You can’t just replace paneer with tofu and call a dish palak paneer you twat. Like replacing black beans with lentils and calling it black bean soup IT’S NOT THE SAME AND DOESN’T TASTE THE SAME.
I swear half the reason people hate veganism is the fucking half assed garbage cooking content put out by vegan incluencers.
‘Hi today I’m going to make a yummy vegan grilled cheese sandwich but instead of cheese I’m GOING TO USE FUCKING ELMER’S GLUE’ And This doesn’t just go for cheese
People can simplify all sorts of relationships to a food to as an allergy. Plenty of people are allergic to soy though and even things like rice or certain kinds of blood. Body works weird. I have a friend that just gets incredible diarrhea whenever they eat specific stuff so they just say they’re allergic so people will take better care of not serving them that food
Honestly, not sure why some vegans believe allergies are just made up though, its down to a science, you can go get tested for it. Some foods also are just factually more gut irritable. Look into FODMAPs. Some healthy body builders avoid them even to digest protein faster.
Good thing you can make tofu from all kinds of beans, then. You can make it from many different kinds of seeds, too, though I suppose you might technically call that “zifu” instead.
but the wide variety is soy milk or soy beans based, hard to get any other alternatives
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skill issue?
also for FODMAPs certain kinds of tofu are fine but others are worse, if you are curious. firm is better for the gut, and the firmer the better. i have a friend that talks my ear off about this shit, its very interesting, i fully recommend everyone look into it to learn more about how food interacts with your stomach. a slight change in diet along these guidelines can make you feel so much healthier, even if you dont have food issues.
https://www.monashfodmap.com/blog/talking-tofu/
it just means they have a harder time with vegan alternatives