No, this is not a porn review.

I really thought that when I became (pseudo) vegetarian, summer would be excruciating. I thought that not being able to have hot dogs and hamburgers would suck the most during barbecue season, but then I realized…it’s not like there’s a whole lot of discernible meat in hot dogs or most store-bought hamburgers. In fact, hot dogs taste nothing like meat…they just taste like a slightly unpleasant excuse to eat a bun with some condiments on it. Therefore, veggie dogs — which I’ve had a few times now — taste just fine because…well, you can’t taste them. Like I said, they’re just bun, mustard, relish and bbq sauce delivery vehicles.

The lack of hamburger hasn’t hurt me either. I actually have access to a lot of very good veggie burgers all year round — Hero Burger, the nearby Jason George pub, the Auld Spot — but GB also showed us how to make very tasty burgers (the vegetable/lentil type, like the Auld Spot’s, not the meat-replica type) which we tend to only do on the barbecue.

I don’t really miss steak that much…I liked it, but I never craved it. What I do miss is barbecued Italian sausage. I tried the tofu version last night; again, you can mask the fact that it probably doesn’t taste very good with condiments, but it was definitely missing the sausage-y flavour. But for every n sausages that I don’t eat some pig lives, so I can suck it up.

[tags]veggie burger, veggie dog[/tags]