Fake garbage vegan pseudo-substitutes for Turkish Delight and Pease Pudding

"It shouldn't be allowed", but it has already happened, that two of my favourite foods have been eliminated and replaced with fake, garbage, vegan substitutes.
As a kid, Fry's Turkish Delight (milk chocolate coated TD) was my absolute favourite sweet; and when I later discovered actual Turkish Delight (powdered with fine sugar) I liked that very much as well.
But the stuff they sell under that name now is completely different, because "They" have eliminated the essential ingredient of gelatin, because it comes from animals.
So the pseudo-TD is just gooey sugar-gel, flavoured with rose water - which I find so vile that I can't eat it.
Pease Pudding (as in the nursery rhyme*) is a traditional, working-class, North English garnish; which is traditionally made from the stock remaining after boiling a ham, ideally flavoured with onion, celery and a carrot.
You boil dried split peas (which are a bit like larger, beige lentils) in the stock, until they have softened to a thick paste. It is the perfect accompaniment to ham; and makes an excellent sandwich. The only problem is that the process takes long time - more than an hour, and then the pease pudding should be allowed to cool - and this takes longer than roasting the boiled ham.
So I have recently bought "pease pudding" from the local supermarket; and discovered a pseudo-product that is so bland and flavourless that it actually detracts from the meal. This is simply because it is not the same thing - unsurprisingly, because this vegan product is made of split peas and... salted water.
And vegans wonder why normal people hate them so much!
*Pease pudding hot, Pease pudding cold, Pease pudding in the pot, Nine days old.
Some like it hot, some like it cold,Some like it in the pot, nine days old.
...But nobody likes it with salted water, instead of ham stock.
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