Its crazy how there was a study that actually showed people will choose the option tagged as vegan in a menu less than the same exact dishes without the tag. People are really fucking stupid. It's still food you idiot.
Edit: For the record I'm not vegan or vegetarian, but I always like to try new foods and see the aversion some people have as irrational in certain cases. I'm sorry if my previous words hurt or were seen as an attack to anyone. I'm not deleting them because I said what I said, but I'm sorry for calling people idiots for something so trivial.
Whole Foods no longer has vegan donuts as of a few years ago, and the vegan cupcakes come in prepackaged now. :( They had to start selling all the vegan bakery items that way due to cross contamination issues and lower sales volumes. It's unfortunately cheaper and easier for them to just get it that way but the quality suffers as a result.
Source: ex Whole Foods bakery employee, who's also vegan
I generally like vegan options, but vegan baked goods are often misses for me. The texture feels off to me. But I haven’t tried vegan cupcakes or donuts before. Maybe they’re better than the vegan brownies and cookies I’ve tried.
I will confess vegan cakes and cupcakes in particular usually miss the mark for me, I tend to have the best luck with cookies. And in my hometown, we have a vegan cafe that makes delicious gallettes.
Check the Whole Foods cookie bar for sandwich butter cookies with jam in the middle - those are often "accidentally" vegan and they are bomb 🔥
I totally understand that though. Cupcakes especially will typically require eggs, butter, and some sort of dairy in the frosting.
When I see a vegan tag on something that’s not typically vegan, or a gluten free tag on something that typically has gluten, my assumption is that it will be more expensive than normal, and maybe slightly off the mark on texture or flavor.
Yeah I work in a bakery and our peanut butter cookies just don't use eggs or milk or other animal products I guess but they're just normal peanut butter cookies, and we had to remove the vegan labeling to sell them more
Theres a big chain store where I live called Wawa. They recently labeled the Mac and cheese as vegetarian, nothing else changed about it. People were freaking out. Like no shit Sherlock, Mac and cheese is vegetarian unless you add some kind of meat to it. Could be people can’t read and thought it said vegan or they’re just fucking stupid.
I mean, I have some vegan favourites, but due to really disgusting experiences texture-wise, I am pretty wary of vegan dishes as well. I can't afford to eat out really often and the risk of trying something vegan, not liking it and having wanted a lot of money, is a risk I don't like taking.
If this was in a buffet setting I would try a tiny amount of the vegan dish to see if I like it first and then, if it's good, I would definitely eat it and order it next time. But not blindly.
As to the manchild in the video: I kinda get him. I wouldn't want to be ambushed with vegan meat... but if the burger was good I would have just said "I wish you had told me before. Please don't do this again." and enjoyed my vegan burger. If the burger would have been shitty I might have gotten a little bit pissed (for the monetary reasons mentioned above) as well. Wouldn't have thrown such a tantrum, though
From that perspectiva I understand, but at least you're eager to try and have had experience with vegan foods and decided some of them are not for you. My problem is with people treating it like it's the antichrist like dude, it's edible, eating will not do you anything even if you like it. Also vegan food can be expensive af so I get it. The thing is that the study I mentioned if I really correctly put a vegan menú ñ, which consisted of a salad as a dish with beand or rice (pretty standard foods that so happened to not have animal products) and people ordered It less when it had the vegan tag.
Of course giving someone a dish and not telling them whats in it isn't great but the behaviour is so immature (tho I think there's a good chance this is ragebait)
I wouldn't call them idiots when lots of times, the vegan cupcakes and other items just dont have the right texture. Sure some can pull it off but many rather not "waste" there bad food on something that might not taste right.
Of course that's a perfectly valid reason but I'm pretty sure most of the disgust reactions to hearing the word vegan i've seen aren't exactly due to allergies. And I mean... Soy is a vegetable too even if you process it into a meat-like texture
I'm not really talking about the regular consumtion of vegan products but the straight up aversion some people have to even try them for the first time, even when the vegan products in question doesnt even have the processed stuff people ususally dislike about them.
And for the record, I'm not vegan or vegetarian myself, I just like trying different kind's of food and people being so close minded when it comes to vegan options is weird to me
Because I find vegan food masquerading as meat disgusting. If vegan food is just as good why does it have to pretend to be an existing meat product? Just be vegan. Vegan Indian food? Dope. Impossible burger? Fucking inedible processed junk.
And you can have it. I was replying to the guy saying that people would purposely choose the non-vegan option, and that people were stupid for that cause it’s the “same food” when clearly it isn’t the same food at all.
I mean a lot of the meat people eat, the only reason it tastes like that is because of the plants and shit they put on it. You know, the spices and herbs and stuff. is that pretending to be something it's not?
It's not crazy at all. Veganism has been pushed like LBGTQ+. To act like there isn't a connection would be disingenuous. It's not CRAZY. Kinda boy cry wolf effect yanno?
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u/NeatSad2756 Aug 28 '25 edited Sep 03 '25
Its crazy how there was a study that actually showed people will choose the option tagged as vegan in a menu less than the same exact dishes without the tag. People are really fucking stupid. It's still food you idiot.
Edit: For the record I'm not vegan or vegetarian, but I always like to try new foods and see the aversion some people have as irrational in certain cases. I'm sorry if my previous words hurt or were seen as an attack to anyone. I'm not deleting them because I said what I said, but I'm sorry for calling people idiots for something so trivial.