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[โ€“] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

now i can't get dino nuggies cause there's no dinosaurs in them :(

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  • [โ€“] 35 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Meat lobbyists forcing regulations on products that threaten the meat industry.

    Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

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  • [+] [S] -41 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Nothing will meaningfully improve

    It just did. European Parliament voted for regulations protecting consumers from deception used by the plant pulp industry.

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  • [โ€“] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Accidentally eating a vegetable, you poor thing!

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's not about accidentally eating vegetables, it's about products being marketed in a misleading way. If I order a pizza with bacon on it, I don't want turkey, let alone a vegetable substitute.

    However many terms are already agnostic, eg pattie, burger; these kind of things should be allowed. Also, "cooks like ground beef" isn't a problem, however maybe the way the words highlight "ground beef" might be. Like, the "cooks from" and "made from plants" are white text on a light coloured background, as if to try and make it easier to miss.

    There are already laws against intentionally misleading people with advertising. Done properly, this is just an extension of that, to counter businesses trying to get around the current law.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 11 months ago*

    I have no problems with anything you say - as a vegetarian, Id also like to be able to distinguish between products and ensure Im getting plant based stuff.

    However, you should keep in mind that this is not the actual intention of the meat industry pushing for this. Theyre just trying to fuck with the competition.

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  • [โ€“] 22 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Yay global warming solved! XD

    /s

    It's insane seeing adults make these crying baby comments about not eating as much meat so we all don't boil alive.

    Throw out that pathetic ego, it isn't doing you any favors.

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  • [โ€“] 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

    Imagine people ordering a "lentil burger", "soy burger", "plant burger", "bean burger", or "chickpea burger", and receiving a vegan meal.

    Can you imagine how shocked and deceived, perhaps even violated they may feel? The horror!

    Luckily the European Christian Democrats protected European citizens from this huge and common problem instead of, oh I dunno, helping European industry with the energy transition or end a genocide. They have their priorities straight here.

    Or maybe, just maybe, this is another attempt by a panicked industry to slow down the transition to a slightly less cruel food production system and these politicians are earning some side money?

    EDITED for tastefulness of words. The only words I changed are the only ones that OP quoted and responded to below. The rest of the message was ignored. I actually learned a valuable lesson today, thanks Felix!

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  • [+] [S] -50 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    animal mass murder industry

    You vegans are so funny ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ

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  • [โ€“] 30 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    Should I call it ecocide industry then?

    Lung disease spreaders industry?

    Epidemic production industry?

    You don't have to care about animals at all to see the benefits of reducing meat production.

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  • [+] [S] -58 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Carry on supporting "plant mass murdering industry" a. k. a. "consumer deception industry" sweetie ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ

    Somehow industry producing plant pulp which looks like shit and taste the same way are hell bent on calling their inferior products the same as "animal slaughtering industry". Try to guess why. Oh, hold on, that requires more than a few brain cells and you are a vegan after all.

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  • [โ€“] 32 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Well, "sweetie", I never personally insulted you and I took the effort to link sources for my claims so I got that going for me.. ๐Ÿคท

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  • [+] [S] -59 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    How have I insulted you now sweetie? I mean, "Vegan" can be perceived as an insult so I kind of get it - but surely not for yourself?

    Regarding brain cells - that's a simple statement of fact. Vegan diet, especially not properly balanced, impacts mental health and intellectual capabilities.

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  • [+] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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  • [โ€“] 72 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It seems the meat lobby is way too strong. ๐Ÿ™„

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  • [โ€“] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm throwing out the terms BURGR, SAUSGE, STEK as prior art so nobody can trademark them and everybody that produces vegetarian or vegan food can use them free of charge.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 1 year ago

    Some brands are already doing stuff like this. Here in Sweden we have "Ch*cken style", "Chick-un" etc. And some are pretty funny but does break these new shitty rules like "meat-free meatballs".

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  • [โ€“] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (25 children)

    When has โ€œburgerโ€ or โ€œsteakโ€ ever exclusively meant meat from an animal? This sounds like political corruption to me. Somebody is getting paid for turning this linguistic gaslighting into law.

    A โ€œburgerโ€ has always been a mince patty of any kind and a โ€œsteakโ€ is a thick slab of something. The default assumption may be meat, but it has never been exclusive.

    Edit
    OP appears to have a serious problem accepting facts. Itโ€™s disappointing given the number of upvotes Voyager shows for them. I suppose nobody is perfect.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 1 year ago (24 children)

    I agree that burger has always been agnostic, but steak should really just be meat. Etymologically, it was always meat roasted on a stake. Similarly, bacon should just be a specific cut of pig meat, not turkey. Both of these are intentionally misleading marketing - with bacon it's even so when they're using different meats, let alone vegetables.

    Intentionally misleading people through advertising, in order to get more sales, is wrong.

    And don't get me started on American "biscuits" that are not cooked twice. They're savoury scones.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 1 year ago (21 children)

    I mean... I kind of agree with you, but at the same time... Come on, the things have green packaging and "vegan" or "vegetarian" plastered all over the print. Not to mention they're being sold in separate sections in stores, not where the meat is.

    You need to really not be paying attention to get "tricked" by this.

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  • [โ€“] -3 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Yeah but you shouldn't have to be ever-vigilant against advertising. The government is supposed to regulate against businesses trying to trick people.

    Like the OP picture, the box says "cooks like ground beef", which is fine when you read it all, but the font colour is almost trying to hide "cooks like" such that at a glance you might only see "ground beef" and pick it by mistake. That's very borderline, at least.

    And while major supermarkets have vegetarian sections, smaller shops might not have such an obvious separation. You can't justify the packaging by where the product might be shelved.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    the font colour is almost trying to hide โ€œcooks likeโ€ such that at a glance you might only see โ€œground beefโ€ and pick it by mistake

    Then regulate against that, not against calling them "burger patties", or something. I mean, the choice of the image is especially weird considering "burger patties" never mention meat specifically.

    And while major supermarkets have vegetarian sections, smaller shops might not have such an obvious separation

    They do, because you're not allowed to mix food products types in the EU. Meat MUST be separate from cheese, cheese MUST be separate from vegetables, etc.

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  • [โ€“] -2 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    Yes but are there regulations on meat being separated from meat substitutes? Would we even want that? I think it could be better to have all the burgers in one place, so long as I can clearly tell beef from pork from veggie. And should the laws on packaging rely on compliance with other laws? It's the other way around - if the packaging is clear and appropriate, where things are placed doesn't matter.

    Cheese being separated from other things is more about hygeine. And even then, it isn't 100% - you can buy meatballs with cheese in them. Maybe there's some sterlisation requirement to make that okay? I don't know.

    I agree that burger should absolutely not be regulated as a meat only product. Just like how a pizza doesn't have to have plain tomato sauce.


    I did some digging to try and find a primary source, the actual vote is here (Ammendment 113, just search the page for "burger"). If you take burger and hamburger out of the list I'd have no issue.

    Hopefully when the EC (ie the competent lawyers, rather than populist representatives) take their pass at this they'll trim the list down.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Yes but are there regulations on meat being separated from meat substitutes?

    Yes, because meat substitutes are not meat, therefore they cannot be stored with meat.

    Would we even want that?

    We already have it.

    I think it could be better to have all the burgers in one place, so long as I can clearly tell beef from pork from veggie

    You already can. The veggies ones have big "veggie" letters on them.

    And should the laws on packaging rely on compliance with other laws? Itโ€™s the other way around - if the packaging is clear and appropriate, where things are placed doesnโ€™t matter.

    The sanitary implications of meat stored with non-meat products has much farther reaching consequences than a random person going "ah, oops, I accidentally bought veggie burgers". Which, again, can only happen if they don't bother looking at the package they're grabbing.

    And even then, it isnโ€™t 100% - you can buy meatballs with cheese in them. Maybe thereโ€™s some sterlisation requirement to make that okay? I donโ€™t know.

    I'm not talking about ready-made meals or other meal types. I'm talking about "raw products". Things like "meatballs with cheese" are not a raw product and you won't find them in the meat fridge, they'll be with the frozen meals section - with the pizzas, fries, deep-fry veggies, etc.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago* (5 children)

    You already can. The veggies ones have big โ€œveggieโ€ letters on them.

    No, not always. The OP photo is a good example of this, it doesn't have any word starting with "veg" on the front. What clues there are are white text on a light colour background or vice versa, meanwhile the "meat words" are black text. The meat words are visually promoted, while the vegetarian stuff is drawn in such a way as to encourage you to miss it.

    Iโ€™m not talking about ready-made meals or other meal types. Iโ€™m talking about โ€œraw productsโ€. Things like โ€œmeatballs with cheeseโ€ are not a raw product and you wonโ€™t find them in the meat fridge, theyโ€™ll be with the frozen meals section

    That's kind of what I was getting at, raw cheese is probably the main concern (because cheese itself is something that has to go off in a controlled way). Also, I do know supermarkets that sell raw meatballs with cheese in them in the fridge section. They're really good, although best eaten soon after purchase...

    I don't think there is actually any regulation (yet) that would stop a shop from putting meat products next to meat substitute products. Eg, putting meat free burgers in a burger section. And I don't think there should be.

    If you do know of an actual regulation, rather than just assuming there is one, I'd like to see it.

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  • [โ€“] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    The OP photo is a good example of this, it doesnโ€™t have any word starting with โ€œvegโ€ on the front

    Oh, yeah, someone will see the massive "made from plants" and go: "huh, never heard of that animal".

    The meat words are visually promoted, while the vegetarian stuff is drawn in such a way as to encourage you to miss it.

    I have a horrible eyesight and still have zero problems seeing the white letters. I'm honestly confused as to why you people think this is some scheme to trick people into thinking that somehow the market illegally stored meat products in the non-meat section of the store.

    Thatโ€™s kind of what I was getting at, raw cheese is probably the main concern (because cheese itself is something that has to go off in a controlled way). Also, I do know supermarkets that sell raw meatballs with cheese in them in the fridge section. Theyโ€™re really good, although best eaten soon after purchaseโ€ฆ

    Read what I wrote again...

    I donโ€™t think there is actually any regulation (yet) that would stop a shop from putting meat products next to meat substitute products

    Regulation (EC) No 853/2004.

    EDIT

    I donโ€™t think there is actually any regulation (...) And I donโ€™t think there should be.

    Why? You don't like having better sanitary conditions and instead would prefer for various diseases, viruses and bacteria having an easier time spreading?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Oh, yeah, someone will see the massive โ€œmade from plantsโ€ and go: โ€œhuh, never heard of that animalโ€.

    "Made from plants" is light colour text on a white background. This is maybe slightly more obvious than white text on a light colour background, but it is still less prominent than any of the black text (which is all the "meat" words).

    And you're moving goalposts now. Before, you said they all said "veggie", and I replied that there was no visible word that said "veg" (ie the first part of the words "veggie", "vegetarian" or "vegan") on the parts of packaging show on display.

    You are arguing in bad faith.

    Read what I wrote againโ€ฆ

    What you said was quoted in my last comment. Here it is again, so you can't try and twist the argument:

    Iโ€™m not talking about ready-made meals or other meal types. Iโ€™m talking about โ€œraw productsโ€. Things like โ€œmeatballs with cheeseโ€ are not a raw product and you wonโ€™t find them in the meat fridge, theyโ€™ll be with the frozen meals section

    The meatballs with cheese I'm talking about are raw, fresh, and in the fridge section. They are not in the frozen section. They are next to other raw meats. The section is like a ready for oven raw food section, some packs have raw chicken, some have raw gammon steaks, this one I'm talking about has raw meatballs with raw cheese inside them.

    Regulation (EC) No 853/2004

    Lazy. You've just searched up a regulation with a relevant title, you haven't actually identified any part of the regulation that supports your argument. I haven't found one.

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  • [โ€“] -1 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Before, you said they all said โ€œveggieโ€

    Yeah, my bad, I didn't expect someone see "plant" and fail to associate it with vegetarian diet.

    I should've said: "they are clearly marked in a way that attempts making it obvious that the product is not meat-based". But, again, I mistakenly assumed that this was obvious. Sorry about that!

    The meatballs with cheese Iโ€™m talking about are raw, fresh, and in the fridge section

    Define "fridge section", because I don't know what that means. Ice cream fridges? Meat fridges? Soft drinks fridges? Ready meal fridges?

    They are next to other raw meats

    Are they jumbled together with the raw meats?

    The section is like a ready for oven raw food section

    Ah, here you have the answer.

    Again, sorry for my assumptions. Unfortunately, my crystal ball is in the shop for maintenance, so I couldn't tell what kind of "meatball with cheese" product you were talking about, and assumed it's some form of frozen food that the markets I go to tend to have together with frozen pizzas, chicken nuggets, etc.,

    But the important part is this: it's in its own, separate section, which you said yourself.

    Lazy. Youโ€™ve just searched up a regulation with a relevant title, you havenโ€™t actually identified any part of the regulation that supports your argument. I havenโ€™t found one.

    Yeah, I can see that you're lazy, good for you for admitting that.

    You said that you wanted the regulation, I gave you the regulation, now you want the specific sections of the text. Remind me again, who's moving goalposts?

    The entire text pertains to how meat and meat products are supposed to be stored, how different elements and kinds of meat must be kept separate. To "quote the part that supports my argument" I'd need to quote the entire text...

    You didn't answer my question:

    I donโ€™t think there is actually any regulation (โ€ฆ) And I donโ€™t think there should be.

    Why? You donโ€™t like having better sanitary conditions and instead would prefer for various diseases, viruses and bacteria having an easier time spreading?

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You are very clearly arguing in bad faith, as evidenced by your bending over backwards to be contrarian and scarecrowing the argument you're fighting against. I'm not wasting any more time with you, which is sad, because this conversation started off well.

    And that regulation covers meat production and transport, I couldn't find anything in there relating to how meat products must be shelved in shops. Which is what we were talking about. My issue isn't that you didn't quote a specific part of the regulation, it's that the regulation you quoted doesn't seem to cover what you're arguing it does. And the fact that you're arguing this way pretty much confirms that you didn't even read the source you're quoting.

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  • [โ€“] [S] -1 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    No. The below are vegan sausages.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Show us an actual photo of that product and its actual packaging, not some random useless image from tesco's website.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    Are they stored with the meat in the supermarket?

    Or would you rather find them with the rest of the vegan products, away from the meat isle?

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  • [โ€“] [S] -1 points 1 year ago (6 children)
  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    Was that a difficult question?

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  • [โ€“] [S] -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It certainly was a ridiculous one.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    OK, that's fair. If you're the kind of person to wander into the veggie section of the store, see something with "burger" on it, and think that it's meat, my question probably did seem confusing and ridiculous.

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  • [โ€“] [S] -1 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Hypocrisy of vegans is breath taking.

    And so is ignorance. UK supermarkets typically place vegan products, including vegan sausages, in the same section as meat products.

    There are no ghettos for vegans here although judging from the hostility of vegans on Lemmy it may as well be better if they are kept away from the rest of the public.

    Now tell me once again that this product is not misleading ๐Ÿ™„

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    My goodness, mate, grow up! It's not about "ghettos", it's about the resolutions that even UK acknowledged (and, to my knowledge, hasn't rescinded) that require storing various categories of products (meat, diary, fish, etc) separately, to avoid contamination!

    Your vegan products may be in the same area of the store, but they won't be mixed with meat products, so you have to be fucking blind or stupid to "get tricked".

    And just FYI - I'm not vegan. Love me some good, crispy bacon with my scrambled eggs. But I'm also not a whiny idiot who sees a green "burger" box stored away from the meat products, turns off his brain, and thinks "ah, that must be meat!"

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  • [โ€“] [S] 0 points 1 year ago*

    What a fucking utter tosh, especially after I gave you an example of sausages.

    I am glad EU parliament recognised the issue and ignored "useful idiots", vegans or otherwise, trying to defend plant pulp industry ๐Ÿ™„

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What about steak mushrooms literally their name, cauliflower steak, or something with a wooden steak in it?

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 1 year ago

    After I posted this comment I looked up the etymology, the word "steak" literally comes from food being roasted on a stake. So, really, that should be the deciding factor - most steak we eat isn't technically steak because it's cooked in other ways.

    Brazillian restaurants, the ones that come by with meat on a sword, should count as proper steak. Vegetables cooked in that manner could also be steak.

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  • [โ€“] 42 points 1 year ago (33 children)

    Fuck the meat lobby. Plant meat is the real deal!

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  • [โ€“] 44 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    I was going to disagree with you based on etymological pedantry, but it turns out the Old English "mete" just means "food" so now I have to agree with you based on etymological pedantry.

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  • [โ€“] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Just like how the rules forbidding plant milk to be called milk make no sense. Plant milk has existed for many centuries.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago

    "Plant milk" could be a bit like "berry" though, in that as we have consolidated and rationalised our definitions it falls out of it. When we tried to come up with a clear idea of what a "berry" is we ended up excluding almost everything that has "berry" in the name. Like how tomatoes are fruits by the technical definition of a fruit.

    Except for the fact that the reason plant milk is being excluded is entirely commercial lobbying, rather than a scientific or rational definition.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Fuck's sake, 2nd time that's happened to me in this thread. I thought steak should just be beef, but it turns out:

    The word steak was written steke in Middle English, and comes from the mid-15th century Scandinavian word steik, related to the Old Norse steikja 'to roast on a stake', and so is related to the word stick or stake.

    I don't even want to look up bacon now, I need to believe that it should just be pig.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    early 14c., "meat from the back and sides of a hog" (originally either fresh or cured, but especially cured), from Old French bacon, from Proto-Germanic *bakkon "back meat" (source also of Old High German bahho, Old Dutch baken "bacon"), from the source of back (n.).

    Nah, bacon is bacon

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago (23 children)

    If plant "meat" is real, it would be part of the same lobby. It's not meat. Just call it something else.

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  • [โ€“] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The terms burger and steak don't describe the contents of the food but the shape. And the word meat, in English, doesn't exclusively meant the flesh of an animal. So calling something vegan meat, or soy burger, is exactly the description a costumer would need. Anything else would be either a convoluted name or less descriptive.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    And a pizza is simply flat bread with sauce and toppings. Come at me, Italians.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    I will call it "animal-cruelty free meat" then.

    It's meat because it looks and tastes like meat. Simple as.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Well that's a dumb fucking take.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    Facts don't care though, because it's what it is: it's meat, just without animal suffering.

    sam o nella has got some research on it

    and iirc he loves meat so yeah. basically animals are put into concentration camp-like conditions, except they overfeed them, and then kill them in cruel ways and with horrifying efficiency.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I don't give a fuck about the animal cruelty part.. it's different food, just call it something different. What's so difficult to understand?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Aight, if animal cruelty is no problem, fair. That's valid. We're all humans, after all.

    So, I take it you then don't object to being stuffed with pesticides, herded with thousands of people in a crammed space, and transported off with a truck to slaughter, where you get stunned, electrically tortured, chopped and cut into bits, with your skin being used for leather?

    Just want to let you know that the meat industry is doing exactly what people did to the Jews many years ago.

    I followed your instructions and called it something different; animal-cruelty free meat. Why do you feel attacked for something that does not affect you in the slightest?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Again with the animal cruelty. This isn't about animal cruelty. I welcome lab grown meat, which is actually meat. I just don't understand why there is a need to imitate the meat industry. They can create new things, better things, and it doesn't have to be related to the meat industry at all. Now it's something similar tasting but not quite the same food. If it's labeled as something completely different maybe it would get more popular.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    tastes like meat

    The closest one to taste like meat that I've tried is beyond burger, which in all fairness tasted like a terrible beef burger, while costing like a premium one and being uber processed.

    Each one can do what they want, but I'll take a bean burger that doesn't pretend otherwise before any fake meat.

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Well you're not allowed to call it a "bean burger" anymore cause that would be coNfUSInG according to the animal mass murder lobby.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Well youโ€™re not allowed to call it a โ€œbean burgerโ€ anymore cause that would be coNfUSInG according to the animal mass murder lobby.

    Can you find a primary source for this? Because all I see is articles that may well be clickbait. I want to see what they actually voted on.

    I think certain terms are definitively meat, eg steak, but saying a burger is exclusively meat is like saying a pizza must have plain tomato sauce.

    In any case, this hasn't been finalised yet as the European Commission - the actual competent lawyers rather than populist representatives (who might not actually represent their voters) - have yet to have their say. I'd hope that common sense would withdraw "burger" from any law that comes out of this.

    Edit: With (far too much) digging I managed to find what they voted on, and it does indeed include burger: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-10-2025-0214_EN.html Ammendment 113, if you just search the page for "burger" you'll find the list of terms.

    These names include, for example:

      โ€”  Steak
      โ€”  Escalope
      โ€”  Sausage
      โ€”  Burger
      โ€”  Hamburger
      โ€”  Egg yolk
      โ€”  Egg white.
    
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  • [โ€“] -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm not mass producing, selling or advertising them, so this ruling doesn't apply to me.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I guess it's a good thing then that no one will be allowed to buy the bean burger you just praised from anyone in Europe?

    Imagine people ordering a "lentil burger", "soy burger", "plant burger", "bean burger", or "chickpea burger", and receiving a vegan meal. Can you imagine how shocked and deceived, perhaps even violated they may feel?

    The horror! Luckily the European Christian Democrats protected European citizens from this huge and common problem instead of, oh I dunno, helping European industry with the energy transition or end a genocide. They have their priorities straight here.

    Or maybe, just maybe, this is another attempt by the animal mass murder industry to slow down the transition to a slightly less cruel food production system and these politicians are earning some blood money?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's not meat, it's a meat substitute.

    You can say it is a replacement for the thing, you can't say it is the thing. Simples.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm guessing they're trying to distract people from the fact that they're cutting back sustainability laws even further.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago

    Beefsteak tomatoes would like a word.

    Italian: cuore di bue French: cล“ur de bล“uf

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  • Damn I better go stockpile pea-based mince(d meat).

    (If you haven't tried it before, seriously, do. There's so many (traditional) recipes with minced meat for which this is a 1:1 replacement, it opens up an entire new world of cooking for vegetarian/vegan kitchens.)

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  • [โ€“] 14 points 1 year ago

    You expect this from Texas but are shocked and disappointed when it's the EU.

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