Eating Lacto/Ovo/Shellfish in Rome?

Jon · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 4

Hi,

We're Lacto Ovo vegetarians who will be travelling to Rome soon. We
do eat scallops, shrimp, and other invertebrate seafood. Rarely, the
wife eats fish.

Any recommendations on eating Veggie while in Rome?

Thanks,

Jon

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Jam Sandwich · Joined: 17 Feb 2008 Posts: 2

Jon wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We're Lacto Ovo vegetarians who will be travelling to Rome soon. We
> do eat scallops, shrimp, and other invertebrate seafood. Rarely, the
> wife eats fish.
>
> Any recommendations on eating Veggie while in Rome?

troll alert!

Jon · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 4

On Feb 17, 3:29 am, Jam Sandwich wrote:
> Jon wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > We're Lacto Ovo vegetarians who will be travelling to Rome soon. We
> > do eat scallops, shrimp, and other invertebrate seafood. Rarely, the
> > wife eats fish.
>
> > Any recommendations on eating Veggie while in Rome?
>
> troll alert!

Come on. I'm not a troll. I'm a long-time usenet user with a recent
history of using my real, current gmail address when posting. I've
posted/lurked in rec.food.veg off and on since 1993! (Google's search
so cool.)

Seriously. We're worried about having all sorts of tripe, etc. being
part of normal Italian dishes. We'd like to stick to lacto-ovo, with
the possible slight foray into shellfish.

Does anyone have any advice? We've only found one veggie restaurants
in the guidebooks. And, eating margherita pizzas and gelato for a
week doesn't seem practical or appetizing (well, after the first few
days at least!). We're big fans of "americanized" Mediterranean food
and "americanized" Italian food, but are wondering if we're going to
have dolmas _and_ spaghetti on the same menu.

Thanks,

Jon

Jam Sandwich · Joined: 17 Feb 2008 Posts: 2

Jon wrote:
>
> On Feb 17, 3:29 am, Jam Sandwich wrote:
> > Jon wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> >
> > > We're Lacto Ovo vegetarians who will be travelling to Rome soon. We
> > > do eat scallops, shrimp, and other invertebrate seafood. Rarely, the
> > > wife eats fish.
> >
> > > Any recommendations on eating Veggie while in Rome?
> >
> > troll alert!
>
> Come on. I'm not a troll. I'm a long-time usenet user with a recent
> history of using my real, current gmail address when posting. I've
> posted/lurked in rec.food.veg off and on since 1993! (Google's search
> so cool.)

Then you should be aware how vegetarians feel about eating fish and why
you can't possibly call yourself vegetarian

> Seriously. We're worried about having all sorts of tripe, etc. being
> part of normal Italian dishes. We'd like to stick to lacto-ovo, with
> the possible slight foray into shellfish.

shellfish? vegetarian?
way too fishy!

Vicky Conlan · Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 139

According to :
>Does anyone have any advice? We've only found one veggie restaurants
>in the guidebooks. And, eating margherita pizzas and gelato for a
>week doesn't seem practical or appetizing (well, after the first few
>days at least!). We're big fans of "americanized" Mediterranean food
>and "americanized" Italian food, but are wondering if we're going to
>have dolmas _and_ spaghetti on the same menu.

I've always found Italian to be one of the most vegetarian-friendly areas
of food around. Pasta with pesto, tomato-based or cream-based vegetable
sauces, or plain tomato (I've never found a cheese sauce in Italy, though);
pizza with an assortment of toppings - watch out for the neve bianca, which
turned out to be an entire lake of runny white cheese!; assorted breads and
cheeses, and a whole host of yummy puddings.

The things to look out for are soups - I had a great vegetable soup one
day that wasn't on the menu, but the waiter suggested it and promised it
was vegetarian, although you will find a lot use ham bones - and risotto
(typically uses chicken stock).

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Jon · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 4

On Feb 18, 9:28 am, co...@riffraff.plig.net (Vicky Conlan) wrote:
>watch out for the neve bianca, which
> turned out to be an entire lake of runny white cheese!; assorted breads and
> cheeses, and a whole host of yummy puddings.

Oh know, runny cheese, we'll have to watch out! LOL.

> The things to look out for are soups - I had a great vegetable soup one
> day that wasn't on the menu, but the waiter suggested it and promised it
> was vegetarian, although you will find a lot use ham bones - and risotto
> (typically uses chicken stock).

Sounds about like the hazards of eating in US restaurants! Smile

We
find, as does everyone else I'm sure, that you can pretty much assume
when you're out that the odds of having some kind of meaty broth in
soups and some meals in pretty high. So, a lot of times, it just
depends on our mood if we're interested in risking it or not.

Thanks, Vicky.

Jon

Vicky Conlan · Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 139

According to :
>>watch out for the neve bianca, which
>> turned out to be an entire lake of runny white cheese!; assorted breads and
>> cheeses, and a whole host of yummy puddings.
>Oh know, runny cheese, we'll have to watch out! LOL.

Seriously, it was weird. Completely white pizza, no tomato, very thin crust,
and the cheese didn't set the entire meal. I ended up leaving half cos it was
just so rich. It's one of those things that starts off really tasty and seems
like a great idea, but it's just too much.

>Sounds about like the hazards of eating in US restaurants! Smile

We

Probably similar.

>find, as does everyone else I'm sure, that you can pretty much assume
>when you're out that the odds of having some kind of meaty broth in
>soups and some meals in pretty high. So, a lot of times, it just
>depends on our mood if we're interested in risking it or not.

In general, I've found the waiting staff to be as helpful as they can,
you just may have to specify for things like soup that you mean it hasn't
been made with meat bones, as some people wouldn't count that as 'meat'.

The handy thing if you don't speak Italian is that most people seem to be
learning English and looking for every opportunity to practise on anyone
they can! (Very frustrating if you're trying to learn Italian though)
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