Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17
PATRONS BESIEGE
VEGETABLE CAFES
ANGELENoS SAMPLE PRoTosE
BROMoSE AND SUBSTITUTES
Rosy-cheeked Non-Mest Eaters Take
Your Orders and You Go Ahead
BllndIy Following the
Rush

Evidence OF the free substitution of
vegetables for meat since the Pack
ingtown exposures is found in plenty
at the Vegetarian cafe, corner OF Hill
and Third streets. This Is one of several
in Los Angeles, and experiences are
much alike at all.
Don't advertise me-" said Manager
]. M. Allen. "You can see that havo
more business than I can attend to,
especially at the noon hour. Several
times recently I have had to stand at
the doors and forbid people to come in
until there was a place for them, for
they crowd into the aisles and wait
until some one is through eating and
then drop down into the empty place.
when the tourist trade ended in
March discharged several mattresses
and reduced the number of stations.
preparing for the usual fall off in busi-
ness during the summer months. But
scarcely had I done so when the beef
Investigations became public and had
to put back all the stations had taken
out for the summer and increase the
number of employees.
All Abjure Meat
I'VE are feeding more people now
than we did at the height of the tourist
season and every day 1t is increasing.
/ am compelled to place larger orders
than at any time before, and even then
It Is sometimes necessary to order twice
for the same meal"
One look at this vegetarian cafe is
sufficient to convince you that what
you will get to eat will be good and
clean.
Another look and you are equally
convinced that the patronage of this
restaurant is composed largely of men
and women who keep posted on current
affairs and have a grudge against the
beef trust.
Another look and you are tempted to
try it for yourself.
Feelings of Tyro
The novice scans the vegetarian bill
of fare a long time. There are so many
things on it that he has never heard
of before. A feeling similar to that
that must experienced by an explorer
who stands on the shores of an un-
known land with unlimited possibilities
before him, alternately swayed by hope
and fear. comes over him.
Meat substitutes appeal to him as
being at least thread to which he can
attach himself before leaping from his
accustomed meat diet into the deep,
dark and unknown abyss of vegetarian
ism.
Among the meat substitutes are
bromose, protose, nuttolene, baked
beans with protose and various forms
of nuts and cereals. Baked beans he
is familiar with and nuttolene, he
reasons, must be made from nuts, so
there is nothing to discover in those.
With a naughty air, as though he ate
those sort of things every day and liked
them, he orders bromose and protose.
Mattresses Living Exponents
A rosy checked waitress brings the
order and as she noselessly sets it in
front of you you almost wish won
hadn't committed yourself to a vege-
tartan diet and that she was on the
bill of fare.
All those Mattresses eat simple meals
of vegetables and nuts and are one of
the best arguments Manager Allen has
at his command in favor of his restau-
rant.
The waitress fits from sight and you
reluctantly turn your eyes on the things
she has set before you. One is slice
of something or other that might be
dampened sawdust in a predigested
state. On another plate are some
chocolate caramels. You know they
are chocolate caramels, for they are
cut in little cubes and wrapped with
oiled paper. The pretty waitress Is
coming in your direction and you ask
a question as you gingerly touch the
little cubes.
Didn't you order bromose, sir?" she
asks sweetly and by the same token
she knows you are tenderfoot at The
vegetarian.
All your airs of easy familiarity with
the bill of fare, all your efforts to re-
frain from "rubbering" and satisfy
ing your curiosity as to what people
look like who live this way all the time,
have gone for naught.
You are a tenderfoot and the waitress
knows it.
Humbly you unwarp those chocolate
caramels and bite into one. They are
not caramels at all, but some sort of
condensed nuts, and by the time you
have eaten three or four of them you
feel as though you had had a full
meal.
The protose is different. 1t looks like
a round slice of graham mush and it
tastes like-protose.
On the wondering palate of the novice
, it does not make very favorable inn
preston, but old timers seem to like
it immensely and it is probably like
oysters and olives the more you eat
the better it tastes.
But aside from few things like this
there is no reason why the uninitiated
should enter vegetarian cafe in fear
and trepidation. Every kind of vege-
table that is served at any other res
taurant is on the vegetarian bill of
fare and they are prepared in ways that
the average cook wots not of. Eggs
are served in every possible way and
in fact you can secure anything at the
vegetarian establishment but meat
You can eat a steak at the vege-
tartan cafe. Protose steak. To the un-
initiated it looks like its first name all
right, but If you blindfold yourself, put
muzzle on your palate and exercise
vivid imagination you can family DIS
tinguish sort of tWenty-fourth
cousinship between the prepared cereals
in your mouth and porterhouse. The
resemblance, however isn't strong
enough to cause you to shudder as you
think of ''The Jungle" There is a dir
ference in the check at the end of dir
ner, too, for protose steak costs on,y
20 cents.
Vegetarian roast is another meat sub
stitute found on the bill of fare. When
you order roast at the vegetarian
cafe you do not receive a thin, juicy
slice of meat, crisp brown on the out
aide and rosy red In the center. Not
Nif of ~ VQgatarian roast Is oallad