As for the vegetarian thing, if Terry K's account of the programme is correct, it's pretty ironic in how it happened. It's no-one's fault except the veggie's in not checking (or tasting - duh!) what he was eating - if someone has food intolerances/preferences, it's THEIR responsibility to check before they eat.

I'm not sure all vegetarians would agree with that, Graham (I'm not one myself, just to make that clear). If a restaurant serves a meal advertised as suitable for vegetarians, and it turns out not to be the case, I would hold the restaurant responsible.

I guess it's not always possible in any case, for a veggie to be able to tell from the taste, whether a dish has any animal content (e.g. if animal fat is used to cook something it may not be particularly easy to detect by taste, depending on the other ingredients).

As I said, I'm not a veggie but I respect the right of veggies to be served with what they asked for.

A veggie friend of ours was out for lunch with us and she ordered a veggie dish. They brought her what turned out to be the non-veggie version, and she ate a fair amount of it before she suspected something was wrong. She questioned the waiter and he checked and confirmed the wrong dish had been served. Our friend was quite upset to know she had been eating animal products - I regard that as a serious lapse by the restaurant.

To add insult to injury, when I paid the bill, the waiter asked "Was everything all right?". I won't record my response - suffice to say I didn't leave a tip :-)