Is 'a good veggie sausage' an oxymoron?

Are you trolling? I can't tell.

Basically the only difference is that real chicken is a bit more stringy and may occasionally get caught in your teeth.

If you are good to aim you will not risk to insert the toothpick in your pupil.

Are you trolling? I can't tell.

Nope, just being rhetorical ... I can understand the point of 'meat analogues' that try to emulate meat as being a healthier option for meat eaters, but as a veggie, I think there are far more interesting foods out there. I'm not enticed by meaty flavours any more.

To me, it should be called 'chickenless chicken' rather than vegetarian chicken ;)

Who called it vegetarian chicken?

Even they called it "Chicken-Free".

People read with bias it seems.

BeyondMeat do fake chicken that is almost imperceptibly different from the real thing.
http://beyondmeat.com/products/

Basically the only difference is that real chicken is a bit more stringy and may occasionally get caught in your teeth.

I bought canned chicken fillets the other day and they tasted exactly like imitation chicken.

I can understand the point of 'meat analogues' that try to emulate meat as being a healthier option for meat eaters

Smaller portions would be a healthier option for meat eaters. Highly processed vegetable products posing as synthetic meat, not so much.

quorn sausages tastes shit, these though, oh yeah

Normal hotdogs are almost meat free anyway.

BeyondMeat do fake chicken that is almost imperceptibly different from the real thing.
http://beyondmeat.com/products/

Basically the only difference is that real chicken is a bit more stringy and may occasionally get caught in your teeth.

I presume you mean organic chicken when you say "real chicken".

To me, it should be called 'chickenless chicken' ;)

You might as well call it 'chickenless less'.

The problem with those analogues is always that while they're foods in their own right, you always have to make explicit reference to their vegan or vegetarian or 'free from' nature.

It would be easier if they just acquired common names and became popular for another reason than being an analogue.

I'm going to try and find some Goodlife Glamorgan Cheese & Leek Sausages - they're delicious and I haven't had them in aaaagggeeessss. They're not trying to be sausages in anything other than shape, a bit more like a croquette really. mmmm ... hungry.

Could do without the ketchup though.

It would be easier if they just acquired common names and became popular for another reason than being an analogue.

Real food already has common names.

Risking getting mocked mercilessly here, but I've got alcohol free beer in the fridge- in fact mentioning it here has made me go and get one.

Slightly different I acknowledge, but the similarity is that despite having given up on what many would see as the point of beer, I still enjoy it.

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Real food already has common names.

Yes, not all real food, though.

Risking getting mocked mercilessly here, but I've got alcohol free beer in the fridge- in fact mentioning it here has made me go and get one.

Slightly different I acknowledge, but the similarity is that despite having given up on what many would see as the point of beer, I still enjoy it.

My brother drinks that all the time. I've never tried it.

tofu wieners FTW!

don't go in for fake products much, but these are well tasty esp.with fried onions, mustard, ketchup. also Wicken Fen mushroom and tarragon sausages are pretty good.

Fav bangers right there!!!

Mmmmm, I will try tofu Weiners.

I'm going to try and find some Goodlife Glamorgan Cheese & Leek Sausages - they're delicious and I haven't had them in aaaagggeeessss. They're not trying to be sausages in anything other than shape, a bit more like a croquette really. mmmm ... hungry.

Could do without the ketchup though.

want!

Just made a potato and pepper fritata and added two fried Linda M's Italian sausages, cooked through and chopped up - looks ace, can't wait

Thats grrrrrrreat

I am a vegetarian and there is nothing wrong with my sausage. Never been called a moron either.

I'm going to try and find some Goodlife Glamorgan Cheese & Leek Sausages - they're delicious and I haven't had them in aaaagggeeessss. They're not trying to be sausages in anything other than shape, a bit more like a croquette really. mmmm ... hungry.

Could do without the ketchup though.
Just read a BBC blog on 'Retro recipes: 1970s Vegetarian' which cites a lovely looking recipe for
Glamorgan sausages with red onion and chilli relish.

It should be fairly easy to make a vegan version if necessary.

"Tofu wiener" sounds like a pejorative term for a vegan. Just saying.

Quorn is gross, the Linda Mcartney wheat ones are decent enough