[HPFGU-OTChatter] Vegetarian food in Israel

[- Joy -]

Finding vegetarian food in Israel shouldn't be a problem.  A lot of people
there keep kosher, which means they don't mix dairy products with meat
products.  Because of that issue, there are a lot of foods that use meat
substitutes or don't involve meat at all so that people can enjoy dairy
foods with them.  Asking if the food is "fleishig" will tell you if it
contains meat.  Even if they don't speak English most people in the Jewish
areas will know that word.  You might want to be on the lookout for words
like basar (meat), of (chicken), tarnegol (turkey), and dag (fish) on menus.
If you add yesh in front of any of those words, you're asking if it has that
stuff in it (in a rudimentary form, but it works).  I'm sure Yael and Naama
will be a lot more informative than I am, but I can't resist adding my two
cents.

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----- Original Message -----
From: <inyron at yahoo.com>
To: <HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 8:55 AM
Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Vegetarian food in Israel


> First of all, thanks to all the kind souls who let me know about
> Spotted Dick and the other the English foods.  I am subscribed to the
> Archive, so I'll try to be better in the future.
>
> Secondly, I don't drink tea with lemon anymore.  But I used to- milk
> tastes good, sugar tastes good, lemon tasted good- why couldn't they
> all taste good together?  I thought the white flakes were normal.
>
>
> To the point of my post- I am very uncultured, as I'm sure you
> guessed.
>
> But I'm applying to take a semester abroad at a college in Jerusalem
> spring next year or fall the year after.  So since we were talking
> about food, I was wondering if yael or someone else wwho lives in/has
> visited Israel would answer any of these questionsfor me:
>
> Falafel is vegetarian, right?  Are a lot of foods I can find there?
> Are a lot of people?  I mean, I shouldn't have a problem finding
> enough food, right?  Can I ask the person I'm buying it from?  Do
> most people there speak Hebrew and English?  Would a college dining
> hall have vegetarian meals?  I have some problems with my college
> here in the states supplying enough non-meat protein products.
>
> Like I said, me = uncultured, so I hope you'll ignore it if any of my
> questions are really really stupid.
>
> inyron
>
> whose international travel consists of two weeks in France, where it
> was very hard to get vegetarian food.
>
> who is celebrating her third-year-as-a-vegetarian anniversary this
> month.  Yay!  That doesn't seem like much, does it?
>
>
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