I keep forgetting that veggie mince tastes like cardboard. It’s so dry! I put boiling water in it tonight, added some tomatoes and cooked it in gravy. Out it came, still like crumbly bits of paper. It has clearly absorbed all the juices and then re-evaporated them, or something.
It wasn’t like that when I bought it: the strange young lady ahead of me in the queue made a point of commenting on the packet.
“Ooh, any good?” she asked, beaming. I said I hoped so. She nodded and smiled as though she’d known me for ages and saw right through me. Perhaps she’d heard the packet rattle and knew that wasn’t a good sign.
“I’ve only been eating this kind of thing for a year,” I said, by way of explanation, “So I’m still kind of figuring out what I like.” And that is true - it’s a very flexible science experiment, not cooking or buying meat. She smiled and paid and disappeared, leaving me with the checkout lady who scans too fast.
Well I’ll remember next time. I’ll remember that the veggie mince is expensive pulp, wrapped up in single-use plastic packaging.
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