They're promoted as Amy's organic veggie burgers.
Freshly cooked and hot off the grill I'm inclined to agree, but we know that's not how burgers are served in Amtrak dining cars ANY day of the week. I love a great meatburger as much as the next guy (assuming the next guy isn't a Vegan), but unless and until a truly good Amburger becomes available, veggie is the superior offering.
Once you hang out at a feedlot for eight hours, you might change your mind on that one....
I love a great real burger, in fact could eat them every day. However, I recall watching a show a while ago on The Travel Channel, or Food Network about a lady who took over this diner in California that server all sorts of veggie dishes. Over the years she perfected her veggie burger so that even burger fans didn't know they were eating a veggie burger until they were told.
I'll have to try the veggie burger next time, but I thought the cheeseburger on the LSL was quite satisfactory, given the constraints the cook is operating under. It wasn't exactly an amazing burger, but much better than I expected, and certainly better than a McDonald's or Burger King type of burger.
Oh, the trick is to get it with bacon. You'll get some funny looks, but a bacon-cheese Amy's burger is pretty darn good. I'm wondering if the new chipotle black bean burger is the same product Costco sells.
I'm not a veggie; but I do sometimes eat veggie burgers and other veggie food. Personally; I prefer veggie burgers (or other veggie food) that don't (try) to taste like meat. Often the veggie stuff that tries to taste like meat ends up being a poor replica of it. If I want to eat something that tastes like meat then I'll eat meat.
>>Once you hang out at a feedlot for eight hours, you might change your mind on that one....<<
Try 15 minutes - that might be enough
To me the idea of a veggie burger is not to try to match a hamburger, if i want a hamburger I'll get one - and back when I was a vegetarian, I didn't try to eat non meat items that tasted like meat -
But a good veggie burger is a nice thing - I am going to get some on our LSL/CZ trip coming up this Nov -
Best to all,
David
Being a vegetarian is generally hypocritical in so many ways. Some people never notice the hypocrisy- it implies that one type of living organism is somehow higher then another, for one thing - and will go on being it forever. Some people know the hypocrisy but do it for other reasons, or are comfortably reconciled with it. And other people give up on it when they realize that there is no good reason why we shouldn't eat meat as just another member on the food chain.
Well, you're looking at it exclusively from an animal rights perspective. The real argument for vegetarianism in my mind is the idea of 'eating lower on the food chain.' The amount of energy that goes into the production of a pound of beef is staggeringly different than the amount of energy required to produce the same level of food from plants. It's just much more efficient to eat lower on the food chain.
There are so many different reasons people want to be veggies, that being one of them. That one makes more sense to my logic then most.
As opposed to sounding generally ignorant by implying that cattle are no more complex than the grass that they eat? How about not using "hypocritical" incorrectly?
Many animals are unethically killed in the farming of crops. And cattle are no more complex then the grass they eat. In fact, I'd say that the grass is more complex since it can manage to power itself, is more adaptive, and much more resilient. Either way, they both consist of living cells.
Trouble is you have eaten most of them before all that happens....
