Results: Amused By Names For Vegan Substitutes

A vegan restaurant I enjoy regularly serves animal-free equivalents of African-American/Southeastern U.S. soul food dishes. But I'd long wondered whether chitterlings could be simulated that way. Yes. They. Can! That vegan eatery I patronize has yet to serve them, but during my latest visit there I saw a flier from a vegan soul food catering business advertising its Thanksgiving Day deals, among them being vegan chittlins. The lady responsible for the fare at the eatery seemed hesitant to prepare them for her patrons, but I remain intrigued. Original, non-vegan chitterligs/chittlins, which are pig intestines, are, in my experience, becoming increasingly difficult to find at soul food restaurants, so my excitement for then and a non-critter alternative may make me among a slim subsection of diners, Would or have you ever eat(en) either mammalian and/or vegan chitlins?

If you're at all familiar with vegan eating, you likely know that plant-based alternatives to what were originally animal-derived dishes are often given different names, likely to avoid anyone's confusion as to their ingredients' origin. The vegan caterers' referenced in the previous question call their faux chitterlings chitti-lings. They're called vitlins in a recipe for the same dish I found online. Even if you'd never eat pig innards or a tofu skin approximation of them, which name for the latter do you prefer?

As should be evident from this survey's title, I enjoy vegan dining (though I'm not committed to it as a full-on lifestyle choice) and often find the names given to animal product substitutes funny. Which of the following such names amuse you?

If you know fo any other fun(ny) names for vegan meat dish substites, how about sharing at least one you know or have made up--even on the spot while you're taking this poll!--how about sharing them in a comment below?

Composing this poll got me thinking about what other animal products could be simulated plant-wise--or, maybe, already are-- and their potentiallly chuckle-worthy names. Which of these you think of any words for critter-free alteratives for the follow foods (and if you can. please share)?