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These vegan meat brands taste almost as good as the real thing. Taste tests prove it.
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this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2025
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I’m not a vegan, and I eat vegan meat alternatives when I have the chance. I don’t think these products are aimed at people who dislike real meat. They’re aimed at people who like meat but want a plant based alternative, and there are a lot of us.
This is my point though. Many of these plant based alternatives are pretty bad, if you already like the meat version that they are trying to imitate.
So if you like steak, the vegan steak will not live up to what you had imagined. If instead it was called Green bite, root rise, VerdeVibe, beanbliss or something else that had nothing to do with a meat dish, people would have nothing to compare it to and value it for what it is
Plant based meat alternatives are but a small part of the amazing vegan dishes that can be made.
With a steak, maybe, but with hamburger meat, the vegan options are better than the real thing. Same with processed chicken. I don’t want Green Bite, I want a vegan burger. One that tastes like a burger. And that’s an option, so I don’t see how that’s at all a bad thing.
We are all different. I personally prefer the meat burgers to the vegan alternatives. If they had made a burger with "RootBites", or whatever, that maybe even were the same as the ones they use for a veggie burger, i wouldn't even compare them to a meat burger, and would not see them as an alternative to mean. Just a great option, like any other ingredient, but not compared to meat.
I understand what you're saying though. I just feel that it is sad to compare veggie products to meat products. They are great for what they are, not for imitating meat
When I’m in the store looking for a burger, I’m not going to try to decipher what “RootBites” means. I’m going to buy the package that says “plant based burger alternative”. That’s why they market it that way. They’re marketing it to people like me.
I understand this. What i am trying to explain is, that I wish they marketed it to people like me too 🤷♂️
They do. There are plenty of vegan foods and snacks that aren’t marketed as meat alternatives.