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Hey I am really glad that you enjoyed your visit to Roman’s. We do have free refills on tea, I am sorry if you were misinfomed. The lemonade though we do charge a buck. The reason is that it is made in house from scratch which is very costly and time consuming. I am not sure who else serves fresh squeezed lemonade with free refills, but we will look into it & keep it in mind for future menu adjustments. Thank you again, hope to see you soon!
I’m glad Roman’s is downtown now as it was just to far to regularly visit out in Fairview. Had the veggie burger today and it was excellent. Other’s in my party had an italian and a club sandwich which were both awesome as well.
Just one question for Roman – why charge $1.00 for refills on tea and lemonade??? After paying over $38 for lunch for three(including tip), I’m not going to pay for refills on tea or lemonade. The young waiters might have been misinformed, but, nowhere else in Asheville would you pay for refills!
This alone will make me think twice before returning a second time, even with the delicious food!!!
I am the owner of Roman’s, and I first would like to thank you for trying us out and writing a blog about us. I can’t believe in how many directions the discussion is going, but I would like to say that we have many vegetarian options, including our own made from scratch veggie burger that is completely vegan & delicious. So come and give us a try. Thank you.
All these local pizza joints in west Asheville. We’d kill to have a few more in south Asheville.
Well I guess I know where I can always count on finding tons of PETA propaganda – on the reply page to Ash’s food posts!
It’s never a good idea to go talking in absolutes when you rely solely on ideological sources like PETA to get your information.
The fact remains that humans evolved as predators, meat eaters. Now, whether or not you think that is morally right, while viewing the world through a sociological or environmental vacuum and all its inequalities, doesn’t change that simple reality. Humans evolved this way long before anyone dreamed of making a moral choice about their dietary habits.
Most predators, whether birds or mammals, have eyes in the front of their head, allowing them to stalk and chase fleeing prey. That includes tigers, bears, etc. It also includes humans. Name one mammal that’s strictly an herbivore and doesn’t have eyes on the side of its head, to better detect predators. You cannot name one, for there is no such thing. If we were strictly evolved biologically to eat only plants, we’d have eyes on the side of our head. And we wouldn’t have incisors designed to tear flesh.
There are plenty of arguments to be made about what humans <i>should</i> do, but that always involves making a moral or political choice, not a scientific or biological one. I concede readily that Americans’ eating habits and their industrial meat industry is far from ideal (I personally try to eat only local/organic/free range meat), but I tire of PETAlytes hammering their agenda as if its based in an absolute scientific certainty that humans were meant to eat ONLY plants.
The thing I find most interesting about veganism/vegetarianism (and forgive me for generalizing) is that the people who generally follow that lifestyle are the ones who most identify with nature, the earth, the environment. The natural order of things. But when it comes to diet, it’s almost as if they want to re-program through social engineering what has naturally and biologically evolved to be our role in the food chain. It would be as if someone or some movement began preaching to people that they shouldn’t walk upright. The retort may follow that walking upright doesn’t harm the environment, but the analogy is not meant to take into consideration any thing other than what we were evolved/made to do. So at that point the question becomes, are we as a human race meant to, at this point in our evolution, begin over-riding the natural order of things with our new conscious understanding of survival (global warming, etc)?
Since Carbon emmssions and Global warming is all getting dismantled it doesn’t matter anymore, Bring on the Hamburgers. I might just have to go Bear hunting for some bear meat, any have bear stew?
Ha! "Real Reporter" got the jump on me. There’s something really, really wrong with us when our first response is to load on negative criticism, judge, and get all agitated. Sheesh!
The burger sounds so good that I immediately decided to give the place a try. Roman’s Take Out, here I come.
The Jackson Bldg sandwich place will also get a try.
Thanks for the info.
Wow, Jackson Underground Cafe is certainly a wonderful addition to downtown Asheville. Love the place !!
Ash,
If you tell us what you had for breakfast and dinner that same day, you could generate another 30 posts!
Two things: one, why another pizza joint, even if it is good pizza? We now have two on Haywood, plus Pastabilities. I like Nona Mia. Wouldn’t it make more sense for them to relocate the whole operation out of that cheesy strip mall and move to Haywood where things are alive and happening?
Second: human beings were not designed to eat a lot of meat. Our digestive systems were not designed to eat Lance crackers, either. We don’t have claws for catching prey. Our teeth are designed for grinding, not ripping. The gallbladder was made to deal with occasional big intakes of fat, releasing bile in a burst, then resting (gallstones are caused by the gallbladder having to be constantly "on"). Our intestinal tract shows some evidence of adaptation to eating meat, but that does not mean it is an adaptation that is to our advantage in terms of health and lifespan.
We were designed to eat a plant-based diet, very high in fiber, low in fats, low in sugars, with the occasional blast of protein from an egg, nuts, or perhaps whatever running, flying, or swimming thing could be caught with bare hands (most likely insects). The Williamsburg Abstracts were and are the best research done on what our primitive ancestors ate and what we probably should eat given that, on an evolutionary scale, we are not far from those days. All the evidence and credible science points to a vegetarian or vegan diet being the closest to ideal. http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/icaes/index.html
Meat eater,
Go see a Cardiologist before it’s too late!
What kind of God supports this? http://www.meat.org
Regarding the Science Daily article, "Diet With A Little Meat Uses Less Land Than Many Vegetarian Diets," there is some truth to it, but the key word is "little." And it’s a global statement, meaning that if everyone ate the most environmentally-friendly diet, then a LITTLE meat would be consumed. Considering that Americans eat 270 pounds of meat every year, those who care about the planet know that they shouldn’t eat any meat.
Raggy,
What a silly thing to say. I don’t hate myself. I have compassion for all. You, apparenty, hate animals. How sad that you think their suffering is humorous. Do you suffer from EDD (empathy deficit disorder)?
Judgyall,
I lived on a Wisconsin farm and know much about dairy production. Cows raised for milk are killed when they are "spent," usually a fraction of their normal life. Most live a life of misery. If you want to know more, see below.
http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming_Cows_Dairy.asp
The 9 million cows living on dairy farms in the United States spend most of their lives in large sheds or on feces-caked mud lots, where disease is rampant. Cows raised for their milk are repeatedly impregnated. Their babies are taken away so that humans can drink the milk intended for the calves. When their exhausted bodies can no longer provide enough milk, they are sent to slaughter and ground up for hamburgers.
Cows produce milk for the same reason that humans do: to nourish their babies. In order to force the animals to continue giving milk, factory farmers impregnate them using artificial insemination every year. Calves are generally taken from their mothers within a day of being born—males are destined for veal crates, and females are sentenced to the same fate as the mothers.
http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming_Cows_Dairy.asp
Sounds wonderful to me! Stewart, God gave the animal world in service of humankind. The cow and pig both were created for me to enjoy at lunch after all I am not a rabbit, who was intended to be a vegan to remain tender for my dinner. I was created a carnivor. Besides that this winter has also proved that global warming is misguided propaganda of the leftist who also admire PETA and what-his-name from the "price is wrong" who doesn’t like bears in zoos who are better treated than in the wild where they are part of the food chain as God intended!
Oh, and P.S.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071008130203.htm
Stewart,
I’m sorry you hate yourself.
Love,
Raggy
Hey Ash –
I talked to the folks at Nona Mia a while ago and they gave me the beta. They are opening on Haywood in the Spring in the building that housed the low rider/motorcycle shop at the corner of Covington and Haywood. Wood fired pizza, artisan breads, local brews, gelato, and more. I love their pizzas but getting the itch for something other than pizza joints to populate Haywood!
Ugh! This is what makes me think as liberal as I am, Im in the middle!
Hickory Nut is a local farm you should be proud to support. How did a cow die producing Colby Jack? Dont tell me there is a video. Ill die. I was born in Wisconsin.
Its not like the dude went to McDonalds or KFC. Anyway, eating hummus and pita put me at my heaviest… not everything is black and white.
RE: "Hickory Nut Gap Farm burger piled up with bacon, and Colby Jack"
Three different animals suffered and died.
You’re on your way to a triple bypass.
The carbon emissions produced by your meal were about triple that of a veggie burger.