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grimhilde00 posted...

tofu I think shines when it's just meant to be tofu, not trying to imitate other things

Though, at the same time, you really need to do something with tofu to make it palatable. Most meats, you can get away with just adding salt/pepper and cooking it, provided you use a suitable method for the piece you've got. Try that with tofu, and you don't get much of anything because it's such a neutral flavour on its own. The flip side of that is that it's extremely versatile and you can season it with just about anything, and that's pretty nifty, but it does mean that people that don't know how to prepare it will often end up not liking it and staying away from it.

In general, though, what you've said is my opinion on a lot of vegetarian/vegan imitations. Many of the imitations just end up trying too hard (often being pretty highly processed) and still don't end up being decent imitations. If I'm eating a vegetarian dish, I want to eat a dish that's not ashamed to be vegetarian and doesn't try to pretend to be something else.