Vegetarian meals that look like meat?
Hello and welcome to #marketfriday initiated by @dswigle. It's a deceptively simple idea that can teach you a lot about different cultures. You just take some photos of whatever market you are visiting and share them with people from all around the world.
This week I'm thinking about vegetarian and vegan foods. Vegetarianism is not a new idea but one that has evolved into something quite different here in the UK and other places too, I imagine.
I have been very lucky to visit many places and have posted quite a few photos of the markets that I have seen on my travels. From the Gold markets of Deira to the changing face of supermarket retail in Britain.
This week for my #wednesdaywalk initiated by @tattoodjay I took a wander around the local Morrison's in St.Ives, Huntingdon.
The first thing that struck me was the emphasis on trying to make 'vegetarian' food look nothing like vegetables?
I have sampled a lot of vegetarian foods over the years and all have looked a little like an explosion in a paint factory except in Asia where the traditional foods look, taste and are simply brilliant. Anyway what's on offer in the high street.
Burgers
Sausages
Meatless
Olives - pick a price?
The Olive's above had three different prices all for the same product? I forgot to check the actual price I payed. :-(
OK hands up. I have been quite selective and controversial in my choices in this post today and there are of course plenty of alternatives to this kind of product but it just got me thinking.
Why do these products exist?
Why are they trying to copy the look and mouth feel of meat?
Maybe looking at the vegetable display may throw some light on it. It's pretty uninspiring to look at.
Sad Veggies
Anyway thank you for dropping in on my musings about the state of vegetarianism in the high street. What do you think. Should vegetarian foods be packaged in this way or should vegetarians be fighting the man on this abomination of healthy food choices.
Personally if I am going to eat a burger, sausage or similar meat product. It will be the real deal.
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Phew! I managed to get through this whole post without mentioning #palnet!
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I have never understood why they make the fake meat either! It almost feels like they are made for people who aren't really committed. Here's an odd product I found in a grocery store.
I still can't figure out why they put a baby on the package. Is it bologna made from babies?
Haha, that sounds super unappetizing. Yeah it is a weird one for sure.
I think you may be on to something here. :-)
Maybe you should do a survey!
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Sounds like a good idea. 🍔😱
That is really weird. Msybe a strategy to get your attention
I'm assuming in reference to the three different prices of olives?
It was very odd.
Ah I was referring to the packaging of the bologna that goat-girlz posted.
😂😂😂 it's all good. These comment threads seem to meander all over the place?
That is a weird type of packaging. Baby bologna? 😨
😂 I believe so too
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Awesome Vegetarian food.
I have had real vegetarian foods but these seem to be kind of 'faking it'?
That all beef hamburger just can't be replaced :-)
You said it brother. Lol
Quite interesting..👍
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I have had those my whole life. Some of the products here in our place are tasteless and texture that I don't appreciate. I have been wondering if they are really healthy becayse they are still processed. Better eat the real thing. What I can appreciate though is the convenience of cooking it.
I too have eaten loads of vegetarian foods but why do they insist on trying so hard to make it look like meat?
I think it sends all the wrong signals especially to kids who have no clue what they are eating.
It's almost as if they are deliberately misleading people?
I'm with you on that. Maybe we should ask the "experts" lol! It is fooling people to make them think it is the real thing when it wasn't.
I like your thinking on 'experts'.
We've got loads of them? 😂😂😱
Haha! Yes, we do. Yet, we are easily fooled just because they are experts
I am noticing more vegetarian options in stores these days and some look so close to the real thing, I havent gone vegetarian but I do eat more veges than I used to, but for a burger I still mostly go for a meat burger, but have had vegeterian ones that were quite nice and seldom have burgers these days
and you almost made it all the way without mentioning palnet ;)
Haha yes palnet. Well spotted Jay.
I ate loads of Aussie/Asian food fusions in Sydney which was fantastic.
This stuff seems to be trying to hard to look like meat?
Why not just celebrate veggies for what they are?
I don't eat burgers often and usually if I do they are home made.
I'm not keen on any highly processed foods. You never know whats in them?
Well being Biased i have to say NZ/kiwi food is even better than Aussie food, and just about everything there is organic, as for processed food I never used to look at the labels and ingredients but nowadays I am very cautious and careful with what I eat and stay away from processed food as much as possible, and now I also enjoy veges just simply as they are they dont need ot be made to look like something else
When I lived in London one of my neighbor's was from Christchurch and she was a brilliant cook. She made a roast lamb with pineapple which really stuck in my memory. She told me way back then (70's) that virtually everything in NZ was organic.
I have to defer and trust to your opinion as I haven't been to NZ yet lol
It's on my list of must see's.
Veggies of the world unite! :-)
I am sure the lamb she cooked would have been NZ lamb I won't eat any other lamb as it truly is the best And I have done it with pineapple, and that is nice for sure
I hope you can get to see it sometime it is worth the long trip for sure, I do miss not being able to get back there
It was NZ lamb and you are right it is the best. Beats English lamb hands down.
On the flight to Australia I couldn't believe that the plane had enough fuel to make the trip. It took 17 hours in the air to get from London to Singapore and another 8 hours to Sydney. Truly amazing flight.
Maybe when someone develops a new Concord it will get more manageable.
Flying from here ot New Zealand we used to fly to Los Angeles which I think is about 5 hours, then to Tahiti, about 8 or 9 hours then 5 or 6 to NZ I think. A new concord would make it a lot shorter for sure, but for me I think unless they come up with a teleporter that gets you there in a flash its unlikely I will ever make it back there again
Of late have been hearing more and more news on vege meat...have not really see it yet in supermarket. Guess there is more demand for it.
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Alternatively they are creating a demand by making it look like meat?
People are looking for healthy food choices. If they slap a veggie label on something many people may think the product is 'better' and if it looks like something they are used to seeing. Burgers etc. You've got a sale.
I accidently tried one of those fake burger catastrophes the other day at the butcher counter. I assume it was meat. Silly me. Well as they say when you assume, you run the risk of being poisoned. My mouth rebelled and I had to spit it back out.
What was that? I exclaimed to the counter guy. The to my son a frantic don't eat that
It tasted like someone had dumped liquid smoke into the contents of a vacuum bag and rolled it into sausage for the unsuspecting and foolish. A warning to the wise. Stick with the real thing. Meat is way healthier than some folks would like us to believe. Probably the healthiest thing we eat.
Those would-be meats are a collection of seed oils and plant isolates. I think they actually put wood in them. Stay clear, unless you are beaver:):):)
Haha this gave me the giggles.
I think you nailed the target market good and proper.
And this too.
People forget the number of times food has been adulterated over the centuries.
Anything this highly processed is a recipe for disaster! 😂
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Haha.
somehow I can never get this meatless stuff. If you're a vegetarian , then why buy meatless meat, it's like you still can't let go. The Chinese has a saying which roughly translates to vegetarian mouth but not vegetarian heart
I like that saying. Sums it up nicely.
Why would anyone want to eat this #fakefood?
Howdy sir molometer! I'm not sure why the packaging of vegetables to look like meat but there must be money in it!
Yep you got that right. Someone somewhere is making a buck out of it.
Yep you got that right.
Someone somewhere is making
A buck out of it.
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Thanks @haikubot this gives me a great idea.
yes sir it always come down to the money doesn't it? Have you thought about becoming a vegetarian?
I'm confused! Do they want a burger? Or do they want a sausage? I'm not quite sure what's in them, but I can assure you that if I want a vegetable, I sure don't want it to look like a Lincoln Log. If you want a hamburger, people, buy a blessed hamburger. You don't have to eat a pretend one. If I want to eat a hamburger, I sure don't want someone to make it look like a carrot or zucchini just to make me feel better. I don't think I've ever seen anything more ridiculous in my life. What that says to me is that there are a lot of people out there let's speak one language and hear another.
I and not ashamed to say that there are many vegan things that I like oh, but I will also say that I am a seafood / meat eater. I don't pretend to be one over the other and I'm not sure if there is a stigma, although I know there is against eating meat. Especially when you are preaching the vegan Bible. Now there is nothing wrong with being a vegan. But there is something wrong with putting meat looking products for sale to vegan. I'm not sure that I would be able to eat it. As for that bologna baby? What the heck? That's just sick. Or good marketing. That was a cute baby. LOL it's still sick.
As for the olives, if it's anything like the colonies over here different sized olives Garner different size prices. The small ones are the least in the large ones are the most even though they are the same weight. Go figure.
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