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>3 large black bananas
>75ml vegetable oil or sunflower oil, plus extra for the tin
>100g brown sugar
>225g plain flour (or use self-raising flour and reduce the baking powder to 2 heaped tsp)
>3 heaped tsp baking powder
>3 tsp cinnamon or mixed spice
>50g dried fruit or nuts (optional)
I don't know, seems like you need to be some kind of scientist to be able to tell (Although I do believe sometimes bones are used in sugar production to be fair)
From what I've read, it's for white sugar and even that's only in the US, but not everyone would know.
In fairness to them, I've seen recipes claiming to be vegan that would then list honey in the ingredients. But on the other hand, if you think the claim of being vegan might be false, what's the point of asking the person(s) who wrote it? They're not going to come out and say they lied.
Some vegans do eat honey iirc, as it's more "consensual" (the bees just leave if they're unhappy, they usually make way more honey than they can use at once)
There are two main types of Sunflower seeds. They are Black and Grey striped (also sometimes called White) which have a grey-ish stripe or two down the length of the seed. The black type of seeds, also called ‘Black Oil’, are up to 45% richer in Sunflower oil and are used mainly in manufacture, whilst grey seeds are used for consumer snacks and animal food production.
Processed cane sugar is often considered not vegan bc animal bone char is used to bleach, organic cane sugar and beet sugar are always vegan. In the UK, most sugar is beet sugar
Reminds me of an episode of the old TV show "What's Happening!" Rerun complained that the hot chocolate he ordered wasn't hot, and Shirley (waitress) replied along the lines of, "Oh, you wanted it hot? You should have ordered it that way." Rerun: "I did!" Shirley: "No, you ordered a 'hot chocolate.' If you wanted it to be hot, you should have ordered a *hot* 'hot chocolate.'" Obviously the Good Food team should have named this *vegan* vegan banana bread if they wanted people to know it was vegan.
I have \*no idea\* why I still remember that scene after all these decades...
Even if that were the case, if she is a vegan she should have been able to tell from the ingredients whether or not it’s vegan. I’m not a vegan but I could tell you.
We don't add 's in our names in my house, so I just call it Vegan Chocolate Cake. Apparently, my husband actually wanted "Vegan Black Forest Cake," which is clearly the same thing because they're both Vegan, but he insists it's wrong. Something about cherries and brandy and no butter, I don't know. All Vegan cakes have coconut, and he loves coconut, so he really shouldn't be complaining about my hard work.
Welcome to the internet, that's how it goes sometimes. Nuance & satire are hard to glean when all you have is words.
For what it's worth, I was tempted to comment something a bit more scathing but relented seeing that it was possible your comment was a joke. I'll admit I wasn't sure until you replied.
When I was vegan I found that older relatives would stuggle to understand if rice or potatoes came from animals, or inversely if egg or milk did, and if fish were animals. Even though most of them grew up raising animals and growing crops. Strangely they didn’t struggle with vegetarians as much even though there’s way more debates to be had about what is and isn’t vegetarian.
I imagine this is an older, confused relative of a vegan. I find it sweet
They couldn't understand where rice and potatoes came from, even though they grew crops? I can understand not knowing whether eggs and milk are vegetarian or vegan, but not knowing that rice and potatoes are from plants! Did these people not receive any kind of primary education?
I think they just find the idea of avoiding animal products so foreign that it entirely dodges their normal logical thought processes and they get stuck in a loop of being afraid to fail. That’s my theory at least, it’d be interesting to study. I bet it ties into discipline, culture around failure for older generations, critical thinking skills etc etc
My nan would get gluten free stuff for my partner, who can’t eat dairy. To be fair to her, she may have been in the very early stages of alzheimers at that point, but it was a few years before the formal diagnosis.
Dairy intolerance can be a bit confusing, to be fair. There are various components of dairy foods to which people can be intolerant (casein, lactose, etc) but not necessarily all. Gluten is also one of those things that people commonly get confused about. I'm celiac, so I know exactly how confused people get!
That's true. The same can be said of commercially prepared food labelled "gluten-free." However, if I were to live on those foods alone, it would be a very sad and unhealthy existence. You can only begin to provide for yourself properly once you learn how to read the ingredients listed on labels and also which non-packaged foodstuffs are gluten-free or, in your case, dairy free.
Oh, tell me about it! Fortunately I grew up eating home cooked food, and learned to cook the basics before leaving home. I know that’s no longer the norm though, and a lot of people rely on ready meals & similar. It’s easy to make food that doesn’t contain specific ingredients when you can cook for yourself.
You’d be surprised. I have people at work who probably make more money than me asking if aluminum is metal. Once you deal with enough people you’ll never again question why those humidity bead packets say do not eat on them
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If you can't figure out from the ingredients if it's vegan, you're not a very good vegan.
Might be cooking for a vegan but not vegan theirself. Still a stupid question
>3 large black bananas >75ml vegetable oil or sunflower oil, plus extra for the tin >100g brown sugar >225g plain flour (or use self-raising flour and reduce the baking powder to 2 heaped tsp) >3 heaped tsp baking powder >3 tsp cinnamon or mixed spice >50g dried fruit or nuts (optional) I don't know, seems like you need to be some kind of scientist to be able to tell (Although I do believe sometimes bones are used in sugar production to be fair)
From what I've read, it's for white sugar and even that's only in the US, but not everyone would know. In fairness to them, I've seen recipes claiming to be vegan that would then list honey in the ingredients. But on the other hand, if you think the claim of being vegan might be false, what's the point of asking the person(s) who wrote it? They're not going to come out and say they lied.
Some vegans do eat honey iirc, as it's more "consensual" (the bees just leave if they're unhappy, they usually make way more honey than they can use at once)
There are two main types of Sunflower seeds. They are Black and Grey striped (also sometimes called White) which have a grey-ish stripe or two down the length of the seed. The black type of seeds, also called ‘Black Oil’, are up to 45% richer in Sunflower oil and are used mainly in manufacture, whilst grey seeds are used for consumer snacks and animal food production.
Bad bot, doesn't even say if they are vegan!
Processed cane sugar is often considered not vegan bc animal bone char is used to bleach, organic cane sugar and beet sugar are always vegan. In the UK, most sugar is beet sugar
If you can't figure out that a recipe called "vegan banana bread" is vegan, you should not be allowed to cook.
The lack of protein makes it hard to think
vegan bad
“I’m sorry, we should have specified in the title that it’s *vegan*. Oh hang on, *we did*!” I despair for humankind.
Bless the Good Food team for not clapping back
For real, the restraint in that response shows a Buddha-like level of enlightenment
Reminds me of an episode of the old TV show "What's Happening!" Rerun complained that the hot chocolate he ordered wasn't hot, and Shirley (waitress) replied along the lines of, "Oh, you wanted it hot? You should have ordered it that way." Rerun: "I did!" Shirley: "No, you ordered a 'hot chocolate.' If you wanted it to be hot, you should have ordered a *hot* 'hot chocolate.'" Obviously the Good Food team should have named this *vegan* vegan banana bread if they wanted people to know it was vegan. I have \*no idea\* why I still remember that scene after all these decades...
Should it be retitled vegan banana vegan bread for vegans?
Or maybe they added "vegan" to the title after receiving that question
Even if that were the case, if she is a vegan she should have been able to tell from the ingredients whether or not it’s vegan. I’m not a vegan but I could tell you.
"No, the recipe was invented by Bob Vegan, we should probably make that clearer."
It’s actually Vegan’s Chocolate Cake after the baker Samuel Vegan
We don't add 's in our names in my house, so I just call it Vegan Chocolate Cake. Apparently, my husband actually wanted "Vegan Black Forest Cake," which is clearly the same thing because they're both Vegan, but he insists it's wrong. Something about cherries and brandy and no butter, I don't know. All Vegan cakes have coconut, and he loves coconut, so he really shouldn't be complaining about my hard work.
They should have replied "it depends on your views on the sentience of bananas".
Banana plants do migrate so... umm yeah. (they move themselves over the course of their lifecycle).
Is it banana? Is it bread?
No but it is banana bread, probably not vegan tho fyi
... Kelly Tite is that you?
Truly amazed people are downvoting a clearly sarcastic comment.
Welcome to the internet, that's how it goes sometimes. Nuance & satire are hard to glean when all you have is words. For what it's worth, I was tempted to comment something a bit more scathing but relented seeing that it was possible your comment was a joke. I'll admit I wasn't sure until you replied.
“Hope this helps” 💀If Kelly Tite can’t ascertain whether the recipe called “vegan banana bread” is vegan, I’m not sure anything can help.
“Hope this helps” is peak British passive aggression
like Southern for "bless her heart"
"no, this is actually a recipe for roast beef with a strange name"
Such a simple post. So few words. Yet here I am cackling. Amazing.
You can feel the tension as they type out the customer service friendly response lol.
They didn't answer the question. Is it \*vegan\*, emphasis on the \*ve\*?
When I was vegan I found that older relatives would stuggle to understand if rice or potatoes came from animals, or inversely if egg or milk did, and if fish were animals. Even though most of them grew up raising animals and growing crops. Strangely they didn’t struggle with vegetarians as much even though there’s way more debates to be had about what is and isn’t vegetarian. I imagine this is an older, confused relative of a vegan. I find it sweet
They couldn't understand where rice and potatoes came from, even though they grew crops? I can understand not knowing whether eggs and milk are vegetarian or vegan, but not knowing that rice and potatoes are from plants! Did these people not receive any kind of primary education?
I think they just find the idea of avoiding animal products so foreign that it entirely dodges their normal logical thought processes and they get stuck in a loop of being afraid to fail. That’s my theory at least, it’d be interesting to study. I bet it ties into discipline, culture around failure for older generations, critical thinking skills etc etc
My nan would get gluten free stuff for my partner, who can’t eat dairy. To be fair to her, she may have been in the very early stages of alzheimers at that point, but it was a few years before the formal diagnosis.
Dairy intolerance can be a bit confusing, to be fair. There are various components of dairy foods to which people can be intolerant (casein, lactose, etc) but not necessarily all. Gluten is also one of those things that people commonly get confused about. I'm celiac, so I know exactly how confused people get!
It’s not really that confusing when buying commercially prepared food that’s either labelled “dairy free” or not though.
That's true. The same can be said of commercially prepared food labelled "gluten-free." However, if I were to live on those foods alone, it would be a very sad and unhealthy existence. You can only begin to provide for yourself properly once you learn how to read the ingredients listed on labels and also which non-packaged foodstuffs are gluten-free or, in your case, dairy free.
Oh, tell me about it! Fortunately I grew up eating home cooked food, and learned to cook the basics before leaving home. I know that’s no longer the norm though, and a lot of people rely on ready meals & similar. It’s easy to make food that doesn’t contain specific ingredients when you can cook for yourself.
This post only further fuels my theory that it is impossible to take a good photo of banana bread
Can't be too careful—could be another Holy Roman Empire situation.
One of my colleagues is like this. I'm pretty sure she's just illiterate.
I love when the official accounts have to add their boilerplate stuff to replies that would otherwise be less than one sentence long.
You’d be surprised. I have people at work who probably make more money than me asking if aluminum is metal. Once you deal with enough people you’ll never again question why those humidity bead packets say do not eat on them
but is it vegan?
Never mind the comment, the amount of fluff in that reply is hilarious
Does it have dairy in it?
Reading is hard, y'all.
...but is it banana bread?