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From: smithson@calma.UUCP (Brian Smithson)
Newsgroups: net.veg
Subject: Re: meat is a poison?
Message-ID: <142@calma.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 14:57:37 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  4 14:57:37 1986
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In article <73@Shasta.ARPA> morris@Shasta.UUCP (Kathy Morris) writes:
>[...]
>One thing that interests me is the question of eating foods that are
>supposed to seem like meat.  My mother, who is semi-vegetarian now,
>like to use the various forms of TVP (textured vegetable protein, or
>whatever) that the seventh day adventists sell.  I prefer to stick to
>grains, legumes, etc.  I don't feel the need to eat foods that are
>supposed to seem just like meat.  What do others out there think?
>[...]

I've found that in some cases, what I had enjoyed about meat dishes was not
the meat so much as some part of the preparation.  For instance, bacon
"flavor" is not inherent to the meat, but to the hickory smoke (I think)
that is used to prepare the meat.  Hickory smoke can be used just as well
on soy products, is vegetarian, and has a few health advantages as well.
In cases like that, I like foods that are "supposed to seem just like meat".
Other examples are the multitudes of vegetarian Chinese dishes that "mock"
their meat counterparts -- again, mockiing the preparation and not the meat.

But no, I wouldn't really get excited about tofu fashioned into little breaded
drumsticks, microwaved and served out of a cardboard box... :-)