Gothamist: Flushing's Vege Eats Goes Beyond Gardenburgers

mellod

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:14:26 -0500

Here's a similar store in manhattan: http://www.vegieworld.com/index.asp

brooklynbee

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:28:57 -0500

I think it sounds interesting! Is it close to a subway station?

Spiny

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:06:40 -0500

Now, I'm not a vegan or vegetarian, but several of my friends are, and most of them believe that eating animals is morally wrong. Very few of them were raised with this belief. Like most of us, they grew up eating hamburgers and hotdogs and pepperoni pizza. Now they enjoy Gardenburgers and tofu dogs and tofu sausage because it lets them keep eating similar foods to the ones they've always enjoyed, now that they've eliminated actual animal products from their diets. Makes sense to me. Their consciences are clear, and they still get to have traditional holiday meals every winter, thanks to tofurkey. One friend of mine believes that meat consumption is environmentally unsustainable and has committed himself to not eating it. Fake meat products help him eliminate temptation. And I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by the "breaded chicken" I recently enjoyed at a vegan restaurant with some buddies. Realistic taste, realistic texture. Not quite the real deal, but it was still very nice...especially as there were no disgusting encounters with fat or gristle, which is the risk that you run with real chicken meat.

Toby von Meistersinger

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:47:42 -0500

Joey: So they just have stuff to take home. Thanks for the info.

Joey Deckle

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:22:44 -0500

Toby: you are correct they don't sell anything to prepare there. Goomba: Ma perche no lasciami da solo? Che classe de parole e "soonads?"

Toby von Meistersinger

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:39:27 -0500

Some of the faux meat stuff is really good. It is a way for us vegetarians not to give into temptation and to have something different. So I take it that the store just sells stuff to prepare later or does it have stuff to eat then and there?

Goomba

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:16:41 -0500

These veggietarian soonads want to eat something that looks and tastes like meat they should eat meat! Oobatz!

stillfurther

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:38:40 -0500

I think this fake food stuff is very weird. Not that I don't appreciate that people should eat what makes them happy and healthy. Vegetarians, vegans, whatever..... there are many great reasons to follow such diets, I hope they're all happy eating the stuff in this store. But personally, I really hate stuff that's fake. I don't get it. If I don't want to eat a hamburger for whatever reason, then I certainly won't want to eat a fake hamburger! Even if you call it mutton, if it's made of soy or something, it's fake! DON'T CALL IT MUTTON! I see no need to pretend it is something that it isn't. Call it whatever it is and be happy. Same thing goes the other way around... sometimes I want to eat vegetarian, so I'll have some vegetables that look like and taste like vegetables. Tofu burgers make as much sense as creating a tabouli-like concoction that's made of pork or something.