Tofu Snack

So I was at my local Asian market looking for some "bitter melon" (more on that later) and I thought I'd try something which appeared to be "tofu jerky".

I thought I probably would regret it, but it wasn't that expensive, so what the hell. I love beef jerky, and I've never tried a vegetarian substitute.

It was terrible. The texture was all moist and squishy, and the flavor was...like sort of beef-like but not really. It was enough to remind one of meat, but not enough to remind one of edible meat. It was like somebody took slices of a semi-amorphous, tentacled alien space cow, soaked them in sugar water, and put them in happy, yellow packaging.

My guess is it matches up to the palettes of whatever its country of origin is (China I presume). It did not match up to mine, though. Blech.

I was going to do a taste test with myself and my son, but I don't think I can do that to the poor boy. Into the trash they go.