There’s nothing contrarian here. I’m saying a vegan hot dog trying to imitate a regular one will be bad. Make vegan food that’s actually good and embraces what it is made out of instead of trying to replace a regular meat item.
The fact there are responses here literally saying to lie to people about what they’re being fed is insane.
Deception is definitely the best way to do things. Don’t want to actually let people know what they’re eating of course.
And yet this post is literally trying to replace a hotdog. From the image, not just as a replacement for the role of the meat, but trying to mimic the hotdog in its entirety.
Stop trying to mimic meat products, it’s a losing battle and will always be inferior. Stop trying to fit foods into a meat “alternative” product that just sucks in comparison to the original, but you try to justify as being “almost the same”, it’s never even close. It’s easily the main reason so many people won’t even consider vegan options, they’re constantly being lied to and resent that.
Embrace the ingredients and use them in ways that actually make sense. You don’t need to replace meat products for people to try an alternative diet, you just need to have other good options. Many vegan restaurants have absolutely delicious and filling food, it’s never the options that try to replace a burger though. It’s the foods designed from the ground up to be vegan and embracing what the ingredients actually are.
Edit: What a surprise, down voted by the vegan brigade refusing to accept any sort of criticism that their replacements usually suck. Coming to defend poor imitations instead of just acknowledging that some foods don’t need to be replaced, and that attempting to do so just steers people away from alternatives entirely.
I never said that alternatives weren’t good. In fact I said the exact opposite. That the alternatives need to be treated as their own thing, not a replacement for a meat product. But the knee jerk reaction to downvote anything perceives as anti-vegan is just too strong apparently. And you all wonder why people make fun of the vegan culture. It’s almost as bad as Linux fanboys or League of Legends players.
Truth Social is already literally a Mastodon instance. They just don’t federate with anything else.
Trump could open up federation, but that would ruin their safe space, I mean echo chamber.
For Octopus… Octopi is just plain incorrect, it assumes an incorrect loanword origin, even if it is the most common pluralization used.
Octopus does not come from Latin which would result in octopi. It comes from Greek, so the correct plural should be octopodes.
The English standard pluralization would still be Octopuses though, and most comprehensible all around without having to explain the whole thing to a new person. In the end it’s all about being understood over anything else.
German Chocolate cake is easily my favorite. You just can’t go wrong with it. Doesn’t matter if you bought it for yourself, it’s a delicious choice.
Uh… It is Unicode.
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