Those taking the vegan plunge are unlikely to be short of information on what to eat. See below for the recipe for this brunch board

Once upon a not very tasty time, when a walnut roast was the most inedible invention in the history of food, vegans were regarded as complete nuts. Then veganism became a thing, with cookbooks and pretty bloggers and celebrities and added facon. And now vegans aren’t just a thing, they are . . . everywhere.

I thought we had reached peak vegan last week when Forest Green Rovers, owned by the multimillionaire environmentalist Dale Vince, were promoted to the Football League, becoming the first football club in the upper echelons of the game where fans won’t be able to buy a meat pie before the match. The sale of all animal products is banned at the ground.

But, no, that was not peak vegan, for