I hate to be this guy. And I apologize. However they are likely referring to the dairy that traditionally comes in mashed potatoes.
You’re 100% right but these should be called vegan if thats the case
That’s a synonym for plant-based.
Vegan is a loaded term for a lot of people. They recoil in horror at the thought of something being “vegan”. But “plant-based” isn’t anywhere near as vile, for those people.
Like seriously it’s quite vile how they treat the vegans before processing them into mashed potatoes that’s why I prefer plant based products over vegan products
Actually no “Plant-based” is a meaningless phrase that doesn’t actually denote whether a food product contains animal products or not
Not sure if I agree it’s meaningless. In most cases it does mean what it implies, even if it doesn’t have regulatory backing.
In the UK we’ve got all sorts of labels like 5 a day, the red tractor to imply it’s of a certain standard and from a domestic farm or even the vegan label. They’re all basically meaningless labels rather than something that’s based on the actual product, but they still tend to track with what they’re saying they are in most cases.
Don’t take everything at face value, but also don’t waste your time worrying that everyone is lying to you barefaced
The Committee “encourage[d] FDA to provide clarity around labeling of plant-based foods that use traditional meat, dairy, and egg terminology especially as it relates to such product labels with clear and conspicuous descriptors such plant-based, veggie, vegetarian, or vegan.”
The content and restrictions of these laws vary widely. Some statutes permit “qualified labels” that either include “plant-based,” “vegan,” or other language indicating that the food is plant-based on the packaging “prominently” or “conspicuously.”
“It shall be unlawful for any person . . . to label, advertise, or otherwise represent any food produced or sold in this state as meat or any product from an animal unless each product is clearly labeled by displaying the following terms prominently and conspicuously on the front of the package . . . [for] plant based products as “vegetarian,” “veggie,” “vegan,” “plant based,” or other similar term indicating that the product is plant based and does not include the flesh, offal, or other by-product of any part of the carcass of a live animal that has been slaughtered.”
Whether or not it’s a meaningless phrase, it seems in the article you provided they’re still at least correlating the terms “plant-based” and “vegan”, if not equating them.
It literally says vegan right on the package….
How can you tell?
Exactly. This is mashed potatoes made without (cow) butter.
And (cow) milk.
How has several people forgotten that in these comments?
Same probably goes for this one I found at my local supermarket: https://i.imgur.com/aMDLCM2.jpg
I maintain that no reasonable person should ever call a product with sour cream in it “guacamole”, but I presume that’s the ingredient they’re trying to identify is definitely not included.
My wife buys plant based falafels made with sweet potato or beetroot, as if chickpeas were meat 🤷
Techniclly Plant Based could still include non-plant ingredients tho, or it would just be plant…
Sure but shouldn’t they say something along those lines. This is just silliness of you ask me.
Dairy free would be a nice way of saying it that gets straight to the point. My gf is lactose intolerant and wow does it ever make shopping difficult. There’s dairy in fucking everything! There was dairy in the goddamn meatballs I bought last week. WTF
IIRC “dairy free” can still have lactose in it in the US just as an FYI
Well thats even more fucked up. It’s kind of sad that it seems believable to me too
Was it like whey protein in the meatballs? Wtf would dairy be used for in meatballs…
Yup that was exactly it.
cheese
Maybe they shouldn’t buy cheesy meatballs if they don’t want dairy in it…
They do. They say it’s plant based. Are you not paying attention?
Thing is, this seems silly until you actually try to eat a vegan diet. One time I bought pickles, thinking it’s literally cucumbers, vinegar and spices, there’s no way this couldn’t be vegan.
Nope, it came with honey. And it tasted like dogshit, so I don’t know why they put it in there, but they sure did.
I mean, yeah, this probably seems silly to most, but as a guy who’s allergic to dairy this makes me pretty happy. All the plant based stuff coming out has been a godsend.
It’s probably in reference to the butter
And the milk.
And my axe
Most mashed potato recipes include milk and butter.
I welcome the opportunity to tell my favorite vegetarian story. Years ago, PETA went around elementary schools to promote meat-free diets. The local news channel followed and broadcast this interview:
Reporter: Did you learn a lot about vegetables?
5-year-old: Vegetables are good.
R: What’s your favorite vegetable?
5: Chicken!That child’s name? Todd Ingram.
I mean, yeah this labeling seems redundant but as a vegan living in the U.S, where everything is made with low quality dairy or eggs whenever it’s remotely possible to do so… I appreciate the effort.
I just want that heart shaped V on all the vegan packages and then a vegan only section so I don’t have to shop the regular food isles. 1 stop shop.
This flies in the face of supermarket design. They want you to get milk from the far corner, then head to the opposite corner for bread before dragging the kids past an isle of crappy toys and sugar flavoured food substances.
I finally understand why management hated my product display placements when I worked in a store. They were entirely unwilling to explain and preferred to give me shit and expectef me to just know.
The name implies there are meat-based potatoes … so where are they! 😤
Running the government
I like you….
The last job I worked before going back into the trades was at a grocery store and we sold “Plant Based Rice”
The problem isn’t the name the problem is that it’s ready made mash potatoes. Like come on bruv who’s buying this??
Mashed potatoes are super easy to make for 20 people and kind of a labor intensive pain in the arse for single people by comparison.
Lemmy moment
Sometimes I feel like I am the meat potato
What do you expect from Asda?
Oh, you wanna see it?
*Unzips potato
The meat potato is the guy who buys this
This drives me nuts!!? I’ll see something in the store like… A can of black beans that says “Gluten Free!”. Like… what do people think beans are made from?
Sometimes they’ll throw in a little flour as a thickening agent, like a roux. It’s not common, but would still be an unexpected allergy.
This kind of bullshit happens a lot more than you think.
It isn’t about what things are made of, but what environments they’ve been processed in and potential cross contamination they may have been exposed to. Because people with serious allergies and other conditions exist, and deserve to be able to avoid food that could make them unwell or worse.
You not needing a label on something (or even understanding why there needs to be one) doesn’t mean no one else doe, or that one existing is somehow unreasonable.
Usually separate labelling where I’m from.
You can advertise your product as “gluten free” if it doesn’t contain any ingredients containing gluten, but will have a separate disclaimer which looks something like “processed in a factory also handling nuts, gluten, and dairy products” as applicable.
I’m not sure if this is mandatory or voluntary labelling here, but in my opinion it satisfies the need for truly allergic people to choose products not even made on the same premises as their allergens, while avoiding perverse labelling such as the parent poster’s “gluten free beans”.
They could have sprinkled the MSG, GMO, and gluten dust on them for reasons.
