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Liquid Gold said:

I hate the Linda McCartney sausages. Cauldron all the way.

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Never tried them.

Worth having a go then I would guess. Do you like Quorn sausages?

I see a number of restaurants and cafes use the LM ones. Harvester in particular.

Liquid Gold said:

I think they’re a bit boring. Tesco and Asda won brand are better

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Just trying to guage. I thought that if you don't like LM, but do like Quorn and I don't like Quorn, but do like LM, then it may just be a question of taste.

Really don't like the taste of the Quorn ones much at all. Will give the Caludron ones a whirl.

This sort of supports your assertion.

6 of the best meat free sausages? | Friends of the Earth

Cauldron at the top.

I know they're only a sausage in shape, but I don't mind these

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Kind of prove the point again that it's not trying to impersonate a pig that works... for me, anyway.

My sons been veggie for about 6 months ..so most nights I go veggie too ,I must admit the taste and texture of oomph ( they sell it in tescos) is the closest I have had to real meat

I don't have a problem with veggies. It is up to them if they want to kill a plant so they can eat it.

Astute said:

I don't have a problem with veggies. It is up to them if they want to kill a plant so they can eat it.

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Ah, I don't do that.

I get other people to kill them for me.

skybluejelly said:

My sons been veggie for about 6 months ..so most nights I go veggie too ,I must admit the taste and texture of oomph ( they sell it in tescos) is the closest I have had to real meat

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Yeah, tried Oomph. Liked it.

I just don't get the veggie / vegan thing at all. I've tried eating Linda McCartney sausages and there were bleedin' foul! I literally spat them out. Sorry, but to me, being a veggie / vegan is like washing your feet with socks on - totally pointless. Also, can't beat a bacon sarnie or a lovely sirloin / fillet steak!
My step daughter is veggie and I have never been so embarrassed in all my life when she came to the island recently and we went for Sunday lunch in my local pub. She asked for the veggie option, which was delivered to the table. She'd had a small bite of a roast potato and asked the waitress what they had been cooked in. "I'm so sorry" said the waitress, "but they were cooked in lard!" My daughter stood up and almost screamed the place down, shouting, "Where's the toilet! I need to be sick!" and promptly stormed off to the bogs. They offered to replace her dinner but she refused point blank.
If that's what being a bleedin' veggie is like, then give me beautiful meat every time!

Houchens Head said:

I just don't get the veggie / vegan thing at all. I've tried eating Linda McCartney sausages and there were bleedin' foul! I literally spat them out. Sorry, but to me, being a veggie / vegan is like washing your feet with socks on - totally pointless. Also, can't beat a bacon sarnie or a lovely sirloin / fillet steak!
My step daughter is veggie and I have never been so embarrassed in all my life when she came to the island recently and we went for Sunday lunch in my local pub. She asked for the veggie option, which was delivered to the table. She'd had a small bite of a roast potato and asked the waitress what they had been cooked in. "I'm so sorry" said the waitress, "but they were cooked in lard!" My daughter stood up and almost screamed the place down, shouting, "Where's the toilet! I need to be sick!" and promptly stormed off to the bogs. They offered to replace her dinner but she refused point blank.
If that's what being a bleedin' veggie is like, then give me beautiful meat every time!

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You know you're getting old, Houch, when you start telling the same story you told us all before all over again.

It must be a bit of a head fuck when vegans have a baby, surely breast feeding goes against everything they believe in?

dancers lance said:

It must be a bit of a head fuck when vegans have a baby, surely breast feeding goes against everything they believe in?

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Very fair point.

They must use a hemp substitute.

Covstu said:

I don't get the need to have food that tastes like meat when you choose not to eat meat??

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Health and environmental reasons. I love a burger but I should eat less meat. I’d be all over this if it’s reasonably priced and tastes good. And I’m not even a veggie.

Nick said:

That's the thing that would be offputting. People won't pay silly money when they can feed a family with meat for less with the same sort of quality.

Have only used Quorn Mince and bits of chicken and would quite happily eat it all the time in meals but it's cheaper to just get mince.

Same with Gluten free stuff as well.

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It’s actually just as cheap to buy quorn as it is meat...
going gram by gram there is about a 3p difference...
I have recently turned vegetarian about 3 months ago and food is cheaper...
The price difference is overstated by many.

Vegan is different that’s very expensive...

skybluegod said:

It’s actually just as cheap to buy quorn as it is meat...
going gram by gram there is about a 3p difference...
I have recently turned vegetarian about 3 months ago and food is cheaper...
The price difference is overstated by many.

Vegan is different that’s very expensive...

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Yep, definitely and ridiculously so.

Veggie - Cheap as chips (in this scenario, beefsteak ones).

Vegan - Errm, where can I get a loan?

shmmeee said:

Health and environmental reasons. I love a burger but I should eat less meat. I’d be all over this if it’s reasonably priced and tastes good. And I’m not even a veggie.

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fair point, my missus is a veggie and just doesn't like the taste of meat when she was a kid so chose not to eat it. Generally she eats the non meat tasting veggie products rather than the likealike products. We were in Scotland to see my dad once and he brought Veggie bacon, it looked like plasticine!

Covstu said:

fair point, my missus is a veggie and just doesn't like the taste of meat when she was a kid so chose not to eat it. Generally she eats the non meat tasting veggie products rather than the likealike products. We were in Scotland to see my dad once and he brought Veggie bacon, it looked like plasticine!

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Yeah, texture isn't great, but I like the flavour.

People are veggies for different reasons. I love the taste of meat and I do especially miss having bacon, but can't see me ever going back.

I have a theory on homeless people you see in town centres.

They are always asking for money rather than food and quite often you will see uneaten food sitting next to them , still in its wrapper, and they also can be a bit miffed when they ask for money and you go off to Gregg's and you come back with a sausage roll for them.

I am surmising most of them must be vegetarians.

I bet if you did give them money instead they would be straight down Holland and Barrett.

Otis said:

Yeah, texture isn't great, but I like the flavour.

People are veggies for different reasons. I love the taste of meat and I do especially miss having bacon, but can't see me ever going back.

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Bacon is the reason I would never go veggie!!!

Liquid Gold said:

I hate the Linda McCartney sausages. Cauldron all the way.

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We are not vegetarians, but for some reason (that escapes me) we tried Linda McCartney sausages. They were awful. Never again.

skyblueindorset said:

We are not vegetarians, but for some reason (that escapes me) we tried Linda McCartney sausages. They were awful. Never again.

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I love them.

Guessing they must be popular, because like I say, Harvester use them in all their restaurants on their breakfast menu. If they were getting complaints they would surely remove them.

They used to use leek and mushroom sausages I think and I liked them, but they switched to LM a couple of years ago.

A lot of people must like them and even my missus, who is an out and out red meat carnivore likes them.

There was a pub near where I used to live in London (I had to argue to watch Cov v Walsall rather than it show a wildlife documentary on herons! Me and my mate became known to the barman as the pair who used to ask for shit football matches all the time!) that had a truly revolting menu, truly horrible hygeine.

Their vege breakfast was actually pretty edible, mind, far better than the meat option. Guess when you go for the cheapest ingredients it makes the vege substitutes seem fantastic!

People used to say they didn't know I was a vegetarian, but I never realised that eating vegetables and no meat automatically made you one!

Has anyone actually tried seitan?

Some swear by it. Wish I had tried it now at Fargo. I know it is wheat gluten but apparently it can have the same texture as meat, for all you texture ites out there.

They had loads of seitan burgers. Had to Google it, but as I say, some swear by it and say it's great.

I’ve been veggie for about a month now and getting on with it no problem. As others have said I’m not too keen on imitation meat products like sausages. The quorn chicken isn’t too bad especially in a curry and we’ve been having quorn mince for a while now in things like spag bol and chilly so was already used to it. Don’t think I could go vegan although we had already replaced cows milk with soya some time ago. Can’t stand vegan “cheese” though so I’m sticking with regular.

Thing that done it as much as anything for me was the environmental impact of meat production. From birth on the farm to the dinner plate meat farming is apparently in the top 5 industries for CO2 emissions. Plus apparently it takes a considerably more acres to feed a meat eater than it does a veggie.

The rub is that I was reading that modern arable farming techniques are bleaching the soil of nitrates through the use of chemical fertilisers a pesticides and vegetation needs nitrates to grow. Worst estimates for the areas of the world where the practices are most heavily used and have been used for the longest times is that there may be as few as 100 harvests left in those areas before vegetation will no longer grow.

NorthernWisdom said:

I know they're only a sausage in shape, but I don't mind these

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Kind of prove the point again that it's not trying to impersonate a pig that works... for me, anyway.

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They look good. My own personal substitute for a sausage though is the simple mushroom. Fry some onion in olive oil, add some sliced mushrooms, don’t stir them at the start though and don’t stir them regularly as that releases water from them and makes them slimey, when they’re cooked move them to one side of the pan, get a ciabatta roll, slice it in two and place them in the pan sliced side down to toast and suck up the juices, when crispy put the mushrooms in them, salt and pepper to taste and you have the best sausage sandwich substitute ever. Tastier if anything.

Houchens Head said:

I just don't get the veggie / vegan thing at all. I've tried eating Linda McCartney sausages and there were bleedin' foul! I literally spat them out. Sorry, but to me, being a veggie / vegan is like washing your feet with socks on - totally pointless. Also, can't beat a bacon sarnie or a lovely sirloin / fillet steak!
My step daughter is veggie and I have never been so embarrassed in all my life when she came to the island recently and we went for Sunday lunch in my local pub. She asked for the veggie option, which was delivered to the table. She'd had a small bite of a roast potato and asked the waitress what they had been cooked in. "I'm so sorry" said the waitress, "but they were cooked in lard!" My daughter stood up and almost screamed the place down, shouting, "Where's the toilet! I need to be sick!" and promptly stormed off to the bogs. They offered to replace her dinner but she refused point blank.
If that's what being a bleedin' veggie is like, then give me beautiful meat every time!

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You sound like an episode of Jurassic Park

skybluetony176 said:

They look good. My own personal substitute for a sausage though is the simple mushroom. Fry some onion in olive oil, add some sliced mushrooms, don’t stir them at the start though and don’t stir them regularly as that releases water from them and makes them slimey, when they’re cooked move them to one side of the pan, get a ciabatta roll, slice it in two and place them in the pan sliced side down to toast and suck up the juices, when crispy put the mushrooms in them, salt and pepper to taste and you have the best sausage sandwich substitute ever. Tastier if anything.

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Sounds good I'd go for portabello mushrooms - really can taste the difference.

Otis said:

Has anyone tried that Swedish Glace vegan ice cream?

Everyone I give it to can simply not believe it is vegan. It is so creamy.

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Love that stuff but finding it hard to find at the moment

Otis said:

Don't like the Quorn mince to be honest. Find it a bit bland. Prefer the chicken stuff.

Had a Quorn chicken and mushroom pie and it was bloody lovely!!

Must say I am not keen though on veganism being rammed down our throats all the time.

And Quorn have just brought out Vegan 'ham' slices. I already eat the veggie ones, but now my local Tesco has replace the veggie ones with vegan ones and they are now 50p more.

Sounds to me like they have taken ingredients out and then put the price up.

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I hate substitute meat pies to me they are an epic fail

Pieminster have a vegan pie which does not pretend to be a substitute product and it’s very good. It’s myshrooms, onions and red wine and same price as the meat version

It’s calked Kevin. Without looking it up can anyone work out why?

greys4life said:

Sounds good I'd go for portabello mushrooms - really can taste the difference.

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That’s the beauty of mushrooms. There’s such a variety and the flavours can vary so much.

Grendel said:

It’s calked Kevin. Without looking it up can anyone work out why?

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tbh I'd wondered since they introduced it...!

NorthernWisdom said:

tbh I'd wondered since they introduced it...!

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Think what’s supposed to be the main subject on here

We're not veggie but have been cutting down on red meat & tried Quorn but the texture is weird. We then tried soya mince and it has a much better texture. I made some cauliflower rice and was pleasantly surprised and with chilli would actually prefer it to normal rice.