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Vegetarian Sausages
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 |
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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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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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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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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 |
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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!
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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I just posted this on another thread ![]() I highly recommend Linda McCartney Vegetarian Sausages |
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I just posted this on another thread ![]() I highly recommend Linda McCartney Vegetarian Sausages |
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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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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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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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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. 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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cauldron Lancashire style vegetarian sausages. - yum!
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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!
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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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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They're all quorn, aren't they?
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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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They're all quorn, aren't they?
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They're all quorn, aren't they?
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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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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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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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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.
![]() 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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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? ![]() 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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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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I just posted this on another thread 