Well my graduation ball is being organised by a muppet. We had a menu of various choices, and a good selection of veggie dishes. Now we're told that the only choice is veg soup, roast chicken and lemon tart, and the only other "veggie" is having fish. Last time I checked, fish wasn't a vegetable.
Tell them, not us.
eat some meat pasty boy.
Last time I checked, humans weren't herbivores.
😈 😉
i organised quite a few uni balls, it's a lot more effort than you'd think
Just ask for the only choice without the chicken? Quit moaning, if you choose to be different to the majority of the population you have to accept you're going to be less likely to be accommodated.
hahaha sod off! I LOVE meat, but I like to consider other people's needs not just my own.
But my wife is veggie and I don't wish to spend £80 on two tickets for food neither of us like. And a cack disco. She'd argue but she doesn't have the strength. :p
thisisnotaspoon - Memberi organised quite a few uni balls, it's a lot more effort than you'd think
it cant be difficult to pick the items off the menu that have a (v) by them as choices for the veggies though.
To be honest there's not much point trying to get sympathy from IT guys, as they only eat flat food that can go underneath a door anyway.
Although IMO any organised event in the 21st century that doesn't cater for non meat/ non fish eaters is really taking the piss - you're not in Fance are you as apparently Ham isn't meat over there.
LOL aphex - good reply 😉
Uni balls tend to be primarily about being with mates and drinking anyway I found, the meals were rarely anything about hotel general spec and the alcohol is usually extortionate. Was fairly common for people to turn up after the meal without tickets to ours, the venue was happy as the bar got more business and the organisers didnt mind as it cut down on the work involved.
To be honest there's not much point trying to get sympathy from IT guys,
I take exception to that, I'm not an IT guy!
**** em. Go and spend your £80 in a decent restaurant
Those ticket prices are cheap, ours were £45 5 years ago!
Wovlerhampton mate. I'm surprised they didn't ask us to chip in for a bargain bucket and half price entry into Ritzy :o)
GJP - Member**** em. Go and spend your £80 in a decent restaurant
*two thumbs*
Ask if the chicken is corn fed. If you're eating a veggie chicken then that makes you at least 50% veggie.
Wolvo eh?
Its almost 15 years since I've eaten out in Wolvo - I don't suppose any of the places are still there now.
If I was you I'd just go to The Cat at Enville and spend the £80 on a nice meal and quite a few pints of excellent beer, or maybe the Cider House at Quatt.
Well if you're not going to be with mates for your final big doo then not much point is there. I wouldnt have missed our balls for the world, such great memories, but i did go mainly for the mates, not the meal. In fact I think most people regurgitated their meal after a few hours.
Those ticket prices are cheap, ours were £45 5 years ago!
ha! you should go to a proper ball.
Magdalene College used to be £250 for a pair of tickets, AND you had to hire white tie dress for the night too. 🙂
EDIT
it's £300 now 🙂
https://www.magdalencollegeball.com/tickets/
https://www.magdalencollegeball.com/dress_code/
Graduation ball - is this where everyone hires stylish white stretched limos and wears white tux's?
Two words: Packed lunch.
ha! you should go to a proper ball.
Cost isnt proportionate to fun you know (unless you're hiring a hooker) 😉
Magdalen? Maudlin, more like.
(*[i]wistfully recalls Somerville/St Catz 1998... SKN, where are you now?[/i])
>Uni balls tend to be primarily about being with mates and drinking anyway
Most beer isn't vegetarian friendly (contains animal products to clear it) so narrows down what you could drink.
some fine women went to somerville...
http://www.some.ox.ac.uk/1301/all/1/Margaret_Thatcher_Centre.aspx
[i]some fine women went to somerville...[/i]
Yes - Vera Brittain and my great-great aunt. Nobody else springs to mind, though. 8)
Most beer isn't vegetarian friendly (contains animal products to clear it) so narrows down what you could drink.
Ohhh but you dont think that'd stop people do you? After all it's not convenient ..... 🙂
last* graduation ball I was at you didn't check the food menu, just called your dealer and made sure you had at least £100 for booze.
It was basically a big rave in a field near Leeds, and it was much more than £45 and much more than 10 years ago 😥
*only
I had a lovely girlfriend at St Annes.
She was a University hooker too.
Well that's just not good enough.
Tell you what, just send me and SFBarnes down there. They'd soon change their ****ing tune!
Bastards!
(Kicks stuff around flat; then wonders what it was he was getting steamed up about in the first place...)
Last time I checked, humans weren't herbivores.
Pretty sure they don't [b]need[/b] meat at every meal either. I really can't understand the mentality that says you have to have a bit of dead animal at every meal otherwise it is somehow lacking and you'll die of meat-scurvy.
One reason I love India...all the vegi food!
SSP
One reason I love India...all the vegi food!
Must depend on the place in india, my mate is indian and he wouldnt have a meal that didnt include meat!
Last time I checked, humans weren't herbivores.
No, not all of them are, but a fair proportion were even before vegetablism hit western Europe. But then again, that fact wouldn't fit in with yet another one of your crass throw-it-in-there-and-walk-off-s****ing generalisations would it.
coffeeking - MemberMost beer isn't vegetarian friendly (contains animal products to clear it) so narrows down what you could drink.
Ohhh but you dont think that'd stop people do you? After all it's not convenient ..... [:)]
n00bs. She drinks Grolsch. Veggie friendly. :p
RudeBoyBastards!
(Kicks stuff around flat; then wonders what it was he was getting steamed up about in the first place...)
Feels good though... And..... Reeeelaaaaax :p
Heh! I do get a bit worked up from time to time!
Are you alone in the problems about this ball?
Organise your own?
Get involved and help them sort it?
Provide them with evidence you're not alone?
Go for a meal yourself with your pals from uni.
Complain to the organisers.
Sorry I am a white meat eater-need to taste blood occasionally at midnight.
Nobody gives a **** about the ball unless you can dance like Fred...do you have date? if so then just go and eat before and concentrate on booze and scoring women or men depending what you like.
most beer doesn't contain animal by products, sorry but that's just bollocks.
A large number of bottled or canned beers are filtered through filter cakes which can be completely synthetic in origin, or indeed can be animal derived, among other things but under most country's purity laws they can't be left in the product once finished. If they weren't then over time they develop complex polyphenol compounds which when chilled cause the beer to go cloudy, or in some cases develop an astrigent or stale taste. Effectively meaning that you can't store the beer for any time, thus defeating the point of bottling / canning it.
What you allude to is that some cask beers use an animal derived (actually fish derived) collagen as a gelling agent. This gels with the yeasts that are left in the beer and settle more quickly. Beer left in a cellar to condition properly before serving will be tapped above this gel layer so you get bright beer. If you get animal derived additions in your pint, my advice would be send it back.
So veggies don't despair! There's plenty of non-animal derived beer out there!
unless you can dance like Fred
Heh! 'Ave you ever seen me dancin'? Y'know, REALLY dancin'??
Oh, you meant Mr Astaire....
(Puts John Travolta 'Saturday Night Fever' suit back in suitcase...)