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I have heard that in some parts of Europe vegetarianism isn't accepted as a norm. I didn't expect to find that this as the case in a London hotel in 2008.

Today I had a meeting with a lot of lovely Indian women. They are all mostly Jain Hundus and therefore vegetarian. Upon checking about vegetarian options for lunch I was told that we were booked in for buffet menu B which consisted of tuna salad and cheese ploughmans. He actually asked if they would eat tuna. Tomorrow we were booked for buffet menu C which is pate and chicken salad. Thankfully have managed to change this to a hot menu with choice, but it was too late to change things today.

It turned out that the tuna salad was a big bowl of dressed tuna with a garnish of tomatoes and cucumber round the edges and a sprig of lettuce. The Cheese ploughmans consisted of big lumps of cheese, quite a lot of bread and crackers and some pickles. No veg or green shit of any kind. It took quite a lot of convincing to get him to bring out some salad.

Other than that the meeting went well. I even got to the train station 10 minutes before my train but sadly not early enough to get a seat. When I joined the train there was only one man standing in the door way so I was able to bag a nice flat place to lean against and didn't have to stand with my bag between my legs. By the time we left the station there were nine of us in the door way. Still my new MP3player allowed me to giggle all the way home while listening to 'life the universe and everything'.