Sometimes it can be tough to be #vegan on the road. When you’re traveling – especially on business (and especially with or around others … not vegan others)… it can be hard to plan \/ find \/ take the time to find and enjoy a great vegan meal. There’s not a Spiral Diner on every corner… yet. <\/p>\n
Oh, you can ask at ANY restaurant. Sometimes you’ll hear things like “Vegan? Of course! We have a great Mahi Mahi!” Or the dreaded “Certainly we can feed you! We have *grilled vegetables* and a salad!” <\/p>\n
Which isn’t all bad, but sometimes they can’t even get the “no butter” thing right. <\/p>\n
And it’s not for lack of trying. I think people generally want to help and support – they’re just not familiar with it. As any vegan will tell you, eating out requires asking a lot of questions… and sometimes, making your meal companions a bit uncomfortable. Not to mention a few sprints back to the kitchen and \/ or manager to get answers to questions they clearly don’t get enough (is there dairy in the _____?). <\/p>\n
I went to a cool restaurant for lunch in Fernandina Beach, Florida yesterday. The server assured me they had great vegan options. I’ll give them credit for having a very nice baked marinated tofu… but that really doesn’t qualify as “options.” The server… after hearing I was vegan… went into fish options. <\/p>\n
Oh – and before we even selected the restaurant… I asked a lady in a Honda CRV (with vegetarian stickers ALL over it)… where should we eat!?! She pointed to the restaurant next door to where we ate – and started raving about the fish options. As she was explaining that “as a vegetarian… I like fresh fish.” <\/p>\n
Oh my.<\/p>\n
Well. <\/p>\n
We all know… we who choose to eat vegan… that there are some great options out there.<\/p>\n
What are your favorites?<\/p>\n
Is it the Ma Po Tofu at PF Chang? Or the Beans and Rice at On the Border? Or a veggie bowl at Chipotle? Or Ear Muffs with tofu at Moes? <\/p>\n
What do you like when you’re on the run… on the road?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sometimes it can be tough to be #vegan on the road. When you’re traveling – especially on business (and especially with or around others … not vegan others)… it can be hard to plan \/ find \/ take the time to find and enjoy a great vegan meal. There’s not a Spiral Diner on every […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":762,"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}