Kinks in the Vegan Road: Know Your Onion

I made another visit to Citi Field recently, still pickled blue and orange that I can enjoy a hot dog and a beer and watch the game. Though I had originally intended to supplement my Vegan at Citi Field report from June with some information on the stand-alone booths (zeppole, kettle corn, etc.), I got blog-lazy. Here is my dog. I went easy on the fixin’s this time and went for a sensible amount of sauerkraut, grilled onion and ketchup and mustard. Let’s hear it for the $5.00 hot dog!

I did pick up some of Nathan’s onion rings too. I ate all of them before getting to our seats. As I often blabber on about, I am a huge fan of onions… and an average fan of fried finger foods though I rarely partake. When in a bind, I can experience lapses in foodie judgment. I sometimes order chain fast food onion rings. On several occasions I’ll have to ascertain the vegan-ity of a joint’s onion rings on the fly. So as to help others who are afflicted with the occasional irrational urgent salt and grease hankering but in no way condoning this kind of patronage, see the list below. I’ll update when needed. Cross your fingers and hope for clean oil…

Burger King onion rings:  confirmed vegan ingredients
They have something call gelatinized wheat starch which contains no gelatin and is plant-based.

Nathans, Sonic, White Castle onion rings: unconfirmed vegan ingredients
No ingredient listings but because of the  zero mg cholesterol, one can safely assume they’re vegan.

A&W, Carl Jr’s., Jack In the Box onion rings: NOT vegan
All contain milk.