I feel this frustration. I also live in the south and sometimes even the salads all have meat at restaurants. What's funny is that there's also a fad of vegan

I feel this frustration. I also live in the south and sometimes even the salads all have meat at restaurants. What's funny is that there's also a fad of vegan restaurants that serve extremely fatty, highly processed "vegan junk food" for lack of a better description. They are greasy and lacking in protein. This should be really simple. Minimally processed vegetables with tofu, tempeh, seitan, or lentils. But no restaurant here does it.