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I would miss a lot my cheese. But I would hope some tasty vegan alternatives are in development, are they?

• Spivak 5y ago
  Cashew cheese is really really good. I’m vegetarian but not vegan and it’s still my goto mac and cheese casserole, nacho cheese, “chicken” dip, and queso base. The downside is that you need a powerful blender to make it yourself since it’s effectively a flavored nut butter.
• giantrobot 5y ago
  I have yet to find a vegan/vegetarian "cheese" that even resembles actual cheese. I'm not a cheese expert but even my unrefined pallet can tell the difference between "cheese" and cheese. It is ridiculous how bad some of that shit tastes. I don't think "cheese" will get anywhere close to cheese until it's made from vat/lab grown milk. Then it'll just be real cheese just not coming from animals.
• brimble 5y ago
  Dairy and eggs are what I'd struggle with if I tried to go vegan. I'd barely even notice meat missing—I love mushrooms, veggies, legumes, and tofu as the centerpieces of meals. Dairy and eggs are the part where I'd have to start making major modifications to how I cook and the sorts of things I can eat (or accept worse versions of the same thing). Eggs especially are hard to replace in a kitchen-chemistry sense, plus cheap, plus nutritionally valuable, plus store pretty well.
  • Apocryphon 5y ago
    I mentioned dairy specifically because people tend to focus on the meat-avoiding aspect of veganism, but I don't think many think about the implications of the lack of milk and eggs for everything from being calcium and meatless protein sources, to its use in baking. Though I also wonder if cattle was no longer used as a meat source, but exclusively for milk, that might reduce the amount of resources required.