Talk:Food and beverage/@comment-74.240.141.161-20110824161639/@comment-99.9.78.0-20130302185354

I think we should care about it to a degree in order to establish what the canon "universe" rules are. It's obvious as was previously mentioned that the pony society is patterned after human society. In one shot you see a tire way down in the earth, which could have potentially come from a car. Some have speculated that pony society arose in a post-apocalyptic world, with them taking most of their culture from the human societies that came before them.

Therefore even though they don't eat meat, they still eat analogs of things that humans would have eaten made from non-meat products. There are hot dogs because humans had them previously but most ponies might be completely unaware that they once were made of real meat.