Somewhere a vegan is explaining lentils to someone who has never once questioned where their iron comes from, and they’re doing it with a smile.

Vegans and vegetarians didn’t sign up to be nutritionists at every dinner table they sit at, but here they are, patient, informed, and genuinely unbothered, answering the same five questions with the grace of someone who has simply done this too many times to get worked up about it anymore.