Is this a punishment? Did a vegan turn them down for prom and they swore eternal vengeance?
Not to ruin restaurants for you forever but I know a place where they would purposefully fuck with their vegan guests by sneaking in animal products to all of their vegan dishes as an "epic" inside joke among the kitchen staff
wouldn't this violate several food safety laws to put stuff into people's food without telling them?
Very much so. If someone pulled that shit around me that would be their last day working there.
I think it's that
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Boneless chicken can have bones in it
Court ruling
This is odd in the context of how
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Boneless wings are made from chicken breast, which is cheaper than chicken wings, the fraction of the bones themselves are much more expensive pound-for-pound than chicken breast is
And that pales in comparison to how plant-based foods are much less expensive than animal products.
It wasn't even an intentional fuck you but I worked at a pizza restaurant when I was a teenager that had sausage you had to pull apart and it would cling to your hands so people would dunk it into the pineapple or tomato tubs because the citric acid would prevent the stickiness.
As a vegan working a kitchen that does have vegan options, I am SUCH a hard ass about stuff like that. You shouldn't cross contaminate food anyway.
Went to chipotle and saw the dude make my burrito with the same gloves that grabbed cheese :/.
"epic"
The people that still use that adjective on a daily basis in a non-mocking way tend to be massive douchebags.
No beans, only broccoli. Isn't this what you people want?
It’s egregious that these are missing. It could literally just be a bean and rice burrito and that’s it.
Also it might be sacrilege but some roasted sweet potato adds a nice flavor and texture to “Mexican” food
Have a place near here who instead of just… having beans… lists zucchini as their only non-meat… “protein”. I’m like JUST. GIVE. ME. BEANS.
What is this aversion to beans? People love them, they're cheap, they're easily stored, and they show up in fucking burritos. It's like the word vegetarian means something different when writing a menu.
They probably cook or buy their beans with animal fat and can't be bothered to make a vegetarian/vegan version. Which is unfortunate. It's exactly why places like Chipotle have black beans as an alternative to the pinto. It's easy and gives variety at the cost of nothing really.
I believe chipotle stopped using pork in their pinto beans a while ago. Same for Moe’s.
But yeah, that is always a concern with rice and beans because… uhg.
American cuisine's attitude towards plant-based meals is just an aversion to learning. Oh can't have meat? We'll give you cheese. Oh can't have cheese? Um vegetables are vegetarian! 😃
And then if you're lucky they will buy some crappy frozen faux meat that they don't know how to prepare properly.
Over here, if you are lucky, it's mostly "here, have some tofu and be grateful it's an option". But it's not a properly prepared tofu - they basiclly just take it out of the package and heat it up.
So far when I had tofu or seen someone havenit somewhere, it was good once
Now I can't stop thinking how to make that burrito slap...
Cut the cauliflower into florets, toss with olive oil and salt, then roast at 400f for 35 or 40 minutes.
Cut the carrots into long slices and pickle them in vinegar and water with a little sugar and salt. Let rest for a day.
Slice the onions and low fry till carmelized.
Fry the broccoli, peppers, and mushrooms in a pan with some garlic and salt.
Wrap in a tortilla with some refried beans and season with hot pepper flakes.
For sure they aren't. All those veggies are probably straight out of the cooler. A shame, cause there are so many ways to improve it. Just throw them all in a giardiniera and stick that in a wrap with some humus. Low effort and the ingredients would store for a while. Sigh.
yeah honestly the burrito in the op seems fine. like the ingredient list could definitely be made into a tasty meal
Death to America
I ordered it once maybe 15 years ago because the menu didn't list the ingredients and I'll carry that scar for the rest of my life.
They charge $19 now so it was probably around $10 when I got it.
A place near me does something similar and charge AU$21 for it.
Not sure if that menu offering is sheer "put vegetables in a tortilla and fuck off" spite or if it's just some sort of regional blandness applied to everything on the menu.
I'm convinced it's spite, this restaurant is fairly well regarded and I'm close enough to Mexico that the cultural osmosis shouldn't be this bleak.
It's literally that meme, "they hated him because he spoke the truth."
The most vicious anti-vegans are people who know and understand the arguments in favor of veganism, but have decided against it anyway. They're terribly guilty and they deflect that self-hatred onto us, because we're constantly reminding them of their guilt.
In my experience, the most vicious and toxic treat defenders (many of which tend to be carnists that show themselves for carnist reasons) are the ones that react to posts that, for just a moment, make them possibly feel a brief pang of guilt and they need aggressively re-bury that unearthed guilt so they feel like the Main Character that can do no wrong and has to make no efforts to cease doing the thing that they briefly felt guilty about.
Burritos can have any veggies in them, but rice and beans are a staple in most. This version listed veggies that rarely show up in burritos while omitting basic ingredients associated with burritos.
It's like if they made a vegetarian spaghetti, omitted tomatoes, and instead added peas. Like yeah, peas are vegetarian, but it's not exactly part of pasta.
A lot of restaurants do this for different reasons, usually to half-heartedly accommodate people who don't eat meat.
Riceless burittos >>> rice-filled burittos. Why carbmaxx when you can beanmax?
Idk what place this is but it’s basically the same as my order at most Mexican restaurants in the southern us, veggie fajitas. A lot of the time they make beans with pork and rice with chicken broth anyway.
if you wanna go by Texmex standards, beans are basically mandatory
If you wanna go by traditional Mexican standards for what a burrito is, there really aren't any. Some parts of Mexico will tell you eggs and potato are necessary. Some will tell you it has to have serrano peppers. Central/southern Mexico will tell you that tacos and burritos are the same thing, or that burrito is just a northern way of saying "taco de harina" (flour tacos).
the vegan Texmex places around here will typically do a lot more effort than just a random assemblage of vegetables in a tortilla
Just seems like they spent one minute on a recipe without ever considering if it's possible to make it taste better
I have tried some pretty damn good vegan food, even though I am not a vegan, and I know this kind of meal is nothing but an insult.
I saw a hot dog place with a “veggie dog”. It was just bread with a choice of the normal toppings from the meat options, 2 of which were chili and bacon. At least they had it marked for 2 dollars less
I saw a veggie burger that came by default with animal fat-cooked onions on it.
I'm not a vegan so maybe that's why I'm not getting it. I am very confused right now.
Is there something wrong with the ingredients? Everything looks vegan to me, except the sauce which we have no idea what could be in there.
Or does that not taste good? Because that seems to be something I wouldn't mind eating. Or probably it's just because I love anything with mushrooms in it.
it's just a random assortment of vegetables in a tortilla without any thought
It's bland as fuck, and we're are the rice and beans? It's a burrito for fucks sake.
If I'm going to a Mexican restaurant I would like to eat Mexican food, you can't just call something a burrito because you wrapped it in a tortilla. If I was making a build your own vegan burrito I'd probably go with beans, rice, onions, tomatoes, lettuce or cabbage, avocado and some sauteed peppers.
Got it. I think my problem is that my definition for burrito is exactly "stuff wrapped it in a tortilla". Too used to crappy food.
It's half assed. A lot of places will just kinda throw some random veggies in a thing and call it a menu item. If I'm going to a restaurant I don't want a fucking veggie and rice bowl or whatever some carnivore chef crapped out.
They would make a good stir fry.
They would not make a good burrito.
It’s insane how many places might have almond milk but not a single default vegan option.
