Before cooking it looks like this:
After cooking it looks like this:
And it tastes worse than it looks!!!
I actually ate that vile "food" during my vegetarian and vegan years. The plain "Tofurky" drumsticks with gravy were acceptable but the stuffed thing was atrocious.
The next 2 years I simply ate a grain-based field roast on holidays, which tasted much nicer. Then I got smart and decided to "return to the dark side" and became a happy carnivore again - MUCH better!
I've actually had Tofurky at holidays for years....With 2 Vegan siblings and their families, it's no biggie (and I like it).
In fact it saved Thanksgiving by being the TURKEY the year that an AuntIL and SILIL got in a weird mood and fixed BBQ butt instead of Turkey....with cheap buns even.
Oh, that was also the year we ate off of a 4th of July plastic table cloth and kiddie Birthday paper plates with weird SILIL in her bathrobe and her hubby out back fixing his truck.
Since then, we (the Martha Stewart Divas) don't let them do (The ILIL) anything more than bring the iced tea (We hide the wine) and fix both Turkey and Tofurkey....
It wouldn't be Thanksgiving without it!