Those 90% "vegetarian versions" are insulting to vegans because they are not balanced meals. Ya'll still need protein. A plain salad with no high-protein veg is not a meal. The same salad with croutons made with butter is just insulting ignorance.

I recognize your name and we haven't seen eye-to-eye in the past, but I'm gonna side with the vegans on this one here. Restaurants need to get their heads out of their asses about what a vegan meal is.

Flip-side. If you have a high-protein vegan meal and you just plop a steak on top of it, that's also not a well-balanced meal. The term often used is "heavy" (if not just "unbalanced").

[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It was an attempt of a joke. You know because the person wrote

90% of “vegetarian versions” of dishes are just the dish without meat.

So I wrote that meat dishes are just vegan and vegetarian dishes with meat...

[–] abraxas@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sorry. I was told by someone else I'm very literal today. I think I miss out on the joke. Are you referring to things like Lobster Mac and Cheese?

[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No I just meant it as a matter of perspective. Take kale with sausage for example. From a meat eaters perspective the vegan version would be kale without the sausage. But from a vegans perspective it's kale with added sausage. So instead of saying these are all (meat) dishes and the modification is to leave out the meat, you could also say it's all vegetarian dishes were you added meat.