I was on the tim hortons website.... vegitarian... artificial beef?

Like with the seasonings on Lays and Hostess potato chips like Roast chicken and Gravy flavours and other's, it is not real meat in them they synthesize the flavours with veggie and yeast extracts, smoke flavour and tomato powder, like Hickory Sticks from Hostess have no real bacon in them, the key word was flavouring in the statement, I use hickory salt from the Bulk Barn for my BBQ sauce instead of Liquid smoke, as I know it is non animal based, as I use it on veggie and meat items