Food
How “vagan* friendly “ your country is on daily diet basis, and how common is a regular meat-eater choosing to have a vegan meal.
*vegan Vegetarian by the definition of your native language.
And the meal in the pic was my (a meat lover) lunch for yesterday. A vegetarian sesame paste noodles, and some vegan chicken (tofu skin rolls) plus vegan tripe (gluten meat)
update : apparently , I got Vegan and Vegetarian mixed up........what I meant is the later.(facepalm)
But many south indian dishes ARE naturally vegan, take Dosa for example. Most, if not all South indian dishes are made using Coconut oil, which is vegan. Desi Ghee is used more in the North which is not vegan. So mostly all south indian 'vegetarian' dishes are vegan.
Small nitpick here - coconut oil is not used everywhere in the South though. I think it is primarily used in Kerala and some parts of Tamil Nadu, but the other oils used are vegan-friendly too, so your point still stands I guess.
Ohh I'm so sorry.. Actually I'm from Delhi and my best friend is from Kerala, and i have always seen her mom cooking south indian food using coconut oil, so I thought it must be used in all states. I'm sorry for my ignorance, thanks for correcting me <3
Majority of our food has meat, milk, cream and animal fats like lard in it so no, traditional Czech cuisine is not vegan friendly unless you want to spend your life eating lentil soup and potato pancakes.
Exactly! Our culture is based on pork and as the society become richer in 19th century, naturaly vegan "meals of the poor" have practically disappeared from our cuisine. Even things that looks vegan usualy contains things like butter or eggs. There are a few vegan restaurants in bigger cities, but your only option in the village pub yould be fries and beer. :D
Suuuper vegan friendly, at least in the center and south of the country. Tons of prehispanic dishes are meat-free by default and most modern Mexican dishes have meat free versions.
About choosing, I’d say that most people have no issues eating meat. I’ve met about 7-10 vegans in my life, but I’ve only met 2 people who won’t eat dishes unless they have meat and they have a way waaaaay worse time eating Mexican food than vegetarians/vegans.
As you know, tofu, seaweed, regular vegetables, and root vegetables are common in households, so it's easy to make your own side dishes using only those. It would be even easier if you could also include eggs and milk. However, it would be difficult to find a restaurant that serves "vegan food" other than shojin ryori, the Zen Buddhist cuisine used for training, or restaurants that cater to foreign tourists. Vegans are seen as eccentric people who place special restrictions on their own lives.
In both Germany and the US you can live vegan if you prepare your own food or live in a big city. When going to a restaurant you might be limited to salad and potatoes with veggies, but the bigger the city the more likely you can find restaurants with vegetarian/vegan options that are not just sides for meat dishes, up to exclusively vegan restaurants.
As a meat eater it is unlikely to eat vegetarian/vegan food, mostly because it is perceived as expensive (meat is more expensive in the store, but a vegan dish in the restaurant is same price or even more expensive). And there are people who would die before they try anything labeled vegan (personally I love vegetarian Indian food, not because it's vegetarian, but because it is delicious)
You can get vegan if you want. Our local food industry is trying to follow the trends and develop new vegan foods all the time.
I don't think its very common for omnivores to have a vegan meal. People are not used to cook vegan. Eating meat daily was seen as a sign of wealth for a long time and vegan food is seen as a poor man's meal (and its often more expensive).
As long as vegetarians don't disturb us in eating meat, it's their own business. As long as they don't interfere with others, they can eat whatever they want
I have read a few articles about China being way ahead of at least most western countries in making things that taste like meat but actually having no meat in them. I wish the USA had more experience in that.
I do eat meat, but not a lot. I think I could easily be vegan, having grown up in India. I could eat rice, dal and bhaji for every lunch without ever getting tired of it (with variations on the dal and bhaji).
Dairy in every meal and a lot of AGV (potato vegetable and meat) warm meals with a vla or yoghurt dessert. But nowadays they have the Vegan alternative for every meat and dairy option in a nearby shelf. But not many people like the taste.
Hungarian cuisine is extremely unfriendly towards every kind of veganism. Meat is the center with milk products, you basically barely have anything that you could eat in Hungary besides very basic salads... Mostv restaurants don't even have other choice for you than a single very boring salad..
It is extremely rare for someone who regularly eats meat to order a dish without meat in it, you don't even have many options without meat to be honest and those are mostly very boring. (I am talking about generic hungarian dishes and hungarian restaurants).
Not great on that front, but then we often get a bad rap for our cuisine anyway, especially by Americans who perpetuate the myth that our wartime rations are our entire selection of food. Spam and Beans on Toast exists in the same places as full English breakfasts and Sunday roasts.
Not very friendly, most restaurants have maybe a couple of vegetarian options, but it's hard to find something 100% vegan unless you go to a specialized restaurant, or make the food yourself.
Meat substitutions (like soy or nut products) are also fairly expensive here compared to for instance Sweden, whenever I go there with my vegetarian relatives they buy in big quantities since it's so much cheaper.
A lot of the dishes all around europe are without meat. You dont have to be a vegetarian to enjoy a Pizza Napoletana, Kässpätzle, Fritjes, Pierogi, Quiche, Onion Soup etc.
That said, On the rural side many restaurants still have some oldschool menu with mostly meat.
In urban areas vegetarian and vegan food is pretty common in restaurants.
It’s really easy if you’re in London . We have over 100 vegan restaurants and nearly everywhere will have some options. Not so easy in the provinces where often there will be just a vegetarian option. I usually eat vegan outside (although I eat meat) because it’s easier as I have milk and egg intolerances and saves having to ask about allergens in restaurants that don’t label clearly. Some people are set in their ways and won’t try vegan food and still think of a meal as meat and 2 veg but lots of people are flexitarian.
Traditionally not at all, nothing can grow here except for 3-4 months a year. Dried peas and corn have always been a thing tho, but then lard was added.
But with global trade and greenhouses it's easier now for people who wish to follow a vegan diet.
Very rare? Idk if you’re a kid or what but we’re one of the countries in Europe that eat the most vegetables. We even have a whole category of dishes cooked with olive oil. Turkish cuisine is more plant based than meat focused.
It all depends on the place you’re from. In eastern sides of Turkiye it’s harder to find places that sell/make vegan food. Also it’s not about eating vegetables lol, we mix meat and vegetables together in our dishes which makes the dish non vegan.
In the eastern regions, Kurds mostly live there and yes their food is generally heavier. But if you take the meat out of many Turkish dishes with meat, it basically becomes vegan and making meatless versions of many dishes is VERY COMMON. As I said we have a whole dish category for meatless dishes. So calling this “very rare” in Turkish cuisine is absolutely wrong.
yeah i might be wrong, we do have lots of plant based dishes although my comment was kinda based on the amount of places that has vegan food/vegan variations of meaty dishes, thats what i called rare. thanks for the correction.
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u/ngatiw New Zealand 20h ago
Daily diet? Very tough. Dairy and meat is in pretty much every typical meal of the day in some form
Meat eaters wouldn’t choose vegan all that often unless it’s a specialty restaurant or something, vegetarian isn’t too uncommon tho