What did plants ever do to you?!?!
Oh, really? They taste like chemicals though
They are just a shit version of Bourbon biscuits.
The trans-fats used to cover the taste of chemicals, now that they’re removed it’s just naked.
Good reminder that preservatives and sugar are vegan I guess.
In the US, a lot of sugar is processed with bone char, which makes it non-vegan.
What The fuck?
It’s just charcoal filtering (which is a process used in many, many food and drink processes), but one source of industrial quantities of charcoal comes from charred bones (after the proteins are extracted making soup or whatever).
I’m still mad at nabisco for adding soy to the Oreo recipe. And Nilla wafers.
They were my only safe cookies I didn’t have to bake myself and weren’t exorbitantly priced like “organic” brands. Now I have to pay like $8+ for a tiny pack of off brand “sandwich cookies” 😭
Technically Oreo is the off brand
What’s the issue with soy? Just an allergy?
There’s no “just” about allergies, unfortunately.
One of my partners has FND and allergies/sensitivities to some super common shit that gives them seizure like symptoms.
You have no idea how hard it is to work around a combined yeast/coconut/vinegar restriction…
I think they meant as opposed to a larger ethical issue that affects everyone, but I agree it was a little too nonchalant.
Yes, I have a soy allergy lol.
I think it’s in the top 7-8 common food allergies in the US, at least.
.3% of the general population.
Sadly, Oreos appear to no longer be vegan - at least in right now, in Germany. For foods like cookies, instant noodles, and similar foods that are usually made in huge factories with a lot of other products, you’d see a note telling that the product may contain traces of xyz. A couple years back, you’d see that note on a pack of Oreos, ie. “may contain traces of milk” and possibly some nuts or something. These days, it says “may contain milk” which is an important distinction to make. Apparently, the factory gives themselves the leeway to substitute parts of the vegan ingredients with non-vegan ones if it’s more financially viable to them. The usual formula might be vegan, but you’d have no way of knowing if this particular batch happens to not have any non-vegan ingredients in them
This isn’t a legal loophole, the disclaimer is just unregulated and might not hold up in court. All ingredients have to be listed under ingredients, if they’re contained:
https://www.lebensmittelklarheit.de/fragen-antworten/unterschied-kann-spuren-von-und-kann-xy-enthaltenThat being said, I, too, started avoiding Burger King, when their allergy information sheet contained all three versions of this disclaimer. (“May contain”, “May contain traces of” and “May be cross contained with”)
The usual formula might be vegan, but you’d have no way of knowing if this particular batch happens to not have any non-vegan ingredients in them
[X] Doubt
You’re basically saying it’s ok to lie about the ingredients if it’s financially cheaper than using the ingredients listed, which sounds like weapons grade horseshit.
You’re saying, in Germany, that the ingredients list is a lie if the package contains an allergy warning?
Ediacarium left out an important word from the article they cited: “All purposefully added ingredients have to be listed under ‘ingredients’”. This does not include accidental cross-contamination.
The reason why produces seem to be moving away from the phrase ‘traces of’ is because it might lead the consumer to get a wrong picture of how much contamination happened. From the article:
“‘May contain traces of…’ can give the impression that allergens are contained inadvertently and only in small amounts, but that may not be the case for chunky contaminants like nuts.”
Never heard of that loophole before, got a source for me to read more?
It’s called “creme” because there’s no cream involved, and regular chocolate is inherently vegan.
oreos are shit biscuits.
In both EU countries I lived, the cheapest cookies used to be cream-(or rather creme-)filled sandwich cookies. They were completely vegan and cheaper than most bread. There was nothing bad in them at all (excluding palm fat I guess).
There’s always a few products like that to be found on the bottom shelves - the cheapest and miraculously also one of the best.
As long as you think sugar is okay?
I’m not suggesting you eat those instead of bread.
Yeah, why would anyone want their dessert to be sweet? For me a glass of water is enough because I’m better than everybody else.
It’s the sugar that makes them shit, even if you take exception to nothing else.
To be a little pedantic: That’s just plant-based…ism? Veganism isn’t inherently about food (although that is a big part of it ofc :3 )
Its also gluten free
Also exploring ultra-processed food, which I think is against the spirit of veganism. The few vegans I know make everything themselves from stuff that’s one step away from being pulled from the ground or a plant.
I was a junk food Vegan for several years and only switched to a cleaner and less processed (but still vegan) diet this year after I saw my (nonvegan) parents suffering from life-threatening food-related diseases.
