[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!