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Google's new salad emoji is going viral

The tweet fuelled an online debate between users arguing whether eggs were vegan or not.

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Keeping vegans in mind, Google removed egg from its salad emoji that has a bowl filled with greens and two tomato slices.
Earlier, there was also a slice of boiled egg in the salad bowl which has now gone and Google UX Manager at Expression design team, Jennifer Daniel, tweeted about the change on Wednesday.
Daniel wrote on Twitter: "There's big talk about inclusion and diversity at Google so if you need any evidence of Google is making this priority may I direct your attention to the emoji- we've removed the egg in Android P beta 2, making this a more inclusive vegan salad." The tweet was accompanied by before and after image of the salad emoji, according to Mashable report.

There's big talk about inclusion and diversity at Google so if you need any evidence of Google is making this priority may I direct your attention to the ?? emoji- we've removed the egg in Android P beta 2, making this a more inclusive vegan salad. pic.twitter.com/kzHY0A9ZjG
- Jennifer ????? (@jenniferdaniel) June 6, 2018

Several Twitter users jumped in and replied to Daniel's tweet with hilarious and nasty comments.

...thank you. :) #vegan
- Chris Pirillo (@ChrisPirillo) June 6, 2018

pic.twitter.com/DrgU1iP9Cv
- Tyler (@_shader) June 6, 2018

The Google UX manager certainly had not anticipated the hullabaloo her tweet caused and clarified the decision to change the emoji in a later tweet. Daniel tweeted:
"Hello carnivores, vegans and everyone in between! Just want to clarify that the goal of salad emoji redesign was to create an image more faithful to unicode's description. 'A bowl of healthy salad, containing lettuce, tomato, and other salad items such as cucumber.' Bon appetite."

Hello carnivores, vegans and everyone in between! Just want to clarify that the goal of salad emoji redesign was to create an image more faithful to unicode's description. "A bowl of healthy salad, containing lettuce, tomato, and other salad items such as cucumber." Bon appetite!
- Jennifer ????? (@jenniferdaniel) June 6, 2018

As soon as her tweet was posted, some Twitter users were quick to notice that the new emoji does not seem to contain any cucumbers!
 

Congratulations you played yourself. pic.twitter.com/iArSB4QuKj
- niles turner ?? ?? (@nilesturner) June 6, 2018

Explain this? You can't. I'll do it for you. It's called nature. pic.twitter.com/dCYFYZWH4H
- niles turner ?? ?? (@nilesturner) June 6, 2018

Niles,
I can explain it: These eggs identify as vegan. Anyone who sneers at that is obviously a bigoted, science-denying eggist. ?? ?? ??

This discussion has made me hungry. I think I'll fix myself a vegan cheese omelet.
- Jacob Salomon (@JacobLSalomon) June 7, 2018

I'm 99.930 sure that's not the kind of eggs you eat in salads. These are https://t.co/nXeSRxRhPP and that's not vegan
- Alexandre Rio (@Rio_Alx) June 7, 2018

"Vegans" do not consume anything originating from animals. Some vegans do not drink milk for the same reason. This isn't up for politicizing, that's the definition of a vegan.
- Unofficial (@EVGRtacocat) June 7, 2018

niles, those are eggs. Not mushrooms. pic.twitter.com/tcsGuJQj5E
- Angt_Spy_vs_?????? (@Angt_USA) June 7, 2018