TASTES LIKE CHICKEN

This seems to be a general flavor cure all we use to speak of so many different things we have to swallow. Especially things that we wouldn't otherwise consumed. As if making it all okay if they have a regular taste of something such a chicken.

That pretty much works for foods in a lot of cases. But you know what? People apply it to other things too.

Pretty much anything where we have to try something for the first time and the experience was just okay. Not good or bad, just okay. So we say it was, and fill in the blank with whatever is the experience equivalent of tasting like chicken.

Which could be like it was the same as say, going to a movie or getting gas. Not exciting stuff, but things that aren't bad either. Just things you do to do them. Yeah, even going to the movies can be kind of routine.

However, on the plus side such experiences can be added to the portfolio of things to do when you feel like crap and are broke. These are times where you only need cheap relief in life and not necessarily excitement.

As much as I enjoy having fun and doing exciting things, I also know the times when you are just too tired or listless to want to work that hard. So you end up being willing to settle for some not so great alternative.

Naturally the whole time you are thinking, man I wish I could do THAT instead, but you don't have the chance. So you accept plan bland as the alternative.

Personally, I find this to be very necessary in life. From my position as a politician even more so.

I have to deal with so many taste like chicken alternatives in terms of the things that deal with the public. Oh they might want steak or something better and expensive, but we don't have it in our social kitchen.

So we have to come up with an alternative that we cope with on some level that makes everyone at best shrug their shoulders. They accept it, but nobody is jumping up and down about it.

Somehow we all survive. It doesn't mean we love the dullness, but we do survive. And that taste of chicken lingers in our mouth. Not good, not bad, just there.

However, it does cut down on the frustration of people expecting miracles. They are content with a lot more whew! Which is the gratitude you have for when something works even though it isn't what you want.

Course that part never gets included in the usual stuff you expect from democracy. But we just add it into the ingredients we call daily diet.