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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Has fake chicken gotten significantly better in recent years? A couple years ago I dated a vegetarian and while fake chicken was perfectly fine and I liked it, it was still a very different taste to chicken.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

It's interesting that it's the taste that threw you off, usually texture is the bigger one for me. Chicken flavour primarily comes from the fat rather than the meat so I always assumed that was the easy part to replicate. We've had wildly popular meat-free chicken flavoured products for decades and that was just to make a cheaper product before meat-free was popular, it could just be that I'm too used to artificial chicken flavours. It's relatively easy to find meat-free chicken (or beef) stock these days too.