Complaining about tofu being bland is the equivalent of saying that a blank canvas is boring.
Saying you hate tofu is such a self own. It is one of and maybe the most versatile food of all time. It is cheap. It’s macros are at parity with chicken breast. It keeps well AND is much safer (food safety and healthwise) than meat.
I can confirm as someone going from eating meat with every meal to vegan, basic ass fried tofu tastes better than most restaurant meat these days.
What is even wilder is that the US grows a lot of soybeans, and the ideal target for MAGA would probably be a soybean farmer.
“I like bananas because they have no bones”It absolutely cooks my brain that gym bro memes from 2012 are common knowledge among chuds now. the whole ‘soy has phytoestrogens therefore soy makes you a woman’ felt like a psyop even back then
Wish the argument about how many days there are in a week would break containment
I think they’ve forgotten the phytoestrogen propaganda entirely and it has become its own self sustaining soy mythos.
I’ve been a vegan for almost 5 years, now. I love tofu.
IT’S JUST BEAN CHEESE
I used that same logic in Cheese Noir. Parody really is dead.
So funny story. In Denmark ARLA (big ass farmer-owned cooperative but its farmers so its not cool it sucks) lobbyed HARD to make it so plant milk couldn’t be called milk[1]. The assumption was that the only reason people bought oat milk and the like was because they thought it was like cow milk and would taste like cow milk.
After making it illegal to call plant milk milk ARLA saw no increase in sales.
this is extra funny because milk originally referred to the juices excreted by plants ↩︎
They tried this with patties in Canada I think. They tried to say the word patty could only refer to a beef patty.
Also I straight up prefer soy milk to real milk. It’s thicker and has a better aftertaste than dairy.
They recently tried doing this nonsense with “sausage” as well.
Also funny because turd in Swedish is literally “poop sausage”.
The milk thing pisses me off in a special way though because they all run around saying shit like “uhhh when has milk ever refferred to something from a plant?” when 1. THAT’S WHAT IT STARTED OUT REFERRING TO and 2. WE LITERALLY HAVE A PLANT NAMED MÆLKEBØTTE (Milk jar[1]) and 3 COCONUT MILK
Bøtte refers to a small round container with a lid, so not a jar, but you know how translation is ↩︎
Right, If anything it should be required by all to specify what type of milk/sausage we’re talking about.
“Do you want meat- or plant-milk with your coffee?”
Intuitively if you wanted to see if oat milk tasted like cows milk you’d kind of lose 1 sale in the philosophical sense.
I don’t believe a rational actor is capable of not understanding that oat milk is (likely) a vegan product.
I don’t believe a rational actor is capable of not understanding that oat milk is (likely) a vegan product.
They seem to think the market for plant milk is entirely new-age woo woo hippies and that no one who buys plant milk is rational. All their commercials kind of focus on “oooh the earth the nature the spirits we are all in harmony”, but in an even more stereotyping kind of way.
This commercial should be considered a hate crime of some kind
It manages to both offend me because that’s what you think of your marketbase? AND because that’s how you would make a commercial for your imaginary marketbase?That’s crazy that literally just assuming your target audience is lactose-intolerant carnivores would lead to more effective marketing
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It’s unfortunate that tofu and beyond beef and other plant-based proteins marketed themselves as meat replacements.
Beyond beef, for instance, tastes absolutely nothing like beef… but it still slaps. If you go in expecting a 1:1 meat replacement (which most brain dead carnivores are, unfortunately) you’re gonna be disappointed. If you go in thinking “wow this is a new ingredient that will open up a whole new realm of flavor and texture in my cooking” then you’re in good shape.
Of course, you have to actually cook your own food to begin with if this is going to work, which… I’m realizing fewer and fewer people cook, and even fewer know how to cook, and fewer still know how to cook and actually enjoy cooking.
Beyond beef, for instance, tastes absolutely nothing like beef
I disagree and it actually does but it has off tastes too it that imo are probably the pomegranate extract or something idk
Ops are really easy to spot if you pay attention to how things are internationally. There is no “anti-soy” in the UK, nobody calls anything soy except milk afaik. And tofu is tofu, nobody has strong opinions about tofu one way or any other.
The op is regionally specific to the US and whoever is running it isn’t targeting non-US countries from what I can tell.
Most things that appeal to an assigned role/status quo/peer pressure is social manipulation by the ruling class, yes. Appeals to patriarchal fears of not fitting in because “soy milk is marketed as fat free and therefore its for women and the gays” in this case.
And as appealing to masculinity works less and less, we’ll see appeals to other forms of social conditioning that targets peoples desire to fit in. “Keep your head down, you don’t want to be cringe, right?”
You see it a lot, everyone falls for it.
it’s hip to be cringe
Damn I must be super hip and cool
I read before that consumers are not logical at all and it blew my mind. All purchases are emotional. A man goes and buys a gigantic truck and says it is because “he needs it to do work”, because his appraisal of himself is he doesn’t believe in BS, he is logical, he is the one who gets things done.
But the marketers know the truth: he is buying the truck because he is insecure, socially scared and wants to project intimidation at others. He is a conformist who wants admittance to the “in-group”. For this reason, he will financially overcompensate to “prove” his manliness to himself and the in-group.
The man purchasing isn’t self-aware enough to recognize his own motives, which makes it easier for the salesperson to exploit their vulnerabilities for profit. Sales 101 textbooks basically say this : in order to sell something, you put forward an unspoken emotional proposition disguised as a logical choice.
The only objection to tofu I will entertain is not liking the texture. Because I can honestly see how it could ick some people out. Sure there’s options, even different brands have differences, but I absolutely understand that visceral “ew” feeling about certain textures.
What is even wilder is that the US grows a lot of soybeans, and the ideal target for MAGA would probably be a soybean farmer.
The vast majority of that soy is for cattle feed, not human consumption. American soy farmers are an essential node of the beef industry.
The vast majority of that soy is for cattle feed, not human consumption. American soy farmers are an essential node of the beef industry.
Even wilder. Soy could be the primary protein for most people and be better quality than what they eat now.
Oh, you care about energy efficiency? How many steps between the sun and your meal? Checkmate, bloodmouths. :im-vegan:
And that soy actually tastes awful. I explicitly try to find non American soy for consumption
the meat eaters will refuse the beans until we’re all eating bugs.
Meat eaters don’t refuse beans, most* people don’t consider beans to be comparable to meat. American Chili (Beans and Meat) is one of the most yeehaw epic bacon things of all time. Most* people don’t think about nutrition at all beyond calories, or doctor (internet) recommended dietary needs and/or restrictions.
*
obvious caveat western/us context
Texans would object to the beans usually. I don’t. One time I passed off vegan chili as beef based to my family. It was funny.
The number of times Americans have told me “it isn’t chili if it has beans in it”
…I didn’t say it.
No, it was a general lament. Many Americans have said this in my presence, quoting Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory, but also believing it earnestly.
I tried to make chili “the right way” once, by rehydrating and blending up various dried chilis. Unfortunately it sucked, the pouch at the grocery store tastes better.
Could be I just did it wrong though.
Anti-WEF
vegans“I will not eat the bugs.”
WEF?
world economic forum/davos, they suck but the anti-WEF people have some top tier reactions to them, like “15 minute city = concentration camp” and “goberment gonna make us eat bugs”
They’re so fucking asinine, I mean, these ding dongs actually think the WEF is a new world order communist org
The World Economic Forum promotes eating meat.
Ah, cringe
Fuckin love tofu
As someone who has eaten tofu for decades, it is like oatmeal (in my opinion). It is bland until you learn to spice it properly. But even getting someone to cook their own cheeseburger is impossible if they are addicted to the convenience and stability of corporate food.
But I agree with your wider point. It was obvious to me that the whole “soy causes feminization via phytoestrogen” is just pesudo-scientific disinformation, but it was effective working class targeted propaganda in the USA. Undoubtedly it is the massive dairy lobby behind it all. The oil industry did the same with global warming. And every capitalist joins their bandwagon because they are all united against environmentalism of any kind, even to save their own future family members.
I also find it weird that soy farmers are the salt of the earth types who make up Trump’s base (I live in the Midwest in soybean country), and it would make sense to advance their interests. But the system isn’t logical, it is a quilt made of many swaths of corruption, some competing against each other (dairy vs soy).
Most meat taste like ass if you don’t marinate or season it at all too.
Im still struggling with the texture of the tofu, but that’s definitely user error. I can nail a flavor just as good as i could with seasoning any other protein for a meal.
Tofu isnt the only game in town either. I fucking LOVE tempeh and seitan is equally open ended but from a different angle and you can make big giant loafs
cut it up however you’d like (cubed works best) and boil it for 10-15 minutes in heavily salted water, then set it aside in a strainer or on some paper towels for a few
improves the texture immensely, no fucking around with pressing or remembering to freeze/thaw it beforehand
This is sacrilege because you are supposed to retain the shape of tofu but fuck tradition. If you like fried rice get extra firm tofu, scramble it in some spices and oil then throw it in your fried rice as it cooks. Its basically egg fried rice 10/10
Tofu scramble rocks. You can also brine it and crumble it for a feta cheese vibe, lil zaatar and you really have something
That sounds fire, thanks
Soaking in some apple cider vinegar pre brine for maximim effect. It makes ir a 2 day double soak but it is super worth it
Getting super firm or freezing, pressing, etc can get it to meat like consistency.
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