In New York, I tasted dog food

This isn't really a review about food. But it is just an anecdote from the recent past when I used to live in New York City. 

I went to the local Petco and looked at the different arrays of dog cookies displayed in the center of the store. Then one of the employees of the store, named Iris, came up to me and said "can I help you with anything?"

"I'm just looking for some cookies for my dog."

So she picked up one of the cookies and proceeded to shove it in her mouth and eat the entire thing. In my astonishment, I stupidly told her that she was eating dog cookies. She said "I would never give my dog anything that I wouldn't want to eat. So I taste everything that my dog eats."

And then she told me to try one. Amazingly, I did, and you know what, it tasted like a regular vanilla cookie.

A few weeks later, I went to a friend's house and she said "hey, I just bought new organic dog food for Rocco. Here, take a look."

She brought out a ziplock bag with kibbles in them, and in an automatic reflex, I took one and put it in my mouth.

I thought I was doing the normal thing, until I saw my friend's horrified face.

And her cookies tasted like bad chicken. Yuck.