• yesman@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    This is what I don’t understand about vegans. Unlimited international access to traditional recipes and exotic vegetables. New combinations of flavors and techniques available everywhere.

    So you recreate the hotdog? I mean how do you even measure success? Perfection would still be a hotdog!

    • IHateReddit@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Its simple: I liked hot dogs before I became a vegan. I still like them, but now I can eat them without harming the environment, animals and my body.

    • Baby Shoggoth [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 months ago

      I didn’t become vegan because i didn’t like the taste or the experience. I did because I could no longer handle contributing to animal cruelty every time i need to feed myself (or clothes, or so many other things). It’s a moral decision, not a culinary adventure.

      Prior to becoming vegan i said the same thing you are saying in this post. I’m gonna tell you the same thing i would tell my younger self: go fuck yourself, i’ll be vegan however i want. Why the fuck are you judging how i’m doing so? What the absolute shit does it matter whether you “understand” why i eat what i eat? I do eat a lot of those cuisines, but i do also eat vegan meat replacements, because sometimes i just feel like a burger, and vegan food science has been getting better and better over the last few decades.

      Plus, all of those traditional recipes and exotic veggies are available to you too. You can eat them even if you’re not vegan. Hell, you can even add meat to them if you want. Many of them are made traditionally both with and without meat. But no, you pick a hot dog too?