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nicengelman
· 5 years ago
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When people do jokes like these, it seems they aren't aware that there actually is vegan ice cream (disregarding the zero calorie part.) It reminds me of a Community episode where Britta asked a woman if they sold vegan fro-yo and the woman sardonically asked "Do you know what fro-yo is?" which was dumb because there is, in fact, vegan fro-yo.
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guest_
· 5 years ago
I agree with your overall assessment that often these jokes seem to overlook the fact there are vegan alternatives. The antagonistic humor in such jokes primarily comes from a concept that a person who is very particular in their food asks for a very specialized or labor intensive item- and is offered the only alternatives on hand which fit the bill- an improvised dish such as grass clippings etc. however- when the joke shows preparation was made- it is less improvisational and more meant to be insulting with premeditation.
guest_
· 5 years ago
That said- we can argue semantics. “Fro-yo” if we see it as shorthand for “frozen yogurt...” well... by definition yogurt contains milk products cultured by bacteria. So technically speaking there is not vegan “fro-yo” in that sense. This is a point the dairy industry has fought hard- and in many cases won depending on place in the world. For instance Dairy won a fight that vegan “cheese” could not be called cheese- as it is by definition not cheese, legally or otherwise.
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guest_
· 5 years ago
It seems petty- but in many countries you ant even call non vegan “singles” style “artificial cheese” with a product name with “cheese” in it- because it isn’t. This may seem petty or like it is an attack on vegans- but it actually makes sense. The law in many developed countries clearly defines what criteria certain consumer goods must meet. “Cheese” is often defined by a percentage of real milk it contains for example, or processes used to create it.
guest_
· 5 years ago
This is actually an important consumer protection- funny enough- one bag vegans should be able to appreciate perhaps more than most. It may seem silly that we have to define what the word “meat” is or what you can call “meat,” but... there is already great debate over the fillers and such used in many meat products and “cuts.” That’s WITH laws strictly defining what can and cannot be meat. Without such laws- who would be able to tell you if the “Milk” you were buying was 1 drop of cow milk in a gallon of chemical milk substitute? And for vegans- it’s certainly a problem when you can’t trust that your “vegan” taco doesn’t just have chicken in it.
guest_
· 5 years ago
So while we can say in common usage- many people will even call “softserve” ice cream “fro-yo” and thusly “vegan fro-yo” is just slang for some form of substitute product- or an alternate product called by the same name due to its attempt at imitation- technically there isn’t vegan fro-yo.
nelson
· 5 years ago
Is that ice from cruelty free water?
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