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Nomad ↓

Tue, Aug 22 2006, 8:56 pm

For dinner to night we had hamburgers with...pareve cheese on top(Tofutti). It was good - but really weird. Eeep...I felt like I was doing something non-kosher!

Any BT ever tried this - what did you think about the taste? Is it realistic?

cindy324 ↓

Tue, Aug 22 2006, 10:19 pm

Does pareve cheese taste anything like real cheese? Does it melt the same?

↑ Nomad ↓

Tue, Aug 22 2006, 10:31 pm

it tastes a lot like real cheese - weirdly so...

and the melting...eh not as good in general it seems (it kinds of just softens)- but on a bun it has the same consistency

southernbubby

Tue, Aug 22 2006, 11:02 pm

My brother, who is not frum, wanted pepperoni pizza, so I bought pareve pepperoni and put it on the homemade pizza. I know that a kosher pizza is sold like that. Because there is so much soy food available frum people have become used to pareve ice cream with meat meals and pareve margerine at fleishig tables and pareve milk in coffee at meat meals.

chanadownunda

Wed, Aug 23 2006, 4:23 am

my mother's a BT. Shortly after she got married a big rav came to her house for a meal and she wanted to make something gourmet. One problem: the recipe called for bacon bits.

Problem solved! the supermarket sells "facon bits"! well, the big day arrived and the rav was pushing the food around on his plate and avoiding the "facon".

Oh well... no more "gourmet" meals for my mother. Wink

Raisin

Wed, Aug 23 2006, 5:50 am

We get a lot a veggie burgers. One day I noticed a guest making herself a sandwich with a veggie burger and cheese. I don't know if I could do it, but in the same way I couldn't bring myself to eat peanut butter and Jelly. Just not used to it!

elkayed

Wed, Aug 23 2006, 11:40 am

I love the fake crab in sushi!

JRKmommy

Wed, Aug 23 2006, 11:43 am

I've used the fake pepperoni on pizzas and even managed to fool my dad (who hates soy more than treife). The fake hot dogs from Yves Veggie Cuisine are also pretty convincing.

However, dh doesn't like fake ham or bologna in the home, even though I showed him the hechsher. It weirds him out. However, he tolerates my fake seafood (Dynasea is the best) in the fridge but won't touch it himself.

The weirdest thing for me, though, was going to the kosher McDonald's in Ramat Gan. For so long, a Big Mac was forbidden fruit. There was a McDonald's across from my old Hebrew School, we all knew that it was treife, and we all loved the fried grease smell that it gave off. I suspect that kosher McDonald's played a role in my 10 lbs weight gain during a 2 week trip to Israel. They even had kosher l'pesach chicken nuggets and quarter pounders!

chocolate moose ↓

Wed, Aug 23 2006, 1:38 pm

I've tried a lot of that kind of fake stuff. Never really liked it.

we've treid.........

pareve hotdgo and real cheese
real hot dog and par cheese
pareve burger and real cheese
real hot burger and par cheese

pareve sausage, fleishge sausage...

Fake baco bits - that, we really DO like!

↑ cindy324

Wed, Aug 23 2006, 4:19 pm

Those fake baco bits are yummy in omelets!

shoy18

Wed, Aug 23 2006, 4:25 pm

cindy324 wrote:

Those fake baco bits are yummy in omelets!

also in grilled cheese sandwiches YUM

↑ chocolate moose

Wed, Aug 23 2006, 4:38 pm

never thought of that! thanks!

DefyGravity ↓

Wed, Aug 23 2006, 4:38 pm

I like fake meat a lot more than fake cheese. It tastes a lot more authentic.

red sea

Wed, Aug 23 2006, 4:39 pm

I once made that but with parve burgers too. add some fries and a soy milkshake and you got a 100% pareve version of a happy meal? But I must admit it didnt taste too good.

Mishie

Thu, Aug 24 2006, 3:31 am

We sprinkle those fake baken-bits on top of salad = YUM!

My SIL makes this yummy dish, which her family loves!!!
She gets a pack of that fake ground beef, fries onions and browns the "Meat", adds tomatoe sauce.
Mix with elbow noodles.
Sprinkle cheese on top!!!
Delicious!!!!

brooklyn

Thu, Aug 24 2006, 7:53 am

The toffutti pareve cheese is not bad on a burger, tastes almost like the real thing. ( Yes I was a bad girl at one stage in my life, no mussar please). I think most on this site have it in their heads that it is disgusting because even though it is not real cheese, it is so ingrained in you that it is not allowed. Also there is the maraas ayin issue. I guess that is why the whole issue of kitniyot on Pesach came about. (People eating corn bread etc)

↑ Nomad

Thu, Aug 24 2006, 10:03 am

ok..so next I try fake ground beef and fake pepperoni - I am so excited!

IBR ↓

Wed, Sep 13 2006, 9:16 am

I can't say I never tried it. Yeves here in canada became Ou D halav stam so can't eat that but it ws good I got to admit, but Zoglos fake stuff is gross sorry and also if you all only thought for a moment how much chemicals there is in that food I try to stay away from it cause its not healthy proof most of the time (and sorry for being discusting) it makes you go to the bathroom almost right away. I have never tried McDonalds the smell makes me nauseas or eaten in any treif american/canadian restaurant. I guess if you must have those foods and it helps you keep kosher thats what its there for. One thing is true the fake crab is good and sushi is the best thing invented in my opinion don't know how I lived in russia without it.

rivki

Wed, Sep 13 2006, 12:43 pm

btw most of the yves product in canada are parve again now ( at least were I am) - you might want to check the labels again

nicole81 ↓

Wed, Sep 13 2006, 12:48 pm

before I kept kosher, I thought cheeseburgers were disgusting anyway so I wouldn't try it.

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