Inspired by George Clooney tofu, it made me wonder about what tofu can actually be made into.
Naturally, we see mock renditions of popular foods in our society such as mock fish, mock chicken, mock pork and mock beef.
Does it actually matter though? It is tofu/soy/etc after all and isn’t meat. So why bother giving it a different name and trying to make it resemble something it isn’t?
Thinking further, we might also see mock renditions of things that are eaten in very small circles, such as mock snake, mock dog, mock rabbit, mock insects, mock bulls-testicles, mock tiger-penis, etc. Would a vegetarian feel queasy eating mock dog?
Now for the killer question… Would you eat something called ‘mock human?’ Would sellers of mock-human be causing a sociological problem or present their product as a possible primer for cannibalism?
What’s in a name anyway?
March 28, 2009 at 1:57 pm |
I will definitely not eat anything that looks raw and is non-vegetarian. I did want to try a roasted cockroach just for the interesting experience, but definitely NO mock snakes or frogs for me! I think the mock meats are targetted towards recently turned vegetarians who apparently still want their brains to think they are eating non-veg food (I don’t know how it works though!).
You have asked a very dangerous question “What’s in a name anyway?”. This world begins and ends on names