Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
I occasionally make a chilli with Quorn mince for a veggie friend, it tastes different to meat but still quite nice
Inadvertently Bought a Vegan Sausage Roll
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glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
Seevio
Guru
- Location
- South Glos
It's a slippery slope, OP has bought a single vegan item and has already succumbed to the urge to tell everyone about it...
AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
I'd hesitate to call them a chain, but all the restaurants in that group serve top notch food. Highly recommended. Mono is dangerous though. Went in for lunch and came out with £200 of music!
Sadly Quorn mince affects me and Mrs D the same......bloated stomachs. Same affect with quorn sausage. We both enjoy Cauldron sausages though.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
The vege sausage rolls in the Pound Bakery are better than the meaty ones... on account of there being a tad more pepper in the mix.
- Location
- Glasgow
The 13th note is the Merchant City is really tasty too, they do (only) vegan pub food.
The pub itself is a bit basic, but the food I would certainly recommend even if you're not vegan.
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delb0y
Legendary Member
- Location
- Quedgeley, Glos
It was more the fact that it had been hidden away in the cooked meat section that bothered me. If this sort of thing is allowed to continue I shall have to pay attention when I'm shopping.
mickle
innit
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- 53.933606, -1.076131
Vegan Bingo.
It really pains me to have to state the bleedin' obvious - that meat doesn't arrive from nature in neat bite friendly shapes. It's processed to look that way and be that shape. What shape would you have vegan food adopt?
How long before someone pops up with the 'plants have feelings too' trope?
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
I didnt say that though . i am asking a genuine question why there seems to be a need to make products the imitate the texture and shape of meat products without prejudice on my part as i was genuinely interested without having to resort to sniping .
Nigeyy
Legendary Member
- Location
- Massachusetts, USA
As a vegetarian, I'll try to answer, no sniping.
Just because you choose to be a vegetarian doesn't preclude you from liking the texture or taste of meat. I personally think some meat flavours and textures are appealing* so why not use that? I think many vegetarians are vegetarian because of moral/health/peer pressure/ingredients concerns, not because of any inherent dislike of the flavour or texture. Add in the fact that burgers are a handy way to meld and present veggie products together, and you can see why.
*interestingly I had an Impossible Burger and couldn't enjoy it. I think to a meat eater it would have genuinely tasted delicious, but it was so close to my memory of what meat tasted like -and since I'm a vegetarian from a moral perspective -I just couldn't enjoy it!
Just because you choose to be a vegetarian doesn't preclude you from liking the texture or taste of meat. I personally think some meat flavours and textures are appealing* so why not use that? I think many vegetarians are vegetarian because of moral/health/peer pressure/ingredients concerns, not because of any inherent dislike of the flavour or texture. Add in the fact that burgers are a handy way to meld and present veggie products together, and you can see why.
*interestingly I had an Impossible Burger and couldn't enjoy it. I think to a meat eater it would have genuinely tasted delicious, but it was so close to my memory of what meat tasted like -and since I'm a vegetarian from a moral perspective -I just couldn't enjoy it!
Randomnerd
Bimbleur
- Location
- North Yorkshire
I've got a point though.
