Times When You've Accidentally Eaten Animal Products
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 9:41 pm
Yesterday, I was at a club after school, and it looked like there was a vegan snack (some fennel seed thing). The ingredients all were vegan. There were a few odd things, though.
First, the first ingredient was 'flour'. It didn't say 'white flour', or 'whole wheat flour', or anything like that. Also, the ingredients were listed in around six different languages, with flags of the countries with those languages, and the packaging wasn't very detailed. But I still thought it was reasonable to think they were vegan, so I started eating them.
And as I was eating them, I was just looking at the package, checking for a Kosher label or something, just to be safe. There was nothing on there that I recognized as a Kosher label, and that was pretty odd. There was something that looked like some kind of symbol on there, but I can't find it when I google search for Kosher labels. Anyway, as I was looking over the package, I thought to check for cholesterol. Obviously, if there's cholesterol, the food has animal products. And then I saw that there were 15mg of cholesterol. o_O
So I was just like, "'Scuse me, gotta go to the bathroom."
*rinses out mouth in bathroom*
Because all I could think of was that they were baked with lard. O_O
Oh, ew. That is so disgusting. But what else could it be?
That actually crossed my mind in the beginning, but I was like, "Oh come on, what are the odds?!"
I searched for 'fennel pretzels baked with lard', and there was some stuff about 'tarallis' (apparently often made with lard), and they kind of look like those. So I guess it was probably lard. >.<
Well, anyway, I've accidentally eaten animal products a couple times since going vegan, and I'm curious about the experiences of you guys with that.
How did it happen?
How did you react?
Did you realize the food you were eating wasn't vegan while you were eating it?
How did you find out the food wasn't vegan?
Were you skeptical about the food in the beginning, or was it a total shock that it wasn't vegan?
Did the food give you a stomach ache?
First, the first ingredient was 'flour'. It didn't say 'white flour', or 'whole wheat flour', or anything like that. Also, the ingredients were listed in around six different languages, with flags of the countries with those languages, and the packaging wasn't very detailed. But I still thought it was reasonable to think they were vegan, so I started eating them.
And as I was eating them, I was just looking at the package, checking for a Kosher label or something, just to be safe. There was nothing on there that I recognized as a Kosher label, and that was pretty odd. There was something that looked like some kind of symbol on there, but I can't find it when I google search for Kosher labels. Anyway, as I was looking over the package, I thought to check for cholesterol. Obviously, if there's cholesterol, the food has animal products. And then I saw that there were 15mg of cholesterol. o_O
So I was just like, "'Scuse me, gotta go to the bathroom."
*rinses out mouth in bathroom*
Because all I could think of was that they were baked with lard. O_O
Oh, ew. That is so disgusting. But what else could it be?
That actually crossed my mind in the beginning, but I was like, "Oh come on, what are the odds?!"
I searched for 'fennel pretzels baked with lard', and there was some stuff about 'tarallis' (apparently often made with lard), and they kind of look like those. So I guess it was probably lard. >.<
Well, anyway, I've accidentally eaten animal products a couple times since going vegan, and I'm curious about the experiences of you guys with that.
How did it happen?
How did you react?
Did you realize the food you were eating wasn't vegan while you were eating it?
How did you find out the food wasn't vegan?
Were you skeptical about the food in the beginning, or was it a total shock that it wasn't vegan?
Did the food give you a stomach ache?