On a cheerier note...
Jan. 17th, 2005 03:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qatarperegrineI forgot to mention the nice thing about my hospital visit yesterday. When I walked in, the receptionist grinned at me and said, "Hi, [insert my name here]! Where's your friend!" It was the same receptionist who last week realized the other patient and I had the same first name, and she remembered me. :-)
On another cheery note, I called Emirates Airlines to get vegetarian food on our flights. When I first checked their website I started stressing, because I didn't see "vegetarian" as an option under dietary restrictions. Well, that's because it was under religious restrictions. In fact, there are four vegetarian options: lacto-ovo, vegan, Hindu and Jain. I love living in this part of the world.
I particularly enjoy that ALL their meals -- including the Hindu and Jain ones -- are halal. God forbid a Hindu be served non-halal lamb!
And on our flights on an Indian airline within India, vegetarian meals are the default. For once it's the non-vegetarians who have to call the airline to request their preferred diet -- and on some short flights, non-veg food isn't even an option. Hah! Take that, omnivores! ;-)
On another cheery note, I called Emirates Airlines to get vegetarian food on our flights. When I first checked their website I started stressing, because I didn't see "vegetarian" as an option under dietary restrictions. Well, that's because it was under religious restrictions. In fact, there are four vegetarian options: lacto-ovo, vegan, Hindu and Jain. I love living in this part of the world.
I particularly enjoy that ALL their meals -- including the Hindu and Jain ones -- are halal. God forbid a Hindu be served non-halal lamb!
And on our flights on an Indian airline within India, vegetarian meals are the default. For once it's the non-vegetarians who have to call the airline to request their preferred diet -- and on some short flights, non-veg food isn't even an option. Hah! Take that, omnivores! ;-)
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Date: 2005-01-17 04:09 pm (UTC)Enjoy the trip after the flight too.
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Date: 2005-01-27 08:00 am (UTC)You ate Luna bars and bananas because NO airline does "no-sodium" diets. That has nothing to do with being halal. :-)
Qatar peregrine --
As an omnivore, I'd be fine with a veg option. That's the point of being an OMNIvore. I'm not a carnivore -- unlike my cat, I won't die without fish. (So she tells me, anyway.)
I will grant that it may take me a while to be desperate enough to eat the sprouts.
Side note --
Materjibrail and I just discussed that vegetarians seem to go through a transition phase of saying "I'm not a vegetarian, I just don't eat meat" and that this transition phase seems to be analogous to the "I'm not gay, I'm bi" phase. ;-)