Vegan salad vegan?

Attention all veg*ns and vegetarians!!!!

It has recently come to my attention that the seaweed salad peddled at the oh-so-controversial sushi stand on the first floor of Usdan is not the innocent vegan staple that it seems! Nay, a close reading of the list of ingredients reveals the somber truth: amongst the strands of marine benthic algae lay the remains of that most peaceful of all marine invertebrates, the noble jellyfish. Passive drifters and slow swimmers, jellyfish often become entangled in the nets used to harvest seaweed (beware the Octopus’ Garden) and are processed along with the seaweed to enhance its flavor. That’s all good and well if you don’t mind tonguing a tentacle or two (or consuming a creature that uses the same orifice to both eat and poop), but for those of you who are of the herbivorous persuasion, I urge you to steer clear of that seedy seaweed, that gory nori. After all, there’s always edamame to go with your veggie rolls—and soybeans don’t cry.