Double Down, Meet Your Vegan Counterpart: The Handwich
The Williamsburg punk rock fast food-style vegan restaurant Food Swings has done it again. In response/protest/challenge to or, as they claim, mockery, of KFC’s infamous Double Down sandwich, the meatless hipster-haven has created the “Handwich:” Two faux chicken patties breaded with cornflakes and special seasoning, fried with daiya and tofutti cheese, faux bacon, lettuce, tomato, red onion and a sweet mustard dijonaise. Says Food Swings “we add veggies because they’re manly too!”
Because ones manhood obviously has everything to do with eating meat. Or faux meat, as the case may be.
Food Swings’ mission is not to make healthy food. Instead it provides a much needed fix for native midwesteners who moved to Brooklyn, bought skinny jeans, rejected the Middle American gluttony of their parents and yet still crave a Big Mac.
“We are not immune to the pull of tasty foods and we want to be able to eat them too, but without any harm coming to animals,” Swings told Green Planet. “So we go out of our way to create vegan versions of foods people say they wouldn’t be able to ‘live without’ if they went vegan; well, now they don’t HAVE to live without them!”
To that end, the chef who invented the Handwich should really be thanking KFC for the inspiration. And while most people are not attempting to eat ten of them, some of these crazy, manly vegans “like it so much, they eat one and come back to the counter and order one to go, too!”
