Meat Eaters: Leave Those Quiches Alone!
It just so happens that on the past two Saturdays I've attended conferences, and at each of these events a buffet lunch was served with chicken and salad, plus quiche as the vegetarian option. Coincidence, yes - or maybe this is what's hot in summer conference catering right now. I don't know. But at both events I saw meat-eaters stroll down the buffet line putting both chicken AND quiche on to their plates, and at both conferences the quiche has run out, leaving some vegetarians without a decent lunch.
The quiche gods have shone down on me twice, as both times I have been a vegetarian getting a piece of quiche before they ran out. Yes, if I were a nicer person I would have offered my quiche to another veggie in line. But I'm a selfish quiche-eating mo-fo. It makes me shudder how close I have come to being one of the people going without, and so I am using my blog to make a public service announcement to meat-eaters. STOP. EATING. VEGETARIAN. FOOD. AT. BUFFETS!
Yeah you! I'm talking to you chicken AND quiche eater! What's wrong with you? That quiche is obviously the non-meat option. Actually, it is possible that people are unsure about quiche as a foodstuff. One time I was eating a nice pub-garden lunch with my (now ex) boyfriend, a man who genuinely felt he was getting ill if he didn't have some form of red meat in each meal. To him, chicken was 'diet food', and he thought that my quiche and salad I was eating that day was just 'plain salad'. When I pointed out that quiche isn't even that healthy, it's made with pastry and butter and stuff, he shrugged and said 'some salad is healthier than others.' At the time I put this down to him being an Australian rugby-playing meat-headed meat fanatic, but now I'm, starting to think that other people genuinely think quiche is a side-dish too. Because surely whole conferences of people can't be that selfish, can they?... Next time you're at a conference, or any kind of buffet, please spare a thought for the veggies. We have less options than you at catered events, and the caterers usually account for only a small proportion of attendees to not eat meat. Thank you and bless you, meaty person!