I tried some...tastebuds were confused, didn't get the omm nom nom of the sausage or the mmmm healthy chicken protein blast
Vegan sausage
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I tried some...tastebuds were confused, didn't get the omm nom nom of the sausage or the mmmm healthy chicken protein blast
Man of Honour
Tesco Quorn sausage roll is OK. Certainly better than the usual scrapings of undefined bits of pig stuck together with fat that you find in most sausage rolls.
We really do need to reduce meat consumption. The current setup isn't healthy or sustainable.
I generally find that vegetarian food is better when it isn't a meat substitute. Vegetarian pretend-meat is at best a second-rate substitute, but vegatarian food not masquerading as meat can be very good.
We really do need to reduce meat consumption. The current setup isn't healthy or sustainable.
I generally find that vegetarian food is better when it isn't a meat substitute. Vegetarian pretend-meat is at best a second-rate substitute, but vegatarian food not masquerading as meat can be very good.
As long as you personally do not think it substitutes, it cannot offend in that manner.
I guess the real issue is about definition, can anything be a burger if it’s burger shaped and fits between two edible holdery things?
The meat and dairy industry is desperate to protect quite vague terms to keep some sort of niche, which I believe is worthless.
To me as long as it’s flavoured correctly, has some semblance of texture and is made of protein... I don’t care.
Man of Honour
As I'm sure you know, some vegetarian products are marketed as meat substitutes. Those are what I was referring to as meat substitutes. Because that's what they're sold as.
Also, I don't care if you're "offended" by meat substitutes. Far too much power is currently given to claims of being offended (but only for fashionable reasons, of course). It has become effectively a false appeal to authority.
I used it entirely correctly, it wasn’t supposed to be taken in the current meme form.
Some people put too high a measure on what’s being marketed to them, it’s not going to be literally meat which is frankly what most people I feel go into it with, already looking for failure so they can justify themselves.
I’d be offended if someone offered me something that I’m expecting to be beef, and it not being so, I’m not offended by inanimate descriptions of what they’re used for (burgers, steaks, sausages).
Probably being a pedant tard though with this pointless argument
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Soldato
I'd wager that they're still better than those Richmond things.
I'd eat my own man sausage before suffering that cylindrical shaped filth again!
Soldato
Funnily enough, It seems to me that it’s been mostly brought up/promoted via general vegan haters, discussions like this thread and the “triggered” forgetting that it doesn’t affect them and that it's all optional.
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My mum did this to us when I was a kid, served us fake sausages without letting us know, i thought they tasted weird straight away and then refused to eat them.wife made me a sausage butty the other week, let me eat it then told me it was vegan,
after she recovered from the swift punch to the throat and the foot firmly being wedged in her lady garden i had to admit it was actually rather tasty.
made me less of a man and i'll never feel manly again but it was darn tasty
Soldato
I had one, it was actually really nice.
I remember in about 2000 my mum cooked us some vegan sausages and they were horrible. The taste reminded me of foil. However, I've had some recently and they were substantially better.
Soldato
Quorn chicken nuggets taste more like McNuggets than McNuggets do 
Soldato
We love those quorn nuggets. Unlike mcnuggets, they actually have a flavour.
Very grown up. "Let's beat someone for chosing to eat something different to me. Grrr how dare they."
Soldato
Products for Vegans are crap, especially when trying to make substitutes like steaks and sausages.
However products for Vegetarians (different thing) are pretty OK. Quorn is a great product, but not all their products are that great.
For example. Scotch Eggs, pastries etc are horrible, as are the plain sausages.
the bellow paragraph is irrelevant if you are vegan and not vegetarian.
However peppered steak and flavoured sausages (especially the tomato one) are fantastic.
Same applies to their chicken fillet, if you grill it, chop it in pieces and cook it properly with tomato sauce for pasta is great substitute, so is the frozen Quorn mince. However if you try to eat it grilled as a "chicken breast" substitute is crap.
The Quorn frankfurters are great also, especially if properly cooked, and so are some, not all, of their ready made meals. Paelia for example, is pretty good, so are the Chilli, Oriental Stir Fry, Jalfrezi and Jambalaya. Maybe some could say the Lasagne also. Those who try to be British food substitutes are not that good, like pies, gravy steak etc.
Same applies to their chicken fillet, if you grill it, chop it in pieces and cook it properly with tomato sauce for pasta is great substitute, so is the frozen Quorn mince. However if you try to eat it grilled as a "chicken breast" substitute is crap.
The Quorn frankfurters are great also, especially if properly cooked, and so are some, not all, of their ready made meals. Paelia for example, is pretty good, so are the Chilli, Oriental Stir Fry, Jalfrezi and Jambalaya. Maybe some could say the Lasagne also. Those who try to be British food substitutes are not that good, like pies, gravy steak etc.
As a strict vegetarian for a 7 year period of time due to my ex wife, I advice you to move to Mediterranean cuisine as base for your diet. I kinda drove my wife to that cuisine as her "english cuisine with substitutions" isn't for my liking as I find it completely awful.
Mediterranean cuisine is heavily vegan/vegetarian at it's core and it will open your options to nice food without meat substitutes, which is tasty and healthy not because is the usual "healthy crap" but because is using basic ingredients. Olive oil, tomato, garlic, herbs, spices, rice, pasta and a lot of vegetables. Believe me you won't starve as many believe when you say you are vegan or vegetarian
Soldato
Oh man I actually love those quorn scotch eggs too! I can't believe you don't like them.
Caporegime
Nope, the LM mozzarella burgers are actually ace (as far as fakemeats go), better than bargain basement meat burgers.
Don't rate the rest of her products, but generally don't like any fakemeats..
I had one of those Richmond sausages once, it was awful. All sausages are now awful because of this.
Commissario
This is where life is wrong. Can you imagine giving a real sausage to a vegan, letting them eat it and then telling them it's pork? They'd hit the roof. But the other way round is fine, they can stuff their vegan rubbish down us meateaters throats and nobody cares.
I can imagine the Daily Mail headline now. VEGAN TRICKED INTO EATING MEAT. It's never the other way round MEATEATER TRICKED INTO EATING QUORN.
*sigh*