# Ode to Soy **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 5, 2003, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ode-to-soy/193059 "2003-08-05T05:37:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dignan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Dignan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dignan)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ode-to-soy/193059/1 "2003-08-05T05:37:05Z")
Soy: It’s not just for fueling buses anymore! I got some of these soy crisps, and man are they tasty! The bag tells me I need 25g of soy protein every day; I figure I should try to top that by going to a diet entirely made up of soy. OK, maybe not entirely. Anyway, good stuff. Are soy crisps sweeping the nation or is it just in the midwest? ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ode-to-soy/193059/2 "2003-08-05T05:40:13Z")
Have you tried soyburgers, soymilk, and soy nuts yet? ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ode-to-soy/193059/3 "2003-08-05T06:48:43Z")
Soyburgers are good, but I can’t stand that loose soy meat. I tried to make lasagna out of it and it was awful. ---
**Author:** ![MidnightRadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ode-to-soy/193059/4 "2003-08-05T07:03:18Z")
I love [Silk Soymilk](http://whitewave.com/index.php?id=34)! I _really_ love it on cereal. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ode-to-soy/193059/5 "2003-08-05T07:04:21Z")
Carnivore who likes soy checking in. I recently got a box of egg rolls at Sam’s. I noticed on the box that they contained soy protein as well as pork. ‘Sheesh,’ I thought to myself, ‘if soy protein needs to be used as a filler, this is certainly the place!’. ---
**Author:** ![turner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@turner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/turner)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ode-to-soy/193059/6 "2003-08-06T00:40:45Z")
Also a recent soy convert. Hint: For Soy burgers get Boca’s GRILLERS–not the regular hamburgers which taste like crap. Also, Boca soy italian sausage is good in a bun if you add peppers and onions for some texture–they’re a little mushy otherwise. There’s nothing you can do about the smoked sausage though–they’re just bad. I guess that defines a real carnivore–I’ll eat vegetables as long as they tase like meat! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![International\_Playboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/48db29/32.png) [@International\_Playboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/International_Playboy)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ode-to-soy/193059/7 "2003-08-06T01:50:12Z")
Syncronicity! I just got my first box of various soy products in the mail last night. And I was just thinking I may be a soy convert before seeing this topic. Didn’t like what the scale said at the doctor’s office a couple of weeks ago and decided something needs to be done about it. Or I need new clothes. Almost bought some Nutri-Systems meals but my charge card squawked at paying around $300/month for meals. I was going to try a week’s worth to see if I liked it. May still try it in the future. Anyway, I searched for other options and found a company called Revival Soy. They had pretty good information on their website, so I ordered some drinks, soy bars and baked pasta crisps. Pertty good stuff! Had a chocolate drink blended with lowfat milk and a banana for breakfast. It was pretty filling and rivaled the flavor of Nestle’s Quick. Much better than Slim-Fast. Have also eaten a couple of different bars, one last night and the other for dessert at lunch. They’re similar to a rice crispy bar. Then had the pasta chips for a late afternoon snack. Their directions for weight loss is to replace a meal with a drink or a bar. I could see a drink maybe, like I did for breakfast, but I would still be wanting food if I relied on just a bar. Going to try a drink tomorrow, blended with orange juice, plain yogurt and a banana for lunch. They also recommend eating a lot of fruit and vegetables. I don’t know how successful I’ll be at weight loss, but they also say that soy helps cholesterol and high blood pressure levels, two things I’m being treated for. I do know that I was pleasantly surprised how good everything tasted. I’ve been thinking of trying soy burgers for years now, so thanks for the tip there Turner. Being a former “patty boy” at a local slaughter house (I ran the patty making machine), I made soy/meat burguers for the local schools. The soy there was for filler more than health reasons and was sort of an oatmeal looking product, I want to say its color was either green or purple, before it was mixed with the meat. I remember eating those kind of burgers in school and thought they weren’t too bad.