Cena Vegan
Vegan Abattoir
Harley Quinn Smith & Kevin Smith
4.7 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Kevin & Harley speak with Carmen, co-founder of Cena Vegan. Carmen tells the deep lore of where the culture behind Cena comes from, how restoring a forest was the genesis for creating the most meat-like vegan tacos in the world, and the non-negotiable importance of authenticity in Cena Vegan’s food.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, I'm going to dig in while we do that. |
| 0:02.4 | Are you calling a taco? |
| 0:03.7 | Do you want to just share? |
| 0:04.8 | Am I called to a taco? |
| 0:06.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:07.5 | I don't want to take it and you're like, that's the one I wanted. |
| 0:10.1 | And then you're on a therapist couch going like, you ruined my childhood and he ruined my tacos. Greetings culinary cucks and dairy. You enter the vegan |
| 0:27.7 | habit while. I'm Kevin Smith. And I'm Harley Quinn Smith. Welcome to Viganuary. Yes. Happy New Year. That's |
| 0:34.5 | right. It's 2026, kids. And just like 2025, I'm sure it'll be incredible. It was a bit of sarcasm. I think it is going to be. 2025 was a nut biter. I'll be honest with you, particularly the end of 2025. Last time we shot the show, I had a mother. This time we're shooting the show, no mother. I mean, I had a mother, but she took off. She left this best of all possible world's message to Mother Harley's momly, if you will. |
| 0:57.2 | Grandmother. |
| 0:57.4 | Oh,, grandmother. Grandmongy. I was thinking about before we came up, I was like, oh, man. Like, everything is now a first. Oh, my God, this is the first time I've done this since my mother died. Oh, my God. This is the first time I've done this since my mother died and stuff. So this is a first and I was |
| 1:11.9 | downstairs. I was like, well, this will be another thing and stuff. But it made me think of something |
| 1:16.3 | in regards to momily and veganism. I was raised so fucking poorly that I was never taught to eat |
| 1:23.7 | vegetables. And that was because my mother loved me so much. And I was like, I don't want to eat |
| 1:27.4 | them. My brother and sister were forced to eat vegetables. And you was because my mother loved me so much. And I was like, I don't want to eat them. My brother and sister were forced to eat vegetables. Really? Virginia and Donald are fucking, like, they'll eat greens and shit. They won't like be like, is it turned into a pancake? Like me, they'll eat a fucking artichoke, man, and just like without even being told. So they were forced to eat vegetables. |
| 2:02.6 | I remember like my brother and sister would get so mad at my mother. Like, you made us eat our vegetables. You didn't have to eat his vegetables. And she was like, that's my tiger. He don't have to do nothing. Wow. I know. But what a horrible thing that was for my health. But I remember my brother and sister. Mom, he was a pushover for the baby. When you have the third kid, you let them run around scissors. |
| 2:03.6 | You don't give a shit anymore. |
| 2:34.9 | Like, fucking, you let them run around scissors. You don't give a shit anymore. You've tried it out on the other two. Now you're like, I'm going to loosen up. So my brother and sister have a very core memory, vivid core memory, of sitting at the kitchen table with my brother and sister, dining room table. Sorry, it was a fancy meal. We were in the dining room and the TV room and the TV room. And my mom had made cream corn. Corn shouldn't even be a problem. I ate popcorn. I ate corn flakes. I would say it should work for you. I wouldn't go for the corn. And cream corn is like sugar soup, right? Especially when it came out of a can. can it was all sweet it tastes like corn chowder or whatever and still i wouldn't eat it and my brother and sister |
| 2:39.9 | sat there one night with me at the table and like tried to negotiate like what if we bought you a star |
| 2:45.9 | war's figure and i was like no and like what if i bought you a new mad magazine? My brother, I was like, no. Are you serious? And they were like, what if we bought you the entire set of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band trading cards? That's how deep cuts and old this is. And you said no? No, man. I was against vegetables, Ben. And to be honest with you, I still am. |
| 3:08.1 | Those are some good offers. |
| 3:10.1 | Oh, shit. |
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