Hallelujiah!
When I was six years old (or thereabouts) I was running back to the cheese counter in Tescos because I heard someone say that they had taster plates back there with pieces of stilton on them (yeah, I really love stilton). Anyways, going round the corner of the aisle I somehow slipped over on the floor and fell on my face, whereupon I started sobbing pathetically.
Since that day I haven’t cried in Tescos, but I came pretty close yesterday when I was strolling down the aisles and saw this:
I know, I know - it probably doesn’t seem like a big deal. But imagine a vegetarian who loves meat, and to whom picnic eggs were once a particular favourite. Imagine that vegetarian hasn’t eaten a picnic egg for fifteen long, desolate, miserable years and then suddenly, without any warning whatsoever, comes across this vision of delight just sat right there on the shelf!
Needless to say, I bought a packet (all right, all right, I bought every packet they had - like I was preparing for the blitz or something), and then I went home and had myself a picnic egg party with the only guest being me because I sure as hell wasn’t sharing.
I didn’t make too much of a spectacle of myself with the picnic eggs but the day I see vegetarian mussels, or vegetarian crab sticks, on the shelf in Tescos I know that I will break down and weep tears of joy right there in the aisle like a crazy person. Ditto for the day Proctor and Gamble stop being animal-testing bastards and I can buy Pringles once again. God, I really hate having ethics sometimes . . .
Tags: Veggie stuff
March 13th, 2009 at 1:36 am
But the question here has to be… do they actually taste nice?
March 13th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
They taste so good it’s not even funny! Even the meat eaters in my family agree (once I calmed down enough to share).
March 20th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Alex - I did exactly the same! I used to love those as a kid and they’re one of the only meat things I ever genuinely missed.
The Quorn ones are SO good. Hurrah.
March 20th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Hurrah indeed, Hannah.
Glad to see that someone else appreciates the gloriousness of this new product. I freakin’ love Quorn! If only they would do a garlic chicken kiev it would totally make my year . . .