Vegan/vegetarian at TAM9

Soymilk420

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Hey all. Im planning a meet-up for the vegetarians and vegans attending TAM this year. We already have number of folks interested.

We will be meeting at Atmoic#7 on Saturday at 6:30pm. Atomic#7 is an ice cream shop that makes their own custom regular and vegan ice cream right in front of you using liquid nitrogen, how nerdy it that!? They also make steamed hot pudding if youre into that as well. So come out and meet your fellow broccoli munching skeptics, we are a diverse bunch so it should be fun and interesting.

Additionally Penn Jilette will be hosting a Rock & Roll, Doughnut and Bacon Party on Friday night that we shall be crashing* with plates of fakin bacon and Ronalds vegan donuts.

If you are interested in the meet-up you can add yourself to the Facebook event page by just searching "Pythagorean Posse" or respond here. We will have a carpool and taxipool arranged so it should be easy to get to. Even if you cant make it to the meet-up but will still be at TAM I would love to meet you, drop me a line.

*Just kidding, please be respectful to Penn and guests if attend
 
I think you need to try to get a vegan donut at Penn...

Maybe you can get skeptic and vegetarian of some note, DJ Grothe in on your plot.
 
xinit said:
I think you need to try to get a vegan donut at Penn...

Maybe you can get skeptic and vegetarian of some note, DJ Grothe in on your plot.
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Ive spoken with him (he is like the most pleasant person ever) and he did RSVP to the event on facebook, though I fear he will be too busy when it comes down to it. We still have a number of people on facebook and elsewhere that wish to attend.

I bet Penn couldn't even tell the donut was vegan, they are a regular donut shop that just started doing vegan donuts too on request, they get really good reviews from vegans and non-vegans alike.
While I plan to be there and bring my own donuts (visiting that donut place is a big motivation for going to vegas for me) I dont intend to be vocal about it in anyway, I dont want to be the kid who got Penn riled up and ranting about animal rights and the like. I just wanna party and eat donuts too.
 
Soymilk420 said:
I bet Penn couldn't even tell the donut was vegan, they are a regular donut shop that just started doing vegan donuts too on request, they get really good reviews from vegans and non-vegans alike.
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I've had surprisingly good vegan cookies and cakes, so not a big surprise for me. Anyone bringing donuts will be welcome, surely. I never did find decent fakeon when I was on the veggie side of the food chain, though.
 
The Central Scrutinizer said:
Something that tastes like cardboard.
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I know youre probably just being snarky but I wouldnt just assume it tastes bad. Unlike other vegan-specific donut shops they dont just make cake donuts but a whole range of raised, cake, and filled donuts. Read the reviews on yelp from mostly non-vegans, 4 & 1/2 stars, their donuts are quite popular and they have a higher customer rating that Krispy Creme.

I will gladly give you a donut to try.
 
Soymilk420 said:
I know youre probably just being snarky but I wouldnt just assume it tastes bad. Unlike other vegan-specific donut shops they dont just make cake donuts but a whole range of raised, cake, and filled donuts. Read the reviews on yelp from mostly non-vegans, 4 & 1/2 stars, their donuts are quite popular and they have a higher customer rating that Krispy Creme.

I will gladly give you a donut to try.
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I was being snarky, but I've been down this road dozens of times with vegetarians and tofu.

I've tried tofu. It tastes like rubber. Period. But whenever I mention this to vegetarians, they always complain that wherever I had tried it before hadn't prepared it properly, and it doesn't taste like rubber, and then they offer me some "properly" prepared tofu, which tastes like....rubber.

So I'm imagining that vegan donuts likely taste like cardboard, no matter how much you may insist they don't. :)
 
yes but plain tofu often isnt well prepared and many folks dont like it, though thats not the end all of vegan food and even with plain tofu the brand and how it was cooked really matter

there was actually a blinded taste test in which participants (non-vegans) were unable to distinguish between a vegan sausage and regular meat sausage. I think the bias many folks have about veganism taints their experience of vegan food. They dont want to like it, so they end up not liking it.
Thats why I often will try to get folks to try something without knowing its vegan first, ive been able to pass off Amys Vegan Mac and Cheese as the real thing (its even gluten-free pasta, go figure, i usually dislike GF pasta and breads). If i put out a plate of vegan cookie at a party many people actually avoid them if they are described as "vegan". Really it is an irrational and baseless bias.

I cant post links yet but the study can be found by Googleing The-Interactive-Effect-of-Cultural-Symbols-and-Human-Values-on-Taste-Evaluation
 
Andriiya said:
Sadly, I think all donuts at the party will be of the Krappy Kirspy Kreme variety, however there will be bacon... so I think that makes it ok.
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how much is krispy creme per donut?
I think Ronalds is 80 cents...again better reviews on yelp
 
Soymilk420 said:
yes but plain tofu often isnt well prepared and many folks dont like it, though thats not the end all of vegan food and even with plain tofu the brand and how it was cooked really matter
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You're forgetting one thing - I've heard this exact speech probably close to 30 times. And it always ends up tasting like rubber. :)
 
Andriiya said:
Sadly, I think all donuts at the party will be of the Krappy Kirspy Kreme variety, however there will be bacon... so I think that makes it ok.
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I have a feeling you're right. I doubt it will be gourmet bacon either!

In other words, eat dinner before you go. :)
 
The Central Scrutinizer said:
You're forgetting one thing - I've heard this exact speech probably close to 30 times. And it always ends up tasting like rubber. :)
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I think that this means the challenge for TAM9 is to feed Scrut tofu without him knowing it. He's obviously employing some sort of selection bias to ignore all the times he's eaten tofu without knowing it...
 
xinit said:
I think that this means the challenge for TAM9 is to feed Scrut tofu without him knowing it. He's obviously employing some sort of selection bias to ignore all the times he's eaten tofu without knowing it...
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Do they make tofu beer? That would totally work.
 
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