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I think he's just talking to vegans. No need for us to come in and...you know. I'm just going to go back to watching the thread.
The place near me kinda works for me bc it doesn't just do the "we have impossible meat and now we're going to make burger/sandwich alternatives" but instead just steals dishes from non American cuisine that is already meatless lol. So I like the pasta/noodles/rice things it does enough that I can more easily justify the price.
Yeah I don't think there is anything odd about anyone's reaction, owner or customers.
That's what usually works best for me too. It surprises me when there are any blanket statements about vegan food where for me it is just...food. Plenty of dishes I cook just happen to be vegan.
But why would you not go there anymore? They can still serve their vegan food they offered before, so for vegans they are probably still as good as before. But not they can also take friends who do not want to eat vegan (like e.g. me). If you only offer vegan food, you can only reach groups of people where everyone is fine with vegan.
It's honestly really fricken difficult to keep vegan restaurant's afloat - even major cities can only support a handful, it's a tiny population of dedicated customers, and a large portion of the population outside of that base will never want to eat there regardless of quality.
I mean, I get not wanting to be a patron of a restaurant that uses products derived from animals... It's just the "you should've just closed" attitude that just seems unreasonable and obnoxious for a customer to have.
So… you don't eat fruit, nuts, vegetables, rice, potatoes, etc etc?
It depends on the place. Here it is very rare for a regular restaurant to have any vegan options, so vegan restaurants stand out more. If a regular restaurant adds vegan options that info is often shared and celebrated, whereas when a vegan restaurant starts including animal products the publicity will be bad and many would rather go to a place that is reducing rather than increasing cruelty.
That's is my takeaway from this. Maybe they'll end up having to shut down anyway, but to say they should have just immediately brought an end to the jobs they provide is pretty absurd.
It's a thing I see quite often. A lot of people associate 'vegan' with 'vegan substitutes for animal products' for some reason.
wait I confused. I'm assuming you don't only mean meat substitutes by this, so like just some veggie dish is disruptive to you?
Essential comma =D
I think your problem is trying to eat vegan versions of non-vegan meals.
what does this even mean. you can make millions of vegan dishes with different ingredients, textures and taste.
I mean this thread is about vegan food now instead of the vegan restaurant... yeah, I'll believe it.
What you seem to be saying is meat alternatives don't taste good to you. That's fine, but a very different thing to saying vegan food doesn't taste good to you. The important thing to know is you don't need to eat meat every day, and not every meal needs meat or a meat-alternative in. Risottos, chillis, pizzas, curries, lasagnes, pies etc, loads of meals that can easily be cooked without any meat.
US is just very spread out, go to a big city like LA, SF or NYC you can prob throw a rock in any direction and find one or at least places that have a large vegan options menu
Maybe the problem is that you're looking for an alternative for meat, I hate most vegan "meat" too, it just tastes wrong but there are countless vegan dishes without that stuff.
