Now, it was my brother's birthday the other day, and since he's not the biggest fan of cake, we got him a Viennetta instead. I noticed that it didn't say if it was vegetarian or not on the box, and so decided to have a look on the Wall's website. Worryingly, under its 'vegetarian' section of products, it only lists Calippo Orange and Calippo Lemon-Lime. Given the number of products that Wall's produce, I didn't believe that these could be the only products that are vegetarian, and so decided to email them. Now, they did confirm Viennetta and a number of their other products are not suitable for vegetarians, but, similarly to United Biscuits, their email ended with "This email and any attachments may contain information that is confidential and privileged... You should not copy it or use it for any purpose nor disclose or distribute its contents to any other person." Not wanting to get in a legal battle with Wall's, I shan't disclose here why so many of their products are not suitable for vegetarians. However, I will say this; their ice creams contain whey powder, which is a by-product of the cheese industry. To find out why this relation to the cheese industry may cause their products to not be suitable for vegetarians, check out this old post of mine on non-vegetarian cheeses. Something else that they included in the email, that I didn't ask for, but was greatly appreciative of, was their list of all their products that are suitable for vegetarians (as of April 2020). Now, obviously, this may change over time, but I don't feel so guilty disclosing this information on the internet, since I've seen many websites which do a similar thing of posting companies' vegetarian lists.
The list of their products that are suitable for vegetarians (as of April 2020) is as follows:
- Solero Organic Lemon, Solero Organic Peach
- Magnum Classic Pint, Magnum Almond Pint, Magnum Praline Pint, Magnum Dark Raspberry Pint, Magnum Vegan Classic, Magnum Vegan Almond, Magnum Double Salted Caramel, Magnum Double Dark Chocolate & Raspberry, Magnum White Chocolate & Cookies
- Cornetto Gluten Free & Vegan, Cornetto Mint, Cornetto Classico, Cornetto Strawberry, Cornetto Chocolate, Cornetto Vegan
- Carte D'Or Les Classiques: Coffee, Carte D'Or Rum & Raisin, Carte D'Or Les Classiques: Mint Chocolate, Carte D'Or Organic Vanilla, Carte D'Or Organic Chocolate, Carte D'Or Organic Pistachio, Carte D'Or Organic Columbian Coffee, Carte D'Or Les Classiques: Honeycomb
Interestingly, this doesn't include the Calippos that are listed as their only vegetarian products on their website!
Anyway, hope this helps!
So, a while back, I noticed that, whilst it says on Cheeselets' packaging that they're suitable for vegetarians, it doesn't say the same on Mini Cheddars'. Since both products are made by United Biscuits, I presumed that the only explanation for this was that Mini Cheddars are not suitable for vegetarians. A quick look at the ingredients, though, did not reveal anything obviously not vegetarian-friendly, so I decided to email United Biscuits, asking if they are in fact not suitable for vegetarians and asking, if this is true, why it is true. Their reply confirmed that they are, in fact, not suitable for vegetarians, and they did provide a reason as to why this is, but, at the bottom of the email it said that "This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and solely for the use of the intended recipient. They may contain material protected by legal professional or other privilege." Not wanting to get sued by United Biscuits, I shan't say here why they're not suitable for vegetarians, but if you look at my old post on cheese, then I'll leave you to put the puzzle pieces together for yourself.
Hey! It's been a while since I've posted on here (3 years and 4 months to be exact), but with this lockdown not looking like it'll end anytime soon, I decided to hop back on the blog! If you're an OG fan, you'll have noticed that I've rebranded; Veggie Kid has now become Veggie Student. The passage of time, man... weird. Anyway, something else that compelled me to post on here is a story I read that I thought wouldn't look out of place on my blog, and reminded me about this odd corner of the internet.
If you've opened your eyes recently, it's likely that you've seen an advert for Burger King's 'Rebel Whopper'; a brand new burger, which they marketed as '100% plant based'. The multinational fast food chain has recently been prevented from advertising the burger as so, since it is cooked on the same grill as their meat burgers! To add insult to injury, they also launched the 'veggie' burger coinciding with Veganuary, whilst the burger definitely isn't vegan, since it has mayonnaise in it, which contains eggs. Although they didn't explicitly make the link between Veganuary and this burger, they were pretty much handing you a pen and asking you to connect the dots. It's only in the small print of their adverts that they admitted to cooking the burgers on the same grill as their meat burgers (I've attached a picture to the right - you can barely see it!), and who bothers to read small print? We've probably all sold our soul to three different companies without even realising it! To be honest, this is why I avoid fast food veggie options in general, since the product may well be vegetarian, but the way in which it is cooked may make it not.
Now, it was my brother's birthday the other day, and since he's not the biggest fan of cake, we got him a Viennetta instead. I noticed that it didn't say if it was vegetarian or not on the box, and so decided to have a look on the Wall's website. Worryingly, under its 'vegetarian' section of products, it only lists Calippo Orange and Calippo Lemon-Lime. Given the number of products that Wall's produce, I didn't believe that these could be the only products that are vegetarian, and so decided to email them. Now, they did confirm Viennetta and a number of their other products are not suitable for vegetarians, but, similarly to United Biscuits, their email ended with "This email and any attachments may contain information that is confidential and privileged... You should not copy it or use it for any purpose nor disclose or distribute its contents to any other person." Not wanting to get in a legal battle with Wall's, I shan't disclose here why so many of their products are not suitable for vegetarians. However, I will say this; their ice creams contain whey powder, which is a by-product of the cheese industry. To find out why this relation to the cheese industry may cause their products to not be suitable for vegetarians, check out this old post of mine on non-vegetarian cheeses. Something else that they included in the email, that I didn't ask for, but was greatly appreciative of, was their list of all their products that are suitable for vegetarians (as of April 2020). Now, obviously, this may change over time, but I don't feel so guilty disclosing this information on the internet, since I've seen many websites which do a similar thing of posting companies' vegetarian lists. 
