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Topic	I was looking at vegetarian cheeses at the grocery store.
adjl 10/23/17 2:36:08 PM #36:	SunWuKung420 posted... adjl posted... What does that have to do with anything? Just stream of consciousness posting. So if vegetarians eat dairy, why mass produce a terrible version of cheese? What makes you think vegetarian cheese is terrible? Again, cheese being vegetarian just means the chymosin used to curdle the milk proteins is derived from a source other than animal stomachs, which in most cases (80-90% of cheesemaking, vegetarian or otherwise, if Wikipedia is to be believed) means it comes from yeast that's been genetically engineered to express the protein (similar to how most insulin is produced these days). There is vegan cheese out there that doesn't contain any milk, and is instead some sort of tofu cream kind of thing, but that's another beast entirely, and is mostly just masquerading as cheese (can't say I've ever understood the fascination with pretending that vegan dishes are in any way emulations of the real thing, as opposed to just calling them their own thing, but meh). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:888986896] in I was look... [t:75910904]...</cite> <quote><cite>SunWuKung420 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>adjl posted...</cite> <quote>What does that have to do with anything?</quote> Just stream of consciousness posting. So if vegetarians eat dairy, why mass produce a terrible version of cheese?</quote> What makes you think vegetarian cheese is terrible? Again, cheese being vegetarian just means the chymosin used to curdle the milk proteins is derived from a source other than animal stomachs, which in most cases (80-90% of cheesemaking, vegetarian or otherwise, if Wikipedia is to be believed) means it comes from yeast that's been genetically engineered to express the protein (similar to how most insulin is produced these days). There is vegan cheese out there that doesn't contain any milk, and is instead some sort of tofu cream kind of thing, but that's another beast entirely, and is mostly just masquerading as cheese (can't say I've ever understood the fascination with pretending that vegan dishes are in any way emulations of the real thing, as opposed to just calling them their own thing, but meh). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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