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June 7, 2010

katherine – VEGAN FAIL (Bear Republic IPA)

June 7, 2010 - katherine. Tags: Uncategorized

breakfast: shredded wheat with soymilk; espresso

at birthday party for co-worker: gluten-free, vegan snacks from babycakes (portions of carrot cake cupcake, vanilla cupcake (purple frosting!), brownie bite, sugar doughnut, glazed doughnut, chocolate cookie frosting sandwich)

lunch at Cafe Tasia: green curry with tofu and white rice; spring roll appetizer. I asked and the waiter said it had no fish sauce, dairy, or egg, but he didn’t sound extremely sure about it.

dinner at Mamoun’s: falafel sandwich (pita, lettuce, tomato, tahini, hot sauce, falafel); stuffed grape leaves

half a peanut butter bomb cupcake, made by Vegan Treats, purchased at The Standard. Not as good as the brownie version.

Bear Republic Racer 5 IPA (NOT VEGAN… according to Barnivore, they filter with gelatin. I had 2/3 of a beer before noticing the fail, and then gave the rest away)

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marcy's comment:
June 7, 2010 at 11:57 pm

wow, what an amazing eating day you had. i’m jealous

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katherine's reply:
June 8th, 2010 at 6:20 am

By amazing do you mean expensive and excessive?

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marcy's reply:
June 8th, 2010 at 9:05 am

only in the positive sense

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stacey's comment:
June 9, 2010 at 8:26 am

when you go to thai/ Chinese restaurants do you ask about oyster sauce? I have found that is a bigger problem than fish sauce

how were all of the treats? i can’t believe you had donuts!!!!! i need to visit ny

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katherine's reply:
June 10th, 2010 at 7:57 pm

Well, I said fish, then sort of listed fish sauce as one thing I couldn’t have. But I said that I was allergic to fish, so I would hope that would include all types.

Didn’t we have a donut at Babycakes? Or were we too full? You got me that vegetable scone.

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stacey's reply:
June 17th, 2010 at 9:27 am

hey-

i don’t think we got a donut. are they good? i don’t remember seeing them.

i have found that most chinese/thai restaurants do not consider fish and oyster sauce the same thing. i used to just say fish and one day i asked about oyster and fish sauce and i got a very different answers- places where i had previously been told had no “fish” had “oyster sauce”.

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katherine's reply:
June 18th, 2010 at 12:04 am

yeah. well, an oyster isn’t a fish…

Oh sweet, does that mean we can eat oysters??

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