Comments | pendulous: Fake ham, you rock me like the real thing . . .

pendulous

Fake ham, you rock me like the real thing . . .

Jan 30, 2006 09:59

It only just occured to me that morningstar farms has to pay somebody to eat real meat so they can know whether or not corn dog formula 118 tastes more or less like actual corn dogs than corn dog formula 116.

The world is very complicated.

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frenchpress January 30 2006, 16:42:59 UTC

Interesting thought, for sure.

However, they probably just have to have a taste-test with meat eaters to see if they believe the product is actually meat, or good, or passable.

But, I also imagine their company is not full of a bunch of vegetarians. That just wouldn't work.

Bob: "Tastes allright to me..."
Gary: "Hmmm, let's call it wham."

( ... )

Hamn't pendulous January 30 2006, 17:44:21 UTC

Tell Bob and Gary that if they would put that picture on the Wham boxes, I would pay up to $6 instead of the usual $4.85.

rrhexis January 30 2006, 20:24:07 UTC

I suppose that's true. If you haven't eaten meat in 20 years you start to forget what it tastes like---but for those meat eaters who eat their products (which are yummy) as a replacement, they'd notice.

fauxsage pendulous January 30 2006, 22:12:59 UTC

I got hooked on their corn-dogs for a while when I was still a full-blown meat eater (meatateer). Still not terrific for you, but so very good for dipping in mustard.

Now I don't eat anything with more feet or feathers than me (this is my complicated way of saying that I eat fish, not that I eat monkeys and snakes, though there have not yet been any offers).

This month I've been hooked on Worthington's Wham and Prosage Links.

As far as I can figure, Worthington (also a Kellog's subsidiary) offers the exact same products as Morningstar Farms but in terrible packaging and with terrible product names.

The name "Wham" makes me think of being struck hard in the chest by a pork chop.
Prosage, I would've assumed, is the kind of sausage eaten only by professional sausage eaters.

the_tavi January 31 2006, 08:37:45 UTC

Hey, at least formula 119 didn't make it past the drawing board. THAT one was going to just taste like brussel sprouts, and when you're paying good $$ for fauxsage it should not be standardized sproutlinks.

Not formula 119! pendulous February 1 2006, 04:50:26 UTC

Formula 119 was proven to cause death in children and rainbows.

Not even Jones Soda would use it.

pirate_wench February 2 2006, 14:15:43 UTC

This post must have lodged itself into my unconscious mind when I was reading it yesterday. You see, you appeared in my dream last night ( ... )

thank you? pendulous February 3 2006, 02:24:28 UTC

my unconscious mind groups you in with japanese gods, He-Man and the Queen of England.

That definitely goes on the list of the top 10 nicest/most complicated things anyone's ever said to me.