I had cheese put into my food before, but now I was given meat-meat and not only once but twice (different places).
It wasn’t even by people not understanding what veganism is, it was just a very blatant swap.
Sure, I got money back, but I’m wondering: has the acceptance of vegans gone down and malice towards us gone up? I would’ve thought it would’ve gotten better over time.
I’m asking because I’m so far removed from the vegan community I forget I’m vegan because the store being “empty” for me is the norm, as is checking labels etc; I’ve no clue whether other vegans are facing similar issues as of late.
What kind of place was this at? Anybody who’s ever worked at anything like a bar/restaurant knows people not getting what they ordered happens about a dozen times a day. I think you’d have to invoke Hanlon on this one.
Or do you have reason to think it was targeted at you specifically because you are vegan? Please give us some more background info.
One thing was premade meals sold by a company which solely sold vegan meals… Until it didn’t. They swapped one of the meal, keeping it looking identical, same name and all, but now made it with meat. Listed with meat on the new ingredients: but again, same meal they sold, all vegan previously, now all vegan expect for this one meal, made to look identical to the previously vegan meal.
Another one was very clearly meat at a non-vegan with vegan options place where I ate previously so I know how their meat replacement looks (and I also know what real meat looks/smell etc like and it was very clearly actual meat) put into a box marked as vegan. If it wasn’t put into the vegan marked packaging, I would’ve thought it was just a mistake during packing, but I know they prepare vegan food in a different section of the kitchen and they have different grills for it etc.
Feel free to tell me I’m wrong, but to me both of those feel like targetting vegans.
Both of those sound like easy to make, honest mistakes to me. People in kitchens are often over worked and under paid.
Remember Hanlon’s razor. Cut them some slack.
How is changing the entire previously vegan only dish from a place previously doing vegan only dishes to a non-vegan one while ensuring it’s indistinguishable from the outside unless one reads the ingredints a kitchen mistake?
Someone just didn’t read the ingredients when fulfilling the order. If they only recently started doing non-vegan dishes, they probably are not used have to read the ingredient when fulfilling every order and assumed the package they grabbed was vegan.
Its probably good feedback to give that the packaging should make it clear a a glance what is/isn’t vegan so customers can tell they received what they ordered, and would help people fulfilling orders to be more accurate/quick.
That is perplexing. Have you contacted them to ask them about this? If it is new ownership, for example, that’d probably help you understand what happened and whether or not you want to try eating there again
No, I didn’t contact them. It’s extremely clearly intentional to me and I merely won’t give them money again.
I swung by to see a few more times and they still only sell meat-meat one, not even a vegan version and non-vegan version. I don’t get why a vegan place would switch like this, but fuck them.