Gossip Girl Knocks Veganism With Jokes Of Seitan

by Michael Parrish DuDell January 23, 2009
Categories: Film/TV.

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Oh no they didn’t!!! On a recent episode of Gossip Girl, Serena is preparing to attend Brown University and shares a little joke about veganism with Blair. Here’s how it went down:

Blair: The headmistress asked if I could come meet her at school. Figure she wants to have tea like we did when I first applied to Yale. What are you doing?

Serena: I’m just reading the Brown catalog. Oh, and I ordered a home dreadlocking kit. Wanna meet up later?

Blair: Definitely! Maybe we can get a jump start on your veganism — have some celebratory seitan at Angelica Kitchen?

Serena: I can’t think of anything better…or grosser.

Wow, Gossip Girl...really? It’s so early nineties to think that veganism has anything to do with dreadlocks at all! With about a billion sexy celebs out there rocking a compassionate lifestyle it’s just silly to think that only hippies rock the tofu.

Full disclosure: a very close friend of mine is on the show and a long time ago I worked at Angelica Kitchen…so maybe I’m a little biased. What do you think? Was this a devious jab at the vegan lifestyle or just playful little nudge? Chime in a share your thoughts, yo!!

Check out the clip in question at HuffingtonPost.com!

Categories: Film/TV.

hil

I think it was more of a jab on Brown
http://www.bodaweightloss.com stephanie

I don’t consider this a dis of veganism or hippies. It’s more elite-style in-jokes, like the poster above suggested: are you upper class enough to know Brown’s rep and are you cool enough to have been in the EV and eaten at Angelica’s….

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Emily

Ditto – that was a jab at Brown.
http://BrainyBlonde.com Erin

Probably a jab at Brown. I am not a fan of the show at all (no disrespect to your friend Then again I don’t like much on tv so it could just be me.. I”ll stick with weeds and dexter

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http://www.clevergirlgoesblog.com tia

i agree that it was more of a jab at brown.

and i personally thought it was funny, because you have to put it into context by thinking that these are (admittedly worldly) high school kids and that vegan food might not be all that appetizing to them.

i don’t think they meant disrespect to vegans, because i’m pretty sure they lightheartedly make fun of LOTS of different things.
jaxin

Aww! Of all the ‘fake meats’ seitan is absolutely the best one.

I do have to say this though, at least veganism is become well known enough to have random jokes thrown out about it!
jamie lynn

GG is my guilty pleasure, and i thought that exchange was brills. to me, it almost felt like a jab at the entire stereotype of the brown-going vegan hippie. they only missed “lesbian”. ;p
http://technicalvegan.blogspot.com Erin Cathleen

This isn’t the first time they’ve taken a shot at Brown… I live nearby and hang out at all the Brown hotspots, and there’s definitely a vegan-hipster vibe alive and well there. I think it’s fun for Gossip Girl to call attention to it. I was more miffed that one of the book series’ main characters, Aaron Rose, a philanthropist and vegan, was made into such a jerk on the show. At least the TV douchey version didn’t call himself a vegan!
http://www.naturalbornjuicers.com Laura

I totally support veganism and am almost 100% vegan myself, but seitan is pretty NASTY. I mean, its wheat gluten. Eeeewwww.
Becs

oh my god! seitan is the best. give it another try lauren. i really like making my own, slicing it like sammy “meat”, breading and seasoning it, frying it up, and making a bomb sammy with some fake au jus. rocks my world.

i love gossip girl(can’t help it, it’s beyond my control), but it seemed more like a shot at brown, although i wish they could have done that without bringin in the vegans:)
http://www.imhereinmyroom.blogspot.com Katherina

I remember watching that and thinking “What the ****?!”. Such a low blow.
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http://myspace.com/maddieseverythingsite maddie

hellooo. i’m vegetarian, and its not a low blow. in the books, blairs dreadlock wearing brown loving step brother is vegan. so its probably just a jab at that. the books are wayyyyyy better.
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