breakfast: Cheerios with rice milk, coffee
lunch: leftover pasta with expensive tomato sauce and vegan parmesan; orange
snacks: Stonewall’s vegan Jerquee Cajun Bacon; french fries from Johnny Rockets. While they don’t list beef tallow as an ingredient under American fries on their ingredient page,
American Fries
Potatoes, vegetable oil (contains one or more of the following: canola oil, corn oil, cottonseed oil, palm oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil). Disodium dihydrogen pyrophosphate (to promote color retention), dextrose. Product contains 0 trans fat.
Allergens: Soy
at the beginning of the page they have a “note to vegetarians” that says they feel compelled to list beef tallow as a possible ingredient because, even though it is not added as a flavor or otherwise intentionally, the fries are cooked in close proximity to meat. But then they don’t list it as an ingredient. Am I missing something? I wrote an email to them to confirm their current stance. Either way, it sounds like it is not added as a flavor, and might just sometimes result from cross-contamination with other fried foods. I will let you know what they say in their response. Also, useful information follows in the note about their vegan burgers and buns.
A Note for our Vegetarian Guests
At Johnny Rockets we strive to meet the needs of all of our guests. The Boca Burger patty that we use in our Streamliner is their Original V35 and is manufactured as a vegan product. Our spec hamburger buns should not contain any dairy nor other animal-derived ingredients. Our American fries also should not contain ingredients which are of animal origin and are always cooked in 100% vegetable oil. Beef tallow, or flavorings derived from animal sources, are never intentionally added during the manufacturing or cooking process. However you should be aware that, due to the proximity of the manufacturing equipment to sources of animal protein or oil from animal sources there is the slight, though extremely unlikely, possibility that traces of these unwanted products may be accidentally transferred to our American fries during their production. For this reason, and this reason only, we feel compelled to list beef tallow as a possible (however extremely unlikely) ingredient.
Please be aware that we designate a special area of the grill on which to cook only the Boca Burger, and we do everything in our power to keep the area free from other materials. We also have special color-coded turners and tongs which help to keep cross-contamination to a minimum. However, due to the limited space and tight kitchen layout at Johnny Rockets, we cannot guarantee that there will not be unintentional contact with some small amount of material from an item which is animal in nature.
dinner: pita with guacamole, lettuce, roasted pine nuts, and a bit of tomato sauce; lettuce with pine nuts and Annie’s Goddess Dressing; Dogfish Head 60-Minute IPA and Stroh’s (both vegan according to the just-revamped Barnivore (it now color codes the different booze companies by veganosity!)
dessert: Dandies marshmallows melted between two pieces of dark chocolate (like a s’more, minus the graham. I cooked the marshmallows over the stove and then added to cool chocolate. resulted in too much chocolate:marshmallow)
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stacey's comment:
February 8, 2010 at 8:17 pm
hey, how did you get the gray bars?
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katherine's reply:
February 8th, 2010 at 10:00 pm
block quote; it shows up as b-quote as you are writing a post.
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