Good bacon, properly prepared is savory and smoky and a little salty but with a distinct crunch to the protein part and a little chew to the fatty part. There is no vegan substitute that can really replicate both the flavor and texture of bacon.
This is, of course, why so many vegetarians who have tasted bacon before crave it, and not, say, other things whose flavor can be more readily duplicated. Just like you can't make a ripe peach out of animal parts, you can't make bacon from wheat protein. There are many people who, faced with this, would just rather never taste bacon. I can understand that entirely.
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Date: 2009-08-04 10:58 pm (UTC)Good bacon, properly prepared is savory and smoky and a little salty but with a distinct crunch to the protein part and a little chew to the fatty part. There is no vegan substitute that can really replicate both the flavor and texture of bacon.
This is, of course, why so many vegetarians who have tasted bacon before crave it, and not, say, other things whose flavor can be more readily duplicated. Just like you can't make a ripe peach out of animal parts, you can't make bacon from wheat protein. There are many people who, faced with this, would just rather never taste bacon. I can understand that entirely.
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