i eat a boca burger
and find it worth talking about. i consider boca burgers (and garden burgers, which are slightly less disturbing) in the same class as vitamin pills and energy bars. fuel, but not food really. and, price-wise, they fall in with chicken, fish and green gourmet indian dinners, at the expensive end of our price/meal shopping list. we buy whichever is cheaper.
but every once in a while there are no leftovers and i want a hot, quick lunch.
today i sauteed mushrooms and onions in olive oil and melted some aging dry mozzerella on the burger. i ate this on a wheat roll, with fresh tomato and horseradish on one side, and the mushrooms, onions and cheese on the other, burger wedged in between. lots of salt and pepper.
and it was actually good.
i remember eating something that looked more like a garden burger years ago that tasted honestly like the chickpea from which it was made, sort of like a mild falafel. does anyone know what this product was or is . . . ?
Sensory Experiences: gustatory,, olfactory
Categories: food, thrift
but every once in a while there are no leftovers and i want a hot, quick lunch.
today i sauteed mushrooms and onions in olive oil and melted some aging dry mozzerella on the burger. i ate this on a wheat roll, with fresh tomato and horseradish on one side, and the mushrooms, onions and cheese on the other, burger wedged in between. lots of salt and pepper.
and it was actually good.
i remember eating something that looked more like a garden burger years ago that tasted honestly like the chickpea from which it was made, sort of like a mild falafel. does anyone know what this product was or is . . . ?
Sensory Experiences: gustatory,, olfactory
Categories: food, thrift
posted by zoe p. at 2:41 PM
6 Comments:
Maybe it was a Morningstar Chik Patty?
Julie, you know, I think that was it! And it's been there, right in front of me (as a matter of fact, right next to the other products), low these many years since. I have a little bit of a shopping disorder. I am easily overwhelmed.
As for you, Oak Park, I believe I have visited this place of which you speak, but no, we don't have any here. But they do let us out of Pittsburgh now and then on good behavior. And I think I remember eating before I moved here, too.
Ack. Back to work.
boca burger update: "violent indigestion" and a salt thirst and headache that would slay a water buffalo. shame on me for eating this processed food garbage.
the new garden burgers (homestyle, i think) taste better than all of their alternatives, but that's because they've been oiled up like tiny soy sunbathers. i like the amy's veggie burgers best, they're always yummy and never greasy, and they crisp up nicely in the toaster oven.
are you absolutely positive no part of your indigestion is the fault of your aging cheese?
I surveyed the "Chik Patty" from a safe distance this afternoon. NO. NO. NO. Not faux breaded chicken. Something that tasted like a chick pea, a garbanzo bean, a ceci bean and looked like all the other multi-ingrediant patty things with no breading or faux breading or whatever that was.
My partner in crime has voted consistantly for the old faux beefy boca burger, for health reasons (more protein, less carbs) so that's the what we'll be buying around here until he changes his fickle, fickle mind . . .
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