Thursday, February 11, 2010

Being a Phony: The Final Chapter


Sausage seems to be the most popular form of fake meat. It's a bold choice. Like, let's take the best form of meat - ground-up bits of trimmings stuffed in offal - and make it out of water and soybeans. Why not start smaller? Vegan flank steak? Chicken cutlet? Fish? There's no vegan fish. Makes no sense to me.


Outdoor APPROVED Grill! I bet they had to go through a lot of red tape for that.


I was really encouraged by the fact that eating them makes you fat. Are there any foods that break the magical "Total Fat: 10g" barrier that don't taste good? Short of drinking Wesson oil out of the bottle, I can't think of one. I dare you to try.


Anyway, I pan-fried two of them up (bold, I know), and dug in. And oh man, were they terrible. They're tubes of gray paste. I can't describe the taste that well, because they were out of my mouth in less than a second. A new record.


There was not a single thing right about this food. I tried dried dog food once or twice as a child (and a Milkbone or two). I think if I blended up a little Eukanuba with a dash of water and some soy protein, I'd be able to come pretty close to replicating these sausages.

3 comments:

  1. Holy shit! Who know the most asthetically pleasing vegan food would be the least paletable!

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  2. This is a lol of a post. Outdoor approved grill indeed.

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  3. Great post. Judging by the package, it looks like they expect you to put it in another dish like pasta, so maybe they think the taste of other things will mask the sausages' grossness?

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