Alice's Adventures Underground: Actually, She Was Right in the First Place

veg·an (vē'gən, věj'ən)
n. A vegetarian who eats plant products only, especially one who uses
no products derived from animals, as fur or leather.

Conversation at work, where a colleague was handing out samples of soap she collected from a recent conference:

Colleague 1 *excitedly*: "This is vegan soap... It's VEGAN SOAP!" (pronouncing it "vejan" both times)

Colleague 2: "Vegan soap? Is that even the right term?"

Colleague 3: "Yeah... wouldn't you call it 'made from natural ingredients' or something like that? I think vegan has more to do with diet."

Colleague 2: "And I believe it's pronounced 've-gan' with a hard g, not a j."

Colleague 4 *sarcastically*: "Who knows? Those Vegans, you know how they love to confuse matters."

Colleague 1: "I thought those were Anarchists."

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2 Response to "Actually, She Was Right in the First Place"

MB

June 12, 2007 at 8:46 AM

Mmm nothing I love more than a nice bar of soap thrown on the grill. Actually, most vegan food tastes worse than soap. This would be an improvement.
Anonymous

June 12, 2007 at 3:32 PM

I just had weigh in here in defense of the veggan...V-gan...vejuns...whatever they are called.
Most soap is actually made from a wonderful substance called 'animal byproduct' which is cooked down fats and protiens from dead animals. So, if it's veta-vita-vegimin soap, then it is probably not made out of dead stuff like your Irish Spring.