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HN seems to think this is a good idea... it looks like TVP, Textured Vegetable Protein is the primary source of protein in this mix. Have you eaten TVP? It wa
by lsc 16y ago
HN seems to think this is a good idea... it looks like TVP, Textured Vegetable Protein is the primary source of protein in this mix.
Have you eaten TVP? It was a staple of my childhood. It is not something I would want to consume more than once a week or so. You can turn it into something that almost passes for sloppy joes? but really, I'd place it a few rungs below tofu on the ladder of foods I'd like to eat.
I mean, to be clear, I'm sure it's fine food for when TSHTF or what have you. I'm just saying; if I had to eat that stuff every day? yeah, I'd go nuts.
From the product description:
"The taste and texture of TVP (Textured Vegetable Protein) is consistent with real meat, making it a great addition to vegetarian diets"
Uh, this makes me wonder if the person writing that has either never tasted meat or never tasted TVP or both? Now, the TVP sloppy joes my mom used to make weren't bad (you know, maybe once a week) but nobody is going to confuse TVP with meat. even that mechanically separated meat that was featured in another article. TVP is another thing entirely.
- rdl 16y agoWhy would anyone feed their children TVP? Were your parents vegetarians, or cheap (and not very creative about food)?
- lsc 16y agolet's just say a little bit of both. I ate a lot of tofu and rice plus nutritional yeast, too. My parents had me and then left the commune shortly thereafter (oh shit, we have a kid! we have to move out and get real jobs now!) with no real career experience, so they were raising a kid on 'entry level' state employee wages, which isn't much. (now, state employee retirement pensions, on the other hand? pretty nice. All my younger siblings got as much college as they wanted paid for.) as far as health goes, TVP, as far as I can tell, is pretty okay. It's one of the few (single source) vegetarian sources of complete protein.
- easp 16y agoIt sounds like you were probably a child of the 70's. It wasn't exactly a decade of plenty, and even with money, good eating often meant overcooked roast or steak and potatoes, or maybe stinky fish. The only garlic available in most places was a near delicacy, two small heads in an open fronted box wrapped in cellophane.
- lsc 16y agoI was born in '80. (I'm weeks from turning 30.) rdl mostly had it, I think. My parents were mostly vegetarian, and they were poor, or at least wise enough to dump every penny they could get into real-estate.