Potential niche market: vegan-friendly sports bar?

[Ellen Forradalom]

Hey, perhaps we could go somewhere with this. I can see it now-all vegan food and drink with curling, water polo and cross country on 3 giant screens.

http://www.yelp.com/topic/chicago-vegan-friendly-sports-bar

[flvegan]

1. Well, since most beer/booze is vegan to begin with

it seems like an easy transition. Wine is another story, and no Guinness. Well, to be truly vegan, Bud/Busch/Mich would be out, as would Corona, and mead. It could be pulled off, but then you'd probably have a number of vegans sitting around pissing about the leather ball/cleats/gloves/Nike/Reebok/steroids/leather Mercedes interior/tattoo/athletes foot medication/BenGay/Tylenol/Proctor&Gamble shit that comes with the "no compromise" sect.

You couldn't sell it as vegan, you could only make it so and whisper about it. Sadly. Very, very sadly.

Oh, and btw, the powder and pool cue chalk was tested on animals. And nobody can even carry cigs in there (animal tested, to this day) and if ANY woman wore any kind of makeup into the joint, she'd get run out on a rail because just maybe, JUUUUST maybe it's Maybelline.

I kid, of course. I'm just a little bitter with those that are so like what I've described above.

[Ellen Forradalom]

2. Interesting thought, though...are there any vegan sports?

Swimming, maybe? No leather there.

[flvegan]

3. Chlorine.

One can take anything to the absolute extreme and make something non-vegan.

Hell, bicycle racing...no good, tires gots cow parts in 'em.

Actually, I think that rock/paper/scissors might be pure.

[Ellen Forradalom]

4. Chlorine isn't vegan?

It's some harsh shit, to be sure, but it's not vegan?

[flvegan]

5. Depends upon your definition.

See, some hardliners think that anything that's ever touched an animal is not. Chlorine has been tested, in a very ugly way, upon animals in the past, yes.

For the record, I'm not one of them. I don't defend the testing, but I won't keelhaul someone swimming in a pool.

[Ellen Forradalom]

6. Oh dear

Animal testing is everywhere, isn't it :-(

[flvegan]

7. Yes, animal testing is everywhere.

It's very unfortunate, and I hate having to "apologize" for others. Yet, I do.

Yeah, sometimes, I'm a sell-out.