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[oyceter]

I tried getting myself veggie burgers from Trader Joe's, because I had veggie burgers for the first time in the company cafeteria and decided I liked the chewy bean-ness. Unfortunately, the ones I got this time attempt to pretend they are meat.

I do not understand this vegetarian-food-trying-to-be-meat thing. I like vegetable texture. For that matter, I like meat texture too. Vegetable-pretending-to-be-meat just sort of tastes odd. I'd much rather prefer to eat vegetables that taste like they're vegetables.

In other news, I cleaned the rat cage yesterday. This always generates much excitement from the rats, which in turn amuses me, seeing how the cage is basically exactly the same. I think wiping away all the old cage smell and starting with new cage smell is essentially the same as getting a brand new cage every week to them! Wah, sometimes I wish I were a rat! I could just laze around in my cage all day and be scritched and fed by my adoring owner.

From the LJ of Fitz-rat:

There is a new cage! It is exciting! It is clean! It smells like corn! Where is the corn?

I smell food! It is like new food! Yay lab blocks!

Ohmigod what do I pee on first? Too many things! So much excitement! What to sniff first?

Wow!

From the LJ of Fool-rat:

Brother is acting stupid again. Will pretend to not recognize him even when he climbs over me and tries to pee on my head again.

Mmmm, new cage. Mmmm, interesting.

Wait, must remember, am dignified rat despite stupid hairless rat's repeated attempts to groom my tummy. Must casually sniff and not look too interes-- oooooo peas!!!!

Comments

[oyceter]

Weird!! I've had soy chicken before in Chinese food, but it's always been very tofu-like and not at all chicken-like (I'm actually not sure why they call it vegetarian-chicken, it in no way resembles chicken) and is good, but it is good because it tastes like tofu with good sauce, not fake-chicken.

[rue10.livejournal.com]

That is an excellent question, as to why they call it vegetarian-chicken. I think American society in particular may be leaning just a liiiiiiittle heavily on chicken as a food taste against which to measure all other food tastes ("tastes like chicken" etc).