Vegan food in mountain huts
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| tiborrr23. 08. 2015 01:24:58 |
Ugh, hope no one else gets scared off by all this helpfulness and friendliness. Maybe reflect on yourselves.
The woman nicely asked in which huts vegan food is available. Probably to ease her dilemma whether to drag all day rations or if there's something to eat in the hut too.
Some don't eat meat and animal proteins for ethical reasons, others for health, the third just feel better that way. Do you really have to be so mean?
A bit of culture, tact and general tolerance wouldn't hurt you.
LP,
N.
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| BibaS23. 08. 2015 08:32:59 |
Actually no one knows anymore how to simply answer a question on this forum, right?
As written in the last few comments, the question was if vegan food is available in any huts.
No one was convincing anyone to veganism nor claiming that vegan diet should be mandatory in the huts' offer.
But no, most of them go into some lofty moralizing. And after reading the comments it's more than obvious, hm, quite a bit. Sadly, the level of the forum is going in a similar direction in all other topics too.
Shame.
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| capraibex23. 08. 2015 12:22:42 |
The simple answer was already given. Offer in mountain huts is by my experience fully satisfactory. But I have often witnessed guests who annoy the staff with unbelievable demands. And these few vegan food advocates remind me of the aforementioned.
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| tiborrr23. 08. 2015 14:09:15 |
Unfortunately the simple answer wasn't given, if it was, it got lost in three pages of pointless ranting...
"But I have often witnessed guests..." - what bar-level argumentation is that. It's the same as if I tell you I have witnessed guests complaining about too rare beans or too small sausage... You can't generalize like that!
In every demographic you have the full cross-section of society - from whiners through self-absorbed jerks to completely normal individuals. Should now someone conclude from the 'meat-eaters' statements in this thread that all are arrogant self-centered pricks? Thought so...
Why do you all gang up on anyone who deviates from your norms. Once it's trail runner Dejan, next time plant-eaters...
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| GregorC23. 08. 2015 14:32:31 |
If any hut offered it, believe me they would advertise it big time. I think they've already gone quite far to meet such or other wishes. In almost every hut you can already get a meatless meal. With prior notice I'm sure many huts would prepare something vegan too.
But to have it ready non-stop I doubt, because there are too few such visitors.
After all, jota without sausage isn't jota but ordinary vegetable stew
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| tiborrr23. 08. 2015 15:55:34 |
GregorC: Here, a very correct answer. I'm vegetarian myself (so occasionally eat eggs and cheese), so in every hut there's something for me. The vegan buddies have the problem, they don't have that luck. Basically a tiny detail turns a dish vegan (margarine instead of butter, vegetable oil instead of lard, apple strudel without egg wash etc...). So even a vegan will happily devour a portion of good mountain stew.
Just a bit of respect and tolerance for different ones and a bit less judging will make this forum bearable again.
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| capraibex23. 08. 2015 16:25:33 |
Who has to offer what to whom? We order what they offer. We don't invent, don't complicate unlike you. You poorly know hutkeeper work, have no idea. That's why you can provoke endlessly.
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| tiborrr23. 08. 2015 16:33:44 |
Don't judge others by yourself, that's it. And since when is a call for cultured dialogue provocation? Why the division into YOU and US? After all we are all potential customers of mountain stations whose primary purpose is profit-making activity.
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| GregorC23. 08. 2015 16:49:18 |
Exactly what capraibex says. What's on offer is the hutkeeper's matter not visitors'. If he decides for 20 types of pancakes, let him have them.
Here's an anecdote from a few weeks ago in one of the more visited huts:
A lady guest comes to the counter and asks if they have anything without meat? Hutkeeper says they have jota and ričet on menu which he can serve without meat. The miss looks at him under her brow and says probably the meat wasn't cooked separately, which the hutkeeper (laughing) confirms. She then orders nothing and snaps at the hutkeeper if it's really so hard to cook veggies and meat separately, not make everything inedible
They all complain like that. Vegetarians, vegans, omnivores (meat-eaters), raw foodists...
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| tiborrr23. 08. 2015 16:59:59 |
You find such characters everywhere in the high mountains in the summer season. Aggregation of various self-absorbed birds. One time it's food, another time bed quality, the third time too warm and expensive beer. Regardless of eating habits.
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| lubadar23. 08. 2015 17:30:26 |
With all due respect to everyone seeking specific food due to health restrictions, everything else is just whining...
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| tol23. 08. 2015 17:40:30 |
capraibex now read the sentence from the first post in this thread.
So we're looking for huts that offer vegan food! No one demands that they must. Now tell me why you're griping in this thread then?
Since I know the situation in huts regarding vegan options, I bring all my food from the valley, even on multi-day trips or climbing camps.
@lubadar it's not whining, it's (mostly) personal choices based on principles and values we as individuals believe in. Whining is the capitalism we live in....
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| lubadar23. 08. 2015 17:47:08 |
@tol have you ever worked in a very busy hut maybe?
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| tol23. 08. 2015 17:56:32 |
No. What does that have to do with my decision to go vegan?
If the hut isn't interested, fine. But given they can offer 20 different pancakes, couldn't they offer some vegan dish too? Like a bean salad with onion, oil and vinegar? Too demanding for a hut where those are basic ingredients?
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| tol23. 08. 2015 17:56:34 |
No. What does that have to do with my decision to go vegan?
If the hut isn't interested, fine. But given they can offer 20 different pancakes, couldn't they offer some vegan dish too? Like a bean salad with onion, oil and vinegar? Too demanding for a hut where those are basic ingredients?
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| lubadar23. 08. 2015 18:00:56 |
@tol the debate is about vegan food in mountain huts.... your personal food choice is your business and it should be respected 
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| tol23. 08. 2015 18:06:01 |
You didn't answer. Would it be so hard to offer a bean salad? Too demanding?
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| lubadar23. 08. 2015 18:14:07 |
if the hut keeper thinks so, then probably yes... when I worked in a hut myself, we did our best within our capabilities, which were often limited
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| GregorC23. 08. 2015 18:17:15 |
tol if you've already pasted the sportal link, I hope you read the entire article, not just the part about 20 types of pancakes. And are you sure that hut doesn't cater to your beliefs? By the way, one of the huts described in the article also caters to vegans (even with stews).
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