If you’re a NYC native, no day’s start is complete without a bagel and coffee. Most of the time, these bagels are freshly available at one of several street cars and they are absolutely delicious.

But this being NYC, capital of the retail fast food world, competition is stiff. And the once affordable street cart vendors have a lot of chain restaurants, in particular Dunkin’ Donuts to compete with.

Now the interesting thing about Dunkin’ Donuts is their nutrition facts. Several years ago none of their donuts claimed to have Eggs, but almost overnight – a few months back, nearly all the donuts now report eggs as ingredients. So for vegetarians (who don’t eat eggs) & vegans like me, this was a shock.

But I thought, well no donuts but at least I can have their bagels, right? WRONG!

Again, after doing some digging around on the Internet, I found that the Dunkin’ Donuts people had agreed that their bagels contain an ingredient derived from Duck Feathers.  The protein L-Cysteine is the ingredient that makes these bagels inedible. So be sure that if you’re vegan/vegetarian, you stay away from this protein unless it is specifically stated that its source is vegetarian.