Vegan corn dogs! These were offered for sale in a public space! Piping hot and ready to eat.*. Vegan corn dogs were available here, at the San Francisco green festival in November, 2011. It’s a miracle!
* No, it’s not helpful to mention that MorningStar farms has frozen corn dogs that somebody could buy in some grocery store somewhere. It’s not relevant because people are not looking to pick up boxes of frozen food when they are going booth to booth at a conference, festival or other public event.
Vegan corn dogs in a public space should be such an easy thing, a total no-brainer. However, the reality is that such a thing is nor easy to find. I don’t think I have seen any “vegan corn dogs in a public space” since this occurrence, 12 years ago!
Not only did they have vegan corn dogs for sale in a public space, they also had veggie gyros made with seitan … sounds delicious.
I wish that good food like this could be available at county fairs and other events, as the typical thing. The technology is there, the food exists … it’s delicious and nutritious.
Yes, I realize that not everyone can eat things made with wheat, but not everyone can eat things made with pork, chicken or beef, due to food allergies and/or religious taboos… and these foods can still be easily found.
Sometimes I see VegansTM trying too hard, like they’re trying to only eat foods that “everyone” can eat. That’s ridiculous. Meat eaters are not lobbying for chicken meat to no longer be served because some people are allergic to chicken meat and it causes their throat to swell up; a person with this food allergy can die if they try to consume soup that has chicken broth in it, unknown to them. Reasonable people understand that different people have different food allergies, and that most people have no food allergies whatsoever. Reasonable people understand that there’s no reason for people to avoid good, nutritious food due to a food allergy they don’t have.
Newsflash: soy and wheat (including gluten), are very nutritious foods that most people have no problem with. Most people are not allergic to these foods. Most people do not have Celiac, Crohn’s disease, or any other condition that might cause them to not be able to eat high-protein, and/or high fiber foods, like soy, whole grains, beans, lentils, seitan, and gluten .
Another point: It’s sad how long such food has existed (high protein, delicious, nutritious, satisfying Meat-Free Street Foods), and yet … it’s still not commonly available. In China and Taiwan, they’ve been making nutritious meat substitutes out of wheat and soy for centuries. We don’t need to invent anything new for there to be the possibility of delicious vegan options.
Nonetheless, the options are not there, generally speaking. Anybody else feel me on this? *sigh* Eleven years have passed since this “vegan corn dog, piping hot, for sale, and ready to eat, in a public space,” sighting. From my perspective, it seems that very little progress has been made since then.
What do you think?
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