Going Vegan - part two
I had posted earlier about some
research that was done on Vegan Restaurants in the Los Angeles area.
Here is a follow-up from
Quarry Girl:
Operation Pancake: The plot thickens…
From the moment that we got our first POSITIVE result when sampling a “vegan” menu item from one of our favorite LA-area vegan restaurants, we knew that we were on to something with Operation Pancake. When POSITIVE readings gave way to HIGH and OVERLOAD results we were quite shocked. For us, though, the most memorable moment was when we unpacked the “vegan cheese (no casein) quesadilla” from Green Leaves Vegan and the acidic smell of “real” cheese came right at us out of the box as our sample crept toward OVERLOAD. We stepped back. We retested. We then warmed the quesadilla, played with the stretchy, greasy cheese and realized that the multitude of tip-offs we’d been getting about the sketchy ingredients and evasive staff members at Green Leaves Vegan might just be true.
We wrote this post as a follow-up to address some questions from the 250+ comments on this blog as well as the thousands of comments around the web.
What follows is an interesting cross section of restaurants that were mortified and wanted very much for the folks at Quarry Girl to come in and help them with further testing to one restaurant that:
A lady who picked up when I asked to speak with a manager screamed at me “DON’T COME HERE AGAIN” and hung up the ‘phone.
A fascinating story and I am glad to see that they are following through.
Posted by DaveH at July 5, 2009 4:57 PM
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