any pizzeria worth its name will have it on the menu.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Interesting, thanks. The Sorrento place was a cafe so they didn't specialise in pizza, but it sure was good. I don't think I've ever seen a marinara pizza marked vegan here in Oz. They probably all use bulk garlic sauce bottles with milk as ingredient.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    Never been to Italy, but I expected it would be even worse over there, Italians are often very invested in their opinion about food😄 some of my Italian friends can spend the whole meal debating about what they are eating

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  • [+] -15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    All of Europe is highly anti veg. As it should be.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    You'll be hard-pressed to find a German restaurant without a good choice of vegetarian options and at least some vegan ones. Germany is about 2% vegan, 10% ovo-lacto-vegetarian, and 55% flexitarian. That's 67% of the population having an active look at those choices and you'd be very out of place with "if there's no meat it's not food" comments. You just insulted a huge number of quite cherished traditional dishes.

    Go on, go, go to Swabia and say that Käsespätzle are not food. I'm waiting. They'll probably lock you into a madhouse.

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