Healthy Eating / Healthy Living

[Alex]

Well, on the subject of ingredient replacement.

I was on my lunchtime walk and decided to get a sandwich from a local artisan bakery (Semifreddi's for those who know it). There special of the week is a vegan egg salad sandwich. "Tastes just like regular egg salad" the sign said "with the benefits of eating tofu."

I have no problem with tofu and wanted to know for a fact (as opposed to a strong suspicion) that it didn't really taste just like egg salad.

It wasn't bad by any means. Except that it tasted nothing like egg salad (though it certainly looked like egg salad). So, as an egg salad substitute it was awful.

This I don't really understand. Why lie about it? Just say "tofu salad sandwich that is something like egg salad; trust us, it's good!" These lies about it just give tofu a bad name for failing to be what the proponents claim.

But if I see it, I'd consider having it again. Though if I were making it myself at home I'd go ahead and use real mayonnaise rather than the substitute they had, that was the weakest element.