There Is Mushroom For Improvement, Part 9
There’s a food market that opens outside our office at lunchtime. I am ordering at a new stall that looks good. It sells crispy fried food with rice and spices. The fried options are pork, chicken, or mushroom.
Me: “I’ll take the fried mushroom, please.”
I see the guy place the battered mushrooms into the same oil as the meat.
Me: “Oh, sorry, I should have said. I’m a vegetarian.”
Stall Guy: “Uh, yeah. The mushrooms are vegetarian.”
Me: “But you’re frying them in the same oil as the meat.”
Stall Guy: “…yeah?”
Me: “That stops it from being vegetarian. It’s contaminated by the meat.”
Stall Guy: “Look, lady, the animal still died. You’re not saving another animal by using a different oil.”
Me: “But I will be making a point by having lunch at a different stall. Good day.”
I reported what happened to the market master. The next week, that stall had been replaced by a Filipino grill place that knew how to separate the meat from the veggies!
Related:
There Is Mushroom For Improvement, Part 8
There Is Mushroom For Improvement, Part 7
There Is Mushroom For Improvement, Part 6
There Is Mushroom For Improvement, Part 5
There Is Mushroom For Improvement, Part 4
