Actually, this is not Mike's Cafe. I couldn't find a picture of it. This is a similar place in Morin Heights, a few miles up the road.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2003
I had lunch at a place in La Chute, Quebec, called Mike’s. I had a dijonaise salad, which was chopped lettuce, tomato wedges, shredded carrot, radish chips, artichoke sections and slices of cold grilled chicken all piled on a few leaves of romaine lettuce. It was pretty. They dumped some commercial sauce on it that tasted more like common ranch dressing than dijonaise. Oh well.
More interesting than the meal was the bottle of Mike’s seasoning that was sitting on each table. It was recommended for spicing up everything from fried potatoes to steaks. As I waited for my order to arrive and as is my usual pass time in recent years, I began reading the content statement on the English side of the label of this shaker bottle of pale orange granulated “seasoning.”
The first ingredient was sugar. The second was dehydrated corn syrup solids. So far a person could use this in coffee. After that it got down to business with:
Onion Powder
Tomato Powder
Seasonings
Dehydrated Soy and Corn Protein
Garlic Powder
Silicone Dioxide
Disodium Inosinate
Flavorings
Wheat Flour
Spices
There were a couple more of the unpronounceable variety but that is the basic list. I found it quite humorous that there were unidentified Seasonings, Flavorings AND Spices in the mix.
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