[its_a_random_ac]

As an ethical-vegetarian, these are very much not for me, but I've also noticed this weird thing where some restaurants (Sushirrito's the most recent one I've seen) drop their traditionally meat free items and replace it with something that is just a meat item with the meat subbed out.

I get why they want to do this for streamlining purposes, but it doesn't make any sense to me. People that want to avoid eating meat will still avoid it, but also the differences need to be taken into account regarding texture and seasoning, which it doesn't seem like they do.

[gambiting]

Same - I see that quite a lot around traditional Polish restaurants. Polish cousine already has a lot of meat-free dishes, a lot of it borne from the times of difficulty and learning to make do with very little, so it's completely normal to order a dish that just doesn't happen to have any meat in it, and no one would even think of it as specifically vegetarian/vegan(even though it is). But now those dishes are being pushed out for specific vegetarian/vegan dishes where a traditional dish with meat is being replaced with a meat-imitation. It's like......why? If you want vegetarian dumplings(pierogi), there are literally dozens of different options already, we've been making them literally for centuries, but you'd rather have pierogi with meat-imitation pork mince? I mean suit yourself, but it's just weird.

[EA-3167]

One of the greatest things on Earth, cheese and potato pelmeni/pierogi, steamed and then lightly pan fried in butter (or oil) with onions. Serve with smetana and anything else you like.

I could eat that for DAYS. No meat required, no pretensions of meat required!