Ha ha. It’s all nourishment from the breast of Mother Earth. Technically speaking, soymilk is an aqueous extract of soybean protein, similar to latte di mandorla (almond milk), coconut cream, and coffee.
Silk even makes special soy “creamer” for coffee. Their soymilk packages are printed with fun trivia and haiku. Like…
soy cows do not moo
they are udderly silent
unless they stampede
After getting used to soymilk, I felt I had grown accustomed to its distillation of the pure white sweet smooth essence of the best notes of milk flavor. After that, drinking cow milk had a definite whiff of the beast in it, the kingdom Animalia, the smell of cow hides. The history of cow ranching from its mythology in the American West back to its mythology involving Krsna, Radha, and the other cowgirls (gopis).
I enjoy all the “fake meats” much more than real meat (particularly Morningstar Farms…mmmm). Also, any recipe made with ground beef is infinitely better made with crumbled tempeh instead!
I’ve been drinking diet soda for so long it’s what soda is, to me. I actually don’t like the full-sugared sodas due to the way they make my lips all sticky. But I’m not much of a soda drinker anyway.
Lean Pockets taste better than normal Hot Pockets. The bread is flakier and tastier and the contents aren’t any different. Of course, this might only apply to the barbecue Pockets, as I refuse to eat any Hot Pockets that have cheese sauce in them.
Add me in as preferring diet to regular soda. Regular’s far too sweet, while diet’s a better palate cleanser.
Count me as another who prefers diet soda to regular. Diet soda is my default soda- I only drink regular when my stomach is upset and I’m trying to settle it.
I prefer skim milk to any other kind of milk.
I prefer Morningstar Farms veggie sausage patties and veggie bacon to real sausage patties and bacon (good thing now that I keep kosher).
I’ve preferred whole wheat bread to white bread from age 8 or so.
I like whipped cream cheese much better than regular cream cheese. Whipped cream cheese is a lot closer in calories to light than to regular.
As you can see, we have a large dispute over whther Diet soda “tastes great- tastes terrible”. The answer is both. You have to get used to either. For those of you drinking a lot of Sugared soda and who want to cut out a few calories, I suggest the following. For 1-4 weeks, drink ONLY diet soda (and Cyrstal lite and such). NO SUGARED SODAS AT ALL, NOT EVEN A TINY TASTE. Try not to use platic straws (drink straight from the cup!) and try to add some lime or lemon slices if you can.
I can personally guarantee you that after 1-4 weeks, Diet soda will taste “normal” and sugar soda will taste syrupy and nasty.
First off, some of you people are just plain nasty.
I won’t mention any names.
The only one of these I agree with is diet pop. When I found out I was diabetic, I switched and now I can’t stand regular pop (not supposed to have it anyway, but every once in a while i get a sip).
Someone mentioned thin crust pizza which I prefer, but I never thought of it as healthier.
Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper kicks ass. Even the original Dr. Pepper’s ass.
I’ll second that! I’ll even take it a step further, since my preferred variety of natural is Trader Joe’s crunchy unsalted. Nothin’ but ground-up peanuts.
For veggie meats, my favorite thing to do is to buy Gimme Lean (the TVP stuff in a tube like Jimmy Dean is sold), smush it into a mixing bowl, and add lots and lots of herbs, spices, and olive oil. You end up with a greasy proteiny mixture that actually has some of the good mouthfeel and heat of sausage instead of the dry bland stuff that usually gets passed off as meat analog.
It’s not better than great sausage (burundi gets, as one of her job benefits, cheap sausage from an organic farm, and that stuff is damn tasty), but it’s much better than the cheap crap you’ll get at a diner.
how weird; I came in here to post that Reduced Fat Jif peanut butter is better than regular, and it’s already been posted twice. @_@
well, Reduced Fat Skippy is also better than regular, so there.
I prefer the taste of Sweet N’ Low in my tea to sugar, and Equal in my coffee. they’re more efficient, too-- takes about half as much artificial as it does plain sugar.
