There is a special kind of gastronomic betrayal: when for years you order the same dish, consider it safe — and then it turns out the recipe was quietly changed.
It was precisely this kind of story that a Reddit user told on 15 September.
He came to IKEA for the usual vegan food. He wanted to get a veggie dog, but there wasn't one. Then he remembered the vegetable roll, which he had happily eaten before: vegetables, sauce, all familiar.
The first bites promised nothing suspicious.
And then a new taste appeared.
It turned out that the roll now contains pesto with cheese.
That is, a dish that had previously been fully plant-based had imperceptibly stopped being vegan.
What is especially irritating here is not the cheese itself, but precisely the element of surprise: you take your old tried-and-true order and only find out after the first bite that it is no longer the same.
And then the internet instantly sprang into action.
Users began recalling their own stories: somewhere the only vegan dish disappears from the menu, somewhere regular cheese is suddenly put in a "plant-based" burger, and somewhere there seems to be a choice, but by evening all that remains from the whole list is French fries.
A special place in all this drama is occupied by pesto.
You would think: basil, nuts, oil.
But classic pesto usually contains cheese, so for a vegan it has long been a little gastronomic lottery.
So now vegans have acquired yet another important skill:
not just reading the menu.
And periodically double-check the dishes you have eaten for the past five years.
Because today it is a vegetable roll.
And tomorrow someone will decide that the salad "lacks character" — and Parmesan will appear on top completely unnoticed.
The main takeaway of the story:
never trust your old order too much. Especially if pesto has been spotted somewhere nearby. 😄
