Loaf of Sadness

So, my other bestie (Mandy) who always gives me constructive criticism and spell checks all my stuff told me that I need to be more funny again in my blogging and not so educational. So when I told her what I was going to write she laughed and called me a racist.

Last week I went out to dinner and since I had never tried meatloaf, Zack offered me a bite of his..

I accepted a nibble of this new to me item and it tasted just like what it is: a brick of ground up meat. Q'uelle Suprise!

It did have the added bonus of bacon and they do say everything tastes better with bacon so maybe this was better than the regular meatloaf I consistently see on T.V. 

I didn't love it and I didn't hate it, then Zack told me it was a Bison Meatloaf. Who would want to make such a thing? It didn't taste like Bison I don't think although I don't know what Bison tastes like. 

Back to why Mandy called me a racist. I announced to her that I thought meatloaf was a "white person's meal". After she stopped laughing and jokingly called me a racist we had a heart to heart about it.

I explained that anytime I have ever seen meatloaf it has been primarily in caucasian family dinners and on tv shows/movies that is the most popular item served for meals. I also explained that growing up my mother was raised in a different culture who has a completely different idea about what food is. My father on the other hand grew up in a European family in a small town in Canada. He ate meatloaf. She did not. Her idea is that everything is fresh fruit, vegetables, no canned items and no fun. He was okay with cucumber sandwiches and mac and cheese.

As a child, my mother discouraged my favourite foods like mr. noodles and alphaghetti :( She could not fathom why North Americans would want to eat "garbage" as she called it. Finally, she gave in and we were able to taste the goodness of North America (minus meatloaf and s'mores).

Now that I've had meatloaf, my question is WHY? What is there to like about meatloaf? It is plain, ground up sadness... with gravy. People try to spice it up with taco seasoning but it's still just a cheap loaf of meat. You might as well have spaghetti and meatballs. Change it up a bit. Leave the loaves to bread.

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I still did have to do some research and meatloaf comes from Germany (white people, like I said HAHA) I do think that Meatloaf is a European/ North American cultural food. Certain foods have certain cultures like you know when you hear Jerk Chicken you think Jamaican (or is it that you are equating jerk with black people HAHA again). Seriously though, I think that certain foods are tied to certain cultures and meatloaf is a primarily North American/ European meal. 

This is the picture that came up when I Googled: "Meatloaf funny":

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