(05-13-2021, 09:34 AM)Mikey Wrote:

(05-10-2021, 03:35 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: I don't get the whole "fake meat" thing.  If someone wants something that tastes like a burger, why not just eat the real thing?  Instead of eating a cow some people want to make cow food taste like a cow.  I just don't get it.

Because they are romantically involved with someone who doesn't want to eat meat. It's peak compromise, taste/texture close to but not quite the thing I love, but made of substances that keep their S. O. happy.

I've tried them before, not the best stuff. I found it would be better using the crumbled stuff in something like chili or spaghetti where there are a lot of other flavors to offset. As a burger, the meat (or meat substitute) is the star, and the substitutes just didn't have enough flavor to do that heavy lifting.

Another important lesson - if you are going to eat vegetarian/vegan, the best options are prepared by vegetarians/vegans. In college there was a place run by hippies, and I always got a tofu burrito there because it was the only place who knew how to make and prepare it well.

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(05-10-2021, 05:32 PM)Senor Fantastico Wrote: We have a religious sect in my area, and one of their things is no pork. 

My buddy tried to convince me for years and years, that turkey bacon taste just like bacon, all though he had never had bacon. He ended up leaving the religion and now admits you absolutely can't fake the real thing and he had no idea what he was missing. 

I'll stick with real, unclean/filthy animals.

Agree completely that turkey bacon is not the same as bacon bacon. We tend toward the turkey version only because it is cheaper, less greasy, and I don't spend the rest of the day burping up the aftertaste.

on a burger, though, bacon bacon every time.