Scented Nectar wrote:
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>>>I was raised as a heavy meateater, and
>>>enjoyed the tastes and textures as long
>>>as I didn't think too hard on what it was
>>>made from. Now that I don't want to have
>>>meat, it's great that I can still have some
>>>of the old flavours/textures I used to like.
>>
>>I knew it. Just as I said back on the 6th:
>>That's what's always been strange about vegans to me: they whine
>>and bitch about "icky" flesh but still long for the taste of
>>meat substitutes like Tofurkey and Yves products. It's
>>hypocritical. If you really object to eating dead flesh, eat
>>some beans instead of fake dead flesh or stop nagging others
>>about the flavor of "rotting" flesh.
>
> A funny thing happens when you're raised
> on meat and then go off it. There's good parts
> about the tastes/smells (that are quite well
> imitated these days) that you do miss, and
> there's bad parts about them (not in imitations),
> that you don't miss, once you finally notice them.
>
> For instance, in the supermarket line up
> one day, I thought the woman behind me
> had farted. Then I realized that I was
> smelling the precooked chicken that
> she was buying. It smelt like the poop
> in a bird cage. Also, hamburgers made
> with real meat have a 'barnyard' poop
> smell. Fake ones don't, yet they capture
> the good parts of a 'hamburger' taste.

You either have a very peculiar sense of smell or some serious
psychosomatic issues you should get counseling for.

> It wasn't until I turned vegetarian that I
> was able to smell the poopiness of real
> meats. I'm very glad the imitation ones
> leave that out.

I don't even care for the fake ones. My mother used to buy fake burgers
and hotdogs for me when I'd visit, but I'd end up sharing them with her
dog and cat (the cat loves fake hotdogs). I've *never* noticed any kind
of "poopiness" in any meat product.