Secret vegan handshake?

[Second Summer]

Is there a secret vegan handshake? How do you do it?

 

[Joe]

Is there a secret vegan handshake? How do you do it?

If you Google the search term "secret vegan handshake" you'll get plenty of hits.

You know you’re a vegan when… you use the Vulcan’s hand greeting and salutation “live long and prosper” with all your veg*n friends. The Vulcan’s were vegetarian don’t you know. It has become the secret vegan handshake.

(Emphasis added.)

You Know You’re A Vegan When…

(Technically, this might be the secret veg*n handshake.)

 

[Joe]

IS: Some follow-on remarks.

First, if you Googled the phrase "secret vegan handshake" and then read through the hits, you'd find that some people just use it to make a joke or to deny there is such a thing. So perhaps there is no agreed definition of what it is or might be.

Second, the Vulcan hand gesture is a hand gesture, not a handshake strictly speaking.

Third, since you do get hits when you google "secret vegan handshake," it is being openly discussed, so perhaps it is not very secret after all.

 

[Andy_T]

We can't tell you about it, of course, as it would no longer be secret then....

 

[Second Summer]

Thank you for your thoughts, Joe! I should have thought of the Star Trek "V" greeting.

More generally, how do vegans identify other vegans at social events, at the workplace, and other places?

 

[Andy_T]

We hang around the hummus plate and see who else goes there......

 

[Joe]

I bumped this thread to tell you a story. We had a meeting of our environmental group last week. One of the fellows who works in the office where we met had his seven year old daughter with him, a cute little blonde girl named Violet, who was wearing glasses and jumping around, full of energy. All of a sudden, she splits her fingers in a V (like Spock) and says to us, "Live Long and Prosper." She seems to have selected this as an all purpose greeting, good for all occasions. I told her her hand symbol was also the secret vegan hand signal. She also got to meet the president of our group, John, a vegan.