Dedicated to Clara Peller
Last night I was at the office, rearranging things and emptying the room we are giving up. To reduce my jellybean consumption, I decided a little real food was in order.
Hormel makes a bunch of different microwavable “meals” that are on the small side of “meal” and the medium to large side of “snack,” and that don’t need refrigeration at all. They’re great, assuming you don’t mind that they’re not like Best Food Ever. Into that great I incorporate cheap, of course. $1.94 Each at Wal-Mart. In my big stockup run several days ago, I bought several for the office. Otherwise my options if I need to eat while there are popcorn, candy from the vending machine, or takeout. It’s that last one I particularly prefer to minimize on account of cost.
Back to last night. One of the flavors I’d bought was teriyaki chicken with rice. I decided to try that one.
Heated it up, pulled off the cover, and after sufficient cooling time, dug in.
It was beef.
I swear. Beef.
The color was way darker than pictured. The meat had the color, flavor, texture and grain of beef, perhaps like what you’d find in the beef pot roast variety.
It was teriyaki flavored. It was quite tasty, if a bit unexpected because it wasn’t chicken. Weird.
So it was that I ended up at Hormel’s excellent site finding out whether there was a beef version that could have wrapped in the wrong outer package.
Nope. Which makes it one inexplicable mixup.
One cool thing I learned while I was there: Manny’s is a Hormel brand. That is our preferred brand of flour tortillas, except for Deb’s homemade ones, which blow the store bought ones away. Which seems strange, as they are just flour, salt water and shortening.
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