It's time for another round of my favorite game: Is it vegetarian? In this game, we look at common items and determine whether it's vegetarian, vegan, or not.
Doritos: NOT! (sometimes.)
It depends on which flavor you buy! You have to be careful with Doritos. You'd think that corn chips would be safe, but the Salsa Verde flavor (my favorite flavor, wouldn't you know?) contains natural chicken flavor; the new 'experimental' flavor in the black bag contains beef! (It also tastes just like a McDonald's hamburger. I ate them before I figured out there was beef in it.) When buying chips, make sure you check the labels.
A-1 Steak Sauce: VEGAN!
Unlike Worcestershire, A-1 Steak Sauce contains no meat products. It's actually made out of tomato, vinegar, raisin paste, orange rind.. crazy stuff! It's also GREAT on portobello mushroom burgers.
Here's the complete list of ingredients. I checked the vegan-ness of the fancy-sounding ones:
tomato puree (water, tomato paste,), distilled vinegar, corn syrup, salt, raisin paste, crushed orange puree, spices and herbs, dried garlic and onion, caramel color, potassium sorbate (to preserve freshness), xanthan gum
Ramen noodles: NOT! (mostly.)
I've gotten conflicting reports; some say that tomato is the only veggie flavor, some say that oriental is also veggie. Obviously, chicken and beef flavors are pretty not-vegetarian.
Triscuits: VEGAN!
Triscuits are VEGAN! Yeah, Triscuits! For being such delicious little crackers, they certainly are very simple--I think they only have a handful of ingredients.
Hormel Chili: VEGAN!
REALLY? Yes, really. Apparently, Hormel is too cheap for meat. Which is good for us, yeah!
Smucker's Marshmallow Ice Cream Topping: VEGAN!
Yep. I dunno how, but PETA says it is so.
Lesson here? Look at labels--for EVERYTHING! Don't assume something is or is not vegetarian or vegan before you look--you may be pleasantly surprised.
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Careful on the Triscuit crackers. While the regular crackers are vegan, the ingredients in the Roasted Tomato and Olive Oil variety include disodium inosinate (flavor enhancer, mainly found in pigs and fish) and disodium guanylate (often produced from fish). Although it's possible that both could be vegetable-based, there's a far greater chance that both sourced from animals or fish.
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