Is there any reason you can’t just say vegan or veggie as the prefix here? I don’t like ambiguity with foods, especially when it’s concerning like labels, health info, menus, recipes (usually not a problem), etc.
When you’ve been vegan for ten years and every time you say something like “I had sushi last night” and they say “Sushi??!? With fish?? I thought you didn’t eat fish?” It’s exhausting.
Then when you prefix everything with “vegan” you’re “preaching” so there’s really no winning
Yep, this is it mostly
I just shrug and say I need to eat it or else my hereditary cholesterol issue gets much worse.
If you want to be combative about it, you can always learn up on the history of food and point out all the things that he eats that are “fake”.
That cola? You know that’s fake, right? HFCS isn’t real sugar.
That ketchup you just used? That’s fake, you know? Unless it’s walnut ketchup (at the very least) or fermented fish kê-chiap, that’s fake ketchup.
Bread? Lol. I hope you are aware that bread made with commercial yeast is an imitation of real bread that has been leavened with naturally occurring wild yeast from the atmosphere; it’s completely fake.
Oh you want to eat sushi? Yeah, that stuff is fake. Putting vinegar into fresh rice to mimic the sourness from lacto-fermented fish that has been stored in rice is bogus af.
Just try it out for a day and see how tiresome that schtick suddenly becomes when he’s on the receiving end of it.
I’ll hear people call plant-based alternatives “fake burgers” and “fake hot dogs,” but burgers and hot dogs, including both real and “fake” ones, are literally just manmade culinary creations.
Working within the carnist realm, what makes a dead cow hot dog equal in realness to a dead pig hot dog? What about dead bird hot dogs? How do they determine which of the flesh-based hot dogs is the benchmark for “realness?”
