You can soon buy 'meat' from America's first vegan butcher

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Source: Mashable

Go to your local butcher, and you're more likely to find "dead cow" than "seasonal farro." But over in Minneapolis, Minnesota, two vegan chefs are hoping to reinvent the traditional American palette.

Aubry and Kale Walch started a Kickstarter over a year ago, hoping to open their very own local vegan butcher shop, "The Herbivorous Butcher." The two had spent years perfecting their very own meat-free meats. When the store opens on Jan. 23, the two plan to offer 35 vegan meats, cheeses, and butters.

While many in the carnivore community might pooh-pooh the idea of vegan meats, the Walches stand behind their concept.

"We even sampled our products at the Minnesota State Fair, which isn't heralded for their vegan selection with a focus on deep-fried food, so we expected a lot of opposition and skepticism, but the pattern remained the same. People that never tried a vegan meat or cheese before saw that a more ethical diet was more than possible — indeed, quite delicious," Kale told Mashable.

More: http://mashable.com/2016/01/06/vegan-butcher/#SmSIDraXGSqf

[RKP5637]

1. I've had it before and it's incredibly good. My only problem was where I got it it was rather

expensive.

[DetlefK]

2. Don't like that stuff. The texture when chewing is nothing like meat.

The third pic looks like a loaf of german Fleischkäse (a sort of meatloaf made from very finely minced meat).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leberk%C3%A4se

Taste is debatable (fry it and but some sauce on it and anything is edible), but what really turns me off is that behind a crunchy crust these meat-surrogates don't have the chewy fibers and textures of meat.