Veganism is Dark Souls only because restaurants haven't learned how to git gud
Unless you are living in Berlin or Vienna. Than it's like "Story Mode/ Easy Mode"
And that's only touching upon the restaurant scene. Supermarkets carry everything you could ever want for a vegan diet and I live in a rather small-ish town in Germany (~80k). Probably even more insane in a city like Berlin or Vienna.
Thats so true. Thankfully asian restaurants usually have options because european cuisine sucks when it comes to vegans or even vegetarians.
Although, you do have to watch out sometime. Egg and fish (sauce) could be used for some dishes without explicitly telling you about that beforehand.
Apparently that is a problem with kimchi, for example, where the animal-derived ingredients are not considered to be part of the "main ingredients", like nappa cabbage or radishes, so they can sometimes be forgotten when asked if it's vegan.
Tell me you know nothing about European cuisines without telling me you know nothing about European cuisines.
Vegan is going to be a bit harder in the northern parts because butter but there's a fuckton of traditional naturally vegetarian dishes. Peasants back in the days had maybe a pig that they raised for food and another to sell, that's not a "meat every day" type of supply. Eggs are a different matter.
It seems like every where I go from restaurants to pubs in the UK have good veggie and vegan options these days, it's a far cry from when I went veggie eighteen odd years back.
Ugh being vegan is too hard, i dont want to only be limited to the literal hundreds of edible plants, and centuries of plant based cooking techniques. let me just eat the same 3 baby animals and their excretions.
Veganism isn't only about food. No idea how they handle checking every single item to see if it's vegan. There's a lot of stuff that uses non-vegan stuff to be produced.
Cooking is easy, the hard part is knowing what exactly IS vegan.
There's an app called Fig that I use that makes it much easier. You tell it what you don't want to buy (there are presets for vegan, vegetarian, allergies, brand boycotts, etc.), and you take a picture of the ingredients list on a product. It'll tell you if it matches your preferences, or even if it's questionable.
Like most things, you learn as you go. I just learned my dishsoap isn't vegan, but I already have it, I'm not throwing it away now. I just wont buy it again. I'll be checking the next soap I buy. Each new thing needs to be researched. I'm just more comfortable with my choices than I was before.
It's definitely not easy and takes some research, but it's not impossible.
For example, carmine is used as a red dye and is made of small insects that are processed for the dye. Some sweets use these, baking ingredients can too. If you don't know that, you may end up supporting something non-vegan as a vegan.
It's these little things, "unknown" and obscure knowledge, that can get you if you're not well informed.
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Peer pressure is pretty rude, though. One ribbing is fine, but after that it's just pride and bullying.
I don't know, Dark Souls fans don't have to work that into every conversation they have.
My and my level 334 int fai build disagree.
I'm probably gonna go vegetarian but I love dairy too much to go vegan
That's fair. Cutting out meat is already making an intense impact and don't let purists tell you otherwise.
Besides, dairy is affordable. Meat isn't.
If you live in a country like the USA you can already buy non-animal dairy! Unfortunately it's illegal where I live (thanks to the Green party) but a lot of dairy companies think it's the future as it has a fraction of the environmental impact and none of the cruelty associated with industrial cattle farming.
Honestly being vegan with modern farming and food production techniques is pretty easy, especially when compared to being vegan in the past - though if al-Ma'arri managed to live into his 80s while being a disabled, atheistic vegan in the middle east in the late 900s/early 1000s AD then it probably wasn't exactly impossible!
Absolutely true. We have everything we could want/need to live a healthy vegan life. Most people are just afraid of trying something different or are purposefully ignorant of the implications of a non-vegan lifestyle.
One of the things that made it hardest for me was being teased and picked on by my family, while I wasn't asking anything from them. I just didn't want meat with dinner. It was nonstop anytime I showed my face, and if I spoke I was spoken over and ignored. It made me very antisocial, and I didn't adhere to my values. Then almost twenty years later I did and I've gained a bunch of weight because I'm comfortable while I eat.
Definitely sharing this with my vegan gamer mother in law.
Feel free to do so. :)
Being british is the bloodborne
And being vegetarian is the elden Ring (gatekeeping vegans will hate on you)
And being vegetarian is the elden Ring (gatekeeping vegans will hate on you)
I want the "Hello Kitty Island Adventure" difficulty.
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Ok but the more I learn about vegan recipes, the more I realize meat has been delicious enough to kept me ignorant of finer technique. Cooking and chopping has improved a lot in search if better vegan flavors.
I have some good cookbooks but on youtube I've found: Adam Ragusea, Marco Pierre White, Lucas Sin.
This joke format is the Dark Souls of laughing at something
If you think about it, Lemmy is the Dark Souls of social media platforms.
