UUOP #549 - News & Top 5 Vegan Food Items at Mardi Gras 2023
Unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast
Lee Mallaby
4.6 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
On this episode we are joined by Shelby from Universal Orlando Vegans to discuss the latest news including vegan butterbeer, Jurassic boxed water and Hagrid's reopening, we have a Bao Pick A Bao Bao from Doug and then Shelby gives us her top 5 vegan items at Mardi Gras 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | Vegan Butterbeer, New E.T. Passports, Jurassic Water and more. |
| 0:04.4 | And Shelby joins us from Universal Orlando Vegans to give us the top five vegan mud to grow items for 2023. |
| 0:10.7 | This is episode 549 of the unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast. Hey, everybody, what's up. Welcome back. We are glad to have you back, as always. With me, I have Lee. You're assuming that people are coming back. There might be new |
| 0:38.6 | listeners, so it might be just welcome back. New listener. Just welcome. Yeah, welcome. Hello, |
| 0:43.5 | everyone. That's all you're supposed to say is hi. I know. I can't. Sorry. We also have Tracy. Hello, |
| 0:50.9 | everyone. And we have a special guest today, Shelby. Hi everyone. |
| 0:56.0 | Hey, Shelby. I guess. Hi. |
| 0:58.0 | Thank you guys for having me so much. This is so exciting. |
| 1:02.0 | Long time listener, I'm going to do some old school radio. |
| 1:06.0 | Nice. Flashback there. |
| 1:09.0 | So I'm Shelby from Universal Orlando Vegans. Just want to give a little background. |
| 1:13.7 | I started the group in 2016 with my friend Stephen and my husband. They're both extremely supportive. |
| 1:20.2 | We didn't have any vegan options back then. We had popcorn, pretzels, and the Leprecons Rainbow from Finnegan's. |
| 1:25.9 | Wow. That was it. That was it. |
| 1:28.3 | Maybe a couple more random things, but that was the adjust of it. |
| 1:31.3 | And then about a year and a half later, we got our first label vegan options, which were the vegan chicken sandwich and impossible burgers. |
| 1:37.3 | And from there, it's just snowballed. |
| 1:39.3 | We've just been pressuring universal a little bit just by our presence and just letting them over here and we want vegan options. So good. Yeah. That's where we're at. Yeah. I think you left out twisted taters just because you beat me too. I was going to bring that out. We were trying to find out food for for vegans and vegetarians and they're like oh yeah we got we have twisted |
| 2:01.4 | taters i'm like oh fantastic variety you're so right that actually was our first martyro option |
| 2:07.0 | it was like the one thing we could get it was like sea salt and vinegar and yeah i don't know what |
| 2:11.9 | other flavor it was then it's different now but it was the year we came over because Chris we were |
| 2:16.9 | getting you to ask because our youngest is vegetarian. |
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