My mom got into these for a while. (She was a longtime subscriber to "Prevention Magazine" undoubtedly she'd discovered this product there) The 'ham' wasn't half bad, made into ham salad, but as we know from Baco's and the like, some sort of smoked pork flavored product is easier to concoct.
I wouldn't call it "fake meat" these days. A lot of it is imitation meat, some real good and some... not so much. I do remember Bac-Os as a kid. I just ate them right out of the jar. These days my local Mega Mart only carries "Real Bacon" and you can't find Bac-Os anywhere.
I do remember in the 80's trying some "vegetable protein" in the form of a veggie dog and veggie burger... And they were terrible. The flavor was off, the texture was bad, and they didn't smell like something you'd want to eat.
Of course these were marketed as "Healthy"... something I've come to regard as a big red flag. "Healthy" to the food corps means: Minimum amount of sodium, texture like spackling paste, flavor like well chewed wet cardboard. I had a "healthy" breakfast burrito that after taking one bite, threw it away.
Thank god there are people out there making vegetarian and vegan (Two different things mind you.) foods by people who like food and like to eat what they make.
Yeah, I was definitely a junk food vegetarian. I ate so many Morningstar Farms burgers and hot dogs...
And I wavered over whether to say "fake meat" in the title. It's also the subject line of the email, so its concise character count won, over other options like "meat alternatives" or "meat substitutes".
In our early married years, my husband and I would occasionally go to a vegan restaurant. He always ordered the 'Seitanic Chicken', apparently not realizing that Seitan is not real meat. I guess he just thought the pun was funny. Years later, he was shocked when I told him, so I guess the taste was great (and I guess he didn't realize the restaurant was vegan!)
I've noticed many times over the years that people so insist on employing initialisms or acronyms! Many readers may just have no clue as to what the author is too lazy to explain as to what on earth he/she is talking about, particularly if they are new to the conversation. eg. TVP. I'm very slow at typing but even I rarely use that form of laziness in any communication.
Sorry if using it in the subtitle was confusing. I do say "a kind of textured vegetable protein (TVP)" the first time I use it in the body of the story.
My mom got into these for a while. (She was a longtime subscriber to "Prevention Magazine" undoubtedly she'd discovered this product there) The 'ham' wasn't half bad, made into ham salad, but as we know from Baco's and the like, some sort of smoked pork flavored product is easier to concoct.
I wouldn't call it "fake meat" these days. A lot of it is imitation meat, some real good and some... not so much. I do remember Bac-Os as a kid. I just ate them right out of the jar. These days my local Mega Mart only carries "Real Bacon" and you can't find Bac-Os anywhere.
I do remember in the 80's trying some "vegetable protein" in the form of a veggie dog and veggie burger... And they were terrible. The flavor was off, the texture was bad, and they didn't smell like something you'd want to eat.
Of course these were marketed as "Healthy"... something I've come to regard as a big red flag. "Healthy" to the food corps means: Minimum amount of sodium, texture like spackling paste, flavor like well chewed wet cardboard. I had a "healthy" breakfast burrito that after taking one bite, threw it away.
Thank god there are people out there making vegetarian and vegan (Two different things mind you.) foods by people who like food and like to eat what they make.
Yeah, I was definitely a junk food vegetarian. I ate so many Morningstar Farms burgers and hot dogs...
And I wavered over whether to say "fake meat" in the title. It's also the subject line of the email, so its concise character count won, over other options like "meat alternatives" or "meat substitutes".
In our early married years, my husband and I would occasionally go to a vegan restaurant. He always ordered the 'Seitanic Chicken', apparently not realizing that Seitan is not real meat. I guess he just thought the pun was funny. Years later, he was shocked when I told him, so I guess the taste was great (and I guess he didn't realize the restaurant was vegan!)
I've noticed many times over the years that people so insist on employing initialisms or acronyms! Many readers may just have no clue as to what the author is too lazy to explain as to what on earth he/she is talking about, particularly if they are new to the conversation. eg. TVP. I'm very slow at typing but even I rarely use that form of laziness in any communication.
Sorry if using it in the subtitle was confusing. I do say "a kind of textured vegetable protein (TVP)" the first time I use it in the body of the story.