Happy Thanksgiving Y'all!

I had the dubious pleasure of trying a bite or two of Tofurkey the other day, handed out as a sample at Trader Joe's. I vote nay. Okay, it tastes vaguely like turkey soaked in gravy, and yes, if you shut your eyes and concentrate there is a glancing resemblance to authentic texture, if slightly glutinous, but try as I might I couldn't get past the awareness it was created in a laboratory by chemists, not in a kitchen by cooks. But then I've always felt that making something perfectly good taste like something else, the way they do with turkey baloney, is ridiculous. Of course, carrot cake tastes exactly like spice cake, so why waste all those carrots that go better with the blue cheese dip?