I was really in the mood for homemade pizza last night, so I went out for toppings. After sitting through traffic backed up for a mile due to a light being out from the storm, and after stopping and going by Aldi after learning their power went out, and after driving through nearly 3" of water on Brainerd Road, I made it to Walmart on fumes. I picked up a few regular ingredients, and then decided to try something different for the "meat." In the cereal aisle, in the "Vegetarian" section there was a product called Mun Cha'i-Ya (Peking Vegetarian Roast Duck), and it was only $2.68 or something, for a can. Ingredients: Gluten, Water, Soybean Oil, Soybean Extract, Salt, Sugar. Honestly I bought it because I didn't want to spend $5 on real meat. I am cheap, but this is already a known fact, so no surprise...and I figured, let's see if Jon can tell that this isn't meat, hehe.
So when I opened the can, and poured out the juice, out comes this can-shaped chunk of simulated "duck" onto my cutting board. Ha, it did kind of gross me out, and I smelled it a few times to make sure it was something I wanted to feed to my boyfriend. I think the strangest part was that the stuff had a bird feathers bumpy texture to it, which obviously had to have been stamped into the side of these gluten chunks. I cut it up into small pieces and spread it over the pizza, followed by a few layers of parmesan and shredded mozzarella cheese to hide anything too obviously in question.
While the pizza baked, I was chatting to Nathan and making fun of my ingredient and I told him I wasn't going to tell Jon what it was until after he'd eaten it.. However I got up to do something, Jon came in, took a seat at my compy, and nosily read through our conversation without me knowing. I hear a "HA!" And I was like "what?" Hehe, so the surprise was spoiled, but it's alright. The Peking didn't really taste like anything anyway. It still creeps me out a bit.
Ironically as we ate the pizza, the episode of the Simpsons was on in which Lisa becomes a vegetarian, and tries to push her views onto Springfield. It ends with her giving up with a hot dog at the Kwik E Mart, which she learns from Apu is a tofu dog, and then he takes her through the secret-passageway-disguised-as-a-freezer-door-labeled "Alcohol-Free Beer" to the roof where Paul and Linda McCartney discuss vegetarianism with Lisa. Ha.
oh i remember that episode. it therefore reminded me of the one where lisa was trying to push environmentalism on springfield, due to toxic dump concerns with animal mutations, and the 3 eyed fish which mr. burns had to eat while live on the news. his name was blinky, lol. and the fish flesh was flinching on his fork.
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