Old Smokey,
Can't agree more with the local cuisine! Only problem I had was after eating a dodgy looking chicken curry in Dakar, but then I put that down to being a personal mistake.
As to your list of chicken taste alikes, I have to ask only one question: Do we really know what chicken tastes like?????
I find the food seems to be dependant upon the carrier, some good, some bad, some non-existant. Some LCC's ignore the crew more than they ignore the SLF, when will the day come when we have to pay for the scran in the front office?
Learn to eat it, I've certainly eaten worse but, frighteningly, seem to have the old toenail infliction as well!