It’s a bit obnoxious. I make this excellent chili for family gatherings and nobody ever calls it just “chili”. They always say “vegan chili”.
The other day I made some pumpkin bread. When me and my dad went over to my grandmas house, we brought it. My dad announced “She made some vegan pumpkin bread!”. Grandma knows I am vegan. So of course if I made it, it will be vegan, no need to state that.
I know this is a really stupid pet peeve that will probably get me downvoted to oblivion, but idk. Maybe someone here also gets it.
I get it. I realized I was doing a similar thing with LGBTQ+ stuff. I thought I was inclusive minded, but after using Lemmy for awhile and a few interactions I realized I still had some level of mental partitioning. It was only apparent in my internal reaction to adult content that was not my brand. So I have actively pursued nominal inclusion in my interactions and more critically assess my biases.
I appreciate knowing when a dish is vegan because it tells me that it is non dairy which is my main concern. Outside of that context it is absolutely a prejudiced label in most cases. Perhaps try naming your own dishes in some unique way and not using traditional names so that someone must be more overt in prejudice to add a label of vegan to the name.
As one of the letters in that soup, I’ll let you all in on a big secret (it’s a good day for it): LGBTQXYZ does not exist. It refers to a bunch of completely different groups, some of them pretty ill-defined. They don’t hang out together and their interests sometimes contradict each other.
Luckily there’s an easy solution to the problem. Just try to think of people as individuals rather than as members of groups. And don’t get stressed about causing offense. If you just behave like a normal tolerant human being, everything will be fine.