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Old 22-05-2009, 19:36
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Can anybody recommend any particular brands of vegetarian sausage please; preferably ones that can be bought in one of the major supermarkets.

Not sure if veggie sausages contain eggs, but if they do I'm only interested in brands where the egg content is free-range.

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Old 22-05-2009, 19:53
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Linda McCartney or Quorn , i would say . Although Tesco do a nice one , but don't know about the eggs though ???
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Old 22-05-2009, 22:27
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I'm a lapsed vegetarian who now enjoys some meat but I still enjoy a lot of the veggy stuff I used to eat. There are quite a few nice veggy sausages which I still buy. The only thing is none of them taste remotely like meat sausages.

Tivall make good veggy frankfurters, Linda Mcartney's brand is about the closest to a banger but can be quite dry and the quorn sausages tend to be a bit bland unless you slather then in onion gravy or something.

Cauldron foods make quite spicy, tasty versions but none of the texture or 'meatiness' of a real (pork) one. Also Tesco make cheese and leek things which they call sausages but are more like crispy tubes full of nutty, cheesey stuff (I love them with salad or new potatoes).

Sosmix is nice if you use it to make a sausage roll or scotch egg.

The trick with most is to have some tasty veg and sauce with them. Sausage and mash with loads of onion gravy tastes great with most of the above, apart from the frankfurters. Those I often slice and fry as the 'meat' part of a pasta sauce, a bit like chorizo without the big lumps of fat.

I'm hungry now.
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Old 23-05-2009, 00:10
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I'm a lapsed vegetarian who now enjoys some meat but I still enjoy a lot of the veggy stuff I used to eat. There are quite a few nice veggy sausages which I still buy. The only thing is none of them taste remotely like meat sausages.

Tivall make good veggy frankfurters, Linda Mcartney's brand is about the closest to a banger but can be quite dry and the quorn sausages tend to be a bit bland unless you slather then in onion gravy or something.

Cauldron foods make quite spicy, tasty versions but none of the texture or 'meatiness' of a real (pork) one. Also Tesco make cheese and leek things which they call sausages but are more like crispy tubes full of nutty, cheesey stuff (I love them with salad or new potatoes).

Sosmix is nice if you use it to make a sausage roll or scotch egg.

The trick with most is to have some tasty veg and sauce with them. Sausage and mash with loads of onion gravy tastes great with most of the above, apart from the frankfurters. Those I often slice and fry as the 'meat' part of a pasta sauce, a bit like chorizo without the big lumps of fat.

I'm hungry now.
Thanks. I've seen some Tivall stuff although I can't remember if I've seen their sausages before. I seem to recall that their food is kosher (nothing wrong with that) but tends to contain eggs; as the labels don't say free-range eggs I must assume that the eggs are from hens kept in cages.
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Old 23-05-2009, 00:17
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Can anybody recommend any particular brands of vegetarian sausage please; preferably ones that can be bought in one of the major supermarkets.

Not sure if veggie sausages contain eggs, but if they do I'm only interested in brands where the egg content is free-range.

Thanks
If you are a veggie why eat "veggie" sausages? By defenition they are a meat product. Nothing against veggies but get a grip for ****s sake!
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Old 23-05-2009, 00:41
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If you are a veggie why eat "veggie" sausages? By defenition they are a meat product. Nothing against veggies but get a grip for ****s sake!
Vegetarian sausages have no meat in them so if people want to eat them, why the hell shouldn't they? Get a grip, indeed. Vegetarians don't want to eat meat, not food which isn't meat in sausage shapes. I wouldn't eat them, if I didn't like them. Did you come into this thread just to offer that pearl of wisdom?

As for the OP, yes, Linda M ones or Quorn Cheshire Cheese and Leek. And also Fry's do a range which lots of people like. And these, too:

http://www.goodnessdirect.co.uk/cgi-...ages_200g.html
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Old 23-05-2009, 00:47
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I just posted this on another thread

I highly recommend Linda McCartney Vegetarian Sausages
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Old 23-05-2009, 02:31
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I just posted this on another thread

I highly recommend Linda McCartney Vegetarian Sausages
I don't. Ok it might have been a while back, but all I remember is a stick to my teeth texture.
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Old 23-05-2009, 08:19
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As I asked on an identical thread on the general topics forum.

Why do vegetarians have to call their foods by meat product names?

Veggie Burgers, veggie sausages etc.

If vegetables are all anyone needs, why try to disguise them by making their name sound like the real thing.

And yes, I know, this way you can trick children and dumb adults into thinking they are eating a meat product.
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Old 23-05-2009, 09:06
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Are telling me a burger always has to be meat? Its just a definition for a type of food.

What else should we call sausages? They were given that name for reason and can be identified by that name because of its shape.

Anyway yeah Linda M's are the best.
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Old 23-05-2009, 09:07
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Ocado used to do a great line of Veggie Lincolnshire Sausages, but not sure if they still stock them.

Tivall as have already been mentioned do a decent range of great tasting Veggie foods, as for Linda McCartney think I would eat my own vomit before giving into one of those abominations.
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Old 23-05-2009, 09:18
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Are telling me a burger always has to be meat? Its just a definition for a type of food.

What else should we call sausages? They were given that name for reason and can be identified by that name because of its shape.

Anyway yeah Linda M's are the best.
I am saying do not be ashamed of calling vegetables by their own name.

Why try to disguise what they are?

The only reson that meat product names are given to vegetables is so that they can sell more.

If you called them fried vegetable rolls or fried flattened vegetable, they would not sell so well.

Be honest to your convictions, sell them for what they are, not what they pretend to be.
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Old 23-05-2009, 09:21
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cauldron Lancashire style vegetarian sausages. - yum!
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Old 23-05-2009, 11:12
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If you are a veggie why eat "veggie" sausages? By defenition they are a meat product. Nothing against veggies but get a grip for ****s sake!
I'm NOT a veggie as a search of my previous posts will show.

Last weekend I was away for the weekend and didn't opt for the "full English" breakfast as it contained meat which presumably was factory-farmed. The vegetarian breakfast I had included 2 veggie sausages which were much nicer than I would have expected, so nice-tasting veggie sausages do exist...
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Old 23-05-2009, 11:15
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Thanks for (most of) the replies above.

There seems to be a few recommendations for Linda McCartney sausages and somebody I work with recommended the Cauldron food ones; I'm going to my local huge Tesco today and I'm fairly certain that they sell the Linda McCartney ones and I think they've started selling Cauldron (I know Sainsburys do anyway) so I shall get some.
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Old 23-05-2009, 11:22
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They're all quorn, aren't they?
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Old 23-05-2009, 11:22
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I am saying do not be ashamed of calling vegetables by their own name.

Why try to disguise what they are?

The only reson that meat product names are given to vegetables is so that they can sell more.

If you called them fried vegetable rolls or fried flattened vegetable, they would not sell so well.

Be honest to your convictions, sell them for what they are, not what they pretend to be.


You need to work on your logic. There is nothing 'dishonest' about a non-meat-eater NOT eating meat. All that matters is that they're not meat and a person likes the taste of them. The rest reveals your resentment towards vegetarians which is your problem.
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Old 23-05-2009, 11:23
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They're all quorn, aren't they?
No, they're not.
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Old 23-05-2009, 11:26
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They're all quorn, aren't they?
No. Some are quorn but most contain textured vegetable protein.
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Old 23-05-2009, 11:31
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Why try to disguise what they are?

The only reson that meat product names are given to vegetables is so that they can sell more.

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What's wrong with that? All food companies are in business to make money aren't they? I regularly eat "vegetarian burgers" and "spicy bean burgers" and am happy to do so.
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Old 23-05-2009, 11:34
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Yes, and you can get glamorgan sausages, sausages with leek and cheese and other flavourings. Only branded Quorn sausages are Quorn. I don't actually eat them that often but the old 'vegetarians really want to eat meat, as proved by veggie sausages, so they might as well eat meat - gotcha - so I'm right ' argument is a bit stale, as well as massively missing the point, in a pretty fatuous way.
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Old 23-05-2009, 14:51
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My personal favourites are these Lincolnshire style sausages from Redwood Vegideli:

http://www.goodnessdirect.co.uk/cgi-...ges__295g.html

They contain no egg and are also suitable for vegans. Holland & Barrett also stock them.
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Old 23-05-2009, 16:41
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You need to work on your logic. There is nothing 'dishonest' about a non-meat-eater NOT eating meat. All that matters is that they're not meat and a person likes the taste of them. The rest reveals your resentment towards vegetarians which is your problem.
Nothing against vegetarians personally.

It is the fact that vegetarians have to disguise the names of the vegetables to try and trick people into eating them.

Lettuce is lettuce, asparagus is asparagus etc.

You do not hear of meat products pretending to be vegetable. There would be a massive outcry by vegetarians if meat was disguised under a vegetable name.

Think about it, pork radishes, lamb turnips?

So why veggie sausages?
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Old 23-05-2009, 17:00
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Nothing against vegetarians personally.

It is the fact that vegetarians have to disguise the names of the vegetables to try and trick people into eating them.

Lettuce is lettuce, asparagus is asparagus etc.

You do not hear of meat products pretending to be vegetable. There would be a massive outcry by vegetarians if meat was disguised under a vegetable name.

Think about it, pork radishes, lamb turnips?

So why veggie sausages?
Nope, you're not making any sense. In fact your argument is so poor I suspect you're having a bit of a laugh.

Where is the disguise when we talk about a mushroomburger, or a beanburger, or a cheese and leak sausage etc.? All these kinds of products have the veggie label too, so there's no diguise there either. It's simply using the most logical and clear way to describe what these products are, in just the same way as a beefburger or a hamburger describes the shape and content of the product.
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Old 23-05-2009, 17:26
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Well I'm just back from my local Tesco Extra where I got a bit carried away! I've bought Cauldron Lincolnshire sausages, Cauldron Cumberland sausages and Quorn Bangers - all of which contain free-range eggs.

I've also bought Linda McCartney "Vegetarian sausages", the name of which is a bid odd as the packaging says "vegan friendly", which they are as they don't contain any eggs. That being the case I don't understand why they're not called Linda McCartney "Vegan sausages".

Anyhow, a couple of the Cauldron Lincolnshire ones will be on my breakfast plate tomorrow morning
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