Taylor Lorenz whines NYC bagel shops dont use the right vegan cream cheese, wants Mamdani to intervene

Bacon, egg and oh please.Prolific self-parodist Taylor Lorenz wants Mayor Zohran Mamdani to do something about what she calls the woeful state of the Big Apple’s vegan cream-cheese offerings.The former Washington Post journalist and N95 mask superfan uncorked a Sunday morning treatise urging New York City bagel shops “get with the times” and provide more appealing choices.“The bagels in LA suck, but all the LA bagel shops at least use cashew-based vegan cream cheese.NYC bagel shops almost never have vegan cc or they’re using hyper processed Tofutti [vomiting emoji].
I hope Zohran can remedy this,” the recent Big Apple expat wrote on X.The entitled post quickly went viral — reaching more than 2.5 million views — and Lorenz, as she often does, muted comments on the thread in a vain attempt to stifle the torrent of ridicule that soon followed.But another X user put up a screenshot of her original post, mocking its clueless, big-government sentiment — and throngs responded in support of the tweeter.“‘I hope the communist mayor can force bagel shops to serve my vegan slop cream cheese,'” the user wrote, mimicking Lorenz in the post accompanying their screenshot.“Just incredible.It’s like she was created in a lab,” the poster added.Another commenter snarked, “Leftists want the government to intervene in everything from healthcare to housing to cream cheese.
It is so absurd.”One X user added, “I’m a vegetarian and this annoys me.”Another person wrote, “The ‘tolerance, inclusion, compassion and empathy’ crowd is at it again.“Everything has to be the way they like it so we can truly have diversity.They see nothing wrong with this either.”The 40-year-old Lorenz, who moved to LA in 2020, attempted the classic X maneuver of calling people weirdos whenever you get made fun of for being very weird.“Right wingers and reactionary weirdos are all QTing this taking it so seriously and getting angry at the concept of vegan cream c...