The Vegan Thread

Can't do Thursday I'm afraid, got a leaving do and The Independent wrap party to go to :(

Yea, I can do Thursday, but I finish work at 6:30 in Covent Garden so I'll be there closer to 7 :)

Enjoy Barca dude

So I guess its gonna be Thursday, so shall we say between 6:30 and 7?

Sounds good to me

I'm down for thursday.
where we headin too?

Yes, Thursday is the most popular date so I'm going to start a list. Anyone who isn't on it yet, feel free to add yourself. :)

1. Oliver
   
2. Oli
   
3. Sam (at 7)
   
4. Gregory
   
5. Mancini
   
6. Joss
   
   

Joss, we're going to Cook Daily/Home again.

Sorry you can't make it, Jon, but hope you have a good wrap party! Not that the occasion is particularly joyous. I've followed it in Private Eye a bit.

swwweeet.

Someone called Barry has filled in the Doodle poll--is that you, Mancini? If you're someone else altogether, Barry, do pipe up. Looking forward to seeing everybody tomorrow, 6:30pm at Cook Daily, Shoreditch Boxpark.

1. Oliver
   
2. Oli
   
3. Sam (at 7)
   
4. Gregory
   
5. Mancini
   
6. Joss
   

It is me......

Thanks Oliver, you're right, it's not exactly a good time to see old colleagues but what can you do... hope you all have some good grub and I'll try my best to be at the next one... if anyone wants to try and go somewhere at the weekends, let me know as I'm in London full time now... on another note, Barcelona was great, found a nice place called Flax and Kale which is 70% vegan and 30% oily fish, great if your other half isn't vegan. They make their own juices and milks on the premises so if anyone's going, I'd recommend it highly.

http://teresacarles.com/fk/index_en.html

Interesting stuff:

http://fatgayvegan.com/2016/04/05/plant-based-burger-looks-and-tastes-like-meat/

They've certainly got their USP sorted, bearing in mind that while this looks a lot like meat mince in the video, you can't taste it from that. Hopefully, it's not some belated April Fool's video that's got misfiled somehow.

As for 'would you eat it?', I'd probably try it at least once, although I once had an uncomfortable experience in a Chinese restaurant when I ordered something that had imitation prawns in it. Those tasted so much like actual dead prawns that I couldn't bear to finish them. I'm certainly not too keen on it oozing 'a blood-like substance' when you eat it.

It's interesting what they claim about 'heme' and how that is supposed to be what gives meat its 'meaty' flavour. It's clearly a gross simplification of what is understood by 'heme', as a casual glance at Wikipedia suggests, but you never know, there may be something to it.

Ah, OK. List edited. :)

I can't make tomorrow now unfortunately- next time!

Next time indeed!

Too late, but I only just saw this--hope you found it, anyway:

http://fatgayvegan.com/2016/04/07/100-vegan-deli-is-incredible/

I've arrived quicker than I thought. I'm on the corner of Bethnal Green road and shoreditch high street

@Dakin where you at? You missed me buying you food

gutted mate. got on a phone job interview.
organise again soon.

Interesting stuff there, I'd give it a bash but understand about the whole meaty flavour thing, that might be a bit of a turn off

A lot of people justify eating meat "because it tastes nice"* and they don't care (or don't know) about the other aspects (animal welfare, envoronmental etc), so if you want to convince those people to eat a plant based diet then providing a substitute for taste/texture seems like a good idea.

(I still think meat tastes nice, I just choose not to eat it these days)

* this was me for a while

Been away from the missus for 8 months and today is date day.
Best vegan pizza or burger spots?
We're in Nunhead so ideally not miles away

Well there's Franco in Brixton for pizza.
Waiting Room in Deptford for the best burger in SE.

Thats it I think.. Not loads of choice your ends..

Franco also in East Dulwich

@Thrasher @Dakin Ivy House also does a tasty vegan burger. (And roast on Sundays!)