>>>>>>Interesting. A friend of my daughters will be staying with us for 3 weeks and she is a vegan. What type of meat substitute works best with burritos?
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>>>>>I'm a veggie too. Down here we get a "soy meat" that is delicious. We usually make hamburgers with it.
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>>>>What beats me is why, when people are veggies, they need to make their food look, and if possible taste, like meat?
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>>>Some people give up meat because it disgusts them (my wife), other like me give it up because it is wasteful environmently and is generally unecessary to eat meat. Oh gawd, I can see a long thread starting.
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>>yeah, and some cos they can't bear the idea of the animals suffering, yada yada yada.
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>>As I said to Ivan, I was just yanking his chain. My own wife doesn't eat meat cos since a kid she's not been able to bear the texture. You think I've been in a vacuum all my life?
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>>But I've always said that if the Good Lord hadn't meant us to eat meat, He wouldn't have made it so tastey!
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>Nor would He have given us canine teeth. By the same token, had the good Lord meant us to eat cooked cabbage, He would not have made it smell like that.

And if peanut butter, He would have given us teflon-coated mouths
If marmite, He wouldn't have given us the wince/cringe reflex.