17 ♐ Text/Action ♐ A sudden discovery

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[Just another day of sending the robots out to do some grocery shopping for him, nothing big... Only this time, they've discovered something interesting. Meatless burgers? Meatless hotdogs? Please tell him more. He's gone so long making his own vegetarian friendly meals, this sort of thing is surprising for him.]

D --> Are there any individuals in Vatheon who could tell me more about meat analogue products?
D --> That is to say
D --> Products which mimic the texture and taste of meat but is absent of it.
D --> I would like to know more
D --> And if it's claims of being meatless are 100% true

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[And that, Vatheon, is why there are a pair of robotic greyhounds perusing the frozen food isle at your local grocery store. One with red glowing lines, the other blue. Occasionally, one of them will paw at the window to gesture to a particular vegetable burger, and the other will inspect it before shaking its head.]

[And yes, there is a shopping cart near them. At one point, the red robohound wanders off down the aisle to try and forage through the ice cream buckets curiously. Its companion just watches with a healthy measure of robojudging.]

Comments

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[topsseifer]

Like veggie burgers? Some of them are way off with the taste, but I think at some restaurant they try to season it like meat and it hits pretty close.

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D --> Yes.
D --> I see.
D --> Would you happen to know what seasonings they used?

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[topsseifer]

Garlic, paprika, salt and pepper. I think they make a meat sauce from vegetables that you can also use.

[shippingmath]

Not speaking from experience here, but it depends what you mean by meatless.

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D --> No musclebeast meat
D --> No wingbeast meat
D --> No woofbeast or purrbeast meat.
D --> Aquatic life is... manageable.

not here

[topsseifer]

[BUT PURRBEAST MEAT IS THE BEST, MAN]

[shippingmath]

Cat and Dog I bet you can avoid without any sort of problem.
But some products, even if they don't specifically use meat, use animal fat in them.

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[toreadorkabull]

tOFU,
iS A THING LIKE THAT,

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D --> Tofu I was aware of
D --> But apparently there are other edible alternatives

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[toreadorkabull]

rEALLY?
i DID NOT KNOW THAT WAS A THING,

[stayb100ponyboy]

D --> You know that meat grill I got for Gamzee
D --> The one in the backyard

D --> Turn it on so it has time to heat up

D --> I'm coming home
D --> And we're going to grill

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D --> E%ellent
D --> Consider it done
D --> The robots are bringing it all home right now.

[stayb100ponyboy]

[This is so exciting. Equius practically breaks down the fence getting into the backyard, hoping to find Darkleer at the grill.]

[bestestfurrend]

:33 < you want to eat meat that...
:33 < doesnt have any meat in it?!?!

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D --> Yes
D --> It's a very exciting discovery.

[bestestfurrend]

:33 < this is pawsibbly the most pawful thing i efur heard of DDX

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[blessedbyfarore]

There's things that taste like meat that don't have animals in it?

[...Yeah. Colour Link interested.]

[Voice]

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That is the report I am getting from my robots.

[He can't help but sound a little excited about this.]

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[blessedbyfarore]

So I can have things like burgers again?

[Definitely interested! He's not great at cooking himself, but maybe he can convince the restaurants to start making them...]

I didn't eat meat much in Hyrule, but I did here, then I worked out where it came from... [And yeah, kind of disconcerting to tuck into a beef product when you've previously had a nice conversation with a cow.]

[Voice]

[dotthedisconnect]

Chemistry, my friend. What you’re referring to is called in vitro meat, and it’s effectively synthetic, lab-grown flesh. It can be grown from cell cultures, and chemical additives may be used to affect flavor. There are also plant-based alternatives that merely imitate the texture and taste without attempting to artificially recreate the meat itself.

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I see... We did not have such a food on Alternia, at least I do not believe so.

[After a while he stopped looking. There was determined and then there was a lost cause, after all.]

Have you ever tried any of those options?

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[dotthedisconnect]

Of course. Agriculture isn't widely feasible on Acmetropolis, so much of our food supply that isn't imported from off-world is similarly produced.

[fistfullofmagic]

...Meat analogue products...?

[He's trying to recall if those existed on his homeworld, and drawing a blank.]

...I do not understand the point of this concept.

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D --> Some individuals, such as myself, my matesprit, and my descendent do not eat meat
D --> Having a fake meat to eat would open up our dietary choices
D --> And also possibly make it easier on those we care for who like meat

[fistfullofmagic]

That does make sense. I suppose I had forgotten some are herbivores by choice, having been an omnivore by necessity for most of my life.