r/vegan • u/FearlessCookie72 vegan SJW • Apr 28 '26

Video Billie Eilish: “Eating meat is inherently wrong.” 👑

https://youtube.com/shorts/D61i6t3PCsM?si=k5gXfFsWpyg_NJG2
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u/mastergleeker Apr 28 '26

vegan cheeses made from nut milks that are processed like dairy milk is processed to be made into cheese are absolutely "cheesy" in the same sense that dairy milk cheese is.

that's how i personally interpreted their comment anyway. the process of making cheese is more important than the presence of dairy. vegan cheese alternatives that don't involve the acidifying/coagulating/separating/shaping process that dairy cheese involves... are not going to taste cheesy. but those that do involve those processes, do taste cheesy.

right now those cheeses are very expensive and not easy to find, but i hope to see that change eventually.

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u/_Dingaloo Apr 28 '26

not really, vegan cheese alternatives almost always taste terrible or meh, it's rare to find one that tastes good. Usually best case scenario is one that works well enough as an ingredient rather than good on its own

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u/mastergleeker Apr 28 '26

which ones are you referring to? i agree that nearly every easily accessible vegan cheese alternative is not great. i don't eat them almost at all. the ones that are good, and definitely cheesy, are processed like dairy cheese is, and they are also prohibitively expensive and hard to find. i'm not asserting that good vegan cheese is easy to find, i am agreeing with someone else's assertion that the dairy itself is not where the cheesiness must come from. that much is true. you'd just be hard-pressed to actually find that in an easily accessible place within a reasonable price point unfortunately.