Yea! It’s Meatout Monday! That means spring has arrived! It also means FREE veggie burgers at Johnny Rockets if you’re lucky enough to have a Johnny Rockets where you live. I’m not one of those lucky people but maybe you are? (Thanks to my partner in health, mipmup for alerting us to the freebie burgers!)
Since I don’t have a Johnny Rockets nearby I thought I’d take a minute to give you a product review courtesy of Prince J and TW who went to the grocery store unattended the weekend before last. It’s a rare thing for them to be allowed out sans adult supervision but I was busy painting so off they went – to Home Depot and to Publix. (If they went somewhere else, they’re both keeping mum on that but I wouldn’t put it past them, ya know?)
I’m not sure whose idea it was to buy Tofurky Deli Slices in the turkey, stuffing, cranberry variety but I know Prince J was sure I wouldn’t touch these with a ten foot pole and was sure I was going to make TW try them first. Prince J, alas, was wrong. Try them I did and they brought back the oddest of food memories.
Did you buy lunch at school in the 70’s? If you did then you probably had numerous plates of turkey, mashed potatoes, dressing etc… at school. Did your mom occasionally serve frozen tv dinners in the weird metal trays? If she did, you probably had numerous trays of the turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes variety, right?
Well that’s what these deli slices reminded me off. That processed obviously fake turkey and dressing I ate as a child at school and occasionally at home on those metal trays. Weird and oddly pleasant in their weirdness. In fact I enjoyed the sandwich so much that I had another one a couple of days later and today when I run out to the grocery store I plan on buying another package. Food memories are good things and in this case, a sandwich or two made with tofurky is also a good thing.
Thanks Prince J and TW for an off the list purchase. Normally that’s against Denise rules so don’t do it again, but in this case, it was ok.
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Yes I remember! Does that make me old? Not sure if the post was supposed to warn me about Tofurky, or make me “hungry” for a bit of the past, but now I have to try some!
argh. the faux meats are just scary sometimes. i tried some hideous items at the la tofu festival last summer, including one by – guess which company – tofurkey. here are a couple of good links for reviews of veggie burgers at least: vegan review and ideal bite.
[thanks for the shout out!]
I hate TVP that tries too hard to taste like “the real thing”. I want my TVP and my tofu to taste like good TVP and good tofu – so this weird tofurky deli slice thing was just odd. Really not my style at all. I won’t even order a BK Veggie because it tries too hard to taste like a BK “real” burger.
FB I don’t know if it was suppose to be a warning or enticement. It was just weird. Try it and tell me if you get the same type of food memory.