Such a nasty Gary

About a month ago, someone posted a rant on Vegan Life Magazine’s Facebook page about what to call vegan cheese—specifically, don’t call it cheese: “Call it Gary or something [but] don’t call it Cheese because it’s not CHEESE!!!!!!” The “real cheese fan” was six-exclamation-marks irate because the United Kingdom’s second largest grocery chain, Sainbury’s, began offering its own brand of vegan cheese products. But the haranguer wants to make the cheese aisle great again. “I’m not interested in your views … that ‘eating products from animals is bad for all the reasons everyone knows about.’” But the vegan community embraced “Gary” faster than Elizabeth Warren at a Hillary Clinton rally taking back “nasty woman,” with memes, www.facebook.com/
veganslovegary and a Change.org petition to officially change the term. The petition still needs 400 signatures, but it will apparently be sent to Gary producers and, uh, President Barack Obama. Hilarious.