I spent last week in Oklahoma City taking a training course. I don't think I generally move in rarefied circles, but OKC posed a challenge to stay vegan, let alone vegetarian.
--I could see several steakhouses from my hotel window. The best-named was the Rib Crib.
--As I walked into the training room after a break, the instructor asked me, "You ever hunt rabbit?"
--The only vegetarian meal you could get in the airport was...salad and french fries. Is that a meal? No? Well, how about a cinnamon bun, then? That's as close as you are going to get. Luckily I had packed several Larabars.
--The local Wendy's had a sign out front that said "Order the Baconator before it orders you." (Hot Slice's response: "Orders you a triple bypass!") And no, there was no vegan alternative called the BaconNOTer or the Fakin'ator.
I even checked Happycow.net for inspiration on where to eat. There are 4 listings: 3 Indian restaurants and a coffeehouse.
I ended up eating at a good Mexican restaurant, Panera, and an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet. The last was the most vegan-friendly, though Panera makes some good vegan soups. I ended up eating cheese more than I wanted to, which always seems to happen when I'm travelling.
I'm happy to be back in my Baconator-free kitchen.
4 comments:
These days it is pretty easy being a vegetarian, as most food-joints and restaurants have vegetarian fare...
However, It is really sometimes daunting and challenging to be a vegan, especially many people are not even aware of the word "vegan"
Vegans should always have bars and nuts and fruits with them! Some airports have wonderful juice bars.
lol I almost laughed out loud while reading this! wow, it reminds me of my first attempt (last year) to eat strictly vegetarian for an entire 2-week Greyhound trip across the deep south. It was miserable! Even when I thought I'd ordered a vegetarian item (some strange tex-mex rice thing at a fast food place), I could swear there were little pieces of beef in it! But I was starving so I ate whatever-it-was anyway. Yick.
Hey - great blog! Eating vegan while away from your own kitchen can be an adventure - and not always for the better!
I just get used to eating those ice-berg salads and fries some weeks. Not that's not *really* a meal but I know good things await me when I get home...
I always carry Clif bars with me..
I live in South Texas and my family is NOT veggie friendly...
They never even seem to get tired of the veggie jokes..
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