Filed under: Pop Culture
This is one job even Mike Rowe hasn’t tackled.
As you’re sitting at your desk, grumbling about your boss making you revise that stupid PowerPoint presentation yet AGAIN, just be thankful you don’t have this dude’s job — tasting pet food.
British “food technologist” Simon Allison claims he loves what he does, saying that: “It is just the same as if I was working in the ready-meals department. I love my job. It is a brilliant area and eating the product is a fundamental part.”
Making the job sound all the more alluring, he reveals: “You have to chew it a bit.
“I have trained my palate to look for materials that we will not allow in the recipe, such as tripe — pet owners react badly to the smell of tripe. I’m looking for a patè texture, almost to the point where you could spread it on crusty bread.”
Mmmmm! Hors d’oeuvres!
In case you’re wondering which tasty pet cuisine you should try first, Simon says his favorite is the organic luxury chicken dinner with vegetables for cats.
“It has the taste and aroma of chicken and some of what you call the red flavors — things like heart and liver; gutsy, savory notes. Then you get a mealy, green pea, pulse aroma and occasionally a sweeter note from the carrot.” Yum. He had me at “mealy.” However, he admits that most pet food is actually “quite bland.”
Well, at least he doesn’t test the effectiveness of cat litter. Yet.
Posted by Candy ♦ February 15, 2008
At 2:40 pm Javelin said:
well at least he’s doing his part to dispel the notion that British people like nasty food.
February 15, 2008
At 3:04 pm jewed said:
Dude’s breath must be delightful.
February 15, 2008
At 3:09 pm MC said:
I guess the question becomes… would he be tasting the litter or just leaving a deposit?
February 15, 2008
At 3:34 pm librarian kathleen said:
One wonders, does he have newspapers
spread about the apartment floors?
February 15, 2008
At 7:40 pm Vern said:
now we know what happened to Jesse Metcalf’s eyebrows!
February 15, 2008
At 8:50 pm Demon kitty said:
Can you hear that? That is the sound of me projectile puking to the moon.
February 27, 2008