I Can’t Believe It’s Vegan!

October 25th, 2007, 11:15 am · 3 Comments · posted by Michael Doss

Photo by “SuziJane” and released under Creative Commons. Original Image available here.

I can’t believe it’s vegan!

Long ago, I remember checking the ingredients for a favorite yet very occasional snack food - pop tarts - and remarking that the unfrosted varieties, in addition to being vegetarian (the frosted ones have gelatin) happen also to be vegan. I put this piece of information in the back of my head along with PM Dawn lyrics and Y2K propaganda, and left it there.

Flash forward to yesterday. Supermarket. Display of Gingerbread Pop Tarts. Appealing graphics. Memories of 400 calorie silver packages. Could they be…

Yep. Vegan.

I wouldn’t recommend them to anyone looking for a healthy breakfast - they’re basically frosting (vegan also) filled cookies, and as noted above, 200 calories each. But man, they’re good. Holiday good.

Searching for more information on them turned up a great page from PETA today too - Accidentally Vegan. They’ve got a huge categorized list of mostly non-health foods from major manufacturers that just happen to be vegan. It’s also got this disclaimer, which flies in the face of all those people who tell you things about PETA:

Items listed may contain trace amounts of animal-derived ingredients. While PETA supports a strict adherence to veganism, we put the task of vigorously reducing animal suffering ahead of personal purity. Boycotting products that are 99.9 percent vegan sends the message to manufacturers that there is no market for this food, which ends up hurting more animals. For a more detailed explanation of PETA’s position, please visit http://www.caringconsumer.com/labels.html.

Nice.

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3 Comments

SuziJane says:

October 25, 2007 at 2:13 pm

Well, they certainly aren’t vegan the way *I* eat them, which is warmed in the toaster and then slathered with cream cheese. But they sure are delicious with hot cocoa!

Thanks for choosing my photo, by the way.