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    Dan SeitzDayna Evans
    10/08/14 6:12pm

    Honestly, I don't get the appeal of trying to make vegetables look like meat. Once you stop trying to treat, say, soy like it's meat, and treat it like soy, you get a more flavorful experience.

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      twizzlerDan Seitz
      10/08/14 6:16pm

      This vegan/vegetarian hates that shit. I made a Trader Joe's deli guy get red in the face today because I refused to taste his meat-resembling quinoa burger.

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      Dan Seitztwizzler
      10/08/14 6:19pm

      I like quinoa patties, actually, but they're basically falafel. Why not just call it a falafel? It's a fucking falafel!

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    UncleCCClaudiusDayna Evans
    10/08/14 6:31pm

    I've tried the Beyond Meat chicken substitute that was really close. My beef with meat substitutes is that they're heavily processed and the flavors tend to "salt with meat-like notes." I'm an omnivore and I'm using meat more like a seasoning than the main component these days.

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      tallestdwarfUncleCCClaudius
      10/08/14 7:32pm

      Omnivore here, too. My wife is a vegetarian, but I do most of the cooking, and I tend to cook vegetarian simply because I don't want to make 3 different meals (we have kids who won't eat what we eat because we like things spicy). I can tolerate most veggie burgers and meat substitutes, but there really is no comparison to the real thing right now. I think the worst offender is the fake bacon. That stuff just tastes like weaponized regret. Also, fuck tofurkey.

      Lately, I'm all about cooking Indian food at home, and I can easily make that vegetarian without any offense to the taste buds whatsoever. Mmmmm... mattar paneer.

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      UncleCCClaudiustallestdwarf
      10/08/14 8:23pm

      I'm usually just cooking for myself so it's a lot easier. I can strech a roasting chicken into six meals and stock. My difficulty with a lot of meat substitutes is that they're soy based and I can't digest it very well. I've never had the fake bacon, I never will. The whole point of bacon is the meat and fat, not the white and pink stripes.

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    YARKO THE GREATDayna Evans
    10/08/14 6:28pm

    I've already accomplished this in my kitchen with zero funding and using recipes and cooking sense. You can get the meat texture using wheat gluten in combination with Tapioca flour/starch and pearls and a few other things, you can get meat flavor from using veggie beef flavoring and ghee then searing it (meat flavor is from the fat, to see how pure butterfat or ghee tastes and smells like beef, burn some ghee on a flame or grill, it smells like beef). Mine feels like a real burger, the taste isn't the same, but it's close enough, and waayyyyyy cheaper then beef. Plus, side benefit, it isn't stringy, all real meats are stringy and it's like eating rope if you chew it long enough. Not so with mine, no string, all meaty goodness. Of course the anti-gluten people would freak out at a burger made of 90% gluten, which as you should know they claim makes your dick fly off.

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      GutbloomDayna Evans
      10/08/14 6:17pm

      This is interesting and all, but I wish they would ditch this project and go back to working on making Fritos that build muscle and stamina... or the Yodels that improve cardio-vascular fitness... or the Slim Jims that help you learn Mandarin. What's up with that research?

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        James Bond's Herpes MedsGutbloom
        10/08/14 7:37pm

        Sorry, I've been too busy creating an app that eliminates the need to communicate with humans and shower on a regular basis.

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      La.M.Dayna Evans
      10/08/14 6:17pm

      Not interested in this. I would KILL for a meat protein substitute that didn't give me the gas of 1000 dogs who have gotten into the cheese drawer though.

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