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Hello, welcome to Untitled Kunda Bolu brothers' podcast episode three.

Once again, we are in Ashok's apartment in Bushwick slash East Williamsburg.

You prefer East Williamsburg, right?

I don't really care.

I mean, I think East Williamsburg sounds kind of like I wanted to pretend that I live in Lienzburg, which is not the case.

And I'm not surrounded by like factories and warehouses. But a lot of the people who live here apparently say that East Williamsburg is made up, so I don't want to intrude.

Well, walking to your apartment, I wanted to get coffee, and so I saw this donut shop.

And I'm like, oh, I've been to that donut shop, so I walk inside, I got that Boston

Cream donut, and I got some coffee, and then I went to put milk in the coffee, and it was

soy milk, soy creamer, I don't know what soy creamer is, and almond milk. And there were no other options. And that's when I realized, this was a vegan donut shop. Yeah. Because there was no, there's nothing that indicates it's a vegan donut shop until you try to get milk in your coffee. Then I went up to the woman and I said, excuse me, is this, is this chef vegan? And then she kind of had a look like, yeah, as if she knew that, oh, we lied to you. There's a lot of people who walk into the store and don't know that it's vegan. And there's nothing wrong with it being beating. I have no issue with that. And the donut was great. It's more like, I wanted milk in my coffee. and because you couldn't be up front about it

I can't have milk in my coffee I wouldn't have bought this coffee here then and I think it's

kind of funny in part because it's like this is like you know gentrified community and the community

what was it before it started in Puerto Puerto Rican and Dominican for maybe 30, 40 years now.

So I can imagine people who are from this community,

there's a new donut shop and they go in and maybe, not definitely,

maybe they don't know what veganism is or it's not a thing that they expect and they walk in.

And they're like, all right, these white people open up a donut shop in our neighborhood.

I like donuts. It's

not something that I, you know, don't normally eat or enjoy, but here's the thing that is

relatable to me as opposed to, name another thing. You know, like some Sonic Youth, uh, plain bar

that opens up or something, I don't know. Right. So like, I'll eat a donut and you go in and all of a sudden, not to say that Dominican, the point of being, still like Sonic Youth, but I'm saying, like, you know, like, I can imagine an older dude going in. You're like, yeah, let me get donut, I'll get the coffee. And then it's like, where's the milk? Oh, we're vegan. Yeah. What does that mean? What is that? And you have to get into this whole conversation about veganism, and he's like, yeah, I just want milk.

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