# A vegetarian unknowingly eats meat... **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-vegetarian-unknowingly-eats-meat/609556 **Category:** In My Humble Opinion **Created:** [January 15, 2012, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-vegetarian-unknowingly-eats-meat/609556 "2012-01-15T00:59:26Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 12
### Author: ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC) #### Post date: [January 15, 2012, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-vegetarian-unknowingly-eats-meat/609556/12 "2012-01-15T02:28:53Z")
> [@astro](#): > > I’m having trouble with your setup because it assumes a level of ignorance about meat that’s pretty astounding unless she was raised in a vegetarian commune. I don’t follow. As a meatatarian I eat a lot of chicken, among lots of other tasty, meaty critters, but I’ve also had a lot of vegetarian meat analogues and I can honestly tell you, when heavily breaded and drowned in sauce a la sweet and sour “chicken,” even I can barely tell the difference without dissecting a piece. I am continually surprised at how well they can make high-quality TVP imitate chicken (other meats not so much, but they’ve got chicken down). My GF has been a veggie over 3/4 of her life, a good 26 years or so. For all intents and purposes at this point, that’s essentially her entire life, at least regarding this particular aspect of it. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-vegetarian-unknowingly-eats-meat/609556)._