I came across this [1] interesting entry on Wired.com, especially in light of National Vegetarian Week as detailed in my [2] previous entry.

I have eaten [3] Quorn once or twice... or was it Tofu? And certainly it was by accident after someone had told me it was chicken... probably.

The point is (as the Wired article so deftly points out) what exactly is it? Some sort of mushroom?, or fungus? or perhaps - as my Dad once told me (a man with a talent for tall stories) - it is a by-product of a water filtration process. My guess is that all these derivations are true in some way, but that doesn't make it any more palatable to me. Whatever Quorn may be (and this [4] Wiki entry gives some clues) it can't be traced, like a good piece of organic steak right back to the farm / water filtration plant that might have produced it, and that can't be good, can it? And why, if you are a vegetarian (and some of my best friends indeed are!) would you chose to eat something that resembled meat (which of course, it doesn't, not in the slightest) but wasn't. The same principle follows in my opinion for non-alcholic beers or herbal cigarettes- I mean what's the point in a poor substitute? Surely it's better to either do it or don't it. The middle ground has no merit whatsoever.

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