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Topic	Would you eat plant-based "meat substitute"?
adjl 09/07/19 4:49:01 PM #44:	LinkPizza posted... adjl posted... captpackrat posted... Sarcasthma posted... PyroBlade1985 posted... No. And I'll never eat bugs either. Unless you've eaten anything with carmine dye (and I'm sure some other dyes use insects as well). Carmine, cochineal extract, crimson lake, carmine lake, natural red 4, C.I. 75470, or E120 are all synonyms and are very, very common in food and cosmetics. It's an aluminum salt of an extract of a scale insect. It's used in many pink, red, and purple food products, particularly yogurt, candy, and juice. Another commonly eaten insect product is lac, also known as shellac, pharmaceutical glaze, confectioner's glaze, or E904., which is used as a hard coating on pills and candy. On a less insectual but equally icky note, many artificial flavourings and scents make use of castoreum, a substance extracted from the anal scent glands of beavers. Beaver butt juice is in a good chunk of processed food. Faramir77 mentioned that, as well... Oh hey. I missed that. I blame the spoiler tags. As for plant-based meat substitutes, I find the whole concept of "meat substitute" to be terribly silly. If I'm not eating meat in a meal, it's because I don't feel that the meal needs meat. I'm not going to jump through hoops to pretend that my not-meat is meat, I'm going to enjoy some vegetables as they are. This obsession with pretending that vegetarian/vegan dishes are actually meat-based ones has always struck me as stupid, because it doesn't fool anyone and you can have perfectly enjoyable bean burgers and the like. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:927115250] in Would you ... [t:77995384]...</cite> <quote>LinkPizza posted...</cite> <quote>adjl posted...</cite> <quote>captpackrat posted...</cite> <quote>Sarcasthma posted...</cite> <quote>PyroBlade1985 posted...</cite> <quote>No. And I'll never eat bugs either.</quote> Unless you've eaten anything with carmine dye (and I'm sure some other dyes use insects as well).</quote> Carmine, cochineal extract, crimson lake, carmine lake, natural red 4, C.I. 75470, or E120 are all synonyms and are very, very common in food and cosmetics. It's an aluminum salt of an extract of a scale insect. It's used in many pink, red, and purple food products, particularly yogurt, candy, and juice. Another commonly eaten insect product is lac, also known as shellac, pharmaceutical glaze, confectioner's glaze, or E904., which is used as a hard coating on pills and candy.</quote> On a less insectual but equally icky note, many artificial flavourings and scents make use of castoreum, a substance extracted from the anal scent glands of beavers. Beaver butt juice is in a good chunk of processed food.</quote> Faramir77 mentioned that, as well...</quote> Oh hey. I missed that. I blame the spoiler tags. As for plant-based meat substitutes, I find the whole concept of "meat substitute" to be terribly silly. If I'm not eating meat in a meal, it's because I don't feel that the meal needs meat. I'm not going to jump through hoops to pretend that my not-meat is meat, I'm going to enjoy some vegetables as they are. This obsession with pretending that vegetarian/vegan dishes are actually meat-based ones has always struck me as stupid, because it doesn't fool anyone and you can have perfectly enjoyable bean burgers and the like. --- 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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