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Explain Bizarro today: the customer at a cafeteria asks the gal behind the counter, "How's the chicken tonight?" whereupon she responds, "Happy and healthy. That's seitan"
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Evidentally it's a vegetarian place. Onelook is your friend... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeitanNot being able to see the comic, there may be a pronunciation pun on satan or certain as well.
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*sigh*
It's a soy derivative; we eat it once in a little while.
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It is not a soy derivative it is an wheat gluten alternative to soy.
that this cartoon meant that a chicken had not been slaughtered for dinner and in its place was some other foodstuff seemed to me plain whether one knew what seitan is or not. I know I didn't know it, but it was an easy surmise.
Don't read too much from too little information. "Evidently it's a vegetarian place". Really? That's evident from the lack of one menu item, the inclusion of another and one wise crack? I know places that cook garden burgers on the same grill as hamburgers
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Betting it was a surmise. What other sort of place would have fake chicken? 
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Don't read too much from too little information. "Evidently it's a vegetarian place". Really? That's evident from the lack of one menu item, the inclusion of another and one wise crack? I know places that cook garden burgers on the same grill as hamburgers
Okay, so evidentally it's an ovo-lacto-beefo-porko-sheepo-insecto-mammalo-ichtho-everything-but-chicken-o-vegetarian restaurant. There's quite a difference between places that serve Garden Burgers and places that serve seitan "chicken".
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Thanks, FNA -- I was wrong. I only guessed it was made from soy, as so many other meat substitutes are. That'll teach me to assume!  What's your native language?
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I've tried a number of vegetarian products that tout themselves as being "as good as meat." They are almost universally so nasty that I can't keep them in my mouth for more than a few seconds before hurling violently.
OTOH, there's some stuff in the chinese market called "mock duck" which in the ingredients is called "braised gluten." This stuff is *really* good. I used to eat it all the time with noodles and even prefer it to chicken sometimes.
I'm not familiar with the term seitan, though.
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"There's quite a difference between places that serve Garden Burgers and places that serve seitan "chicken"."
What would that difference be? I wonder because places like the Mad River Bytes and Mango Thai and apparently hundreds of other restaurants offer (and presumably serve) seitan chicken, veggie burgers and genuine meat all from the same menu.
I dine out quite a bit. It is not at all unusual for places which one would think of as 'conventional' restaurants to offer vegetarian specialties alongside 'conventional' fare. I could not name any local eateries because I do not care for vegetarian fare (remember Cain & Abel - apparently vegetarian fare did not work for Christian god either).
I am a native English speaker, although you might not know from reading my writing. I write as well as I can - sometimes.
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Twenty years ago I might have insisted that there is quite a difference between places that sell kimchi and places that serve, for example, pickles. Nowadays many popular chain stores sell kimchi. It started with some of those with branches in areas with large korean populations. Nowadays it seems like I can thankfully find the stuff at nearly any large store I enter.
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