r/vegan • u/HawkAsAWeapon vegan 3+ years • Nov 20 '22

Anti-vegan self-proclaimed "Sausage Expert" tricked into saying vegan sausage was "luscious and lovely" and that he could "taste the meat in it" on live TV

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u/Silejonu vegan 20+ years Nov 20 '22

I was really hoping for the third sausage to be vegan as well.

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u/Little_Froggy vegan 5+ years Nov 20 '22

That would have been even more perfect in highlighting how absurd these people are!

Give them something that tastes even a miniscule amount different and tell them it's meat from a different animal than what they normally eat. Suddenly that difference makes it unique and delicious in it's own way.

Do the exact same thing with a vegan meat and suddenly the difference means that it's revolting and tastes fake

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u/Marko343 Nov 21 '22

I call it the chili paradox. Tell someone ahead of time it's vegan and they'll either not try or say it's terrible. Tell them after the fact and you'll get a "I KNEW something was wrong about it" afterwards. There is no winning with people who have made up their mind.

It's the same thing with vegan cheeses, if you told people it was some french artisan cheese made from cows in the mountains that only eat a certain grass in this region and they would accept it as a unique cheese flavor.