Stickler: Though I admit that this vegan ‘red velvet’ cake is indistinguishable in taste, texture, and appearance from a traditional dairy-based red velvet cake, it should not be referred to as a red velvet cake, even with the vegan qualifier. After all, a red velvet cake by definition contains cream cheese, and no vegan cake can contain cream cheese, only non-dairy approximations.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the stickler’s argument depends?
(A) Cream cheese is defined not by its taste, but by its composition.
(B) Red velvet cake must contain milk.
(C) Any vegan cake ought not to take the name of its non-vegan counterpart.
(D) A proper red velvet cake has a white, creamy appearance.
(E) The amount of cream cheese in a red velvet cake is not variable