I wonder if he is either picky, or just doesn’t want to be a bother. I have never been to a place that didn’t have at least something I could eat. They were travelling in Europe and while some locations are a bounty of meat dishes, they do eat vegetables there too. Perhaps asking for plain potatoes and cabbage would have sufficed. Or is he the type of vegan who won’t even eat at a restaurant that prepares meat?

Never seen the show, but how much do they “race” around? I have had a hell of a time eating vegan in the south while on tour. I didn’t have tons of time in every town to scout out places, and by morning we were back in the van. In Dixie they do strange things to vegetables, like add bacon to string beans. I would have been in trouble if it were not for Clif Bars and chia seeds to supplement crappy salads. I even had a hard time finding a restock of whole wheat bread that did not have milk and corn syrup in it.

While filming our Milk Documentary- “Got the facts on Milk?” in 2007, we travelled cross country from LA to Washington DC. It got very hard when we were in mid America because everything is saturated with cheese and or cooked in butter. Most food servers don’t consider cheese or butter a dairy substance. In many store bought breads there are milk derivatives and so being skittish at a restaurant that the waiter has no clue what soy milk is was the norm. There was a period that we hadn’t eaten for 24 hours apart from a few nuts here and there. We stopped as often as possible at supermarkets and purchased things that would get us by or we could mix and match at the hotel. Cliff bars, Lara bars, Hummus, Pita, Nuts fruit and vegetables. Congrats Mike!

father’s name is Mel…