As a former child, and one who loved babybels and scrunching up the wax into various shapes, I was excited to see a new take on the cheese as I’ve never seen them do any variation apart from the vegan ones.

Well upon removing the Babybel from the plastic I saw a green wax layer, which I know is the vegan one’s colour, but I just assumed that it was an ode to a jalapeño and following a spicy theme.

Unfortunately this assumption was wrong and the cheese was in fact vegan and tasted like some sort of organic hand soap. Very nasty surprise to the senses.

I had a look at the label on the pack and it doesn’t actually state anywhere that it’s vegan, no vegan symbol or anything, so you’d be unlikely to notice they weren’t vegan if you’re expecting cheese, and probably wouldn’t even know they were if you don’t eat dairy.

Not a very entertaining post but thought people deserve to know about these insidious excuses for Babybels lest they make the same mistake as I did.

by throwaway-throwawayl

38 comments

  1. I’ve been looking for these in the shops for a couple of weeks, to no avail.

    I won’t bother now, thanks!

  5. vegan cheese is just a mockery of cheese. i’m lactose intolerant (although not to the point of potential death so i obviously still eat cheese) and i have tried every damn vegan cheese under the sun, so i am qualified to say it’s shit

  6. Well that’s a disappointment, won’t be bothering with those then. Thanks for the heads up!

  7. Sorry for your disappointment, OP.

    As a vegan myself, though, I’d eat the everloving hell out of these.

  8. I’m vegan and can still confirm these are gross. Don’t get ’em

  9. How was the spiciness? (why the heck is that word not in the phones dictionary…) 

  10. cheese is basically the one animal product left that they haven’t made a half-decent vegan substitute of. absolutely fucking vile

  11. Vegetarian here. Never buy vegan or plant-based cheese. It’s awful.

    Pretty much every other form of animal product has really good plant-based alternatives. Except cheese.

  12. I got very excited at the picture – appreciate the warning.

    There is a lot of vegan food I like. I’ve had lions mane in tempura that beats any chicken ones I’ve had (to be fair people don’t tend to put the best chicken in tempura.

    But my friend who was a vegan once gave me some cashew vegan Brie because it was ‘surprisingly nice’, she hated vegan cheese. And I told her I like it but for context, love cashews, absolutely hate Brie.

  14. Such a let down trying these recently. Absolutely fucking disgusting.

  16. If I see a product dancing around saying what it’s meant to be I avoid it. The ‘double cream’ we have at work is like 98% oil and no dairy 🤮

  17. The ending of Stranger Things is going to be terribly received if they feel the need to slap branding on fucking Babybels to squeeze that last bit of revenue out of people

  18. I did wonder why they were so different from ‘normal’ babybel. The texture is so wrong

  19. They’re fucking awful! and I had to google as my label sats nothing about being vegan either.

  20. why the fuck is babybel crossing over with stranger things. how bizarre.

  21. So even looking closely like you suggest we still wouldn’t know?

  22. Thanks for the warning OP! The idea of a spicy babybell is so appealing I’d probably have thrown these in my trolley without hesitation.

  23. I always wonder how much of the real product they need to use to make unnecessary fake products like this.

    I’d be impressed if you could benchmark what cheese was meant to taste like without using cheese in the tasting.

  24. Vegan or not, if you buy Stranger Things Babybel expecting a culinary sensation you’ve already lost.

  26. Thank you for the warning, I’ve had the unfortunate experience of trying the vegan baby bel and even the dog wouldn’t eat it.

  27. I doubt a “cheese lover” would be buying a babybel, they’re fucking DISGUSTENG

  28. I didn’t realise these were vegan. I didn’t enjoy these at all

  29. The regular vegan ones are also vile for what it’s worth. By both babybel and vegan cheese standards.

  30. Another food PSA – do not buy the seasonal gingerbread flavoured Coca Cola 🤮🤮🤮

  31. I feel like there should be a law that says vegan replacements must be advertised as such.

  32. I’ve tried it a few times now and I have to say I despise vegan cheese.

    It smells right and the texture is okay at first but then as you chew it clumps up and the texture turns horrible.

  33. My favourite vegan cheese quote from Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi:
    “They have vegan cheese.”
    “No, they don’t. They have shredded orange and white sadness that mocks cheese and everything it stands for.”

  34. Christ are they still milking stranger things and harry Potter!! ( whilst eating my rocky horror picture show packet of sky divers)

  35. There’s perfectly good recipes for vegan cheese too. I’ve found many due to my allergies. What a shame :/

  37. Fun pointless fact, as a kid babybels would make me throw up consistently so I’d deliberately eat them when I wanted to go home from school. I don’t think they’ve ever been good tbh

  38. Was like eating dried spice out the jar. Gritty disgusting little grey grubby piece of crap.

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