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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.
Every cat owner should try every food they give their cats at least once.
I do it, and it makes total sense why they jump onto some of it, but only reluctantly eat some of the cheaper stuff.
Sorry, but my cat eats whole mice. I don't think our tastes have much overlap. I'll trust her decisions on the wet food varieties without personally experiencing them.
I was curious about her utter devotion to Temptations, though, and can safely say that whatever causes cats to go wild for them is not present in at least this human.
Cats love to kill, but at this point I've seen too many dead mice, birds, and lizards, proudly presented by a cat who right next went to eat the tasty food. Seriously, too many... 😳
They don't have a sweet tooth, so all their food tastes like a variation on beef jerky, steak tartare, sashimi, and ash... but "comparatively", some of the dry and wet food, have more flavor than others. They also go crazy for the sauce first, I guess that's like jello.