I am a vegetarian, so I use fake meat to make sloppy joes and they don't tear up your bowels Believe it or not but it pretty much tastes the same. I works with chili too, but tastes horrible with tacos. I had the horrible shits today, but I was all nervous because I had to have two moles biopsied. Now I have stitches in my back and on the side of one of my boobs. I swear, when I get nervous, I have the bowels of a pigeon.