Originally, friends was going to be filmed with the actual friends and not actors. This idea was unfortunately scrapped when Joey Tribbiani declined the role in favour of his role in days of our lives.
Fortunately they were able to find very convincing look-a likes. Here's Joey Tribbiani and Matt LeBlanc for example.
Please remember that the overly vocal minority of vegans are the ones giving veganism a bad reputation. Confirmation bias is going to confirm the opinion that all vegans are super loud and obnoxious unless you actively remember that you never find out when someone doesn't tell you their a vegan to dismiss that bias.
Whenever I'm in a rush to get somewhere I play this on loop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czTksCF6X8Y
A place to discard my thoughts