"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 8/2/2017 10:39 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2017-08-02 10:06 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>
>>> The problem in the past is "indistinguishable" from the real thing.
>>> Most of the substitutes are really crappy in texture and/or taste.
>>> Even where meat is used instead of pork. Turkey bacon is horrid.
>>
>> My nephew and his wife are vegetarian and were always pushing their
>> veggie burgers and veggie dogs, claiming they are just like meat. Well,
>> they aren't just like meat. Meat is just like meat.
>>
> Oy! Morningstar Farms, Boca burgers. If vegetarians want to imagine
> these products are just like meat, fine. They aren't. (Yes, I've tried
> them.) They're filled with chemicals and oh boy, don't you dare be on the
> gluten free bandwagon.
>
> I have to wonder why vegetarians keep trying create meat-like products.
> Could it be they're craving meat?

I doubt it was a vegetarian who dreamed those up. I liked them and ate them
before I knew any better, mostly because they were cheap and quick to fix.
At that point I was often feeding a lot of little kids and occasionally a
male neighbor who didn't know how to cook. If his wife was away he would
often come over to our place to eat.

I used to buy these on occasion. I liked the Black Bean and Angela liked the
BBQ. She liked hers cooked so it was soft. I accidentally cooked mine too
long and it was crisp. I liked it that way. We didn't eat buns with them.
Since mine was crisp, I could just pick it up with my hand. Neither patty
tasted like meat nor did we expect them to. I can't speak for the other
flavors.

http://www.sunshineburger.com/

I originally bought them for next to nothing at the health food store that
was near us. Had a coupon and this store had excellent prices on most
things. We liked them. They were super quick to fix, so I did buy them once
in a while. That store is gone now and the price is higher at other places.
I no longer buy them unless Angela asks for them, which hasn't been for some
long time. I don't really need them. They were good but a can of beans works
equally well for me.
>
>>> If this stuff is truly good tasting, I can see a lot of uses for it in
>>> place of bacon but I'm not sure it can 100% replace it.
>>
>> There are various brands of vegetable based bacon bits. The are
>> basically an artificially flavoured soy product with a crisp texture,
>> not even suitable for a salad topping.
>
> Yeah, BacO's or some such nonsense. Soy based crispy things that are
> allegedly just like bacon bits! No, they're not.
>
> Jill