Let's superglue ourselves to the hand-off plane! That'll solve everything.

Yes haha im glad its being used for food for those cute chickens 🥰. Whenever i have english muffins or other bread thats a few days to a week old, ill take that and give that to her as well for her chickens

Yep

Oh, totally. Food markouts are part of our compensation so why not use them in whatever way you want to?

The impossible patty is vegan, but I know some people don’t consider it vegan because of the animal testing. That’s not something I tell customers, though, because I assume if they cared enough about that to not eat it, they’d have researched it on their own and people can be vegan for different reasons and in different ways.

The bread having eggs and butter is something I’m more tempted to say something to them about because they may have just made an assumption that the bread is vegan.

The patty is free of animal-based ingredients. It is not vegan, at least by the definition of people who are vegan on grounds of animal husbandry being wrong.

Vegan requires animals not be involved in any way, it is NOT enough to exclude animal products as an ingredient.

This might not matter to you or me, but it is a thing that a lot of people will get worked up about depending on their motivation for being vegan. (edit: the people who care about this part will usually know this so it's not something you necessarily have to explain at the drive thru unless they ask)

Vegan has a bit of internal drama in the movement, but for most people who tell you they are vegan are doing it for reasons related to animas being understood as sentient, and taking a sentient life when you have the option not to is seen as amoral - especially for personal reasons.

Impossible developed their items by testing them on rats in a lab, then euthanizing & dissecting the rats to look for signs of negative impacts of the food. This makes it not vegan by the above standard.

There are also quite a few people who consider a vegan item to lose its status if it is prepared on shared food prep surfaces like a grill or cutting board. And since the ovens in the store are used to warm *any* warmable item...you get the idea. This is similar to the way an organic item can no longer be labeled as such if it goes through a shared equipment without the equipment being fully cleaned & sanitized (eg. a food packager will process organic apples BEFORE non-organic apples and not the other way aroud for this reason, then they only have to clean the machine on the normal cycle rather than interrupting the process for a cleaning routine).

Other people may eat an animal-free diet for reasons of allergy or sensitivity, taste/texture, or for environmental reasons, religious reasons, because someone in their household is, or some combination of any of these. Everyone has different reasons and limits, which is what makes it so involved when someone asks if we can make something 'vegan'.

We can remove some ingredients (eg. if there is an allergy) but we can't just "make it vegan" if we don't know what their definition is so you have to explain the whole thing -- the buns have egg & dairy, prepared on a shared surface, and they come packaged with egg & cheese (rather than us assembling the ingredients on request). That way the person has whatever part of that information they need to make their decision.

On a last note -- I would NOT worry about telling them about the rats as that will open a rabbit warren you don't have time to deal with in the drive through. Anyone who is Vegan with a capital V (see # 1) will already know that, it was a HUGE deal when Impossible first came out and the personalities who go so far as to say "I'm vegan, can you..." are the sort who do their homework, they know or will find out other ways. People with other motivations (eg they don't like the texture) will usually simply say "can you do X without the cheese?", and if they order something like a mocha you can say "yes, by the way the bun on that sandwich has egg & dairy in it, and that soy mocha has whip by default - are those ok?" and they will say yes or no and you leave it at that.

To add to my other comment, it might be easier to think of this as two separate things, though the diet is more or less the same

* Vegan - related to being against animal husbandry. When drama pops up in the news or goes viral, it is usually related to this vector & some true believers (and not simply practicers or casual adherents) tangled up in the No True Scotsman Fallacy

* Non-animal diet - for a variety of reasons, and may not be opposed to keeping & using animals

Yes, by strict definition it is not due to having been tested on animals, and for sharing prep surfaces (and being packaged with) non-vegan ingredients.

For some people it's taste or texture, or they are just trying to cut back on beef or something. Most of the time they are fine with this.

For others, anything that has anything to do with animals at any point in production is a nonstarter. They are typically not ok with one or both of these. And you have no good way of knowing why they are asking (though sometimes you can guess).

Just let them know it is comes packaged WITH the egg & cheese, which you can remove -- sometimes they think we assemble the ingredients a la carte. This one addresses both the allergy and the "it's touched animal!" elements in one statement, then you don't have to bring up all the other possible conflicts unless the customer mentions them, answers their questions and saves you a ton of time in one easy exchange.