You all know that old idiom. If somethig looks and seems like something, it probably is. Normally I ascribe to that theory.
Except in the 9 Days.
As wonderfully, and tantalizingly beefy the black bean burgers we had the other night looked, they were in fact not beef. Sadly, I forgot to take a picture, and happily, there was none left to use just for photographic purposes.
I should have realized after reading this article about a vegetarian magazine that used non vegetarian pictures to portray the food it was pushing. Just because it looks like meat, and it tries to mimic meat in its composition and presentation (on a bun with the works- for example), does not in fact, render it beef. It just makes you miss it all the more!
I say enjoy the soy, the beans, the fake chicken patties, but call it what it is. Not meat.
And then melt some cheese on it.
3 comments:
I don't miss meat at all, since I rarely eat any meat or chicken during the week. The biggest problems are what to do with Shabbos leftovers and what to serve Sunday evening (when I usually serve those leftovers).
Some people serve the leftovers at Shalosh Seudas! They probably can't eat pizza later that night, so how Jewish can that really be. :-)
you can't cook the shalosh seuda but you could be a yekke and then the problem pretty much goes away
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