As of: January 30, 2024, 5:14 a.m
By: Robin Dittrich
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Vegan foods often have a “Vegan” label printed on them in supermarkets and discount stores.
But what if that's not pictured?
Munich – Particularly strange finds in supermarkets and discounters often find their way onto social media.
A Lidl customer now shared a photo of a vegan product - but is it really still vegan without a label?
Lidl customer confused: Can a product be vegan without a “vegan” label?
Vegan products will also be trendy in 2024.
This means that the selection in supermarkets and discounters continues to grow.
Some products apparently sell so well that manufacturers specialize entirely in them.
Since the beginning of 2024, Rügenwalder Mühle has only been offering its well-known ham picker in a vegan version.
Since then, the classic version with meat has no longer been available.
Vegan products usually have a “Vegan” label printed on them.
A Lidl customer noticed that this label was suddenly missing from the new packaging for Vemondo's “Organic Tofu” - Vemondo is Lidl's own brand for vegan products.
He therefore asked the question on Reddit: “Why doesn’t the smoked tofu have a vegan label?” According to his own statements, the customer “simply became unsure whether I was missing something and therefore wanted to ask my fellow vegans.”
Reddit users react angrily: “Boy, boy, there’s a mood here.”
There were no simple answers in the comments as the Reddit user wanted.
Things even got so out of hand there that a moderator of the subreddit reported: “The comments have really gotten out of hand again.
Are you all stressed or just in a bad mood?”
For example, one user wrote: “Why does he need one?
Even things without a label can be vegan.” Another countered that he had already seen non-vegan tofu variants and the question was therefore justified.
Another simply wrote: “Because it is 100 percent made of meat” and received a lot of negative reactions.
The questioner himself later commented again and expressed his disappointment: “Boy, boy, there’s a mood here.
Comments like because it's meat or the basic debate about whether everything has to say vegan on everything...Got it, won't happen again." A majority of the helpful comments pointed out that it was probably just a new packaging design: "I see spontaneously “There’s nothing in the list of ingredients that shouldn’t be vegan,” one user was certain.
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