VEGANS: You guys certainly don't do it for the taste, do you?!
It's not a knock on you guys; I think it's pretty cool you stand up for what you believe in. But I just can't do it...
Answers: Yeah, I tried one of those "not dogs" about a week back. Quite different to say the least...
It's not a knock on you guys; I think it's pretty cool you stand up for what you believe in. But I just can't do it...
well, haven't you stirred the pot some here!
Mind if I ask a question in your question {grin} I have always been curious about the Vegan notion that they do not want to eat a living creature. In my opinion...that broccoli you just cut it's head off...just died.
I have never tried a 'not dog'. Have never even heard of it actually. I am guilty of liking the real meal deal, as gross as the process may be in making them.
Long live hot dogs!
yeah..... the flavor is a sacrifice.....
Don't judge all vegan food by one lump of processed food. There are imaginative and creative vegan cooks and piss poor vegan cooks; the same applies to vegetarian and omnivorous cooks.
I'm vegan and I don't bother with any food that isn't delicious.
If you believed in not eating living creatures you would find ways to eat protein in other products. But not necessarily hotdogs. Vegans aren't looking for junk food all the time either. They eat beans and tofu based products. those gimmick foods are sometimes yukky and fadish. true vegans believe with their hearts that animals have the right to live. So thanks but hope you have been enlightened a bit. I am a vegetarian but don't go so far as to wear plastic shoes and belts and become a complete vegan, but I get their philosophy. I can't stand the idea of eating a cow, pig. or chicken but I will eat fish.but no veggie dogs
While I am not a hardcore vegetarian, I wouldn't
eat hot dogs even if they were made from lettuce.
It's the taste I can't stand, no matter what they use to
make them.
Having grown up on garbage meat, it all tastes
the same to me. Bologna, hot dogs, one is rolled
and one is flat. Ugh! I'll pass.
I am recently converted to vegetarianism I don't eat dairy or meat or honey or eggs. I do it partly because of the animals however millions of creatures are killed when soy products are harvested also.
Death is apart of life it cannot be avoided I don't like to take part in hurting animals but I recognize that death is not the end I read it some where that death is a universal beginning. I don't view death as something to be afraid of or avoided. When you serve your purpose you leave this earth no amount of machines or medicine will keep you. If you do eat meat give thanks each time you eat it for you are eating something thats given its life to you. Respect and give thanks for what you eat specially if something had to die to be on your plate. I follow the native American ways of thinking.
But the other reason I do it is for a spiritual reason.
If you understand how energy around a person works In the most basic terms when you eat dead matter ie animal products your body takes more energy to reduce it. Its less energy you have for other things. When you eat things that are still alive ie carrots it takes less energy to digest. You receive the nutrients from that as well as a little energy boost.
Your more clear I find I'm more intuitive and I basically just feel better with regular workouts I am humming with energy.
Most vitamins you get from a cow pig etc are from what the cow eats. Why eat the cow when you can just eat the leaves and get 10 x times the energy.
I find when I eat dairy I get flem in the back of my throat.
I personally love soy I love Miso Udon I love all those things BUT you have to find a brand that you like not all tofurky etc is made equally. Ive had veg burgers that were totally disgusting.
The ones I buy are from Walmart they're Bistro and they have about 17 grams of protein and 3 grams of fat. You can eat two burgers and still be under the one 20 grams of fat burger. I cook them in sesame oil with mushrooms gives it a meatier flavor. I get a yummy Italian roll and top it with some soy cheese which is also not made equally and eat away.
Good for weight loss good for health good for your energy levels if you know anything about chakras and Auric feilds.
I'm not vegan, I'm noy even vegetarian, butI wouldn't eat those meat substitutes unless you paid me a lot of money to do it!
I enjoy chickpea dishes with spices, lentil dishes with or without spices and many indian/,vegan and vegetarian dishes.
People who want meat should eat it. There are plenty of acceptable alternatives for those who dont without resorting to manufactured muck.
Interesting.. Taste. We have a totally screwed our taste buds up with high fat, sugar, salt additives to our foods. Normal, more natural amounts of these products taste odd or off to us now. Dr. John McDougall and Dr.Dean Ornish both speak about the Getting use to the change of better eating in their newsletters. But once you adjust all those things to proper amounts the old way taste bad. A Burger from any fast food place is over loaded with all these things, try a plain good quality ground beef patty, it will taste very plain to you also.
LOL I am not talking about the pseudo meats some of them are as fat laden as the mainstream meat products.
I'm not a vegan or vegetarian, but there is some excellent vegetarian (not sure if they're truly vegan) food out there. One of the main reasons I love Indian food is that you can get some extremely flavorful all-vegetable dishes. The convenience food vegetarian stuff usually isn't that good, as others have said, which is usually true for non-vegetarian convenience food.
I find the taste of meat gross and have been vegetarian by choice for over 20 years now (I'm 31). Converted to vegan some time ago. I love spices and veggies lol but I also have to admit that fake meats are not all that great.
I've never tried a "not dog" but I eat fabulous, delicious, decadent food cooked from scratch. Before you knock veganism based on junk food, you should sample vegan cuisine (potato and kale enchiladas with homemade roasted pepper enchilada sauce might just knock your socks off!)
Not all vegans eat food that is so heavily processed. A vegan hot dog is a long way from the original plants and fungi it is made from, and isn't fresh food.
I would say it is more common for vegans to eat from a wider range of species than most meat eaters do, and so have a wider range of tastes. The taste of meat is basically different variations of the same old proteins, fats, salts and iron, but vegans have thousands of different flavoured substances to choose from. We have ginger, garlic, Cayenne pepper, mint, pears, mushrooms, chanterelles, yeast, cumin, cardamoms, parsley, rosemary, oregano, basil, apples, dulse, samphire - the list just goes on and on. Admittedly, meat eaters can eat all those too, but how many of them do compared to vegans?
I'm vegan and I do it because that's how my parents raised me, but moreover, I just cannot imagine how anyone could ever eat another living creature and know it was alive at one point and had a life and a soul and everything.
As for milk and eggs and dairy, I just don't believe drinking another creature's milk meant for it's own young is good for humans.
It's disgusting, like if a monkey was drinking human breastmilk or something.
Many vegan products are flavorful. Great dishes can be prepared using fresh vegetables and fruits.
I always prepare amazing traditional vegan Thanksgiving meals which do not contain meat, eggs, dairy or any animal product.
im a vegetarian and i do it bc i dont like the taste of meat and i cant stand the idea of eating something that was once alive.
I eat at a harre krishner restraunt and the food is really good. Try the spinache pie or have some curried chickpeas. The key to vegan food is flavourings - using herbs and spices. THe processed food is awful but the home made versions by experienced cooks is great. You really should consider going to a vegan restraunt and tasting some of the foods there you will find all sorts of interesting foods like Aloo mutter heres the recipe
Description Popular and yummy north indian dish
Time to prepare 30 minutes
Ingredients Potatoes - 4
Peas - ? cup
Tomato - 1
Onion medium - 2
tofu - ? cup
Ginger …qt; 1 inch piece
Green chillies - 2 (minced)
Salt to taste
Chili powder …qt; 1 teaspoon
Turmeric - ? teaspoon
Garam Masala - 1 teaspoon
Cumin Seeds - 1 teaspoon
oil - 2 teaspoon
Water - 1 cup
Fresh coriander for Garnishing
Instructions Peel & cube the Potatoes. Grind Onion & ginger to a paste. Boil peas and potato in a pressure cooker until 1st whistle. Once done, keep aside.
Heat oil in a pan; fry the grinded paste to golden brown.
Add all spices (chilli powder to cumin seeds), green chillies and tomatoes.
Fry for a couple of minutes. Add tofu & cook .
Add the boiled peas and potatoes; fry for 5 minutes.
Add water and mix well. Cover & cook over gentle flame.
Serve Garnished with fresh coriander leaves
If you don't want to do it, then that's fine. What's your question?
Veganism implies moral concern for animals. It's more than a diet.
My taste buds are loving life!! A"not dog" is most definitely not good in my book, and therefore I do not eat it! I try everything once, and if it is awful (prior to going vegetarian as well), I'd be the first person to speak up about not eating it! Recently, I made a tofu scramble. I had explained to my mother-in-law that I only liked one kind of flavoring that actually came from a box, and none since, thought I do try so many recipes. After I tried it, I informed her this was not a good one, then let my father-in- law, who was about to try it also, know that is was bad. He still ate it and actually liked it!! And thanksgiving was so full of flavor my belly still aches when I look at the left overs!! MMMMMM!