Choices that have fallen off the table
Read in the news that the food replacement “Soylent” is not (yet) approved for sale in Canada. I’ve got mixed messages from their brand, obviously. Someone with little exposure to media decided that a coined name based on the main ingredients, soy and lentils, made sense.
I’m old enough to remember another significance to the word; check out the 1973 movie “Soylent Green“. There, we find a very different core ingredient. Pardon my confusion, but I’m going to stick to meat and potatoes with a backup choice of KD. Thank you.
Putting aside imaginary (or unavailable) foodstuffs, let’s look at some of the other menu choices that have fallen off the table. Come on, there have to be a few. I haven’t seen anyone make a pot of porridge in years. Ditto for creamed peas over toast. And head cheese / potted meat (were they the same thing, and I didn’t know the difference?) My tastes have evolved with age, but I’m not willing to regress, not even for a jar of yummy apricot goo that my children used to spread from cheek to cheek to cheek. Nope, meat and potatoes, please. Hold the starches, if you must.
Right now, I’m faced with limited possibilities for transport, so I’m working my way through stuff in the fridge. The grapes were wonderful. As was the tub of yogurt. Tomorrow, I unfreeze some bread. After all, can’t make every day into a resto-day. And if I run low on staples, I’ll just have to imagine what they taste like, while I pour another cup of coffee.
