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Taco Bell introduces new vegetarian menu certified by American Vegetarian Association
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Brianimaniac
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Like it says, they're just trying to do a better job of promoting what they already had rather than making any changes. They've always been the best fast food option for vegetarians. They have lots of things you can substitute for meat, and their system is designed to easily support substitutions so you don't get confused cashiers ringing things up a different way every time you go.
TheBaldEmperor
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Everytging on the menu can be vegetarian if you just ask them not to put meat on it when you order or substitute meat for beans. As a former vegetarian I feel like this is already known.
partyphone
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I guess being vegetarian doesn't mean you need to eat healthy.
I think this is meant to clarify some of the hidden pitfalls. Like, are the refried beans or flour tortillas made with lard? That's how those items are traditionally made. Now a vegetarian can be assured that those items are vegetarian.
BronsonLee
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partyphone
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pot is definitely vegetarian so I guess this is good news for a certain kind of person.
Oh fuck, I can't even imagine a Vegan Pothead... if they also did crossfit they'd be the most annoying person in the world.
The Albatross
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Odds that Taco Bell founded the American Vegetarian Association 3 days ago, just for this promotion? 3:1
Nope. Have a friend who is vegan, he mostly just eats potatoes and bread, he's pretty big.
Most Mexican fast food places I've been to usually substitute the meat for a variety of beans. There's not much in the way of actual veggies (or fruit) except tomatoes and sometimes avocados. Maybe I've just been to bad ones though.
Yes, this is a gross misconception. There's plenty of vegetarian junk food.
Brianimaniac
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I have a friend who's not a vegan and he also mostly just eats potatoes and bread. Somehow he's skinny and not dead.
You would be surprised how many vegetarians eat poorly. Some of the chubbiest people I know don't eat meat.
gutterboy44
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The ultimate Taco Bell "hack" is "Sub Beans for Beef" Having re fried beans substituted for their heinous anus ground beef dramatically improves all of their offerings. You can make most things vegetarian that way. Love a crunch wrap with sub beans for beef.
partyphone
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yeah I guess eating a bunch of gross carbs is super easy.
I had a vegetarian roommate and he's a slight, sickly person but that would have probably been true if he had eaten meat.
just realizing now that I no longer know any vegetarians.
outunderthestars
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Nope. Every vegetarian I know still eats a ton of junk food.
That said. I am really ready for Native Foods to further expand out East. Kickass vegan junk food.
kurisu1974
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Why would it? I'm vegetarian for ethical reasons, nothing to do with my health.
TheSlySoul
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I may have to go there now they offer meatless options.
Well yeah, most junk food is vegetarian. Some people are it for ethics.
I've been chucklin' at that combination of words all mornin'.
Indeed. Vegan here and whilst stuff being healthy is a bonus I don't really care/do it for that reason. /stuffing face with a faux southern fried chicken sandwich and a large bottle of scrumpy cider.
kurisu1974
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There's a lot of hippie vegan potheads in this world though. Why is that combination "hard to imagine?"
But the crazy part is that they charge extra to do that. My gf is a vegetarian and has ordered that for ever.
Garcia el Gringo
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Nope. Every vegetarian I know still eats a ton of junk food.
That said. I am really ready for Native Foods to further expand out East. Kickass vegan junk food.
Native Foods seems to have really creative food. That's my jam. I've scoped out everything I want to try on their menu. Bring this to NJ, pls.
I should slide through to Taco Bell to support this new menu. Highlighted vegetarian options are cool.
InfiniteBento
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Beans, cheese, rice, lettuce, and sauce. That's all vegetarians eat? Oh ok.
outunderthestars
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Add low quality beef, chicken, & steak and you pretty much have the entire Taco Bell menu. Finding vegetarian food on the road is not easy, and this will surely help remind vegetarians that Taco bell is an option.
gutterboy44
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I've never noticed that it was extra. Either way the total price is still cheap as hell. Taco Bell is the only fast food place my wife and I stop at when on road trips. Best vegetarian junk/fast food there is. The whole "taco bell gives you the shits" thing is so foreign to me. It must have something to do with the meats they use because I can drench a crunchwrap supreme in fire sauce and I am good to go.
Spider from Mars
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When it comes to being a vegetarian with fast food it's either Taco Bell or the shitty veggie burger at BK. Tough times, friends.
God Dayumm
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Chipotle?
outunderthestars
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Cymbal Head
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Spicy potato soft taco all day long.
I've gained a 5-10 pounds since I went vegetarian about a year and a half ago, although that is probably more closely related to my increased alcohol consumption since I started homebrewing around the same time.
I've gained a 5-10 pounds since I went vegetarian about a year and a half ago, although that is probably more closely related to my increased alcohol consumption since I started homebrewing around the same time.
BriareosGAF
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Is this Dan Ryckert's GAF account?! It's like he's quoting a recent Bombcast.
Back when I was a poor college student & vegan we would sometimes make do buying seventy cent bean "burritos" from TB and drenching them in fire sauce. The dough conditioners they used in their tortillas used to make my stomach upset everytime, but you didn't have a lot of fast food options back then.
Then I moved to SoCal and I don't think I've touched a Taco Bell in the fifteen years since.
Krauser Kat
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taco bell is the only place to get any vegan food within 5 min drive of my work.
There is a chipotle 12 minutes away but thats like my whole break.
Considering i never eat fast food and usually only go to sit down restaurant once a week.
cheating every once in awhile is nice.
There is a chipotle 12 minutes away but thats like my whole break.
Considering i never eat fast food and usually only go to sit down restaurant once a week.
cheating every once in awhile is nice.
I don't know about in America, but over here there are loads. And why most annoying? Because declaring someone pretty annoying is pretty much a dick move (oddly most Veggies/Vegans don't ram it down the throats, the "but bacon/steak/etc is amazing!!!!!...etc" are mostly fine apparently. I don't go on about loving tofu etc unless someone asks...
Andodalf
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Sooo good
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
Yes, it really would be.
Vegans are certainly more annoying than Vegetarians. Add in the other two and...
Well we find meat eaters annoying (we don't... but I can blurt out shit too..).
Why hate on a whole 0.5%-0.3% of the population (UK/US stats) 99.999999999999999999999..% who'm you'll never meet or hear the opinion of (and who all think differently).
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
I'm mostly Vegetarian myself.
Not 100%, but i've eliminated pork and red meats from my diet completely and reduced consumption of others for special occasions or when I rarely go out to eat.
I also don't talk about it unless asked.
Vegans are more likely to make it a lifestyle and part of their identity since it takes considerable effort to adhere to the diet.
As a lazy ass Vegan, it's piss easy. And honest to god (one I don't believe in but it's a good term) I can be the laziest person ever.
I also rarely mention it unless someone asks or it becomes a point I need to make (ie going for food, someone offering me pizza or something). I went out with a meat eater who almost dumped me as we couldn't go to Mcdonalds... classy lass. I know about 8 other Vegans and loads of Veggies and most rarely mention it, most date meat eaters. We just get excited at new food we find, we just don't eat a certain food... which doesn't make us deserve the hate or the 'but bacon' comments..
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lisX3Or6twc
Meat is fucking terrible for you, so I'm glad Taco Bell is clarifying what is veggie/vegan on their menu. Still won't eat there unless I don't have a choice, but options rule.
Meat is fucking terrible for you, so I'm glad Taco Bell is clarifying what is veggie/vegan on their menu. Still won't eat there unless I don't have a choice, but options rule.
lived with one. was the most awful lying person I ever dealt with and I sell cars!
I know shitloads of meat eater potheads.. absolute wankers. There is no correlation between them being meat eaters and them being wankers when stoned however. (Although some of their jokes do get old..)
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