Hail Seitan!
Ever since I heard of and tried seitan, a mass of wheat gluten capable of making extremely convincing vegan alternatives to meat, I have been possessed by an urge to make a shirt that simply reads “Hail Seitan!” This shirt would appeal to so many facets of my personality. My inner hipster would love the wry humor. My inner punk would love freaking people out and possibly making them uncomfortable. My inner geek would love having a shirt that few people can understand. I immediately wrote down the idea and put it on my list of things to do someday and moved on to my next random thought.
A few months later, when I was really starting to dig into the vegan community, I realized that essentially the same shirt had been made by some other witty vegan at Herbivore Clothing. There was even a clever pentagram made out of forks in the design.
I am convinced that this is the universe’s way of reminding me of Goethe’s assertion that “All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times.”
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