Originally Posted by
lachry
- but the downside, I think, is that it doesn't challenge the centrality of 'meat'. After all, most veggie 'meats' sell themselves, implicitly, as artificial items: fake sausages, fake mince, etc. But maybe veggie items should be focusing more on what they are, rather than what they are not. And we, veggies, should not see ourselves as chasing replication but enjoying veggie food for its distinction as well. When I first prepared a meal from "burger mix" my first thought was, it doesnt't taste like the real thing. This was wrong, wrong, wrong. After all, why should it taste like something it isn't?