Served Chicken instead of Cheese - Nandos
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2531093/I-feel-like-not-body-anymore-Vegetarians-outrage-going-Nandos-served-chicken-mistake.html
'I feel like it is not my body anymore': Devastated vegetarian ate meat for the first time in her life - after Nando's served her chicken by mistake
Roshni Barot ordered grilled halloumi cheese pitta at Nando's restaurant
She ate most of her chicken pitta without realising what it was
She was so distraught she tried to make herself sick when she got home
Ms Barot, of Tividale, West Midlands, said: 'I wasn’t paying attention as I was talking with my friend.
'I never would have thought that I would need to double-check my food. I trusted them and they have let me down. I was in shock and started crying in the restaurant. I cried all night and couldn’t sleep.'
Ms Barot grew up in a Hindu household where none of the family eats meat.
She was so distraught after eating the chicken she unsuccessfully tried to make herself sick when she got home.
She was also still distressed the next day and was allowed to go home early from her job as placements officer at the University of Birmingham.
The manager at the restaurant apologised and offered her vouchers for another meal, which she refused.
She said: 'They can never say or do anything to make this up to me. Nothing can compensate me for those 28 years.
A Nando’s spokesman said: 'We deeply regret that a customer was mistakenly served a chicken pitta instead of the halloumi pitta ordered.
'Nando’s has the utmost respect for all our customers’ eating choices and this was an honest - and extremely rare - mistake which the restaurant are extremely sorry about.
'We are currently in contact with the customer and have offered our sincere apologies and are investigating how this has happened to ensure it doesn’t happen again.'
is this 'first world problems' or is she right to be so upset?
In my view, I would say, she has the right be upset, but really? don't you look at your food before you eat it?
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Anyway, hilarious story.
Should have been paying attention.
Also - what kind of vegetarian is she where she can't tell chicken from haloumi cheese? Not a very good one, surely.
Never had meat inside her before-lies.
Pretty sure she gets meat and two veg from her oh on a regular basis, stupid pretentious spoiled brat.
I once ordered a vegetarian pizza and then after eating a slice found it had got ham in it I spent rest of the night throwing up that put me off pizza for about 5 years
Is that how long she spent eating her pitta wrap?
She'll live. Accidental consumption doesn't make you any less of a vegetarian. Mark it down as joint error and move on.
This
Stay out of chicken restaurants if you don't want to be around or accidentally eat chicken. Wouldn't the sight and smell of hundreds of whole chickens being grilled offend them anyway?
The thing is she ate it unintentionally so she has to comes to terms with that, it is not like she ate it on purpose.
It is big deal to eat meat if within your belief you do not eat it.
My cynical hat comes on though when stuff like this gets in to the press.
Anyone know how it got media coverage?
I find it staggeringly difficult to credit.
Yes, Nando's should have served her what she ordered, so they were in error. But she should have known by the smell, never mind the first bite, that what she'd been served was absolutely not halloumi.
Is anyone else craving a chicken and cheese sandwich now?
And yes I'm very cynical. Especially when it comes to the Daily Mail.
Anyway, Nandos is known to be a predominantly CHICKEN restaurant, even their symbol is a chicken, surely with her severe views on meat eating, she maybe should have kept away from such places.
I blame the girl in the story, though. She should have checked before she started eating (I do that before every restaurant meal- only once have I been served meat inadvertently) and it's not as if haloumi and chicken share much in common!
To be fair, both chicken and halloumi are mostly flavourless chewy things, and doused with peri-peri, the flavour of the underlying filling is lost anyway.
Certain Hindus do not eat meat at all, others do.
I can understand her being so upset if this is the case.
Agreed.
Bet you she has no qualms about tasting her hubby's meat.:D
On the other hand I can understand why she would be upset especially if it is something she feels so strongly about.
Personally I do have to question her motivation for going to the press but that may just be the cynic in me;-).