>>Once at thanksgiving, my brother doled out the ice cream after the meal, and I started eating it. After 2 unfortunate spoonsful, I looked up at him and said, "This isn't ice cream. What the hell is it?"
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>I prefer ice cream, but frozen yogurt is okay too. Though you're right, it's not ice cream. Italian ice cream, in my opinion, is the best. Give soy ice cream a pass.
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>>It's like that with the veggie meat facsimiles. Vegetarians convince themselves that it tastes like meat, but believe me, it doesn't. I've tried a lot of different ones, and the only ones that ever even come anywhere close (but not too close) are the ones that are so full of grease that they aren't worth eating.
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>This chain in Vancouver called Milestones has a veggie burger that tastes so real that I sent it back saying they had mistakenly given me a real burger. The cook came out and convinced me that it was the real, fake thing.

The chain here that supposedly has the most convincing veggie burger is "Lick's". A friend convinced me that it is so meat-like that there is no way I'd know the difference. It's one of those that is made to taste like meat by filling it with grease. In the end though, he is wrong. It's better than most, but it is NOT convincing.

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>There is a chinese vegetarian place up the street from me that makes fake lemon duck and peking duck and also ham that you can't tell the difference. Really unnerving.

Ok, now there you have me. I've never tried fake duck, or fake ham, so I can't comment.

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>>My sister is a vegetarian. For her it's because she doesn't feel animals should be killed. While I find it hard to argue with that, I do kid her about eating bread. After all, yeast is not a vegetable.
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>Yeah I know, it is a fungus!