Weekend redux

Last Saturday was funny: I had found a shop in Hamme (a smallish provincial town in the next province) selling vegan fake-cheeses without hydrogenated fats. As our little wonder's intake of that stuff is a little high we went out hunting.

After driving for quite a bit we arrive at the very non-regular village. We see the street and try to go round the block to reach it (without having seen the plan indicating there is no such concept in this region it seems) and before long we see a bio-shop.

We park the car and go the the shop. The owner seems unaware it has an internet presence and does not have the non-cheese. After a while we decide to check the name of the street and ... it's wrong. This place does not have one but two bio-shops! (bio-shops in Belgium sell biological, vegetarian and sometimes vegan stuff, together will assorted new-age junk and are pretty rare)

Then follows a long trek to find the street, in the end we have to ask the locals, who then get confused about the layout themselves! Finally in the right street we see no obvious bio-shop. zoutke then sees that the newspaper and household shop also has some 'health food' stuf. We enter and at the end of the dark, dusty shop we find... a vegan foodstore. The owner looked like has just stepped of his harley and to add to the strangeness the shop also sell shoes. (vegan I guess)

We quickly find the cheese and decide to buy it, while preparing to pay zoutke asked me to ask for her "Nutritional yeast" ("lievito alimentare" in Italian and gistvlokken in Dutch). Her hopeless quest for this cheese replacement was the subject of a thousand vague looks and negative replies in the past. To our stunned amazement the guy says "Of course, I'll get it" and runs off.

This stops him from seeing our jaws hitting the floor.

So today after I returned with the fellow zoo-addict from the zoo, zoutke made us delicious vegan pesto. And he even likes it and the fake edam too!

Edit: I mistyped zoutke in the last entry oeps