Even when I was experimenting with veganism (ok so it was a two year "experiment," but whatever) in college I never bought one of these things because I heard they were gross. However, last week my roommate and his vegetarian girlfriend bought one and I ended up trying it. How was it? Well, the meaty part was nasty but the stuffing part was okay so together they added up to...um...pretty gross? And the accompanying gravy was disgusting (I gave it one taste and threw out the rest). So yeah, gross. Vegetarians would be advised to skip the fake turkey and eat more mashed potatoes.Rating: 25% (If I was starving I'd be happy to have it, but if I was a vegetarian I wouldn't bother.)
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When it comes to making vegetables look and taste like meat, veggie-burgers and veggie-weiners are O.K. (I actually prefer them over their real-meat cousins since at least I know that they don’t carry mad-cow prions) but this is where the vegetables-to-meat alchemy should end. I haven’t tried tofuky specifically but all other vegetable-based “roasts”, ”chops” and “steaks” that I’ve tasted are more than gross.
I was going to comment on this post, but then I remembered how one of my R3 colleagues made fun of me for how many comments I leave on this blog.
Look who comes crawling back.
Dammit!
Oh yeah, the post. Fake meat is always so salty. I don't know why two pieces of fake bacon has like 1000 mg of sodium, but it does.
"Two pieces of fake bacon has 100 mg of sodium," and one piece have 500. I has learned the English good.
It's probably because tofu is made of compressed flavorless bean stuff and so they need to add tons of salt to make it taste like anything at all.
i can see y the anonamous poster wanted to stay anonamous seriously controversial opinion tufurky lobby gona turn you into fake meet if they find you
When I was little I was not what you'd call a "vegetarian" but I was what you would call "picky" and so I wouldn't eat meat that wasn't in nugget form. I don't even think I ate mashed potatoes, either. I did eat a lot of corn niblets and string beans. Oh, and cranberry sauce. Laurie's right; eat around the turkey.
Once when I was a vegetarian as part of a bet for six months I tried to replace meat with fake meat, and it was pretty ok except for the fake bacon. Oh my god, it was so disgusting, sorry Sean for saying god in a post.
I never understood why vegetarians insist on eating food that is named/shaped like meat.
So many metaphors come to mind, but they would all be entirely offensive.
Just fucking embrace vegetables if you love them. Don't fucking make carrots taste and/or look like chicken.
I'm sorry I just get completely irrational when it comes to vegetarians/vegans. It must be all the meat I eat.
I don't like eating processed foods, so when I was vegan I only really ate vegetables, fruits, beans, and rice. And I felt all healthy and shit but it got really old quickly. And I had to cook all the damn time. It sucked.
I understand not eating processed foods. That's completely agreeable and sensible to me, but somehow people began to associate that with vegetarianism.
The two are completely unrelated. That's my problem (not that you are implying that, but maybe I've been reading too much from "Best Food Writing 2007").
I guess this requires a discussion longer than I'd like to type.
So Glenn considers vegetarian bacon the least tasty of all meats? I know John has no problem with this interpretation... :)
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