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Re:Hampton Creek’s Entire Board Leaves Except for CEO by dragonwriter on Monday July 17, 2017 @06:03PM (#14792644)
> If "mayonnaise" can't refer to vegan products, we can't use the term "vegan mayonnaise"

Which is fine; “vegan mayonnaise-flavored spread” would be accurate and in line with how other food products which are distinct from but designed to emulate a pre-existing food product category have been labelled for many years.

“Vegan mayonnaise” is no more coherent a label than “vegan pork”.

Re:Hampton Creek’s Entire Board Leaves Except for CEO by chc on Monday July 17, 2017 @07:55PM (#14793306)
We do this very inconsistently. For example, we don't force this sort of term-avoidance on turkey bacon, turkey hot dogs, turkey burgers, goat cheese, gluten-free bread, white chocolate, root beer, herbal tea, etc, even though those things contain different components that are standard for those kinds of food — because we recognize that they are essentially the same thing, just with modification (hence the modifiers like "goat" before "cheese").