I was recently browsing Peta's home page, and I found this:

http://www.vegcooking.com/holiday-faux.asp

I'm no child, and I won't reject this out of hand, but to be God-honest, this seems terrible. I just can't picture the family getting together around the table, knife in hand, and carving a Tofu glob .

Thus Totse, try and give me some perspective. How good, or bad, are these pseudo-fowls? Experiences, opinions, and whatnot are welcome.

When my cousin was in her veggie-phase she cooked, for herself, a tofu turkey "log". Not really sure the brand or anything, but it was shaped like a log. It tasted just like turkey, or pretty close to it, and wasn't horrible.

I've had tofurkey and tofu-chicken (breasts, buffalo wings) products before. Neither one is any bit of a legitimate simulacrum for the animal they're named after.
They're not bad just because they don't taste like real meat, but they taste absolutely nothing like real meat. If you want to feed tofurkey to a group of people who is used to and expecting real turkey, they're going to be horribly disappointed. Not to say tofurkey has no use as a food, but it definitely does not replace turkey in terms of taste.
Basically, the only people I've met who think tofurkey tastes like real turkey are people that haven't had real turkey in at least 5 years and have forgotten what it actually tastes like.

meat shaped tofu things dont taste right.

i dont mind vegetarian food, but if your doing thanksgiving, it would be a better option to just leave the turkey out and indulge in potatoes etc

I've seen recipes, and they use lots of soy. I'll have to try this to see for myself. Somehow a soy log doesn't say Thanksgiving to me...

I'm vegan and I wouldn't eat one of those things :eek:

I'm old-school vegan. Rice, beans, fruit, and veggies for me.

meat shaped tofu things dont taste right.

i dont mind vegetarian food, but if your doing thanksgiving, it would be a better option to just leave the turkey out and indulge in potatoes etc

This.

Pretty much all the vegetarians that I know, and certainly I, far, far prefer just to have some nice vegetables and other trimmings (stuffing etc) rather than some microprotiens shaped into a brick, and with some 'turkey flavoring'

Alternatively, some people go in for nut roasts, stuffed mushrooms, that kind of thing for roasts....far better than cardboard 'sausages'.

That said, the linda maccartney branded veggie sausage rolls are delicious, made froim shredded soy I think, rather than horrible, bland quorn stuff. Qorun has its place, and that's as a mince in chilli or whatever. that is all.

meat shaped tofu things dont taste right.

i dont mind vegetarian food, but if your doing thanksgiving, it would be a better option to just leave the turkey out and indulge in potatoes etc

Yeah, seems like it would make more sense to just make vegetarian dishes that you know are going to be good (hey you can still have stuffing, mashed potatoes, rolls, cranberry sauce....pretty much everything but the turkey in the traditional thanksgiving dinner sense). I mean if you have enough, you don't need a main course that is shaped like an animal but is made out of beans. That's silly.