I got home after dark last night and a pile of teenagers were filling up my kitchen cooking a ragu with fresh tomatoes and some sort of modern fake meat.
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I got home after dark last night and a pile of teenagers were filling up my kitchen cooking a ragu with fresh tomatoes and some sort of modern fake meat. it smelled good but I had already eaten. anyhow, for dinner tonight the 17yo reheated some of the sauce for me and it's amazing!!! he recently decided to be vegetarian and if this is how the fake meat works I might be onboard
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@regehr Some of it fits into a weird uncanny valley, but some of the new fake bacon is amazing. I realised a few years after I became vegetarian that I’d never really liked bacon, I’d really liked the smell of bacon and then always been mildly disappointed by the taste. Some of the newer fake bacon tastes of the smell of bacon.
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@david_chisnall @regehr I have the very definition of moral good fortune: I always disliked the taste and texture of meat. To 13-year-old me, it was an amazing discovery that "I'm vegetarian" was apparently a magical incantation I could use to make adults stop demanding I eat it.
(This is also why I don't generally eat meat substitute products.)
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@datarama @regehr I had something similar, though I discovered later that most of the meat products I had liked were poor-people food where the quality of the meat had historically been suspect and so a lot of flavours were added to hide the taste of it. Those or the very processed things like hot-dog sausages that are not recognisable as meat and probably have a high sawdust content in their non-vegetarian form. Vegetarian substitutes there were pretty good for both categories. I remember a lot of local pizza places put ‘beef’ on their pizzas, which came in little cubes. I never quite recognised it as meat so it was a mild surprise I couldn’t eat it. When I looked at the ingredients, it was over 50% soy, 10% salt, and with only a token amount of beef.
I found I quite liked some of the ‘90s fake meat things, but in the last 5-10 years they’ve improved their recipes and made them more meat like, and now I don’t like them.
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@david_chisnall @regehr The only meat-substitute product I've ever actually liked is Quorn ... which isn't very convincingly meat-like.