Is that a food question or not?

Isn't the issue whether or not it's a travel question?

If we assume that these boots were made for walking, then I think it qualifies.

And if you remember Charlie Chaplin in The Gold Rush, whether a boot is leather or not may come to be a food question.

Both weather and travel.
The young Aussie girl was asking what weather would be like and what shoes would be suitable during her visit in Europe in winter.

I could wonder if saying "taste like shoe lether", or "tough like the sole of a shoe" were taken from the Charlie Chaplin's film.

Truly dedicated vegans will not wear leather.

Chaplin eats his shoe The shoe was made of licorice.

"Tastes like shoe leather" certainly pre-dates the Chaplin movie. An intrepid explorer reports about travel in North Africa in 1898: "That Arab bread (kissera), on which the men subsist entirely, looks like coarse brown-paper and tastes like shoe-leather—kid, it is true, but, still, shoeleather. "

And from London Society, 1866, (a literary magazine)

...dinner was ordered in an arbour at the celebrated Eel Pie Island; and at six o'clock on a bright summer's evening we were ferried across the water.
"What fish have you, waiter?" was the Dean's first question.
"Soles and heels," responded the attendant.
"Can't dine off shoe-leather," he responded. "Is the sherry cobbler well iced?'

(About "is this a travel question?" Take a look at reply 3!, from the new Thorntee manager here)

All the veggies I know, wear leather and wool.
All the vegans I know.... Don't.

nutrax,
ansh is my pet poster on WE branch. From India and 14years old, quite well travelled, intelligent and with good manners.
He's been around for almost two years

I know ansh; he turns up on other branches. But how is he relevant to this thread?

I don't know how he's relevant. You posted the link with his answer #3.
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Something is not right here. My link in #3 is to a Carlie Chaplin movie.

The second link, nutrax.