This For That
Thanksgiving in the US is approaching, and the smell of poultry will soon be in the air.
OR WILL IT?
As we all know, it’s become a joke just how often people claim things that aren’t chicken taste just like chicken. Rattlesnake, possum, WHO KNOWS? So let’s talk about substitutes of all kinds of things.
How do you feel about pleather, for example? I’m not terribly concerned about high quality leather, and I’m OK with decent quality fake leather shoes. I’ve seen some Doc Martens with pleather which seem quite nice.
Tofu hotdogs taste like garbage to me, but Impossible Burgers are halfway decent. Imitation vanilla extract, no thank you. On the other hand, I don’t have a problem with store brand cola instead of Coke or Pepsi.
So let us know if you have any substitutes which you like, or which are even indistinguishable from the original. Lemmy might have a concerns with me saying this, but I don’t have an issue in general with swapping out one type of whiskey for another, unless maybe it’s peated single malt Scotch.
For that matter, do you have a strong allegiance to turkey for Thanksgiving? If someone served rotisserie chicken from the store, would you care?
Mythbusters even ran a blind taste test of things like frog and snake to see if they tasted like chicken, and the answer was (almost always) no.
No right or wrong answers and of course if there’s a different subject for Open Threading you think is just as good, by all means substitute it here.
Once our Thanksgivings shrunk to a small number pf attendees, turkey no longer made sense to make. So I’m cool with whatever. I don’t want to be stuck with 5 lbs of leftover bland turkey to try to use up somehow.
It’s been either a roasted chicken or this year it was turkey parts (thighs and drum sticks.)
I saw a video about skinning a turkey breast, boning it, flattening it, spreading it with sausage, then rollling it up and wrapping it back up in the skin, tying and roasting.
That sounded like a perfect 3-4 person dinner.
It does, but baking a chicken is less work.
Or running to the store for a rotisserie chicken or two, which is also pretty tempting.
Yesssssssssssssssssss
Re: swaps
I’ll buy Costco brand anything and thus far there’s been no quality loss.
Depends on the item.
Cheap stuff rarely is a substitute for the good stuff, but sometimes that’s all you got and one has gotta make do.
But sometimes, if your buddies travel all the way from the west coast to Toronto and you drive all of them to Kingston aka K-Town to relive your past and the gang goes to eat at a diner that was famous for putting chicken soup mix (Lipton or no name) on their fries instead of salt AND THEY DON’T, well it’s a total fucking goddamned bummer then there is no fucking substitute!!!*
I want my MSG!
*the next place we hit turned out to have the fries we were looking for. MSG fix done. For a moment, I was ready to hit the nearest bulk food store to buy some soup mix (no noodles) and pour it on my fries. No, I don’t make it a regular thing with my own home fries because I like having normal blood pressure.
I never heard of Lipton Soup mix on fries. That sounds awesome.
It is. The best meal at the diner was chicken fingers with those fries on the side, plum sauce and a pint of beer.
My BP is spiking up thinking about it.
WORTH IT!
When my daughter stopped eating meat I had to substitute vegetarian options in some of her favorite dishes I make. I have found some vegetarian chorizo is better than the meat version. I had a vegetarian chicken & waffles in Vegas that was as good as any real chicken version I have ever had.
Veggie chorizo definitely makes good tacos and burritos.
Chicken from the big chain supermarkets doesn’t even taste like chicken any more. We learned this after eating fresh chicken from the local farms.
We get eggs from the chickens of a friend of my wife. You can definitely tell the difference compared to supermarket eggs.
some of the veggie fake chicken bits actually taste like chicken once pan fried nowadays…right texture too
if you marinade them with a lil char siu sauce before pan frying them they turn out straight delicious
Plus hit them with hot sauce….