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• #6752
Quite spendy but they had some nice food.
Clearly, they no longer have it now.
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• #6753
I couldn't afford to eat/drink them dry.
mumbles something about vegetables being cheap
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• #6754
Managed to get a Vegan Pain au Chocolat type thing from Carluccios. They weirdly had only been sent one to cook. It's bloody lovely.
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• #6755
Nice to know we're successful enough for people to really take the piss - £13.50 for a veggieburger with no chips my shiny hiney.
dafuq is CBD anyway, and why is it £28 for a smoothie? I'd only pay £28 for CBD if it meant Corn Flakes, Brunch and Dinner.
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• #6756
Yeah, it's in central London and it's 'weird' so I get it's not going to be cheap but when you can get dead cow around the corner for half that price...
It's £28 for the meal, not for the smoothie. CBD is cannabidiol, extracted from marijuana, it's the non-high bit (no THC) that's meant to have some kind of healthy, anti-inflammatory properties, but I've not read any studies on it so I have no idea if it's total bullshit or what. It's certainly on trend.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/cannabidiol-cbd-what-we-know-and-what-we-dont-2018082414476
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• #6757
"CBD has been touted for a wide variety of health issues, but the strongest scientific evidence is for its effectiveness in treating some of the cruelest childhood epilepsy syndromes, such as Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS), which typically don’t respond to antiseizure medications. In numerous studies, CBD was able to reduce the number of seizures, and in some cases it was able to stop them altogether."
"CBD is commonly used to address anxiety, and for patients who suffer through the misery of insomnia, studies suggest that CBD may help with both falling asleep and staying asleep.
CBD may offer an option for treating different types of chronic pain. A study from the European Journal of Pain showed, using an animal model, CBD applied on the skin could help lower pain and inflammation due to arthritis. Another study demonstrated the mechanism by which CBD inhibits inflammatory and neuropathic pain, two of the most difficult types of chronic pain to treat. More study in humans is needed in this area to substantiate the claims of CBD proponents about pain control."
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• #6758
£13.50 for a veggieburger with no chips my shiny hiney
lol
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• #6759
Here's another one of those periodic stories that demonise veganism when the real issue clearly appears to be that the parents are incapable of looking after children:
The child had not been seen by a doctor since she had left hospital after being born, her diet was clearly extremely poor, and the mother had natal and postnatal depression, and still the main focus of the reporting is on 'veganism'. Depressingly, the reporter then seems to consider a diet with animal products, which must be the implication of 'normal' here, well, 'normal':
When placed on a normal diet in April 2018 and given extra support, she quickly began to grow and her teeth emerged.
These stories will keep coming, sadly.
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• #6760
Seen in Berlin today
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• #6761
Ha.
A bit like the large graffito, now gone, that was on a wall high up in a Weinberg in the Middle Rhine Valley for years: LEBE VEGAN.
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• #6762
..just looked that up.. ha, nice!
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• #6763
Why's it in English tho?
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• #6764
I assume so it has an easier time of going viral on social media?
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• #6765
Our unlikely heroes are at it again:
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• #6766
Gregg for PM
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• #6767
This is dreadful news though. I already struggle not to overdo it on the sausage rolls. Living in Leeds you're never more than 6ft from a Greggs.
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• #6768
What a time to be alive.
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• #6769
I'm still in two minds about all the "vegan version of xyz" stuff that's going on at the moment. What got me scratching my chin was something (I think) Oliver posted upthread about Pat Val not putting butter in their puff pastry to save money. I was also confused when reading the back of supermarket puff pastry, that most of it also appeared to contain no butter.
What I mean is, I wouldn't be at all surprised if Greggs' vegan sausage rolls were cheaper to make than their meaty ones. That's not necessarily a reason not to eat them, of course, just that the moves from KFC/Subway/Greggs etc. to launch vegan products could be a nice little margin enhancer for them to subsidise lower prices in the rest of their business.
Food for thought.
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• #6770
Wait, are you saying that all these companies do these vegan things because of profit? ;)
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• #6771
I know rite
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• #6772
Just go ahead and buy it / eat it. Or don't. It's simple.
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• #6773
Waitrose have vegan options in their £12 meal deal. I was mainly Interested in the chocolate torte dessert but they'd sadly sold out. Main is a Beetroot and mushroom Wellington.
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• #6774
Well, there's a new market segment emerging, so naturally the existing big(ger) players in the existing market try to cater for it. It may well be that vegan ingredients for this sort of thing are cheaper to buy for them (e.g., vegan Quorn cheaper than animal corpse flesh), but I'm not sure that's always the case. For instance, dairy milk chocolate is cheaper to produce than non-milk chocolate because dairy milk is a cheaper ingredient than cocoa in, for example, Switzerland, and I think (would have to check) that egg pasta is cheaper to produce than 100% durum wheat pasta, because factory-farmed egg is a cheap junk ingredient.
The bigger players moving in may mean that smaller vegan start-up businesses don't get as much of a slice of the pie, but it may also mean that because the bigger players increase the slice of the pie, ultimately even the smaller vegan businesses benefit more. Who knows, it's probably very different on a case-by-case basis.
As mentioned many times previously, there's always the debate whether to influence from the outside in (only buy from 100% vegan companies--I've met people who've said they do this for food) or from the inside out (buy vegan stuff from non-vegan companies to make them bebad ome more vegan). I think there's not much between, although I try not to buy from particularly bad non-vegan companies that have vegan products.
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• #6775
Vegans: we want veganism to be mainstream and easily accessible
Major food supplier introduces vegan options
Vegans: no, not like thatThis debate has been around for at least as long as I have been vegan. And I remember the times when the only vegan options where in the fresh produce section.
https://www.kaliforniakitchen.co.uk/our-food
Quite spendy but they had some nice food. I wonder how much CBD you could ingest there. Think I'll stick with my salad bar chick.