Try looking up more "ethnic" foods. Ethiopian comes to mind as they have a lot of vegan dishes.
Most North Americans are going to try to emulate meats and things like that.
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Asian cuisine also has a lot of vegan dishes, inventors of tofu.
I can get all veggy dishes from the local Chinese restaurant. The trouble starts because of all the sauces they use.
Fried rice is fairly basic and you can put literally anything in it.
In my experience the only non-vegan ingredient in asian vegetarian dishes is eggs, and around here it is absolutely no problem to ask for extra-tofu instead. What sauces are you refering to?
Very much so. There are so many great options from across the world.
Most North Americans are going to try to emulate meats and things like that.
Exactly my point. Why?
Cause that's what they're most familiar with
Comfort food that they might have grown up with? Probably lots of other reasons too.
Is there anything new and original in the non-vegan world? Or is it all just constantly finding different ways of serving animal products?
Just because we have the tech now to be exploring realistic plant based alternatives to meat, doesn't mean that is all vegans eat or cook.
And after fucking years of hearing "I'd go vegie/vegan if there were good realistic meat alternatives" from you people, this new spin of "why do vegans want so many realistic meat alternatives?!" is kinda pathetic tbh.
Most of these new plant meats are made and marketed to help get omni's off meat. The megre handful of vegans in the world are not the target market here, and the vast majority of us vegans have always been pretty content with our beans and tofus for protein.
And yes, there are plant based food innovations happening all the time, but they probably don't count for you because omnivores don't see food as 'real' or 'good' unless it contains tortured animal parts.
You people?
I'm pescetarian, so I will eat fish, most of what I eat is either vegetarian or vegan. So it's certainly easier for me than you. But here's the thing, I was brought up this way, therefore I don't like the taste of meat and don't want imitation stuff either.
But I have no difficulty with this at all. A lot of dishes just have meat in them, but they really don't need it, they're good without it, it's not the base of the dish. The foods in shops that are prominently labelled "vegan" or "plant based" are primarily meat and dairy alternatives, because there's no need to label all the other things that have always been inherently plant based. At least in recent years it's becoming trendy to label these foods "plant based" that would never have had meat in them anyway, it makes it clearer, but it's not always the case and there's no real need to.
Humans have been eating food for a very long time. There are only so many cooking methods available and we are not creating new fruits or vegetables (unless you count stuff like pink pineapples or pluots or whatever). I think by now we've probably tried every possible combination of ingredients imaginable. Most dishes are already recreations or reinterpretations or fusions of more historical dishes. The only food frontier left is creating new highly processed ingredients, and that's exactly what these meat substitutes are.