161
submitted 3 months ago by janus2@lemmy.zip to c/foodcrimes@midwest.social

the "cheese" is freeze dried tofu, cashew butter, corn starch, nutritional yeast, soy milk, and vinegar

i live in nyc so i'm expecting the nypd to break down my door and arrest me for committing a hate crime against the entire Italian diaspora any minute now

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 24 points 3 months ago

I'm generally a lover of all food and a typical mistake I see is people trying make non-vegan dishes vegan.

There's just no substituting real cheese on a hot dish. It's just one of those things.

However there are plenty of great vegan and vegetarian dishes out there. And in my personal opinion, the simpler they are, the better they taste. No reason to bend over backwards to emulate cheese.

[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 24 points 3 months ago

my reason was i wanted pizza at 3am

[-] FatVegan@leminal.space 19 points 3 months ago

You have to admire someone who wants pizza at 3am and actually does it from "scratch". I aspire to be like that. I just eat 45 olives.

[-] egrets@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I just eat 45 olives.

This is still making pizza from scratch, you just made some substitutions and cut some corners.

[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

please do not aspire to be like me. for one thing, i was up at 3am and underemployed enough to have time to make this disaster

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

But psychoactive substances played no part in this decision, I'm sure.

[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

i fucking wish i could blame drugs the fact that i was dead sober made it so much worse

[-] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 4 points 3 months ago

I can respect that.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Ah, the ambien munchies. Nearly burned down my apartment because I fell asleep for real once it was in the oven.

[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

oh god I've nearly burned down my various apartments by just forgetting things in the oven normally. added to my list of reasons to never take ambien

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

i was staying with my parents for a bit and both my dad and i were on ambien. around 2am (where we lived when i grew up a train went by at that time) we'd both wake up, grab some munchies, then he'd hand me his munchies because he was going to be done eating and try sleeping, then i'd hand him all the munchies, and then he'd hand them to me, it'd go on til 4 until my wife figured it out.

i should ask her how long she watched us pass a couple bowls of popcorn back and forth. that has to be a great memory.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

I used to make a vegan lasagna that defies this claim. I am not sure I still have the recipe though

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

[X] Doubt (because of 'vegan cheese')

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -2 points 3 months ago
[-] snooggums@piefed.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You replied to a comment about vegan cheese which seemed to imply your lasagna had vegan cheese.

Without cheese it is a layered pasta dish that should have some other name.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Once we replaced the noodles with zucchini planks. It was delicious, but not lasagna.

Also, I may have just answered what to serve with my pasta ala vodka, some breaded and fried zucchini

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -2 points 3 months ago

I can see how you'd think that but I specifically meant that it wasn't bad just because it was an analog to lasagna. I don't need you to believe me that it was good and I am not particularly concerned with what you think it should be called

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 3 points 3 months ago

If you didn't use fake cheese then I am very inclined to believe it was good. There are tons of vegan dishes that I enjoy, just not the ones that have ingredients pretending to be non-vegan ingredients.

this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2025
161 points (97.6% liked)

Food Crimes - Offenses against nutrition

4091 readers
1 users here now

Welcome to Food Crimes! This community is here to collect all and any post about cursed food and generally unusual consumables.

Right now, here’s the rules:

  1. Posts must include an image or video containing food or drink.
  2. It must be unusual or cursed in some way. a. For example, something like Doritos Milk would be unusual, but normal milk would not.
  3. No AI posts whatsoever, and any images that were altered (Ex: Photoshop, Gimp) need to be tagged.

How to tag: To tag your posts, please prepend or append the tag name inside square brackets. For example,[OC] Foo bar baz or foo bar baz [Meta] would be acceptable. Multiple tags will require separate pairs of brackets, like so: [Edited][OC] foo bar baz

Here are the current tags:

Finished checking out all the posts here? Also checkout !shittyfoodporn@lemmy.ca!

(BTW, I’m looking for someone to help mod here! I myself would not be enough if this community goes beyond a few posts a day.)

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS