Paid Members ReturnOfTheMack Posted December 14, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted December 14, 2018 Terrible as cheese to eat, fair when melted on toast. I'm not converted, yet, but will keep trying. Thinking about turning veggie at least by next summer (truthfully I want to wait until after my wedding so I'm less stressed in general) and am starting to cut out meat. I think I eat meat 2/3 days a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UK Kat Von D Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 3 hours ago, Chest Rockwell said: I didn't mean the article in particular. But the whole back forth of Maxwell being challenged on his ethical consistency is far less interesting than just talking about tasty vegan food. Well I’ve literally ate like a king for the past 10 days, so I got a fuck ton of photos to share tomorrow. New York has so many amazing options everywhere it was fucking amazing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted December 14, 2018 Moderators Share Posted December 14, 2018 Yeah, new York is crazy for it. When I was there for a quick weekend a couple years back we stayed in Williamsburg and every restaurant in the area where we stayed was vegan. I didn't think much of vegan scrambled eggs though, but we did have some other nice stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UK Kat Von D Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 1 hour ago, Chest Rockwell said: Yeah, new York is crazy for it. When I was there for a quick weekend a couple years back we stayed in Williamsburg and every restaurant in the area where we stayed was vegan. I didn't think much of vegan scrambled eggs though, but we did have some other nice stuff. Ah no way, it was Williamsburg I was working in. With an area like that I genuinely can’t understand how anyone would choose to eat meat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rey_Piste Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 Williamsburg is the Shoreditch of Brooklyn, so it's not a typical area of the city. In the majority of towns most restaurants will have vegan options on their menu, but it can be incredibly limited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UK Kat Von D Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 35 minutes ago, Rey_Piste said: Williamsburg is the Shoreditch of Brooklyn, so it's not a typical area of the city. In the majority of towns most restaurants will have vegan options on their menu, but it can be incredibly limited. Williamsburg is next to Bushwick which had the Shoreditch kind of vibe. I never felt any kind of inconvenience where ever I was and I spent a lot of time venturing about the city. Even most standard shops had a load of options everywhere I went Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Kaz Hayashi Posted December 14, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted December 14, 2018 Williamsburg has an amazing flea market on a Sunday, just down from Brooklyn brewery if I remember correctly. I’m really fond of that area. Far preferred it over the majority of Manhattan. I proposed to my wife there actually. Would love to go back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator Onyx2 Posted December 17, 2018 Awards Moderator Share Posted December 17, 2018 Grace Dent reviewed a bunch of festive Vegan supermarket offerings: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2018/dec/15/vegan-taste-test-grace-dent-rates-supermarket-christmas-dishes?CMP=twt_b-gdnweekend A cauliflower in pastry sounds brill. Still, like most things, a bit of gravy will sort it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 I won't spoil it but one of the finalists on The Apprentice had a vegan nut milk business as her potential investment. It wasn't central to the programme or anything but I found some of the insights into getting it to market really interesting. The main hurdle was a catch 22 regarding packaging. It needed an Elopak style container but they can only be mass produced on a scale that she didn't have yet. So it wasn't what was in the carton that was preventing getting it on supermarket shelves, but getting an actual carton itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 4 hours ago, Keith Houchen said: I won't spoil it but one of the finalists on The Apprentice had a vegan nut milk business as her potential investment. It wasn't central to the programme or anything but I found some of the insights into getting it to market really interesting. The main hurdle was a catch 22 regarding packaging. It needed an Elopak style container but they can only be mass produced on a scale that she didn't have yet. So it wasn't what was in the carton that was preventing getting it on supermarket shelves, but getting an actual carton itself. Wait, so what is dairy-free milk and vegan food mostly contained in? Not vegan friendly packaging? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 1 hour ago, SuperBacon said: Wait, so what is dairy-free milk and vegan food mostly contained in? Not vegan friendly packaging? No, it's in vegan friendly packaging, but the contestant worked out of her own kitchen. As a result, to get the kind of product she wanted, the packaging was a stumbling block because she would have to produce so much more of her product in order to be able to get the packaging she needed. And to be able to do that, she needed the investment. She didn't make enough of her product to warrant a minimum order with her desired packaging manufacturer, but if she had that particular packaging, she had so many more revenue streams open to her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 Oh, I see. Appreciate the info. I haven't watched this series, but Nut Milk? Fucking hell... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 1 minute ago, SuperBacon said: Oh, I see. Appreciate the info. I haven't watched this series, but Nut Milk? Fucking hell... It was really interesting, well to me at least. The majority of nut milk on the shelf has around 2% nut content, hers has 13% so that really pushes up the price (which is why she needed the packaging). One of the contestant was vegan and he was saying how good her product was so that was a ringing endorsement. As I say, for someone who knows nothing about the product and getting it to market, I found those little exchanges really enlightening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 Sounds it, it's just...the name. It's either the most self aware or least self aware thing I've seen since those Little Willies vegan sausages...Which are nice to be fair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 Just now, SuperBacon said: Sounds it, it's just...the name. It's either the most self aware or least self aware thing I've seen since those Little Willies vegan sausages...Which are nice to be fair Wait till you see what she thought was acceptable branding and slogans! Even Brady, who works for the porno brothers, thought she was sex obsessed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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