I always come across doubters saying that Indian restaurants who say they use vegan ghee are lying. Now, a world where waiters just go around lying willy nilly is scary enough but that same world without vegan ghee is ever scarier. But last week I found it, the last piece in the puzzle of veganism. In a little Indian grocery on 1st avenue between 5th and 6th streets, shelves and shelves of vegan ghee! It's essentially palm and soybeans oil and 2.2 pounds cost 5.75, so it might be a good alternative for earth balance in your baking. Here is the photographic evidence:

After doing some research (googling once) I found that Dalda is a Unilever brand, and I try to avoid anything that Chumbawumba has written songs against, but oh well. Here's the lyrics in case you don't want a bunch of pop up adds.

When you don't want to feed the world
When you just want to feed your bank balance
Wash your guilt away:
UNILEVER WASHES WHITER!
Soap to clean those dirty hands
And a slap for the people who work the land
Unilever
Man-made hunger
Soap in our eyes
John West is the Best!
Old soap opera
No soap reality
Legal slave trade
Domestos kills all known truths dead
Soap to wash the darkest stain
Profit covers up the pain
Of a slow, deliberate genocide
And all the dirt you want to hide
Take the black and wash it whiter
Brooke Bond Oxo
Blue Band, Bird's Eye
Lifebuoy, Sunsilk
Persil washes Whiter!
We make whitewash
We sell whitewash
Consume whitewash
Consumed by whitewash
Somewhere in this cycle there's me and you
What are we prepared to do?

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