Fake Chicken salad: not identical ... but OK!

Here's my update to my last post on Whole Foods Vegan "Chick'n" salad:

It's make with these soy-based vegan-approved strips. I don't see how anybody thought it was identical to the real chicken version. For one thing it's much less dense. The carton of the actual stuff I get at Whole Food's is only 1/2 full for 1/2 pound (my limit so I don't eat until I burst!), but I asked for a pound of the vegan version and a carton full to overflowing of the vegan stuff was only 0.88 lb.

But: it tasted like chicken and tasted OK, to my omnivore's tastebuds. I won't go out of my way to get the vegan version in the future, but if served this I would absolutely not feel deprived.

Fake Chicken now as good as the real thing?

I stumbled upon Whole Foods' curried chicken salad a couple of years ago in preparing for a potluck. It was so good I ate most of it myself!

I have been avoiding the 'curried vegan chick'n salad' as not possibly as good, but apparently I was wrong! The New York Times carried this article a couple of days ago, claiming that a batch of customers accidentally getting the vegan version, could not tell the difference.

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool omnivore, but I've got to give this a try. I'll report back here next week.