Tofu cheesecake sounds pretty normal to me. You'd want to use silken tofu, of course, but I bet a tofu cheesecake would be amazing. It's all in how you flavor it, just as it is for a cow titty juice cheesecake.
One quick google brings up this recipe: https://myquietkitchen.com/tofu-cheesecake/, which looks quite good. (I'm tempted to try it actually, it's been awhile since I had cheesecake!)
The important thing is that it uses silken tofu, which is a totally different texture from the tofu you'd usually use in a stir fry or scramble. I've had silken tofu chocolate pudding and it was one of the best desserts I've ever experienced. I have no doubt it would make a great cheesecake.
There are also vegan cream cheese variants or you can take vegan yoghurt and get the water out by wrapping it in a dishtowel. My wife is really crafty with this stuff, shoot me a DM if you have any baking related questions.
legit only place I've seen them. I just assumed it was airlines trying to seem sophisticated by throwing something European at us hangry burgerlanders while we fart into our seats.
Same reason there was a run on Sriracha a few years ago. People that normally find bell pepper spicy realized that Sriracha could be mixed with mayo to create a very tame spicy aioli.
culinary trend that eventually gets hopped on by brands and combined into their own products on store shelves.
For the trendsetting chefs etc upstream of that, I assume the humbleness of the biscuit and sort of related notions of 'authenticity' is/was part of the appeal. "Remember those grandma ass biscuits you thought were bad? Well actually they're good. I would know, because I'm the Real Deal."
I'd guess this process of bougie 'elevation' of a humble (cheap) foodstuff is also profitable under the right circumstances
I got one of those biscoff knock-off Mcflurries at hungry jacks and it was like 50% biscoff and was really nice, so I got another one and it just had a tiny layer of biscoff on top and on the bottom, I think the first one I got was a fluke.