It looks good, it tastes like nothing one earth

[venta]

Here is a useful thing I just came across. At least, it is useful if you are planning to go to Japan and are not omnivorous:

Cut-out-and-keep cards explaining various dietary restrictions, in Japanese

I think these are a great idea, particularly for countries in which your average foreign person is all at sea with the language. It occurs to me that I haven't bought a phrasebook in a long time - maybe these days they have a handy set of stock phrases for common allergies/intolerances/choices?

Comments

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

I fully believe you aren't exaggerating.

Mostly because I've had almost exactly that conversation so many times getting non-dairy vegetarian food. People ALWAYS end up offering me something with dairy in but no meat, followed by meat with no dairy.

And then, they start getting really confused and going "Well, such and such has got gluten in so you can't have that..."- ummmm, huh?

I have started just asking if food is vegan, which you would *think* would be harder because of how it's more restrictive, but usually works out easier and more likely to get food. Because otherwise you get the "May contain traces of blah blah blah" and not an actual straight answer. My local pub have started a deeply, deeply annoying policy which says that the serving staff have to say "Yes" to all questions about "does it contain...?" even if it doesn't, on the grounds that keeping an allergy list is too hard.