In re foie gras
It seems we've exhausted, for now, the seafaring aspect of this morning's banter. Allow me to 'circle back' (a favored B-school buzzword that frequently appears on Buzzword Bingo sheets for meetings along with 'drill down', 'fine grained', and a ton of other bullshit trendoid werds descended from the rabble that pours forth from B-skools) and address further the issue of foie gras and pates.
It's been a while since you've resided in Italy I presume. As you know, the French, Germans, Nederlanders, and Poles have a variety of pates in their cuisines. Pork, beef, chicken, pheasant, wild boar, duck, rabbit (oh no!), blended, coarse grind, fine grind, etc.
However, is is only recently that I was served a new type of pate (new to me at least) on an intra-Euro flight: vegetable pate. This item was in a single-serving metallic container with peel-off top foil, and I didn't read the ingredients before I peeled it of and discarded it. However, this vegan pate contains no animal products, only plant materials, and I have to admit that it was actually quite/quit/quiet good! I suppose it uses various vegetable fats (that may be very unhealthy) to mimic to smoothness and general consistency of animal pates. It is nicely spreadable and has a unique, though very pleasant flavour. I actually would place it in rotation with the animal-based pates, it is that good (and it pains me to say that about any product pushed by vegans).
Unfortunately, I din't rite down the name of the manufacturer, butt I recall that the peel-off top foil label was written in French and Englitch, so it is prolly from France, Belgium, or Luxembourg.
This is all new to me. I wonder if you have come across it before, and, if so, do you know the manufacturer and if it is available in the USA. I've axed two local Euro-markets and neither one carries it or knows where it is made.
I'm always thinking of opportunities, and with the foie gras ban now permanent in Cali since January, I expect that a local food producer could sell tons (literally) of the vegan pate(s) if there is no competing imported source. It would definitely sell well in the metro areas of Cali which are infested with virtue-signalling vegans.
Do you know of this (or these if there are more than one) vegan pates? What can you tell me about them?
AI
