Hey y'all. Idk if this is the community for this because it seems mostly link posts, but here goes:
How do you go about finding food in a country you don't speak the language of? I've just came back from an Italy hiking "vacation" that caused me two meltdowns in just 4 days. It was a really rough hike and I've been the weakest of the group and didn't make it to the top. I don't want to go into details but i had a really rough time and food usually is my comfort zone helping me reset from the shitty stuff.
Now the problem was that i don't speak Italian and we went to a bunch of cool looking places only to see the menu was not translated and didn't have vegan or not labels on it so i caused everyone to not go there. So instead of comfort, food search was more anxiety inducing and I'd like to avoid that in the future. It's been the first time for me to visit a foreign country since going vegan and I was shocked by the lack of consideration for vegans in a lot of places.
So yeah how do you prep for tours where you don't know which part of which town you're on every day?
6 Comments
dracs@programming.dev · 7 pts · 1y
Another vote for Happy Cow. Makes it easy to bookmark a few places near where you're staying and planning to visit.
There was also another app I used to use which I think was called something like vegan passport? It had written in a bunch of languages that you were vegan and what that meant in good detail. Haven't been able to find it again last time I checked though.
Sas@beehaw.org · 1 pts · 1y
That vegan passport sounds really useful. I guess i could in prep for whenever i travel next research the words in that language to describe veganism at least. And yeah I'll absolutely get happy cow. Sounds like an amazing app
sanity_is_maddening@piefed.social · 3 pts · 1y
Sas@beehaw.org · 2 pts · 1y
Oh thanks for that. That would've been very helpful. I'll install it in case of future travels.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
I don't do much travel but I'm not above existing on cold canned beans for a few days /shrug. Have always been able to find that
Sas@beehaw.org · 2 pts · 1y
I've had cold chilli sin carne one day actually but every food to be consumed at base camp would need to be carried up 150m height worth of stairs which was the first thing that completely destroyed me that vacation
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
That sucks. Anywhere where potatoes feature would probably have them on hand and be happy to just roast some if you could had the language to ask? Might be a generalised approach from hot chips as the backup in olive oil Europe anyway. Butter Europe would not necessarily be vegan.
When I have travelled I've usually been in sea and because of Buddhism it's been easier, although sometimes there's confusion about prawns.