I'm done with vegans.
I'm absolutely done with vegans.
>> That was Chef John Mountain, who announced on his restaurant's Facebook
page this week he will not be entertaining vegan customers going forward.
But why?
He explains the decision it's based on his own sanity.
Sadly, all vegans are now banned from fire for mental health reason.
S we thank you for your understanding xx yep, I'm done.
Hashtag vegan hashtag not hashtag.
Please go elsewhere.
Hashtag veganfree zone.
Hashtag no more vegans.
The animal protein filled decision comes after one vegan customer bashed
the restaurant for lack of vegan options on social media.
There was a backstory that Chef John explained to Australian publication
Perth Now.
A young girl reached out to me and said she was coming to the restaurant and
asked if there were vegan options.
It was my only shortfall.
I said I would accommodate her.
I said we had gnocchi vegetables and that was that.
Saturday came around and sadly, I'd forgotten I had a private party
I had to cater for, adding that his sous chef had reportedly reprimanded him for
not telling them about the vegan customer.
Nonetheless, the restaurant was able to whip up some vegetables,
a dish of veggies for the vegan customer.
She was not happy.
She wrote a complaint on the restaurant Facebook page the following day in which
she criticized the $32 vegetable dish that had been her quote only option.
The horror quote from her in this review I think it's incredibly
important nowadays that restaurants can accommodate everyone.
And to not be able to have actual plant based meals shows your shortcomings.
As a chef, I hope to see some improvements in your menu as I have lived in
Connolly for quite some time and have seen many restaurants come and
go from that building and none of them last.
If you don't get with the times,
I don't hold out faith that your restaurant will be the one that does.
But Chef John shot back in another Facebook response of his own thanks for
your negative review.
Please feel free to share your shitty experience and
I look forward to not seeing you again.
How very childish.
You and all your vegan mates can all go enjoy your dishes in another venue,
you are now banned.
The restaurant's response read, according to PerthNow.
But he wasn't done his crusade against vegans.
Later he spoke to CNN, who had nothing better to do, and said this.
>> Please go find another kebab shop somewhere that's happy to give you that
plastic rubbish that you enjoy to eat so much.
Go and enjoy your life somewhere else.
I've worked for some of the best chefs in the world,
and to be told that you're not good enough by some
sort of influencer type vegan person that I'm not into the 2023s killed me.
>> Well, Chef John's take has now divided the internet with salty vegans,
claiming that they are being discriminated against.
Quote you can't call yourself a chef if you can't even cook veggies?
That's just plainly stupid on its face.
Owner is very arrogant and can't take criticism, discriminating, and refusing
vegans into his venue, all for a complaint for not following an agreed vegan option.
How disgusting.
Just choose to eat and read next door.
Dude, what is the big deal?
Have you ever heard of vegan places that don't serve meat?
Is that discriminatory?
I like vegan restaurants.
I like meat restaurants.
I like to go to them back to back.
Usually meat rafter.
The vegan plates come still hungry.
>> [LAUGH] >> Anyhow,
the chef also got some support from meat lovers.
Bravo, good on you, mate.
Great stance, it's nowhere near where I live, but
I will definitely come to your restaurant, now.
One comment under the Facebook post reads while another person wrote,
can't wait to try this place.
Just booked a table, looking forward to a nice piece of rare steak.
That all said, one group is very on the side of restaurants having
more vegan options, and that is the cows themselves.
Cenk, good report.
>> So, look, no one's a winner in this story, so
I agree with you about the vegans.
The whole time, I was, wait, what kind of restaurant is it?
And it turns out it's a kebop shop.
As he says, a keyboard kebab restaurant.
Not the place you would normally look for vegan food.
So if you go to a place selling kebabs and find kebabs,
you shouldn't be wildly surprised and be like,
what kind of a kebab chef doesn't cook?
The exact kind of vegan restaurant food I want.
On the other hand, the restaurant, like, the chef didn't need to flip out.
That was, like, totally okay, so one, vegan didn't like your vegetable options.
So what?
What's the big deal?
I mean, he like he went ballistic over this thing.
He created a whole new fire festival [LAUGH].
>> And on the other hand, his restaurant is now world famous, as is he.
>> Yeah, it's a good point.
And on the third hand, our producer is vegan, so
our mics might get cut at any moment.
Okay, just to let you know.
>> On the fourth hand, on the way to pressing the mute button,
our producer might pass out of lack of strength via protein.
>> No, okay, so, look, my sense of no, thank you.
No, look, I am the least vegan person on Earth, but
I respect vegans, and I think that they're better people than us.
>> I agree, I was vegan for four months, and I was better than and
I felt better than others.
>> See.
>> As a person, not healthily.
>> Yeah, and no, I mean, as people.
They're trying to do the right thing, and they are doing the right thing.
It's one thing for us to go, hey, man, I can't do it.
I love steak too much, or I grew up in it, etc.
It's another thing to be like vegans.
You guys are moral wait, what?
You're doing a wonderful thing.
God bless their hearts.
On the 18th hand, what kind of a weirdo influencer is like,
I went to the wrong restaurant, and I'm super mad about it, about the chef.
I went to go get wings, and they had wings.
They did not make a special menu for me.
I didn't want wings.
And when I walked into the wing shop, I was furious that they had wigs.
I mean, yeah, well, that's why you go to the restaurant next door.
So none of this makes any sense.
But my last question is, when he's turning into a mental health problem,
was he referring to them or himself?
>> Himself.
>> He was having mental health issues.
>> That's what I think.
But it could go either way on that.
>> [LAUGH] >> And also,
there's two other perspectives to cool to consider.
As I said in my first damn special, neurotic Gangster, also on YouTube or
Amazon Prime, if these animals don't want to be eaten so much, stop being so
delicious.
I feel like that's a fair request.
>> Fair? >> Cows are sitting there.
They just sit there all day just like, tasty, go ahead and eat me.
But in my new special, the Mad King, I do kind of evolve on, and I realize,
of course, it is better it's healthier for the planet and for us to not eat so
much meat and being vegan is too hard.
And I do think a good middle ground is to be vegetarian to
whatever degree you can and only eat.
You only use animals for milk, butter, and cheese.
And I feel it's an agreement that the animals themselves would be okay with.
They're like, you're not gonna murder us anymore.
You're just going to play with our tits sometimes.
That's a deal.
[LAUGH] look, my compromise, everybody's got their own compromise.
My compromise, I don't eat veal, and I try to buy things that are cage free.
>> And see, I think veal this is another old stance of mine.
I think veal, there's an argument you made that it's more humane,
because think about it, a veal from birth.
It's all it knows it's in a little cage, and it knows I'm food.
I'm gonna be food very soon.
Is it better to let a cow grow in the farm, become friends with the family?
The kids are like, Bessie, we love you.
And they comb her, and they give her a ribbon.
And then one day they're like, hey,
Bessie, why don't you come into the warehouse real quick?
And she's like, I love the warehouse.
Always wanted to go in there.
It must be fun.
All my friends go in there, never leave.
It must be a playhouse in there.
And then they kill Bessie.
Not better, in my opinion.
>> There's some chance that those thoughts did not run through their head.
>> There's a chance.
>> There's some chance that it didn't.
And last thing on this guy is tell me you have never been on social media
without telling me you've never been on social media.
Yeah, dude, they criticize you on social media.
That's kind of how.
>> What?