Rant about Festival Foods!

Grrr!!!! it seems like almost every festival I go to only serves meat!! Like hot dogs and hamburgers!!! They have fries, but I can't live on fries!!! It seems like I'm always carting my food to these festivals. I'm going to an electronic music festival in NY in two weeks and they are only serving meat. I'm thinking about bringing veggie burgers/veggie dogs and opening a stand for veggies like me. I'll have a donations jar to help pay for the burgers/dogs. Does anyone go through this?

Peace + Love

 

I don't even eat the fries in those places, because they're either fried in lard or the chicken nuggets and stuff are fried in the same oil. I hate it, too.

 

That's a good idea. You can charge for the food and then alot a certain percentage of that money to donate to a great vegan supporting charity like the Farm Sanctuary. Infact, if people even think some of their money for food is going to charity even meat eaters might be prone to want to try some veggie food. either way, thats a great idea......i always end up eating fries at festys.

 

Argh... that's so frustrating! I went to Warped Tour last weekend, and ended up bringing a soy-meat sandwich with me. Would you need to get a permit to sell food at the festival you're going to?

 

lol... I only go to Scottish & Renaissance Festivals, but it's pretty much the same there too. You can find the odd pickle boy or Italian ice though, so it's not QUITE that bad.
love,
mom

 

That's so strange, because any festival that I have been to has some veggie food available. I've been to Clearwater Revival which is folk music. I've been to ren Faires. I've been to a fairy festival. I've been to Falcan Ridge Music Festival and Philidelphia Folk Festival. All of these places have had veggie and even some vegan food available.

GUess I've just been lucky.

Kathi

 

All the fest.s I'm involved with offer vegan options. A few of them restrict the vendors to vegetarian (no flesh) only.

Make a letterhead for for the "Phily Vegetarians Cooperative" (or some made up organiztion) with your address on it (change "Apt" to "Suite") and write the Festval. Let them know that some of your members are going to their event and could they please tell you which vendors offer vegetarian main courses.

Or,

at the event ask the vendors if they have veg* main courses. Letting the vendors know that there is a market for veg. food is the best way to change their menus. Be nice. If you call them "murderers", they won't want "your kind" as a customer.

It won't change anything this summer, but next year; Better Bands, Better Food.

 

Yes even in resturants, when I say im vegan they look at me like I spoke a different language (but, i don;t mind explaining it to people if they listend). But I know what you mean, I end up eating salad (sometimes with no dressing) or fries ( but I usually asked what they are fried in first). But anyways I think that is really a good idea, I hope it works out for you

 

Wakarusa had lots of vegetarian vendors as does Schwagstock.(and this is the Midwest) I have a charcoal grill and love to cook so I usually bring my own food.


try this sometime: Put your coals on one side of the grill, light. When coals are ready to cook, spread one or two handfuls of mesquite or hickory chip on coals. Place your chosen veggie delights on the opposite side of grill.. Cover and let the smoke saturate the food while it cooks. Yummmm.....

 

all the festivals i've been to have had vegan options.. apart from anything else it sounds like there is a gap in the market there for you if you were to sell vege food i hope you go through with it, it would be cool to change what you don't like. x

 

In Wisconsin theres a ton of cheese, so its easy for veggies to eat at festivities in the area here, but quite another story for vegans like me.

And because its such a dairy state its near impossible to get anything that wasn't cooked in butter or that comes with cheese.

Normally at festivals I get snack items since its impossible to get something significant. Unbuttered corn and sno cones is the route I take.

I never got all that annoyed though because I am so used to there being few options at public events for me to eat.

Sometimes I'll just bring my own stuff to eat.

At Ozzfest though, there was a Gardenburger stand last year which was pretty rock and roll.

Your idea sounds good though, go for it!!!

 

thats funny because i usually look forward to eating some bomb-ass vegan food at the festivals I go to. Of course they are usually crazy hippie jam music festivals, but still... I still remember some of the best falafals I have ever had, as well as some sweet potato fries with sugar and cinamon... damn that was good.

 

Large numbers of Krishnas in Dallas go north to lend support, hence the presence at the "fests" in Okieland.
Also, the veg*an community in OKC is small, but strong willed. (unfortunately, some escaped to Colorado...hehe)
Lot of wonderful, generous people there. (hard to see them sometimes because of that stupid "red" haze across the state)

Peace and Love ya'll
w_o

 

Just got back from a Festival that celebrates sustainability. There were vegan options from the food vendors. But....

The organizers (including those who fed the volunteers) are well informed and connected to organic, local food. But they are convinced that a day of physical labor requires meat protein, not just animal protein, but meat.

I couldn't convince them otherwise, but wasn't going to comment too strongly about the food I was eating. Odd, I would have thought that people who are that informed about food sourcing and the nutritional nastyness of agribuisness would also be aware that non-meat protien is just as good as the animal variety.
They did provide some non-meat dishes for volunteers. The dishes were labled with contents. If I remember correctly, the pasta dishes didn't usualy have meat. But vegans had to watch their step.
Even in the sustainabilty community there is a lot of food ignorance. (I assume/hope that the single serving tubes of Organic Yogurt were donated rather than bought.)

 

Damn republican dust. Hey, I escaped too....(temporarily..)

 

Hmmm, Thats annoying, the festivals here in the UK seem to have a good selection of veggie food, infact just last weekend I had the tastiest veggie burger ever at a festival. My meat eating boyfriend even had one and said it was better than eating one of the nasty looking burgers from the other stalls!

 

I'm very careful about where I eat veggie burgers. For example, I won't eat them from Burger King because they're cooked on the same surface as the other burgers and are literally coated in cow grease. I wouldn't eat one unless it was a separate stall with a separate cooking surface.