“Vegetarians are not normal here”

kunsjoi sent in a small travel guide to Iran for vegetarians. While “in Iran, people who abstain from meat are regarded as abnormal” doesn’t make for the most enticing lead-in, the author has a lot of nice things to say about the cuisine, at least if you’re vegetarian – there’s a lot of dairy in the article, which I guess is understandable if the author is stuck in the “where else do you get your protein” dark ages (scientists only discovered plant-based protein in late 2004, if I remember correctly), but I draw the line at a thing called Doogh, which attempts to mix my beloved club soda with yoghurt. Even though Ange is away right now and I have soy yoghurt in the fridge and a seltzer bottle in the cupboard, that’s just too nasty sounding.