MOCK MEATS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 139, 6 March 1908, Page 10

MOCK MEATS.

The contention;of Mr., Eustace Miles thai

J the. entire secret* of a non-meat diet is for paoplo' to take to mock-meats has-caused some l excitement among vegetarians. 'A diner at'the Eustace Miles Restaurant,London, makes a. vigorous protest—"on behalf of himself and.many of his friends"— .against what ho describes as a most pernicious doctrine. "To my .mind^'Yho-says, "these moekmeat disbes, thcco steaks mado of boans, crabs made cf cheese, ■ turkeys made" .of rice, or pates dp foic-gras made of mushrooms/ are simply disgusting. "It is all very fine for Mr. Eustaco Miles to say: 'Our object is to awaken people's curiosity, .- to interest them, to make them almost bclicvo they arc eating their ordinary meat dishes.' s Apparently ho does not stop how • ho. may annoy one class of patrons by so -doing, and go far to encourago another to continue to'rejoico in tho llavour of meats, •s' ■ . '

l'or years I liavo avoided eating meat, and 1-Jiavo avoided even seeing it as much as possible. It is very repulsivo to have to sit in; a typical grill-room where ra;v meat is displayed. A mock steal; placed before 0110 is nearly as bad as a real steak. : I saw ono' t.,e other day which exactly resembled the genuine article in appearance, oven to a fringing of fat; and there was a sauce to it with tho taste, of real gravy. ''Now, to a non-meat oater, tho smell and taste of meat either disgust, as in my case, or, as in tile case of a man'who is trying to break off the meat habit, attract, excite, and inspire dreams of how good a real juicy: steak would be. J' 10 inock-meat experts say what they will, their mock steaks are very inferior to real steaks, and-their mock turkeys to real turkeys." ■ '