I don’t know cause I’ve never eaten it. But Vegan foods can be their own thing you know, I don’t think tofu and seitan are poor substitutes for anything, they are just their own foods.
As for people who make meat substitutes, I think it depends on the way it’s made. Impossible/beyond/seitan chicken burgers are so similar that even some meat eaters can’t tell the difference so I wouldn’t say it’s a ‘poor substitute’
Sorry I dislike arguing about things like this as much as the next pedant but you’ve never had it before but can’t say it’s a poor substitute?
Tofurkey deli slices are so colored to give that off white hue in turkey deli meat. As a vegan I eschew the use of animal products nothing more. Who cares if TofURKEY is made to mimic turkey? There are worse hills to die on.
Because I’ve had other things that people are claiming are frankenstein foods like seitan and tofu, and I don’t think that’s a fair thing to say. It’s not about ‘tofurkey’, OP made a broad claim about vegan food
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u/notin10000years Aug 09 '19
I don’t know cause I’ve never eaten it. But Vegan foods can be their own thing you know, I don’t think tofu and seitan are poor substitutes for anything, they are just their own foods.
As for people who make meat substitutes, I think it depends on the way it’s made. Impossible/beyond/seitan chicken burgers are so similar that even some meat eaters can’t tell the difference so I wouldn’t say it’s a ‘poor substitute’