genuinely turned my world upside smh

  • Floey@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    I think the most jarring thing is many bacon bits being made out of soy with zero pig at all.

    • HornyOnMain
      hexagon
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      7 months ago

      i know, like, fuck the tofu and the beans and whatever, im just going to be om nomming down oreos constantly now

    • hotwarioinyourarea [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      Literally. All my favourite biscuits are vegan and I'm a biscuit fiend. Jammy Dodgers, Oreos, Ginger Nuts, Digestives, Hob-nobs. I never stood a chance.

    • HornyOnMain
      hexagon
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      7 months ago

      yeah, i recently started veganism and i've basically just sworn of all biscuits because they basically always have milk in them so like, i was really confused when a vegan friend sent me a picture of the deep fried oreo muffin things she'd made

  • SteamedHamberder [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    I don’t know if it was the same for Muslim kids, but Jews of a certain age remember when they took the lard out of Oreos in the 90s and we stopped having to eat the off-brand ones

  • EndOfLine@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    I have no doubt that they being vegan was not intentional and they will crease to be vegan the moment they discover a non-vegan alternative to one of their ingredients.

    • Rom [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      Actually they used to contain pig lard until 1997 when Nabisco switched it out to make Oreos kosher

      https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2008/02/getting-lard-out-koshering-oreo-cookie

        • Rom [he/him]
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          7 months ago

          Oreos are my favorite vegetable

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        7 months ago

        This reminds me of a something I found out while working at a vegan restaurant which will is ironic with the tale, I saw on the label for our roll of aluminum foil that it was labeled Kosher. Which I thought was weird cause it's aluminum foil. So looking into it what the deal was that the factories producing the foil lubricated their machinery with some kinda pig lard based lube cause they could buy it cheap from the pork industry. Do now they use machine lube not made of pig fat. The making things Kosher crowd has done a bit for the vegans.

    • HornyOnMain
      hexagon
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      7 months ago

      theyre just going to make it so that when you bite into them, instead of the white bit in the middle it's just a thin layer of raw beef to own the libs

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      I doubt that'd happen, since plant-based ingredients are almost always cheaper than animal products.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    7 months ago

    If this fact went viral - the American right-wing would have marches with guns where they chant-scream "Lard!" because they want it back in their cookies.

  • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
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    7 months ago

    vegan looking biscuit

    I think you mean cookie.

    You see because biscuit refers to a savory bun that is eaten with breakfast, while cookie refers to a small sweet baked good eaten as desert.

    Just wanted to correct you, we don't want to sound like Br*tish people do we? england-cool

    • Egon [they/them]
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      7 months ago

      A biscuit isn't a bun wtf are you on about? It's name literally means Baked Twice, it's a crisp little thing. Fucking anglo can't even speak your own language that you stole from the french

      • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
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        7 months ago

        Sorry I don't take language advice from a group of people who thought naming a city "Liver-pool" was a good idea. That's fucking disgusting bro.

      • Maoo [none/use name]
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        7 months ago

        biscuit comes from bis-cuitt, Middle English words meaning, "butt" and "food".

        • Egon [they/them]
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          7 months ago

          Huh, I always thought it came from the old french https://www.etymonline.com/word/biscuit. Seems like there's a few different etymological narratives going around https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/inspire-me/the-history-of-the-biscuit/
          I learn something every day

  • Kereru [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    Vegan horseshoe theory:

    • $ = only starch and floor scrapings = vegan
    • $$ = whey in everything
    • $$$ = butter in everything
    • $$$$ = intentional specialty ingredients = vegan
    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      7 months ago

      Accidentally Vegan is it's own subgenre of Vegan Food. I have made most of the four dollar sign stuff myself from scratch professionally and can tell you how the switch sausage is made. It's made without that much effort, this shit is super fucking easy to do at home. I've worked in a few Vegan restaurants (wish I could still do so but I get paid more and have clout where I am) and have had time to mess around with some weird ideas. Fundamentally though what people like about meat isn't the taste of meat, have a meat eater chomp down a boiled chicken or whatever without seasoning and see how much they like it. People like the bullshit that is done to meat before they eat it, that's the star of the show, the rest is flavor sponge. So many things can be flavor sponge.

  • boiledfrog [he/him, undecided]
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    7 months ago

    I knew a vegan girl whose diet was like 15% oreos and I'm not exaggerating.

    I tried making a bunch ofvegan food for her and she didn't like anything lol