I mean, the United States has, to be fair, developed a food culture that emphasizes using a lot of meat, especially over the past century or so. It’s not surprising that people from an area that eats so much meat, who go vegan, are going to want to look for ways to still make dishes familiar to them
To be fair, a patty sandwich of any type (be it hamburgers, chicken sandwich, beans, or any kind of imitation meat) is going to be similarly labor intensive and time consuming if one had to make the patty and bread oneself rather than being able to just buy them. I’m sure traditional recipes for most cultures can be made similarly convenient if probably somewhat different from their original form, if demand exists for them to be premade and sold that way. There’s a specialty grocery store very close to my home that specializes in Indian food, tho also has some international foods from other places too, and it’s freezer section has all sorts of Indian dishes done up as tv dinners, or premade frozen samosas of various flavors one just has to fry in a pan for a few minutes, among other things.
If anything, I feel like it pretty much makes for a good ending point for an argument, if played out completely. If two people are working with the same set of facts, and understand eachother’s positions, and understand why the other person holds that position, but both still hold to their different views, then the difference probably comes down ultimately to different values, and since those aren’t something one is going to simply logically argue someone onto or out of, there is no point in continuing an argument after that.
I mean, those first two can absolutely be the case though, if for example someone’s response is very clearly responding to a position that is not the one you were arguing for, but which one’s words could easily be mistaken for.
Vegan food: The west vs India (lemmy.ml)
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