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lexi
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somewhat related: why the FUCK are chicken nuggets not vegan by default. those fuckers dont even really taste like chicken why do we put actual chickens in there by default. you could substitute it so easily and nobody would care. i kinda get the point that fancy meat like good steaks etc are hard to replace but i think the fact that "vegan nuggies" is not violating the maxim of quantity is absurd. why on earth do we need to take the chicken detour for nuggets. the food industry is dumb

(also, the phrase "i would kill for those nuggets" doesn't really work here but i would really like some as well)


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in reply to @lexi's post:

Exactly!!!! and that's far from the only example where it literally makes no difference in taste. (the actual answer is probably that people are still hella suspicious of meat alternatives just because they're not the default, and the willingness to buy something is hardly about the taste for many people... so it's the default because it's the default. great reason to torture chickens lol)

from what i remember (paraphrasing from a folding ideas video), nuggets are often made from the undesirable parts of the chicken, the stuff that you can't otherwise sell. so it's not so much a chicken detour as it is a 'we gotta use the rest of this chicken for something'

well, the "desirable" part of the chicken, mainly the breast, is also not exactly the culinary holy grail and pretty much as easy to replace with plant based alternatives. we're fucking chickens up in atrocious ways to obtain "cheap lean protein", that's about it.