I'm not troubled by substitute meat. I get it. I also think it's extra charming that substitute meat names are like porn titles in that they take perfectly pleasant words skew them just so. It's loveable.
But just because they don't contain meat doesn't mean they shouldn't follow common sense. I did some investigating, and Tofurky is apparently pronounced "toe-fur-kee" and not "toe-foor-kee." This means that the "turkey" root of the word is controlling the middle syllable, and not the "tofu" part of the word. And yet... the word isn't spelled "tofurkey."
I accept this choice to refrain from meat. But I draw the line at bad grammar.
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