Oz ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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And DX solves a mystery...
I have heard of deep fried mars bars. I'd first heard of them from a friend studying in scotland, but then they became big things at state fairs, here. SO tempting sounding, but I'm afraid eating one would make my heart stop. Gawd.
SO tempting sounding, but I'm afraid eating one would make my heart stop
That's how I feel about it. Only without the tempting.
(Mind you, I had a Sticky Toffee Pudding to die for this afternoon. Really. So it's not like I'm the poster child for healthy eating, here.)
Hah. Yer aall a bunch of ninnies. ;-)
I don't like fake meats, usually, but I seem to have a different definition than other people. To me, seitan and tofu are not fake meats. They are foods in and of themselves. Tofurkey is fake meat. Smart Dogs are not, because they're imitating the form of a hot dog, not the form of a cow. Vegetarian salmon is fake meat (and rather scary-looking.)
So, pretty much, the fake meats I don't like are the ones that are trying to look like something that's obviously meat. When you're imitating something processed like hot dogs or nuggets, it doesn't bother me. (Now that I think about it, I suppose that this reasoning might be because I'd eaten tofu plenty of times before I became a vegetarian, sometimes in dishes that also included meat, so I don't really see it as a substitute for people that won't eat meat, but as something in it's own right.)
I like fake meats, and did even when I was a practicing vegetarian.
But the seitan I like best is marketed as "mock duck", and textured accordingly.
But what's the duck ever done to you. And how to you mock a duck anyway? "You've got a crap walk"? "Tony Curtis' hair looked shit."?
I like the Morningstar crumbles & fake bacon. I also like Gardenburgers & Morningstar burgers of all shapes. And those buffalo chicken wings. Now I'm hungry.
And how to you mock a duck anyway?
"Go ferson a person!"
I tend to prefer veggieburgers that don't try too hard to be meat, because I'm not a vegetarian and in general if I want meat I'd rather have the real thing. I've had some amazing fake seafood, though.