A Child Of Atom

Since living with Kid Flash I have become probably 75% vegetarian again. I am always on the look out for good meat substitute vegetarian options. Most of the commercially available ones are pretty bland, and the texture is very weird. I've made some great discoveries, like the May-Wah Vegetarian market on Hester street, which has the best vegetarian Orange Flavor Beef that I have ever found. It is in fact the best vegetarian product I have ever found, it's amazingly meaty and delicious. Of course they also have Vegetarian Squid... which I have never tried, and never will. I've tried variations on sausage, bacon, chicken, hamburger... but this weekend I found the single most unexpected vegetarian product that I have ever seen: Vegetarian Scrapple. For those unfamiliar Scrapple is called by several other names, Livermush in the South, Pork Mush in the northeast... it is basically a pudding made from cornmeal and buckwheat cooked with spices and pork organ meats. That is then formed into a brick, which is chilled, sliced and fried. It's a populat breakfast food where it is served, and delicious with eggs. But about as far from a vegetarian food as I could imagine... yet, here it was, and you know what... it was actually pretty tasty. We bought two bricks to bring back to NYC and cook up for Christmas morning breakfast. I guess you truly can have everything, and not have to hurt an animal to get it...