I was amazed at the cognitive dissonance of people pretending it tasted good, when I similarly remarked that many of those types of products were regularly disc

I was amazed at the cognitive dissonance of people pretending it tasted good, when I similarly remarked that many of those types of products were regularly discounted because their sell-by date was too close. On the same shelf, just one inch to the left, you would be hard pressed to find a discounted meat product that sticks around more than a few hours. And usually, it's the large quantities or specialty items that not many want/know how to deal with. All those fake meat products were bound to fail because once you remove the ideology, they are just bad products. If at least they could be cheap, they could make sense as a substitute for something better but that's not even the case. If you have to eat bad tasting plant-based product, you might as well eat shitty tofu, at least it's somewhat cheaper (still ridiculously overpriced).