Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat

Re:Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat by Manishearth on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @04:10PM (#11949023)

This can become an issue for religious vegetarians, too. In India when you say that something is vegetarian it contains no gelatin or animal fat or anything like that. Vegetarian food is prepared separately.

Orthodox Hindus who move to the West often struggle with this. Even ice cream (marked as vegetarian) sometimes has gelatin. You can ask for vegan food, which is an approximation, but "no milk" is the antithesis of many Indian diets :)

I know such families who basically never eat out ever, and prepare things from scratch at home. Though they usually are more lax on allowing the kids to eat pseudo-vegetarian food.

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Re:Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat by tamana on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @07:03PM (#11950176)

Where is ice cream marked as vegetarian? I have never seen a label. I also never saw gelatin as a listed ingredient in ice cream

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Re:Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat by Manishearth on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @11:04PM (#11951294)

Not all ice creams, some of them. When I say marked I mean in general if you ask the store; doesn't need to be actually marked (though some foods are marked this way, even if they contain gelatin)

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Re:Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat by lyonlim on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @11:22AM (#11954624)

I've had ice cream where they specifically included gelatine as one of the ingredients. Also, some gelatos contain gelatine as well.

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