Day 73. Not Dogs.

Not Dogs.
Tofurkey.
Fakon.
Pepperphony.
Fake. (Steak.)

Fake meat. I'm not down with the concept. I'm not down with the synthetic ingredients. "I don't eat meat" doesn't sound as reasonable when you choose to eat products made with cyanocobalamin and ferric othophosphate.

And yet I try.

The pepperphony had already been a disaster, but I decided to get back on the horse (instead of eating it) and today, I tried my first not dog. A veggie hot dog. I already had a love/hate relationship with normal hot dogs.  If they had been called, "tubes of blended meat", I would never have tried one. It goes against every texture rule I have. For some reason, "hot dog" made it sound appealing when I was a child and I was hooked on the salty, smokey flavor for years. Since I was already accustomed to the odd texture, I thought veggie dogs, of all the fake meats, would be the easiest transition.

Wrong.

I'm not sure if they were aiming for this, but the outside layer was resisting my teeth's best efforts. I thought maybe they were trying to replicate the casing of a sausage, but since that was the reason I never ate sausages, the concept was lost on me. The inside was comparable, but what's a dignified girl to do? Scrape out the inside of a tube whilst getting mustard all over my hands? No. So, I politely threw it in the compost when no one was looking.

Something I DID discover, was that Kraft Dinner with ketchup and mustard on it (stay with me here) satisfied my hot dog craving completely. I think I just like the condiment combination and the KD was the cheesy, salty delivery method. B-e-a-utiful.