Today I ate Quorn Mince for the first time. I was made a meal using it in vegetarian spaghetti bolognese. It was a nice meal, it tasted okay and filled me up but there was something really weird about eating something that looked so much like meat. Now i'm sure meat eaters would tell me it actually looks nothing like meat and doesn't taste like it either but i'm seeing this more and more with vegetarian alternatives, that they look very similar to real meat.
In the supermarkets I've seen pepperoni 'style' pieces, meat free bacon and vegetarian chicken fillets, amongst other things. I don't understand why, people who choose to be vegetarian would want to eat something that looks so similar to actual meat?! Now I know people choose to be vegetarians for a tonne of different reasons, maybe some just don't like the taste of meat, they want to be more environmentally friendly or it's just all they've ever known.
I know these foods aren't flavoured with a meaty flavour, but the fact they look so similar to meat unsettles me. My Mum, two brothers and me are all vegetarian, my Dad isn't. This means there is a drawer in the freezer with the meat stuff my Dad likes to eat. Every time my Mum cooks vegetarian sausages i'm cautious to eat them to start with as they look so much like meat sausages and I even think they smell not so veggie friendly.
It probably depends on your reason you are vegetarian, whether you take issue with very meat looking veggie friendly food. I personally would prefer not to eat anything that looks very much like real meat. It just feels weird!
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