/ck/ - Food & Cooking

One thing I don't quite get: Why do people care so much if that thing is called cheese or not?
My assumption would be that it's similar enough to what is conventionally called "cheese" in enough ways, like taste and appearance, so calling it cheese is not irrational. It differs in its ingredients, sure, but it's not like you have total consistency in ingredients throughout all things that have similar names.
Like, you can have schnitzel made of pork, chicken or wild boar, and I guess you're gonna call all these varieties schnitzel. You know, because they look the same, and are prepared in similar ways. They all taste differently, but it's still intuitively fair to call them schnitzel.
And you can have varieties of cheeses, and for every kind of cheese you're going to have different processing and ripening techniques, and they all taste completely different. There's just this general category of cheeses that you're intuitively going to accept.
So why is it that for some people it's an absolute bastardization of the concept "cheese" to say "This thing is not made from animal milk. It kinda looks like cheese, and it tries to taste like cheese. Let's call it cheese!".
Let's ignore for a minute that from my experience most vegan cheeses taste awful (there's probably a whole lot of non-vegan cheeses that taste abysmal as well). Why is it so wrong for you to call a vegan cheese cheese?