• Chev@lemmy.world
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      Unless you are living in Berlin or Vienna. Than it’s like “Story Mode/ Easy Mode”

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        And that’s only touching upon the restaurant scene. Supermarkets carry everything you could ever want for a vegan diet and I live in a rather small-ish town in Germany (~80k). Probably even more insane in a city like Berlin or Vienna.

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      Thats so true. Thankfully asian restaurants usually have options because european cuisine sucks when it comes to vegans or even vegetarians.

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        Although, you do have to watch out sometime. Egg and fish (sauce) could be used for some dishes without explicitly telling you about that beforehand.

        Apparently that is a problem with kimchi, for example, where the animal-derived ingredients are not considered to be part of the “main ingredients”, like nappa cabbage or radishes, so they can sometimes be forgotten when asked if it’s vegan.

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        asians know their spices, you can eat a shoe if you spice it right.

        european vegan food is a bunch of canned stuff mixed up in a bowl

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          I love american chinese food so much, but the last place I got Buddah’s delight was definitely a bunch of canned stuff mixed in a bowl with the saddest fried tofu ever. I have messed up some tofu and this was worse.

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        Tell me you know nothing about European cuisines without telling me you know nothing about European cuisines.

        Vegan is going to be a bit harder in the northern parts because butter but there’s a fuckton of traditional naturally vegetarian dishes. Peasants back in the days had maybe a pig that they raised for food and another to sell, that’s not a “meat every day” type of supply. Eggs are a different matter.

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      It seems like every where I go from restaurants to pubs in the UK have good veggie and vegan options these days, it’s a far cry from when I went veggie eighteen odd years back.