This is so interesting. Years ago when we were vegetarian we didn't eat a lot of dairy at all, but vegan products weren't like they are today. So you just didn't eat those foods. Vegan mayo lol.. unheard of. We ate things like nutroast and TVP. We didn't even try to fake cheese, we just wouldn't eat cheese. A lot of curries, stirfries, beans, nuts, brown rice. No one tried to mimic meat or cheese. Now there's so many vegan meats and I don't think they are even that good for you. Milk for us was soy and that was the only option. Either that or we had black tea. So I remember times when in fact we were like Russia, namely, 70s, 80s, most of 90s. Oh we had tofu though, you would only get it from the health food shop and not in the supermarket like today.