{"id":4554,"date":"2009-03-25T08:20:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T12:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=4554"},"modified":"2009-03-25T08:20:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T12:20:28","slug":"review-yves-meatless-pepperoni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2009\/03\/review-yves-meatless-pepperoni\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Yves Meatless Pepperoni"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Yves

Yves Meatless Pepperoni<\/p><\/div>\n

Guys don’t even ask me what I was thinking when I bought this product.\u00a0 Usually, I try to stay away from imitation meat products.\u00a0 Yes, I’ll eat a Morningstar or Boca something-or-other every so often but it’s not a huge part of my diet.\u00a0 So why I picked up these meatless pepperoni slices is beyond me.<\/p>\n

Maybe I was looking for a healthier version of pepperoni because let’s face it, pepperoni is some scary shit.\u00a0 Tasty with just the right amount of spice and kick, but damn scary.<\/p>\n

Side tangent, did anyone else grow up eating hot pepperoni sandwiches? Sandwich pepperoni (or little rounds if that’s all you got), some cheese, on a bun, wrapped in foil and heated in the oven till melty warm.\u00a0 It’s mighty fine eats.\u00a0 As long as you don’t think too hard about what makes up that pepperoni. ;)<\/p>\n

Anyway, back to the review!\u00a0 I tried reading the ingredient list but that ended up being a crazy long tale that didn’t seem to have a plot so I left it alone.\u00a0 Plus it made me realize how much processing and manipulation it takes to get something that is not meat to resemble meat and that made me nervous.\u00a0 Wait. Isn’t that same thing for regular pepperoni as well?<\/p>\n

\"Meatless

Meatless Pepperoni Slice <\/p><\/div>\n

Maybe it is<\/em> just like pepperoni?!\u00a0 I pulled it out of the package and it was sort of slick like regular pepperoni.\u00a0 I smelled it and I’ll be dang, it smelled\u00a0 just like pepperoni too!\u00a0 Well this was starting to look promising and all my negative thoughts were receding.<\/p>\n

However the look of it isn’t so appealing.\u00a0 I think they tried a bit too hard here.\u00a0 I mean, we all know that pepperoni has some nasty bits in it and typically they are small so we can easily shove the sight to the back of our minds.\u00a0 But Yves lets you know there are mysterious things in this fake pepperoni slice by making them gigantic!<\/p>\n

As if to say, “Oh so you want to eat pepperoni, do ya?\u00a0 Well here’s a meatless version and just for good measure we threw in some huge gelatinous unidentifiable vegetable matter!\u00a0 Chew on this suckas!”<\/p>\n

Or something.<\/p>\n

So while it smelled like pepperoni and was slippery like pepperoni, it did not taste nor have the texture of pepperoni.\u00a0 This slice was very soft and there was almost new chew to it at all.\u00a0 I didn’t care for it and couldn’t even eat an entire little slice.\u00a0 I called in Scott.\u00a0 He’s my backup, because if I won’t eat something he usually will. \u00a0 I had him try a plain one and then one I heated up in a skillet.\u00a0 He didn’t like them.\u00a0 He also did not think they looked or smelled like pepperoni, so we differ there.<\/p>\n

The packaged ended up getting tossed.\u00a0 I wouldn’t even think about eating these again nor would I even purchase another Yves meatless product.\u00a0 Yves gets an A for effort but the taste and texture just quite aren’t there.\u00a0 They deserve a beer for giving it a good old college try (and to help wash down the nastiness that is the meatless pepperoni)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guys don’t even ask me what I was thinking when I bought this product.\u00a0 Usually, I try to stay away from imitation meat products.\u00a0 Yes, I’ll eat a Morningstar or Boca something-or-other every so often but it’s not a huge part of my diet.\u00a0 So why I picked up these meatless pepperoni slices is beyond […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-1bs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}