The salad emoji has had it's egg removed. Photo / Twitter
The salad emoji has had it's egg removed. Photo / Twitter
An emoji designer has revealed that Google removed the egg from it's salad symbol in order to be more inclusive towards vegans.
Jennifer Daniel, a Google UX Manager at Expression design team, informed social media about changes to the company's symbols, including the addition of red-headed characters.
But one changehas the public in an uproar after Jennifer revealed the new salad emoji would no longer include an egg, according to The Daily Mail.
"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 (salad) emoji— we've removed the egg in Android P beta 2, making this a more inclusive vegan salad," she wrote on Twitter.
Commenters who responded to the tweet were confused if Jennifer was trying to be funny or if that was the actual reason for removing the egg.
"Serious question: is this in earnest or intentionally ironic parody?" One person asked after the tweet was posted.
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
But mostly everyone was surprised that this is what one company is focusing on in terms of inclusion.
One person wrote: "1960: In 2018 we'll have flying cars and travel across space! 2018: We removed an egg from an emoji because it hurt someones feelings."
A consistent point to the change that people made was that by excluding the egg, it also excluded most people who did not participate in veganism.
"Why don't you make a salad for every preference instead of this hateful exclusion of everyone who isn't vegan?" One angry commenter wrote.
The salad emoji was not the only one that received a redesign for the Android update.
We're slowly giving some our emojis more love. Our goat is no longer so angry. The turtle really needed a hug. And we gave the Grinning Face With One Large and One Small Eye some anti-anxiety meds. pic.twitter.com/HUKQe0EeAs
"Our goat is no longer so angry. The turtle really needed a hug. And we gave the Grinning Face With One Large and One Small Eye some anti-anxiety meds," the Google manager explained.
Jennifer, who probably didn't realize her tweet would blow up like it did, has since clarified the thought process that went into changing the salad emoji.
Her tweet read: "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!"
