Stuck between a Hard Rock and a bacon salad.

[rhionnach]

I had lunch at the new Hard Rock Cafe in Glasgow yesterday. I won't be back. I was dubious about the place as I had looked at their menu and couldn't see much that was vegetarian. However, my work has a birthday lunch tradition and the new Hard Rock Cafe was the chosen venue

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[baron_waste]

Bacon sprinkles / salad topping is a commonplace in the States, which of course is where Hard Rock Cafe Inc originated. It does, as you've noticed, add a salty piquant flavor, much as might salt-roasted peanuts. Imitation bacon bits are available also, made of the usual soy substitute.

Your reason for being a vegetarian is unusual, which of course you don't need me to tell you. If (as is the usual case) my objection were essentially ethical, I would appreciate being spared what I would perceive as the price of my qualms, being barred from enjoying a good old-fashioned hamburger or sausage or whatever. Friends tell me that Boca, particularly, make a line of burger / bacon / sausage / &c. products that might well fool an unsuspecting diner.

[As is, of course, I figure protein is protein, be it from squid or steak, and so long as it's properly cooked I'll eat whatever is brought in. I would only balk at dolphin, because if there's another sentient life form on this planet it's almost certainly cetacean and they've only been friends to Man; they're occasionally regarded as “non-human persons” and I agree.]