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
13 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.
Quorn is awesome but the US media seems determined to spin it as something revolting. I blame Gardenburger. (I'm not kidding, the Gardenburger people pushed a big media campaign to make Quorn sound gross and unhealthy.) It's low fat, low carb, high protein, very filling, super tasty, and really versatile. I can't stand most soy-based fake meat products, and I eat some chicken and fish at restaurants, but at home we cook almost entirely with Quorn, not because we are vegetarians but because we are deeply lazy. You can sub it in most chicken dishes, and the ground "beef" version is awesome in tacos. Way better than ground soy.
It is a very kid-friendly food, actually. When I was a kid I would eat any kind of processed meat, but I didn't want to eat anything that looked like a dead animal. Quorn nuggest are pretty much identical to fast food chicken nuggets, except that they aren't bad for you.
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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