Bachelor Chow
June 17th, 2008 by screenwriterguy
 On the TV show Futurama, the main character Fry often eats a product called “Bachelor Chow.” One assumes this is a play on Dog Chow. While this is, of course, a joke, and one somewhat pejorative of the bachelor lifestyle, I can’t help see the allure. A housemate and I have commented many times that we’d happily consume tons of bachelor chow if it existed. An inexpensive foodstuff that takes little or no time to prepare? Sign me up. It doesn’t have to taste incredible, and I don’t care if it comes in a box, as long as it’s fast and cheap.
Well, I believe I’ve found the closest thing there is to the real thing. It’s called tofu steak. Currently it costs $1.25 per… well, per brick. Now, if you don’t like tofu, odds are it’s because of the slimy texture or the complete lack of flavor. But these guys have solved that. First, it’s the firmest tofu there is. Secondly–and here’s the real genius of it–they put pepper in it. There might be other spices, but it pretty much breaks down to pepper. So what I do is cut it into strips, toast them in the toaster oven, and eat them with mustard. Prep time is about thirty seconds, cooking time about ten minutes, no real oven involved. Plus, only 60-some cents worth of food required to fill me up. Hurray for the future. |
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