Yuck! I'd either eat the real thing or stick to mattar-paneer. That is, if I decided to turn veggie all of sudden -- cold tofurkey.

agreed. i heard about this last night on telley. i dunno......i'd prolly *try* it out of sheer insane curiosity, but there's just something eerie about it. and it looks to much like processed holday cheese with stuffing in the middle. yeeps.

what's this.....SM turning veggie !!!!!

For them carnivores (to borrow the badmash phrase) - you can always squeeze in some turducken mmm.. mmm.. mmm...

Happy thanksgiving boys and girls... conversing with you is always stimulating. have a good one, and wash it all down with a cool (g)lassi!!

Thought I heard my name.... no?

Okay, everybody, have a great holiday!

Yikes Tofurky sounds toofunky. I can make a mean Martha Stewart meets garam masala/red mirch Turkey or cornish hens. But an aside, for a meat eater in the past year I've switched almost all my diet to vegetarian (except for the occassional seafood) but I miss the 'meat/paneer' tastes.

I've been cooking with Nasoya's Extra Firm Tofu which I crumble and use just like paneer and I've been using Lightlife Smart products. (available thru Fresh Direct)

Anyway they have a Smart Ground which is made of soya and wheat and it's excellent. Just like kheema (and I've fooled em) They have so many other products. It also comes as taco ground, as chicken cutlets and meatballs, all pure vegetarian, low in calories but taste very close to the real thing if you spice it correctly.

Of course this is for meat eaters looking for healthy alternatives, I personally recommend these. :-)

***sorry SM don't punt me for going offtrack***

Don't knock it until you've tried it! Tofurky is delicious!!!!

By the time Tofurkey came along, my family and I were too entrenched in our wild improv-Thanksgiving-by-the-seat-of-your pants tradition. But they make fabulous fake sausages, and all my carnivore-turned-veggie friends love the Tofurkeys.

So Happy Thanksgiving one and all! And thank you, Sepia Mutiny! :-)

TOFURKY certainly tastes pretty good. The veg half of our family ate it for Thanks Giving whilst the non-veg part chowed down on the real stuff.
Made it feel like a complete celebration that way - everyone got to eat some carved "meat" ;-)

what % of hindus are vegetarian? anyone have pointers to ethnological cites?

tx

razib,

The only figure i've seen is 20%--from Hindusim Today magazine.

I've never understood that special brand of veggie-hostility that is harbored by other brown folk. Anyway, I thought I'd share this poem, which I think should be brought out at other times than just the holidays.

Point of View

Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless
Christmas dinner's dark and blue
When you stop and try to see it
From the turkey's point of view.

Sunday dinner isn't sunny
Easter feasts are just bad luck
When you see it from the viewpoint
Of a chicken or a duck.

Oh how I once loved tuna salad
Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too
'Til I stopped and looked at dinner
From the dinner's point of view.

-- Shel Silverstein
(published in "Where the Sidewalk Ends")

PS: I agree that there are better options than Tofurky when one is with the culinarily talented (e.g., Mom) but when one is forced to put a dinner on the table solo, you could do worse. I don't generally go in for simulacra for their own sake, though.

i went and visited a friend for thanksgiving.. we cooked.. he looked for a tofurkey to send me laughing... since i'm veggie..but couldn't find it in the stores... hmm.... a tofurkey shortage perhaps? hehe...

A friend of mine has tried tofurkey...according to her it is scrumptious!!
Has anyone tried tofurkey jurky?