Quorn Rules

US FDA has finally approved Quorn for sale in the US. If you’re a big corporation, you can fuck around with DNA and proteins all you want to create Frankenfoods, but just try releasing a mushroom-based meat substitute…

My little cousin, a precocious eight year old, announced vociferously to all and sundry that NO WAY was he going to eat vegetables ever again. Me being a veggie, this created problems when I entertained.

Quorn came to the rescue. One of its varieties comes as a little chicken nugget analogue. After a couple of years of him happily munching down on Quorn-and-beans, I told him that he it wasn’t chicken at all, but really a mushroom. To him, this was mere evidence of its vegetableness. He was pretty freaked out — I think perhaps it was one of the earliest times for him to realise that any carefully constructed value system can be logically undermined.

For more kicks, I used to call his “action figures” dolls.