Post something you like about Tofurky.

[kentauros]

They make the best "Deli Slices" :D

[KitchenWitch]

1. More real turkey for me.

[kentauros]

3. Yep!

Have you ever tried it, though? I was surprised at how close the flavor was. And they're deli "slices" so about the same texture and consistency of regular "pressed meats".

My cat loves it and is all over me when I open a package ;)

[LeftyMom]

2. The deli slices are great, and I like the sausages.

As far as actual Tofurkey, I'd rather get a Celebration Roast.

[kentauros]

5. Is "Celebration Roast" a brand?

I do like the roast that Quorn makes. The texture and flavor is excellent.

[LeftyMom]

7. Field Roast makes them.

http://www.fieldroast.com/products.htm

[kentauros]

14. Okay, I think I've had one type of their sausage.

I recognize the label :)

[GOPisEvil]

8. Celebration Roast is teh ymmy!

Their Field Roast "sausages" are great too!!

[LeftyMom]

16. I like the chipotle ones a lot.

I haven't tried the others yet- I usually DIY my wheat gluten-based faux meats.

[GOPisEvil]

18. The Italian is really good, too.

I use it with pasta and it's just like regular Italian sausage. I have apple sage in the 'fridge.

[GOPisEvil]

4. It allows my SO and I to have a quasi-traditional Holiday dinner.

She no eat the meat. :)

[kentauros]

6. Does she eat the asparagus that you cast?

:P

[GOPisEvil]

9. Mmmmm...asparagus

:9

[XemaSab]

10. On a sammy

they're teh yummy.

Them and Yves bologna. :9 :9

[Tangerine LaBamba]

11. I like that

there will never be any in my home.

[Swede]

12. It's good with bacon.

Lots and lots of bacon.

[Pierre.Suave]

13. the name makes me laugh

because it is so ridiculous.

[kentauros]

15. "That's ridiculous. It's not even funny."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhXOrCoSnLs

:P

[LeftyMom]

20. The name sucks. I think a lot of people don't try it because they think it will resemble tofu.

It doesn't at all, it's very firm and dense.

[flvegan]

17. I like that since UnTurkey is gone, I still have a "turkey" alternative

for holidays with mom.

The deli slices are awesome, as are their Italian sausage. Matter of fact, I think the sausage is probably the most realistic faux meat on the market.

[LeftyMom]

21. The italian sausage is fantastic.

I posted the official recipe for UnTurkey a while back. The originator put it on the web since there's no financial need to protect it now that Now and Zen sleeps with the tofishes.

[flvegan]

22. Way too much work.

I liked it when I could buy it for $15 and be done with it. Tofishes? Are those Sea Kittens?

[LeftyMom]

24. It's once a year.

:shrug:

Jesus, if I can make Ye Olde Vegan Thanksgiving Dinner for 20 from scratch in a strange kitchen, you can make some fancy seitan for your mom.

^See what I did there? I worked exasperation, a challenge and a guilt trip into one sentence. When you have children a whole new area opens up in your brain- I call it the Mommy Lobe- that lets you do stuff like that. It's cool in a scary kind of way.

[flvegan]

29. Oddly enough, that once a year

falls (crazy as it may seem) on one of the 365 days of the year that I have to manage 2 jobs and 13 dogs.

[LeftyMom]

31. Yeah, I know.

:hug:

I promise I'll make you something nice next time I get to visit. I like cooking. :)

[BarenakedLady]

19. I really dig their gravy

yummy.

[flvegan]

23. The giblet gravy is to die for.

I could drink that for breakfast.

[PaddyBlueEyes]

25. I dont have to eat it

:shrug: Sorry thats all I got..

[kentauros]

28. S'okay. Not everyone cares for it.

Even some veg*ns don't like the stuff ;)

It just gives us the flavors of meat we used to like without all the other stuff associated with meat :)

[Robeson]

26. I'm addicted to Tofurky. Usually, I've eaten half -a-pack before I even...

...get my sandwich ready. Good stuff!

[JTG of the PRB]

27. Um... It's texture doesn't toally gross me out?

Okay... That's a lie. I don't like tofurkey, except for the fact that some of my vegetarian friends enjoy it.

[Kali]

30. It amuses me

that people who choose to forgo meat go to such lengths to create replacements. Seems to me just having some meat from a respectable source would be easier, more logical, and taste better.

[flvegan]

32. Why?

I'll be the first (and maybe the only) vegan that will admit that turkey, bacon, etc tastes good. Nothing wrong with having food that tastes good that comes from sources that don't cause suffering or rape our land. Food is fuel, that's it and that's all. We should consume it with the least impact overall.

Oh, and there are far too few "respectable" sources.

[Kali]

35. You know, when you start in with the "suffering or rape our land" shit

I get the same sensation when some high-on-jesus ass starts in on teh sinners. In the same post you admit to things tasting good you also state food is just fuel. Well, no there are quality of life issues, which was sort of my point. If food was "fuel, that's it and that's all" we would be fine with some sort of soylent green type of product. Meat (and other foods) taste good and are pleasurable. If we are going to be monks and not affect the universe in any sort of negative way we might as well just kill ourselves. We all make choices about the impacts we cause. I mean really, flvegan, consuming ANY processed crap - vegan or otherwise is hardly "the least impact overall". Nevermind all the other consuming we engage in beyond food choices.

[flvegan]

39. Food is fuel. Like it or not.

People have turned it into a pleasure center, hence the "tastes good" point. Quality of life? What, for people? Yeah, so suffering animals and raping the world is a bit selfish. Chastise me as you must, cattle rancher.

[Kali]

43. Yes I am a rancher and I raise cattle.

I am the 4th generation on the same piece of land doing it. Guess it hasn't been raped all that bad if we are still here. Oh and here is a picture of some suffering animals. Call ALF!

[kentauros]

33. Another thing is that all these fake meats

fit into the existing buns and breads made for the real meats. I know I've seen others ask why the fake stuff is shaped like "normal" meat products. So there you have it :D

[Kali]

44. even the "real" meats that fit rolls and buns are fake meat!

:rofl:

[Robeson]

34. The taste of the meat is not the issue to many non-meat eaters...

...it's the mass slaughter of living beings that bothers some. So they seek an alternative.

[Kali]

36. Yet the craving or desire remains. That is what is interesting.

It all seems rather puritanical to me. Self denial of nature, replaced with (some say) poor substitutes. Sort of like replacing pleasure with prayer. (and I acknowledge that the opposite happens too - gluttony is addiction, perhaps)

Sorry to start this and run but I need to get some sleep now.

[Robeson]

37. No, some just don't feel they have the right to take another life...

...whether their taste buds are happy or not.

[Kali]

47. Why not? How far does that go?

What about taking the life of an animal that IS suffering? "just to eat" - is that the line? why?

[kentauros]

38. It does have to do with flavor.

And that has to do with pleasure :)

The fact that we can get a substitute that doesn't get into the moral problems we have with "real" meat is great. I am happy it's available. I don't think it's denial though. I simply can't eat the real stuff in good conscience, nor can my stomach digest it any longer. I gave up beef long before I knew of all the consequences of raising it because my body began to reject it. So, that has nothing to do with denial either. So there! :P

answer at your leisure :)

[Kali]

49. I suspect an actual inability to digest meat is rather rare.

My sympathies, though.

[kentauros]

52. For all I know, my body was reacting to the hormones and other crap.

All I care about is if my body rejects it, why should I ignore that and find some other meat that doesn't do that? I'd rather go with my "gut" so to speak and not get sick. The rest of the moral issues developed as I learned more about it all over the years. I started out eating veggie mainly because I was broke in the early 1990s. I'm glad I gave it up, though, as I see, too, how humanity is overfishing the oceans as meateaters eat less of the red meat and go for more "seafood". Everything has consequences, but I feel that my veggie diet has fewer than a diet that includes meat :)

[flvegan]

42. Good thing nobody masturbates.

[Kali]

45. why would you want an alternative if the taste wasn't an issue?

[kentauros]

48. For the digestible protein without the problems of real meat.

And for the fact that they fit on buns and rolls like real meat :P

(your previous comment on that went over my head, k? ;))

[JVS]

40. I like that it is far away

[kentauros]

41. *

Faraway, So Close ? :P

[sister taoist]

46. I will just buy a package of those slices when I am near Trader Joe's ($2.29)

and I'll eat the package. I'll be good to go for quite a while (they are like made with gluten, which probably sits in your stomach for a month). I am not hearting the literal Tofurky, though. I prefer Quorn's turkey roast, which is so effing amazingly like toikey! I have made it several years running now on T-day!

Great topic!

[kentauros]

50. I hope you take the cardboard and plastic off the package first!

:P

My next-oldest brother and SIL have been making that Quorn roast for me the last few Christmases as well. They tried it out and love it, too. My family has become very accommodating to my dietary needs as the years have worn on. I think they finally realized it's not temporary ;)

[sister taoist]

51. LOL- yes, I did figure that out! The only thing about the Quorn roast

it's not vegan. It's got egg whites. But it's soy-free, which appeals to people who are allergic or want to cut out processed soy from their diets. It is sooo good, but since it costs almost $7 a pop, I just have it every so often...

[kentauros]

53. Yeah, it is expensive and I remember about it having egg whites.

I would love to see them use flax seeds as boiling flax seeds creates a mucilage equal to the binding power of egg whites :)

I'm not a vegan, but I do try to avoid dairy where I can.

Have you tried the other Quorn products like the "Chickn Breasts"? I like to stew them with pineapple pieces (frozen usually) then add other veggies and a Palestinian spice mix I learned from friends that have a M.E. cafe. Cinnamon, paprika and sumac in liberal amounts. You won't need salt, either as the flavor is just right. I don't have amounts; you'll just have to experiment ;)

[sister taoist]

54. I am not sure...I think I had one of their other breaded chicken things...

I don't think I dug it too much but I am not much for chicken breasts. Whole Foods had a two-fer sale and so I got the meatballs. Eh, just aiight. Nothing to write home about. But I am loving me some of that turkey!

[kentauros]

55. The breasts are naked, so to speak

;) No breading, just the "chicken" substance. It's very much like the roast in texture, though perhaps not in flavor. If Whole Foods has them on special sometime, try a package. And if you don't like them, feed them to your cat :P

[sister taoist]

56. Hey! I don't have a pussy! (Er...)

[kentauros]

57. I think this is turning into a sex thread.

Who knew veg*ns could be so toasty :P