The other day, I had lunch at a cafeteria at MSU. The old days of “this is what we are serving, take it or leave it.” have been replaced by a menu.

As I was reading over the menu, I noticed that it was not as extensive as a restaurant but they did offer about a dozen different entries. And I noticed that they offered both chicken fingers and vegetarian chicken fingers.

Vegetarian chicken fingers??? How odd! While I realize that some vegetarians do eat chicken, what would be the difference between regular chicken fingers and vegetarian chicken fingers? Were the regular chicken fingers fried in animal fat and the vegetarian chicken fingers fried in corn oil?

I suspect that the vegetarian chicken fingers were really chicken flavored soy and not chicken at all. But then, where do they get the chicken flavor from? Chickens?

But more to the point. If it tastes just like chicken how do you know that it isn’t chicken? And, if you are a vegetarian, shouldn’t you be offended that someone is trying to imitate the flavor of meat?

I opted for the burrito. It was made with some sort of meat though they didn’t say what it was.