Pure veg signs at food outlets are ‘offensive’: viral tweet sparks debate online

Taking to Twitter, the woman with the user name ‘Adrak Wali Chai’ said, “All these ‘pure veg’ signs across food outlets are offensive and un-inclusive.

Hyderabad: Twitter is rife with intensified debate over a woman’s tweet on the micro-blogging site labelling “pure veg” signs across food outlets “offensive” and “un-inclusive”. The viral tweet has triggered several polarising comments with the majority of users criticising the “extra-wokeness”, while some supported her.

Taking to Twitter, the woman with the user name ‘Adrak Wali Chai’ said, “All these ‘pure veg’ signs across food outlets are offensive and un-inclusive. Blatantly implying that other food preferences are ‘impure’ and legitimizing the discrimination against people with diverse preferences (sic).” The user name was later changed to ‘Pure Veg Signs are Casteist’.

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https://twitter.com/hoopoe_is_here/status/1614717656606838784?s=20&t=kEHs9n5t-S-8ME6l6x2tlA

The tweet went viral and sparked a heated debate on social media. While the majority of people were totally against the thought and slammed the woman in the comments section, there were a few who defended the tweet.

“Pure veg tag in a restaurant has nothing to do with discrimination. Even many non-veg eating people look to eat veggie foods on certain days of the week for religious reasons primarily. Pure veg is that extra assurance that non-veg is not cooked in that restaurant (sic),” said a user. “Where is discrimination?! If they had the board “Pure Veg only. Non vegetarians not allowed”, then its discrimination! They are just targeting their customer base! (sic),” read another tweet.

https://twitter.com/Doreswami108/status/1615204478436904960?s=20&t=kEHs9n5t-S-8ME6l6x2tlA

Pure veg like Pure Gold means unadulterated, it doesn't imply that Platinum or Diamonds are not worthy enough !

P.S. I am not a vegetarian but this is not hard to get
👇🤦‍♀️ https://t.co/P5C9sPGuRM

— Deepali Pandey (@deepalipandey) January 17, 2023

There’s no “pure non-veg” joints because we carnivores don’t give a shit about our meat dish coming in contact with, say, palak. But herbivores do, hence “pure veg.” Not sure why that should offend me though. Unless outraging were a hobby.

— Amit Schandillia (@Schandillia) January 16, 2023

she knows what pure veg means..
she delebrately wrote this tweet hoping to get viral…

and boy, she hit the bull's eye… 😀 pic.twitter.com/59sv0tEQ6g

— Abhishek Jain (@abhishekjain118) January 16, 2023

Twitter is magical. It has made people use a dictionary probably for the first time in their lives to find the exact meaning of a four-letter word they have been hearing since their childhood.
I'm talking about 'pure' as in Pure Veg.

— Neil D'Silva (@neildsilva) January 17, 2023