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Here's a thought - not a challenge: consider what it is you like about meat, but in terms of separate characteristics. Texture, taste, oil/grease content, etc.

Now - I've been vegetarian since 1971 - and will be the first to tell you that most veggieburgers taste like a serious mistake. Unfortunately, a lot of commercial producers have historically made bland heaps with unsatisfying textures (In Asia, some fake meat products became quite good, but barely know in the west). Pretty much they cooked with a take-it-or-leave it attitude, or, at best, gave in to mediocrity because they thought they had to.

This has all changed - not to say the garbage isn't still sold as food. But, in the USA, the Morningstar Farms line is absolutely amazing (even fake bacon - it doesn't shrink). Other companies (like the ToFurkey line) have expanded to create some sausage-like items that are amazingly like pepperoni. Seitan (wheat gluten) is actually fibrous as well as chewy - an important component of muscle tissue based meat. Seasoned, it would quite amaze you.

Unfortunately, I acknowledge the bad name that has been curried (pun intended) for vegetarian food. Then, too, even a slab of beast can be ruined.

Logically, most of these things (burgers, bacon, buffalo wings) aren't meat, per se, but items traditionally made with meat. If it was healthy and tasty, what's missing?





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