jmcquown > wrote:
> On 4/23/2014 9:14 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> On 4/23/2014 7:48 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> How in the world could you make a vegetarian meatball? Ew.
>>
>> Same way they make vegetarian burgers. Most start with HVP.
>
> I have no problem if someone wants to be a vegetarian. I do have a
> problem when companies like Morningstar Farms try to portray faux
> burgers, sausage, etc. as meat. And yes, I've tried them.
>
> I tried to access Morningstar Farms website for ingredients lists and got this message:
>
> "Looks as if MorningStarFarms.com is one leaf short of a lettuce patch at
> the moment. We'll be up and running again real soon." LOL
>
> Half the faux meat products are so loaded with crap I wouldn't feed them to my cat.
>
> Here's the ingredients for the All American "flame grilled" Boca Burger:
>
> Ingredients: WATER, SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, REDUCED FAT CHEDDAR CHEESE
> (PASTEURIZED PART-SKIM MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES, ANNATTO
> (COLOR), VITAMIN A PALMITATE), WHEAT GLUTEN, CORN OIL, CONTAINS LESS THAN
> 2% OF METHYLCELLULOSE, HYDROLYZED CORN PROTEIN, WHEAT GLUTEN AND SOY
> PROTEIN, SALT, CARAMEL COLOR, CHEESE POWDER (CHEDDAR CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE
> CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES), CREAM, SALT, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, LACTIC ACID),
> DRIED ONIONS, YEAST EXTRACT, NATURAL FLAVOR (NON-MEAT), SESAME OIL,
> DISODIUM GUANYLATE, DISODIUM INOSINATE, BROWNED IN CORN OIL.
>
> No thanks.
>
> Jill

That ingredient list is just breathtaking. After we round up and kill all
the lawyers, I move we immediately execute all food scientists.