Too bad that vegan food is mostly carbs and tasteless stuff like tofu. There are so many tasty and healthy vegetables and great veggie recipes but you have to cook at home because you can't find them outside.
Vegan takeaway orders quadruple over past two years
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Re: Vegan takeaway orders quadruple over past two years
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You don't have to be vegan to eat vegan food.
True. I'll guess (can't access the original report) that it's something like "expressly designated vegan version of main course items". For example, this from the Guardian: ... the owner of I Am Doner, a pair of kebab shops in Leeds and Harrogate, said his vegan kebab routinely outsold chicken, halloumi and falafel. Made from seitan, a meat substitute derived from wheat gluten, the “voner” kebab sometimes outsells th…
Oh why did you have to do that?
*adds Voner kebab to list of things to try (handy as I'm planning to be in Harrogate this autumn and Berlin next spring (the latter apparentl having a few outlets offering the stuff).
(Omnivore here)
Re: Vegan takeaway orders quadruple over past two years
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Bingo. I think this is a virtuous cycle. Even if only a small percentage of people are vegans, you only need one vegan in a group of people to pick a place that offers vegan food. Vegan food is also a safe bet for the larger group of vegetarians. That means more places want to offer some good vegan options, which in turn makes more people try vegan food, and makes it easier to be a vegan. I’m not a vegan nor a vegeta…
> Even if only a small percentage of people are vegans, you only need one vegan in a group of people to pick a place that offers vegan food. Or you can just ostracize them. Saves lots of emotional turmoil in the long run, as the vegan friend telling everybody about their dietary choices quickly takes its toll on adults...
Adults generally dont suffer emotional turmoil when someone else talks about their food.
Re: Vegan takeaway orders quadruple over past two years
#34Too bad that vegan food is mostly carbs and tasteless stuff like tofu. There are so many tasty and healthy vegetables and great veggie recipes but you have to cook at home because you can't find them outside.
You've only had bad tofu, then.
Re: Vegan takeaway orders quadruple over past two years
#35Too bad that vegan food is mostly carbs and tasteless stuff like tofu. There are so many tasty and healthy vegetables and great veggie recipes but you have to cook at home because you can't find them outside.
If your tofu is tasteless, you're doing it wrong. One of the major perks of tofu is that it absorbs flavor really well.
Re: Vegan takeaway orders quadruple over past two years
#36What a terrible site. "This content is copyright protected" if you try and copy text from an article, and turning javascript off means none of the content is visible.
Selecting some text and then drag it to a text editor works though. :)
Re: Vegan takeaway orders quadruple over past two years
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don't have to be vegan to eat vegan food.
Bingo. I think this is a virtuous cycle. Even if only a small percentage of people are vegans, you only need one vegan in a group of people to pick a place that offers vegan food. Vegan food is also a safe bet for the larger group of vegetarians. That means more places want to offer some good vegan options, which in turn makes more people try vegan food, and makes it easier to be a vegan. I’m not a vegan nor a vegeta…
Vegan food is also a safe bet for the larger group of vegetarians.
And people with kosher or halal diets, too.
Re: Vegan takeaway orders quadruple over past two years
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> Even if only a small percentage of people are vegans, you only need one vegan in a group of people to pick a place that offers vegan food. Or you can just ostracize them. Saves lots of emotional turmoil in the long run, as the vegan friend telling everybody about their dietary choices quickly takes its toll on adults...
Adults generally dont suffer emotional turmoil when someone else talks about their food.
If others do it on every opportunity, with a smug holier than thou attitude and needless detail, they do...
In fact studies have shown it can drive a person insane...
Re: Vegan takeaway orders quadruple over past two years
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bingo. I think this is a virtuous cycle. Even if only a small percentage of people are vegans, you only need one vegan in a group of people to pick a place that offers vegan food. Vegan food is also a safe bet for the larger group of vegetarians. That means more places want to offer some good vegan options, which in turn makes more people try vegan food, and makes it easier to be a vegan. I’m not a vegan nor a vegeta…
> Even if only a small percentage of people are vegans, you only need one vegan in a group of people to pick a place that offers vegan food. Or you can just ostracize them. Saves lots of emotional turmoil in the long run, as the vegan friend telling everybody about their dietary choices quickly takes its toll on adults...
Or just go to a place offering vegan alternatives and there will be no fuss?
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> Even if only a small percentage of people are vegans, you only need one vegan in a group of people to pick a place that offers vegan food. Or you can just ostracize them. Saves lots of emotional turmoil in the long run, as the vegan friend telling everybody about their dietary choices quickly takes its toll on adults...
the toll of eating meat on environment is far greater than your concerns over your feelings. choose the lesser evil
Eating meat is better for the environment in the long run.
If human population drops to zero due to climate change (which meat consumption contributes to), then the environment will be left alone and do great on its own! It wont even take more than 1-2 millennia for recovery, which is nothing in geological terms!
Compared to that eating vegan is just a feel-good half-measure.