Quorn

[Alison]

Have used it a few times over the year and it's totally tasteless on it's own and therefore very good for adding flavours to that you want to taste. Can be very useful if done properly and seem to remember the mince was pretty good and probably better than using soy products.

[lottie dolly]

Have tried soya and tofu,never again,I was first introduced to quorn a few years ago at WW,but i only like the mince,pieces,chic,brest look alike,the nuggets are ok,
sausages are yeuk,and burgers are like beef,she shudders,how ever,ASDA do a nice chilli bean burger,but the cauliflower cheese is toooo salty,each to their own,i quite often have just veggies,in with a drop of gravy taste just as good,

[rustylady]

What is the point? If you are vegetarian then eat vegetables, not pretend meat.

[zazen999]

What is the point? If you are vegetarian then eat vegetables, not pretend meat.

Sigh.

It IS from vegetable origin; and it's up to Moi what I eat

[rustylady]

Sigh.

It IS from vegetable origin; and it's up to Moi what I eat

OK, point taken.

[Two_Sheds]

I actually know the lady whose husband discovered it - we went to uni together.

Now that is cool. Is it totally like safe and everything then? They don't really totally explain what it is on the packet ... I'm suspicious of anything very processed

What is the point? If you are vegetarian then eat vegetables, not pretend meat.

It's nice for a bit of a different texture (and no, I don't remember what the texture of meat is like, it's over 20 yrs since I had any) and also to slip into a dish so that OH thinks he's getting chicken: saves me cooking 2 meals

btw, I hate tofu in all its forms, it's too much like polystyrene

[smallblueplanet]

What is the point? If you are vegetarian then eat vegetables, not pretend meat.

Its made 'like meat' to encourage meat-eaters to buy it - afterall vegetarians don't want to eat meat, that is the point. If you care to do research you will find that the Chinese have been making 'mock meats' for 1000s of years...

Why do meat eaters find vegetarianism so threatening?

[Two_Sheds]

Why do meat eaters find vegetarianism so threatening?

Rusty doesn't, she's just had a very trying day

[rustylady]

Why do meat eaters find vegetarianism so threatening?

I really don't find it threatening. I do eat some meat, but not a lot. I just find it really strange that there are so many products on the market "pretending" to be sausages, pies, etc. etc. If I am having a non-meat day or two, then I don't find it necessary to fill my plate with pseudo burgers or sausages.

[Two_Sheds]

I just find it really strange that there are so many products on the market "pretending" to be sausages, pies

It's really handy for when you have to eat with rampant carnivores, who would otherwise question you intently on why you don't eat meat Only last night I was round the Outlaws and OH's brother declared that he wanted to "question me" on my vegetarianism.

It's the same principle as drinking a tonic water in the pub if you're teetotal: it looks like a G n T, so you don't get grief for not drinking

[smallblueplanet]

If I am having a non-meat day or two, then I don't find it necessary to fill my plate with pseudo burgers or sausages.

Neither do I, its just that they don't make Quorn shaped like courgettes, oh hang on...and they aren't pseudo burgers/sausages they are Quorn burgers and Quorn sausages.

[lottie dolly]

What is the point? If you are vegetarian then eat vegetables, not pretend meat.

Personaly I am not a vegetarian,I just don't like the taste of so called meat,even chichen is not tasting as nice these days,but quorn,or whatever choice of what i call pretent meat,it is mostly vegetable in origin,and can compliment your vegetables,but the mince is so versatile and easy to use,from stirfry to hot pot,

[piskieinboots]

Why do meat eaters find vegetarianism so threatening?

Is that *all* meat eaters that you refer you?

I eat meat, I eat meals without meat - I don't find either group (meat/non meat eaters) threatening when they talk about their food. Should I?

[zazen999]

Sausage is a shape. So is burger.

So we could call them; 'quorn roll ups' or 'squished quorn patties' but it doesn't roll off the tongue so well. So it's just as easy to call them sausages as they are the same shape....

After all, sausages are just rolled up meat bits and burgers are just squished meat patties....so why can't we do the same with veg?

[smallblueplanet]

Is that *all* meat eaters that you refer you?

I eat meat, I eat meals without meat - I don't find either group (meat/non meat eaters) threatening when they talk about their food. Should I?

Yes, every single one. No, but as a vegetarian I notice that it quite often occurs that meat eaters feel the need to make 'comments' on the quality of the food veggies eat...take that whatever way you will.