Who eats substitute meats?

Question

I have been a vegetarian for over 10 years now and the only time I ever eat quorn is when I am eating at a friend's house and they have cooked it for me. I don't like fake meats, or enjoy them but am too polite not to eat it when I am given it. Usually I tell them before I come over not to cook me a special vegetarian dish and I will be happier with whatever they are having minus the meat.
Why is it that (in my 10 years experience) nobody who eats meat can accept the fact that a vegetarian may actually like substitute meats?

Answer 1

I give my friends the same as I have but just add more vegetables or something like mushrooms to replace any meat.
I dont know why any Vegetarian wants to eat something that looks like meat anyway. To me it seems hypocritical!
The only thing I dont like about 'veggies' is their habit of telling me how cruel it is to raise animals for food yet they all seem to use milk and cheese! It is cruel to make a cow pregnant, take its baby away, then milk it for two years or more too!!!!!
Humans are the only animal species that use milk as a food beyond baby-hood!

Answer 2

I presume you meant 'nobody who eats meat can accept the fact that a vegetarian may NOT actually like substitute meats'?

Quite right. It's a matter of personal preference. The problem is that most meat eaters haven't had to think 'outside the box'. So when putting together a meal they look for a 'centrepiece' to replace the meat. And meat substitutes are the 'logical' choice!

Just explain your preferences to them, I'm sure they won't mind going to less effort. You just have to convince them you really mean what you say!

Answer 3

I've been a vegetarian for two years, and I absolutely can't stand meat substitutes. Dislike of meat was the reason i became veg in the first place. i would much prefer veggies and grains. I do like gardenburgers though. They're just made of rice and grains and veggies and don't taste at all like meat. It seems everyone expects me to eat the same way they do only with fake meats instead of real, but I hate the stuff.

Answer 4

I've never tried quorn as it contains egg products and I'm a strict Vegan. But I do luuv 'substitutes', they're NOT MEAT and sometimes don't taste like meat but sure beet (sic) peas, carrots, lettuce and spuds day after day.

Like all foods, some are better than others. A few veggie burgers and sausages aren't too good (taste like wet cardboard), others are okay and a few, they're to die for.

I discovered one brand in South Africa about ten years ago, and they know about meat...but surprisingly they also made the best veggie thing I've ever tasted - Fry’s Special Polony!

Most of their product are now available in the UK, health food shops, so try them.

Here's the link -

Answer 5

Everyone expects a vegetarian to be a pure vegetarian. I eat subsitute meat nowadays because i am growing and i need more protein than i take in by drinking milk or by eating soya beans.

These are some examples of some kinds of vegetarians which many vegetarians should know:

Semi-vegetarian varieties
The following similarly named diets are not considered true vegetarianism:

Pesco/pollo vegetarianism (semi-vegetarianism, poultratarianism) — These people will only eat certain meats depending on the particular diet (pesco-fish, pollo-fowl).
Flexitarianism — Flexitarians prefer to eat vegetarian food, but make occasional exceptions for social, pragmatic, or nutritional reasons. They sometimes will eat meat and other non-dairy animal products.
Freeganism — Freegans consume things that are beyond the ability to produce support for those products. For example, some Freegans may eat a meat product if it has been thrown away or is about to be thrown away (provided it is still good to eat), but not one that they have bought or which was bought for them. The reason is to not create demand nor give money to animal exploitation.

Answer 6

I'm not a vegetarian, but I would follow your way of eating if I did become one. I hate the taste of quorn products, too.
I can sympathize with your hosts though, as I hate it when someone announces "I'm a vegetarian but don't go to any trouble on my behalf". You cook to entertain someone and if you're a good hostess, you want your guests to be happy.
If you feel that strongly, make a suggestion ie like macaroni cheese or vegetable lasagne. Although too, I've heard vegetarians complain that everyone gives them macaroni cheese! Or tell them that not only don't you eat meat but you don't meat subsitutes!

Answer 7

Veganism is unquestionably a observe, besides the fact that if the Y!A spellcheck thinks it quite isn't any longer. some vegans do consume meat substitutes, on an identical time as others do no longer. I choose to call them analogues, on an identical time as others could say mock besides the fact that. lots of people who bypass vegan grew up eating meat yet stopped as a results of cruelty in contact and the environmental degradation brought about by meat production. enable's basically say many vegans undertake their way of existence for ethical motives. Analogues including veggie burgers and veggie sausage grant an identical style and texture without the cruelty, to no longer point out much less fat and ldl cholesterol.

Answer 8

I've been a veggie for 17 years and I love em. It's not particularly the meat side (it doesn't taste of meat) it's just seems the right thing to have with mash, peas etc without having another goddam vegetable. My daughter will only eat the Quorn ham slices in sandwiches as well. Try the Quorn peppered steaks. It's not steak and tastes kind of rubbery but is still full of mushroom-based protein goodness.

Answer 9

ive been veggie for 13 years and i eat them because its so much easier when i don't have time, especially being a student. I don't like them all though. I haven't tried the Quorn chicken etc slices. I don't like the thought of eating that even though it probably tastes the same as other Quorn products.

Answer 10

Stone, who said:" God gave you canine teeth to eat meat not substitutes"

doesnt really know what she's talking about. Our teeth system is closer to the monkey's (who are vegetarian) than lions and stuff that actually eat meat.

Check out the lions' canines. Then check out ours........Got it?
They hunt. We don't. We build concentration camps. It's easy to hide behind pseudo physiological reasons...

Seems to me that the moral has been left behind somewhere, huh?

The brainwashing of the animals-exploiting lobbies sure did a good job on you, Stone!