Lately, I have found myself purchasing fancy vegetarian organic foods, for reasons I can not entirely explain, but that might have something to do with being fed these foods as a small child. In that spirit, I bought some "Lemon Pepper Tofu with Mango Chipotle Dipping Sauce." It bills itself as a finger food, ready straight out of the package.
The words are just bursting with flavor! Spicy chipotle! Succulent mango! Exotic lemon pepper! You can taste it just looking at the name!
Unfortunately, you can not taste it by eating it. This stuff is, in fact, kind of slimy and bland and unappealing. I expect this is what Soylent Green must taste like. This has shattered my illusions of being a closet organic eco-crunchy vegan. Now excuse me as I go microwave my organic vegetarian whole-wheat-spinach-feta hot pocket.
My kitchen is: Tidy, and just waiting for the cleaner to put on the shine. Life is pretty good!
Posted by andrea at July 22, 2003 12:29 PMTOFU? What were you thinking? There was a reason I never fed you tofu in with all the other organic health food. I tried it. My experience is that it stubbornly refuses to taste like anything, and has a surprisingly unpleasant texture, too. I would consider silken tofu in a smoothie, but only because I really detest banana.
Posted by: cathyy on July 23, 2003 09:14 AMCongratulations, Sis!
How would you know what good food is, if you never tasted anything truly horrible?!?!!
*dies laughing*