Being vegetarian in India should be easy, right? I mean, we have an entire cuisine dedicated to plant-based deliciousness and goodness. But strangely enough, we vegetarians still end up facing the most unusual and bizarre questions at weddings, family dinners, vacations, and even lunch breaks at work. From health advice (unasked for!) to pity questions about food variety, it sometimes feels like being vegetarian is a full-time job among non-vegetarians. If you are a vegetarian that often faces such questions (and then roll your eyes!), you already know the drill. Let’s take a look at six things every vegetarian is completely, absolutely tired of hearing.
Every vegetarian has faced this question at least once, usually from someone cleaning up their plate of butter chicken without any vegetables in sight. Usually, people assume that if you don’t eat meat, you must be surviving on air and rice. But they don’t know that Indian diets are packed with many protein-rich options like dal, chana, rajma, paneer, etc. And let’s not forget our staples like khichdi or paratha with curd. Not only are they comfort food but also packed with nutrition, a fact that’s often ignored by non-vegetarians!
If you once ate meat and now don’t, then you probably must have heard this a lot. This remark always comes with a slightly concerned tone as if we vegetarian people are depriving ourselves of food. But the truth is, most vegetarians genuinely don’t crave meat. In fact, from spicy chhole to crispy bhindi, to buttery pav bhaji, we have 50 other types of sabzis are rotating through the week. The notion that vegetarian food is a compromise just doesn’t make sense. So no, we are not secretly dreaming about kebabs but want that second serving of lip-smacking aloo dum, please?
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