You Won't Believe It
But kids would rather eat junk than healthy food. I know. I know! It's as if junk food actually offers more in the way of instant gratification and yummy taste.
"Cook says the problem is that many children just don't 'understand' the food that well-meaning grown-ups want them to eat. Many children, she says, don't eat stews, pies, and pasta concoctions at home. Some don't even like foods touching each other on a plate, she says, let alone mixed together in a casserole. For them, the new menu - replete with items like Quorn burger (a meat substitute made from fungus) with gravy and lentil curry - is anathema."
Well, Quorn is actually really good, but "gravy and lentil curry"? Those poor kids!
-- mo pie
"Cook says the problem is that many children just don't 'understand' the food that well-meaning grown-ups want them to eat. Many children, she says, don't eat stews, pies, and pasta concoctions at home. Some don't even like foods touching each other on a plate, she says, let alone mixed together in a casserole. For them, the new menu - replete with items like Quorn burger (a meat substitute made from fungus) with gravy and lentil curry - is anathema."
Well, Quorn is actually really good, but "gravy and lentil curry"? Those poor kids!
-- mo pie
posted by anne at 1:19 PM
12 Comments:
Naw, Dateline proved last month that kids will eat ANYTHING if you put a spongebob sticker on it.
Quorn sounds like the short name version of Queer Porn. or a bad bad off-brand breakfast cereal.
I think Quorn sounds like a Norwegian death metal band, though I also offer two quatloos for the off-brand breakfast cereal.
Mary, that would be KORN.
You all are hilarious.
I eat mushrooms, but meat fungus?
Eeeeeewwwwwwwww!
Reading that article brought back horrible memories of the school "dinners" (ie. lunches) I had as a child in England.
I still shudder at the memory of the neapolitan-striped tapioca. Ugh - that's put me off my dinner!
I think the gravy and lentil curry sounds a lot better than the fungus-based meat substitute. Then again, mushrooms are a fungus, so maybe it's OK.
I second Beth. Quorn is actually pretty tasty, low-fat, versatile and filling too. I cook with it quite often. (Though a veggie friend and I often joke it's probably soylent green).
Beth, I never saw/heard the Gardenburger anti-Quorn campaign, but I don't doubt that they would strike back at any tastier competitor. That's what companies do... try to protect their brand position.
That said, I'll make it a point to try the Quorn stuff next time I'm shopping (I eat mostly vegetarian, so I'm always looking for better things to sub in chili, etc. Thanks for the info!
I still say lentil curry is yummy, properly prepared. I just doubt that any school lunch program could do it well, given their constraints.
Quorn was doing all right until that soylent green reference. Once I get the mental image of ground and processed corpses out of my head, I'll give it a try.
I'm pretty sure it's Quorn with gravy, and plain old lentil curry.
Quorn is a pretty decent meat substitute. I'm vegetarian, but my husband is not, and he'll eat it. (His verdict: not as good as premium beef mince in bolognese or chilli, but better than cheaper mince.)
What is it people don't like about lentils? I think they're one of the most maligned foodstuffs. Yummy.
I too am a fan of the much-maligned lentil but many find it gives them raging wind.
OK, let me make sure I've got this straight. Is Quorn soy? Because I have heard too much soy shrinks your brain (apparently, the Japanese don't eat it in 25g bunches the way we Westerners are prone to do).
Buff -- you just HAD to go to Soylent Green, didn't you? Want to keep all the quorn for yourselves in the UK and away from us Heston-ized Americans.
Hmph.
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