{"id":22134,"date":"2020-04-12T22:25:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T03:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=22134"},"modified":"2020-04-13T03:08:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T08:08:53","slug":"mutant-gardein-burger-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=22134","title":{"rendered":"Mutant Gardein burger package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you are waiting out a global pandemic, you sometimes have food delivered. As it turns out, you don&#8217;t always know exactly what you will get.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend I opened up a package of yummy Gardein brand frozen plant-sourced burgers, and did not see exactly what I expected to see. Below, you can see the label on the packaging:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/gardein1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/gardein1.jpg\" alt=\"gardein1\" width=\"378\" height=\"504\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22135\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/gardein1.jpg 756w, http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/gardein1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 378px) 85vw, 378px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Toward the bottom left, if you look carefully, you can see that the package states that you get four burgers per serving. I have purchased these burgers many times before, and that has always been a true and accurate statement.<\/p>\n<p>But this time, when I opened the package, I got a surprise:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/gardein2r.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/gardein2r.jpg\" alt=\"gardein2r\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22140\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/gardein2r.jpg 1008w, http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/gardein2r-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can clearly see, there are not four, but six frozen plant-sourced burgers inside. Somehow, two extra frozen plant-sourced burgers decided to come along for the ride.<\/p>\n<p>It is a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a secure yet easily opened plastic wrapping. It seems that I am the recipient of a mutant Gardein burger package.<\/p>\n<p>But I am not complaining. If providence wants to send me more of them, then to providence I just say thanks for the burgers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you are waiting out a global pandemic, you sometimes have food delivered. As it turns out, you don&#8217;t always know exactly what you will get. This weekend I opened up a package of yummy Gardein brand frozen plant-sourced burgers, and did not see exactly what I expected to see. Below, you can see the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=22134\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mutant Gardein burger package&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22134"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22134"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22142,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22134\/revisions\/22142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}