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Cat food pasta.
I often buy wet cat food, as a treat for my cats. I blend it with some water (they like it this way), freeze it into cubes, and put them in an old ice cream container. Everyday 18:00 I unfreeze two of those cubes for their dinner.
I also buy tomato paste in 1kg cartons, and freeze it into ice cubes. It goes to another ice cream container in the freezer.
Well. At night, distracted, preparing tomato sauce for the pasta. Added actual tomato paste cubes into it, got distracted, tasted it, "meh, still too runny", went back to the freezer, picked the contained that I thought to be tomato paste, didn't check the contents, added two more cubes to the sauce. And as it dissolves and bubbles I think "wait a minute this is smelling like cat foo... oh shit".
It isn't something harmful or contaminated, so I... ate it? 6/10 it didn't make me go full "bleeeergh" but not doing this again.
my friend, sometimes ordering a pizza is a valid life choice
I know. And I did consider redoing the sauce, preparing something else, or simply takeover food. But the taste wasn't offensive, just... weird. (It was weird for them too. I offered some of the sauce to them, they refused. Probably because the only edible stuff that humans eat, in their PoV, is yoghurt and chicken breast.)
You're telling me they'd turn down a mouthful of medium rare grilled beef if it was only lightly salted? (because really good grilled beef doesn't need to be seasoned much or at all)
I tried it once, giving them bits of beef. (Salt and pepper; they don't mind pepper). Kika smelled it a bit and then went back to her "you're giving me attention, right? Pet me, pet me!" modus operandi, while Siegfrieda picked it from her bowl and started playing with it. Kind of funny because she used to be a street cat and probably ate all sorts of nasty stuff, but nowadays she's spoiled enough to be picky on meat.
We even joke at home that the cats bug us every meal - not because they want food, but because the humans dare to gather together without giving them attention.