Pepperoni pizza. Club house sandwich. BLT. Chili. Salad wrap.
All sounds like pretty good food, right? Now, instead of using regular meat or tofu in those dishes, just add Klik.
Klik? What's that, you say?
Well, think of it like SPAM's sister, or the Canadian version of SPAM.
As a Red Crosser who has blogged about Food Friday and Disaster Dining as a way to draw awareness about the need for households to have a preparedness kit with non-perishable food and water, it seemed liked a great fit when Moose Cree comedian Stan Wesley invited me and two other Red Crossers to judge ‘Klikilicious.
Wesley, also known by his alter-ego, Bunnuck, held the fun cooking contest during this week's Moose Cree First Nation community festival, Gathering of Our People, which the Red Cross participated in.
For the contest, community members were invited to make up their best dish using Klik. As judges, our job was to rate the 12 entries and narrow it down to the top five. Of those, the winner would be announced during community celebrations.
You might think that because we've had so much fun writing about canned-meat products for this blog that I've actually eaten the stuff before. Nope! Not even a bite.
I'm not even entirely sure what Klik is made of because I'm too afraid to look at the ingredients! But, I can tell you that it is a salty meat(-like) substance that will most certainly keep well in a can for several years, which is great if you are keeping non-perishable food stocks for your emergency kit.
For the contest, aspiring chefs entered traditional bannock, burgers, sandwiches and other kinds of comfort foods, such as chilli, soup and tea biscuits. Three dishes into the contest and I was getting a little green behind the gills and realizing that I was out of my league with my fellow judging panel, all of whom have decades (yes, decades) of ‘experience’ eating Klik.
The winner was a sure-fire choice, a Klik-eroni pizza and a western sandwich made by the youngest contestant, a 6-year-old girl.
As much as I loved my first Klik experience, I think Bunnuck will be sad to hear that Klik won't find its way into my emergency preparedness kit after all!
Klik here (get it? Ha ha!) to see Bunnuck's Facebook page for photos and posts about Klikilicious.