this is all of course anecdotal, but already cultural variations of foods make a big impact of what vegans there would eat.
Like in finland the vegans i know would eat way more rye bread, rapeseed oil based margarines, use rapeseed instead of olive oil or sunflower oil in cooking, root vegetables, soya mince/tvp products, porridge than brittish vegans.
I think regional variations would come out in studies even if internally in any country they would have big variation among vegans like you mentioned.
Perhaps when on web boards people mostly talk about vegan specialist products rather than everyday foods they have grown up with even as a non vegan, like rye bread and rapeseed oil based margarines in finland as an example?
and gelert, yes i know him, and i think he is a (non posting) member on VF - he used to be a bench press champion
