So, I imagine several of my posts will have to do with the challenges, and as well as hopefully some rewards, that come with traveling and a meat free diet.  Those of you who have made a similar decision for yourself know what I’m talking about.   The response I usually get when asking clients where I can find a restaurant with vegetarian options is “Oh so and so place has nice salads.”  (That, or  “Ummm I don’t think there are any around here.”)

Now, don’t get me wrong, salads can be good; they can even be filling.  But usually, they suck.   I don’t fuck with iceberg lettuce and orange tomatoes, and that’s what you find in most places.   That does not qualify, in my opinion, as a “nice salad”.  In airports, its even worse, as something like 90% of all salads have chicken or ham on them.  Airport food has become one of the banes of my existence.

Today, my airport experience is set in the Detroit Metro Airport.  After deplaning, I walked through a section of quick dining and snack options.  Most of these joints have the menus posted outside, and I usually quickly scan for something I could eat.  I found one sandwich that would work, the Motown Veggie.  Now comes the problem of never knowing what you are going to get with a veggie sandwich, particularly in airports.  I was told that the veggies included tomatoes, mushrooms, zucchini, and onions, marinated in Italian dressing.  Not too exciting, but it’ll do.  Or so I thought.  My grilled veggie sandwich more closely resembled a grilled cheese with a couple small chunks of tomato, onion and zucchini and shreds of lettuce.  Not OK!  It was bad to the point of actually telling the waitress that that’s what I thought of it.  Now, I don’t ENJOY complaining about food – but I’ll do it.  Honestly, it makes me really nervous about what they might do to my meal when it is out of my sight.  But this was just not gonna cut it, and was certainly not a $9 sandwich.

The embarassing part is that I told her I wasn’t comfortable complaining and didn’t want anyone to spit in it.  I am SO awkward sometimes haha.

The waitress was very nice about the whole thing, and after a few minutes brought out a new Motown Veggie panini, with extra veggies.  It was better it terms of quantity of vegetables… but it still wasn’t good.  I hate this crap…

By the way, I am literally LOLing right now at a woman who just walked by – in her 50s at least, wearing very tight jeans that are most likely about as old as I am (25)…. that are red and black, printed.  Like… they were printed with the black image (which I unfortunately did not have the time or wherewithal to try to make out) was printed on probably stone or white washed jeans, then all dyed red.  She also had ridiculously high clunky red platform shoes on.  I effing love people watching in airports.