• Stamets@lemmy.worldOP
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      12 hours ago

      Yeah, it’s just plant based. Some of them are awful, other ones are shockingly good. Texture is usually pretty much the same. Basically like lactose free cheese now a days. 5 years ago it was plastic but now you can’t tell the difference.

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        9 hours ago

        I made the mistake of ordering a pizza with vegan cheese a few years ago. It smelled and tasted rancid, in an overbearingly chemical way. I didn’t finish it.

        In terms of ethical veganism, what happened to the genetically engineered yeasts that produced cow casein, and looked like a promising way of making animal-free dairy products?

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        12 hours ago

        Example pizza with vegan cheese:

        (Source: My dinner on Friday.)

        This one is 50% Daiya smoked Gouda block and 50% store brand veg Mozzarella.

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      This is my favorite sliced one. Some others are very oily when melted. Others are sweet. Others need to be cast into a deep pit, never to see the light of day again.