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Visited one of these vegan restaurants. Took me a little while to realize everything on the menu was misspelled. They didn't have cheese they had "cheeze", they had "porc" instead of pork, etc. Immediately it felt quite dishonest, but I admit it would be obnoxious to have to qualify everything in a vegan restaurant.

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> I admit it would be obnoxious to have to qualify everything in a vegan restaurant

For cheese I can understand, but pork is pork. How can you call a non-pig product pork?

Cheese is as specific as pork as far as constituent ingredients.

You're just attempting to replicate the sensory experience. Sweetness, texture, moisture, etc. As in, say, beef vs pork barbecue. Beef vs pork steak.

Jackfruit probably mimics pork better than beef - not all substitutions are equivalent.

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