Sunday, June 28, 2009

Is there anything more boring than chicken? (I guess Tofu)

There I said it. As I just finished eating a chicken breast I just came to face the fact that chicken is probably the most boring-tasting food in the planet, other than tofu.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about things like chicken curry with all of its spices, a nice roasted chicken with all of its juices from El Pollastre Alacantí. I'm not referring to a chicken Pad Thai, or even something like KFC. I mean chicken on its own. When I am going to go out of my way to eat some other formerly living creature, the minimum I would like to get is something that on its own can have flavor! When you eat a nice sirloin steak, duck, lamb or any of the many many other meats in the planet, it's an explosion of flavor in your mouth, even when you don't bother preparing a sauce for it, so why is chicken this boring? You ever wonder why we always say "it tastes like chicken!"!??!?! In my opinion it's just because chicken doesn't taste like anything, so you can always say anything else that can't be defined tastes like chicken. It's like saying something tastes like water, it's another way of saying "it has no taste".

So is there any more boring and tasteless source of proteins? You bet! It's called Tofu. Look I understand the point of Tofu if you're vegetarian, so you don't eat poor animals and still get your proteins intake. But for non-vegetarians, why eat a meat substitute when you can actually eat meat!! It literally has no taste, other than whatever sauce/soup you cook it in, it's like eating a silky sponge and I don't see the point!

Anyway, enough ranting... Beef ftw!

2 comments:

  1. I totally agree with you that Tofu is tasteless and useless for non-vegetarian people.

    But chiken... I think we use to eat "industrial" chicken full of quick-growing hormones. So it's not really chicken meat. It's more water, and industrial proteins growned by a poor little animal in a tiny cage in a few weeks.
    I have the remember of eating true farm chicken. Grown in a big field, chickens running around freely, and feeded with good fresh seeds during months. And it's a totally different taste. In fact, the meat is not white, like we use to see. It's more yellow and it's more strong to cut when it's fresh.

    The true-chicken meat is wonderfull!!

    Chicken rules!! And Long Island must be a State! And Tabarca is not an island, it's a continent! LOL :D

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  2. I'll give you that, but if I'm gonna eat a non-flying bird, I'd rather eat a Turkey!

    ... Or a penguin, mainly cause I've never tried them :-p

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