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Morningstar Veggie Bacon Strips Get Panned.

By Ann Bartow

Here. Below is a salty excerpt:

First impressions: when you open the packaging, you’re hit by a pretty assertive synthetic aroma, an almost-but-not-quite right recreation of the meaty, smoky bacon smell. This eerie sort of Bacon Uncanny Valley continued into the visual ? check out the pictures, this fake bacon just looked like unchewed sticks of gum. It made me anxious ? some primordial fear inside me clicked on, because the stuff just does not look like food.

Sadly, it did not occur to the reviewista to wash them down with a couple of cans of this:

Full post as published by Feminist Law Professors on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).