Reading the amusing comments about green & scream

[DAPPH]

There was a comment about things green being of a lesser quality ....... it mentioned veggie sausages in an earlier post .

Yesterday I had care of our Ukrainian lad whilst his mum & my wife were out and about for the day
In the mid afternoon we hit the dreaded MacDonald's ,
Max was straight on to the computer table , He totally ignoring me asking him what he wanted , till I shouted at him and turned the place into total silence for a few seconds He look up on hearing his name called in loud tones . came over to me looking all innocent and uncooperative .

So I took out my phone logged into the " SAY HI " app and had it translate what I'd asked him . " Oh, pointing to the order computer screen , this this this & this .

" Well go on , order it " , which he did , before legging it back to the screens again . The stuff arrived ( I don't think of it as food ) & I had to go and get him .

His face was a picture as he stuffed the chips in his head , it was hilarious to see him try to get his gob round the tripple burger and even funnier when he got the taste of it ..He'd ordered a meatless veggie tripple . . I could smell it from three foot away, something akin to a fresh caught Tench & a wet ,rotting hessian sack , He lost interest in the burger PDQ.

As I got him to take the waste to the bin I sneaked a little finger nail sized portion of the meat substitute . KIN'ELL ! and they are pushing that as a meat replacement , it was bloody evil . it tasted much like it smelt

 

[ajlelectronics]

As I got him to take the waste to the bin I sneaked a little finger nail sized portion of the meat substitute . KIN'ELL ! and they are pushing that as a meat replacement , it was bloody evil . it tasted much like it smelt

Well who knows what it might be? Not an establishment I would ever associate with cruelty free produce.

However, your alternatives experience is unusual, as most of the products I have tried have been at least as good, if not better than their regular versions. Richmond sausages are a good case in point, fabulous and nobody died. Swedish Glace ice cream... I could eat that as a staple! Cheese is a bit samey but perfectly nice if you like any flavour as long as it is reminiscent of Dutch Edam.

I think a lot of the problem is the blind prejudice of some blood addicts; my assistant is typical, he won't even try anything new because he has been conditioned with the "cruelty free alternatives are horrible" prejudice.

 

[500e]

I eat pritty much anything but had some vegan sausage ate 1/2 of one rest in bin, I am known as careful some would say a Scot.
Can't remember if Tesco or Waitrose they were dreadfull like a poor quality dumpling

 

[ajlelectronics]

I eat pritty much anything but had some vegan sausage ate 1/2 of one rest in bin, I am known as careful some would say a Scot.
Can't remember if Tesco or Waitrose they were dreadfull like a poor quality dumpling

There are some that are 'different' to that you might expect. The LIDL ones are very un sausage like but then are so different that they still good in their own way. I think that the failing is with the 'look alike and try to taste alike' products. Just like paintwork, it it isn't going to match, then contrast it! I haven't tried vegan 'bacon' or whatever, I just don't see the point in highly processed stuff that is trying to look like animal remains when you could just eat fresh, natural food.

 

[AVI_8]

Nothing beats a medium rare steak though, can’t be replicated by veggie stuff.

 

[knighty]

I'll eat anything, quite like Greggs vegan sausage rolls

but some vegan stuff is horrible, really horrible - vegan cheese etc.

would rather go hungry than eat at McDonalds.... but at the same time I love their strawberry milkshakes :-)

 

[addjunkie]

I'll eat anything, quite like Greggs vegan sausage rolls

but some vegan stuff is horrible, really horrible - vegan cheese etc.

would rather go hungry than eat at McDonalds.... but at the same time I love their strawberry milkshakes :-)

Eat what you want I say….but what I do not understand with all these alternatives……if they are so good why use the bad meat product in its description. Vegan cheese being a prime example. Cheese is a dairy product made from milk produced by lactating animals, not plant juice.
Vegan sausauge is another. Sausage from the dictionary..a mixture of meat, fat, bread, etc. cut into small pieces, put into a long tube of skin, cooked and eaten whole or served cold in thin slices

 

[Johnnybravo]

This whole vegan thing makes me laugh. I’m not anti meat. I’m not anti vegetable. I have eaten some incredible totally vegetarian meals. However ,come on. Why would you want to create a sausage out of reconstituted grass and mechanically harvested Mungbeans with the entrails of a cauliflower thrown in for good measure? You don’t see meat eaters using prime rib of beef with a dash of chicken livers and a teaspoon of duck fat to mould it into a blob and call it a Tomato
Peace and Vegetable Rights
Johnny Bravo over and out….

 

[CornishPete]

There was a comment about things green being of a lesser quality ....... it mentioned veggie sausages in an earlier post .

That was me! The inspiration was my wife once using quarn sausages in a sausage casserole and not telling anyone. Me and the kids had a mouthful each, spat it out and had toast instead. She eats a bit of vegetarian food and even she said they were disgusting!!

 

[8ob]

A few family members have gone cranky vegetarian and I have to suffer eat the occasional veggie dish when the visit. Doesn’t do much for me either, come to think about it I don’t think it’s doing them much good because they always seem to be ill

Bob

 

[GRW]

I like the phrase someone coined decades ago:
"Only by eating junk food can you die of malnutrition & obesity at the same time".

My OH has had to go "Plant-Based" (think Vegan but without the Fundamentalist Tub-Thumping aggression) for health reasons.
So, I eat a lot more meat & dairy free meals than I used to (she's cooking them, so it made sense to try them).
For the most part, she comes up with tasty meals I'm happy to eat - and I have an alternative to stuff when it's say butternut squash (which I detest).

Last night, we had some chocolate vegan ice-cream (not called that). It was fantastic, and in taste, texture and visual I wouldn't have known.

 

[Johnnybravo]

A few family members have gone cranky vegetarian and I have to suffer eat the occasional veggie dish when the visit. Doesn’t do much for me either, come to think about it I don’t think it’s doing them much good because they always seem to be ill

Bob

I once dated a fat vegetarian. Nothing sickly about her. She had a very healthy pair of lungs…

 

[outofthefire]

Richmond sausages are a good case in point, fabulous and nobody died.

Richmond sausages are bloody awful with what little meat is in them

 

[Mick Annick]

The non-meat / dairy stuff is improving all the time, not that I’m a lover of it but with two adult sons - one vegetarian and one vegan - I get to try a fair bit of it. At least the grandson (5) is a meat eater - he had a decent steak last time he was here and loved it.

 

[northwest]

Nothing beats a medium rare steak though, can’t be replicated by veggie stuff.

One of my few real pleasures in life, the restaurant in the village has some of the best steak ever and I have eaten in some pretty top class steak restaurants in the US, my order is always the same: TWO steaks and no veg, chips or spud, just bring me the steak.

 

[mike os]

Soylent green?

If it's so good why do the insist on trying to make it taste like meat ?

 

[slim_boy_fat]

...and I have to suffer eat the occasional veggie dish when the visit

Are you a man or a mouse?

 

[dobbslc]

The youngest boy has recently turned veggie and the eldest boys girlfriend is a pescitarian so we now eat quite a few veggie meals, some are pretty good but a couple were so bad that even they wouldn't finish the food!
The eldest boy did come downstairs once demanding MEAT!

 

[My Old Landy]

We quite often have food without a meat element. I refuse to eat a substitute, if its veggies then eat them. It is the disguising that annoys me not the lack of meat. A spicy bean burger is nice and it is what it says, beans compressed into a burger!

 

[Prajna]

Nothing beats a medium rare steak though, can’t be replicated by veggie stuff.

Not to worry, Klaus Schwab and the govt Nudge Unit will have you eating ze bugs and cruelty-free steaks made from gmo cancer cells any day now.