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albionmoonlight · 10-15-2021, 08:45 AM

So I'm still doing pretty good. Not perfect, but finding a sustainable way to eat a lot less animal product than I would otherwise.

But, man, people don't always make it easy. I know that I am preaching to the choir in this thread, but why do people think that Vegans hate flavor?

There was a lunch buffet thingy I was at yesterday. And they had a tofu option and a chicken option. And I'd had the chicken from this thing before, and it was good. A very flavorful lemon/herb thing.

And the tofu looked good--fried cubes with some peppers in an Asian-looking sauce. But then when you eat it, there is just no flavor. It was kind of impressive, in its way, just how flavorless they could make that sauce.

And why? Tofu is just a flavor sponge. You can do anything with it. There is no reason that you can't give it flavor. I'm not even saying that it needed heat (though I would have liked that). Garlic, onion, bell pepper, *salt* Any of these things would have given it some flavor.

But instead, it was just fried cubes.

/rant over.

10-15-2021, 08:45 AM	#500
albionmoonlight Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: North Carolina	So I'm still doing pretty good. Not perfect, but finding a sustainable way to eat a lot less animal product than I would otherwise. But, man, people don't always make it easy. I know that I am preaching to the choir in this thread, but why do people think that Vegans hate flavor? There was a lunch buffet thingy I was at yesterday. And they had a tofu option and a chicken option. And I'd had the chicken from this thing before, and it was good. A very flavorful lemon/herb thing. And the tofu looked good--fried cubes with some peppers in an Asian-looking sauce. But then when you eat it, there is just no flavor. It was kind of impressive, in its way, just how flavorless they could make that sauce. And why? Tofu is just a flavor sponge. You can do anything with it. There is no reason that you can't give it flavor. I'm not even saying that it needed heat (though I would have liked that). Garlic, onion, bell pepper, salt Any of these things would have given it some flavor. But instead, it was just fried cubes. /rant over.