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Vegns often fail to understand how important texture is to meat eaters when it comes to replicating a meat product so that it will appeal to meat eaters. Addit
by MisterBastahrd 8y ago
Vegns often fail to understand how important texture is to meat eaters when it comes to replicating a meat product so that it will appeal to meat eaters.
Additionally, a lot of vegns are also extremely health conscious, and so they tend to avoid a lot of unnecessary fat in their diet. A lot of chefs will say "fat is flavor," which is true, but what's also true is that fat conveys flavor. It sticks to surfaces in places that water doesn't and allows flavors to linger.
It's why the Impossible and Beyond Burgers are succeeding: they haven't lost sight of what makes a burger, a burger.
- lifeisstillgood 8y ago(off topic) Is there any reason you seem to have replaced the a in vegan with an asterisk? It happened twice so I am guessing it was not a typo? I am just curious? Is it like x86 or something?
- Max_Mustermann 8y agoThe term seems to include both "vegetarian" and "vegan".
- MisterBastahrd 8y agoThis guy gets it.
- astura 8y ago* is the wild card character so veg*n "matches" both "vegan" and "vegetarian." It's a short-hand way to say "vegetarian and/or vegan."
- Dylan16807 8y agoIt's not very obvious that it's supposed to stand for more than one letter. Is it less confusing to do this way than to say "vegetarian" since that includes vegans?
- Jaruzel 8y agoHave you met any Vegans? There is no way they'd accept being lumped into a larger 'Vegetarian' demographic. One thing about Vegans is, is that they are not shy about telling you what they are.
- Vinnl 8y agoThat's an old stereotype that is certainly not true for the vegans I know - which are pretty many by now, most of whom have gone vegan in the past few years.
- michaelbrooks 8y agoThere's still a lot of toxicity in the vegan community. Just yesterday I read an article about how a vegan started eating meat and fish. The vegan community found out and started bullying her for it. [0] [0] https://www.thedailybeast.com/vegan-youtube-is-imploding-as-stars-like-rawvana-bonny-rebecca-and-stella-rae-change-diets?ref=scroll https://www.thedailybeast.com/vegan-youtube-is-imploding-as-...
- Dylan16807 8y agoShe was making all her money off videos about being a vegan. She deserved plenty of fish emojis for the deception. It wasn't about a diet change.
- Vinnl 8y agoThat might be true for a specific community of vegans that explicitly seek each other out (see sibling comment), but that's hardly relevant for considering whether to group them together with vegetarians when a comment applies to both of them on HN.
- random878 8y agoThat's backlash against a fake youtube shill, not specifically about someone giving up a vegan diet. Same reaction would occur for any vocal activist caught doing the antithesis of what they preach.