Vegan...
I have a coworker who loves talking about food made up to look and taste like 'real' meat. My question to her is why?She said she likes the taste of meat but dislikes that it sacrificed an animal to have a meal and the horrible conditions of food processing.
So wouldn't it work if you squeezed something from a tube and fried it up?
Her answer was definitely not. It has to resemble real food.
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I once asked a vegetarian friend of mine (she was an Advent) why they made food taste like real meat if they're not supposed to eat meat. She couldn't answer. And I let my question vanish into thin air.
I wouldn't even try eating a non meat Burger, it has to be filled with Wheat and all manner of nauseating fillers and E numbers , sugar, Meat tasting chemicals , the t hought makes me
Cardboard with chargrilled marks.
I see Gymnastics put up a good utube above my post. [Call me Goldie for short].
There isn't a rule book, any laws, or a parent involved in a vegetarian, plant based, or gluten free diet.
What you eat is a choice.
Even if you have an allergy, an intolerance, or belong to a religion with food guidelines, it's still a choice. I could eat a bucket of Quorn and throw up for a fortnight if I wanted to, but I don't want to.
If people want to eat meat substitutes, it's their choice.
I hear a lot about how annoying and evangelical people are if they choose a vegan diet, or lifestyle, but I hear a lot more meat eaters picking holes and judging.
It really doesn't matter what other people choose to eat.
And in answer to the question above, people choose to meat substitutes because it's not meat. If it has the appearance, taste and texture of meat, it's still not meat. It doesn't become meat by magic, or anything. Perhaps your friend didn't answer because it was such a silly question.
I think it's part of our evolutionary makeup to pursue a diet that contributed to the longevity of our bloodline. Depending on how, where, when, etc., that diet may or may have consisted of mostly meat.
Consider the Inuit for example. They can't do much farming in that climate and environment. So, in order to get an "Eskimo" to try something he's never eaten and maybe never even seen, you might try a recognizable disguise?
Just a theory.
The thing is Jacs, I am not supposed to eat pork and its products. But guess what? I have never heard that there is a restaurant that served "food taste like pork" and for as long as I live I have never eaten any, not at parent's house nor at my family's house and nor at my friends' house, even if that "food taste like pork" is NOT pork.
Why do you need to question your friend's choices?
Is that so bad, Jacs?