The usual coffee shop frills are also conspicuously absent: there are no cakes, salads or sandwiches.

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To celebrate, their grandparents had set up a tent and an inflatable bouncing castle in their garden and, in true German fashion, long tables groaning with no fewer than seven homemade cakes.

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Sweet delights such as cakes and muffins are also available -- because no one ever said being veggie meant counting calories, after all.

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