MorningStar's Garden Veggie Patties
I didn't think I was going to like MorningStar's Garden Veggie Patties after looking at the ingredients and the picture on the box, but I was pleasantly surprised.
The patties further cemented my opinion that brown rice-based alt-burgers are the way to go if you're making a veggie-oriented alt-burger. The rice offers a nice glue to hold the patty together, and it provides a good texture and taste. The best example of a brown rice alt-burger is Gardenburger's California Burger.
The Garden Veggie Patties suffered only from the veggies they chose to include in "chunk" form in the burger. I'm not a huge fan of bell peppers, and these burgers had conspicious chunks of them. If you're a bell pepper fan, this may be a plus, but for me it wasn't. MorningStar also included mushrooms and black olives in the patties. I don't mind mushrooms, but black olives are less than pleasant to me to say the least. If I was locked in a room with only olives for sustenance, I would expire...quickly. And while I couldn't tell from one bite to the next if I was eating an olive chunk, just the thought of potentially eating one caused me some discomfort.
Overall, these tasted good - anchored by the brown rice. I would get these again, but only if they were being offered at an attractive sale price.
