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To hate the new Cauldron sausages

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biddyboo · 29/01/2023 16:01

Cauldron Lincolnshire sausages used to be the best veggie sausages out the market, but they have changed the recipe to make them vegan, and in the process they have ruined them. They have gone from being plump and tasty to these awful flaccid plasticky tasting tubes that need a specially designed packet to stop them from splodging out all the tray.

Have you tried the new recipe? Aibu?

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RomeoMcFlourish · 15/04/2024 07:33

Time to resurrect this thread…because they’ve ruined them again! Their ‘new look’ packaging is a sneaky attempt at hiding that they’ve also changed the recipe and put disgusting skins on them.

OneFrenchEgg · 05/04/2023 11:31

DazzlePaintedBattlePants · 05/04/2023 09:14

Oh this is FAB news if they are back. I'm off to stock up!

I bought two packs yesterday!

DazzlePaintedBattlePants · 05/04/2023 09:14

Oh this is FAB news if they are back. I'm off to stock up!

hopsalong · 05/04/2023 08:53

How depressing and stupid. I haven't had these sausages and am not even a vegetarian. But I love vegetarian food and would often in the past order a bean burger or nut roast from preference. I have noticed (without really thinking about why) that this option has largely gone when eating out.

Previously I would choose vegetarian options both from taste preference and because of anxiety about meat provenance / welfare in cheaper restaurants. Now I just get the burger. I absolutely loathe fake meat and can imagine loathing it even more if I didn't like meat in the first place!

mrsrobin · 05/04/2023 08:05

Yellowbird54321 · 04/04/2023 21:34

Happy days 😀

me too!!

Yellowbird54321 · 04/04/2023 21:34

Happy days 😀

shyalice · 04/04/2023 18:02

As far as I am aware they will be making both types - the vegan ones and the veggie ones.

Personally I don’t care either way. I tried Cauldron sausages years ago and I thought they were vile 🤮.

RedRosie · 04/04/2023 17:55

They're back?

There is A God.

#Dramatic

Crikeyalmighty · 04/04/2023 17:49

I've tried several vegan 'manufactured' products this week- all revolting. I'm not vegan and if I was I would be making all my own stuff after sampling some wares!!

OneOfThoseOldFashionedWomen · 04/04/2023 15:55

I've just looked on their fb (and ugg at the customer posted pic of the vegan slop sausages) and they say they've had a banger clanger

OneFrenchEgg · 04/04/2023 14:44

ONG amazing

ExCarer · 04/04/2023 14:12

Also according to the Cauldron site, it looks like they're available in other supermarkets too.

AliasGrape · 04/04/2023 14:07

Hurray!

OneOfThoseOldFashionedWomen · 04/04/2023 14:04

This is a good update. I have added some to my Tesco order , with a note saying must be veggie not vegan.

ExCarer · 04/04/2023 13:23

Pic here but it might be wise to double check the packaging in store as they might be selling off old stock.

To hate the new Cauldron sausages
ExCarer · 04/04/2023 13:03

It seems that the original vegetarian recipe sausages have returned and are now available in Tesco.

Goldentealeaf · 05/03/2023 16:06

I completely agree; now there just seems to be a raft of 'meat free' meat-like products aimed at holier than thou show vegetarians who don't actually want to eat vegetables in the supermarkets and no (or very few) actual vegetarian options. I've been a vegetarian for nearly 40 years and it is harder than ever to eat well if you havent got the time, money or skill to produce your own and meat-like isn't what you want. The supermarkets now seem to have stopped selling nut cutlets, too :(

WinterDeWinter · 03/03/2023 20:34

It was the Cumberland ones btw.

WinterDeWinter · 03/03/2023 20:32

I have an update - I was cross because I accidentally reordered these BUT! I cooked them in plenty of rapeseed oil (more than usual) and I had the oil pretty hot before I put them in, and then I kept them moving in the pan rather than leaving them alone like I’d usually do. I was hoping that if they were properly brown and crisped up they’d get a better flavour and it worked! They were fantastic - just like the slightly cheap caff sausages that I still miss from meat eating days. Mash, peas, hp sauce - magic.

Moneypennyz · 01/03/2023 14:44

Having loved cauldron too, I switched to Asda OMV! And wow, they're amazing. Rubbed some oil and cooked in the airfryer and will never look back!

ReneBumsWombats · 26/02/2023 21:06

I actually thought Linda McCartney was OK. It's my kids' favourite.

Richmond was impressive but a bit too similar to real meat for my liking...although I guess that's a win for many people.

OneFrenchEgg · 26/02/2023 19:34

*moments

OneFrenchEgg · 26/02/2023 19:34

Saw them again in Tesco, squished up in their packet. So disappointing and in two flavours which gave me a moneys hope but no, both vegan.

PlainSkyr · 26/02/2023 18:45

LilyR007 · 09/02/2023 02:41

The vegetarian sausages were my favourite, but yet again these have been changed for the minority vegan market and are now inedible. I contacted cauldron who came out with some claptrap about reducing the impact on the environment, Don't they know free range chickens enhance the environment? They will reconsider producing the vegetarian sausages if there is enough demand, Please contact them at [email protected] to ask for our veggie sausages back.

Emailed!

HRazzle · 26/02/2023 18:31

JocastaElastic · 06/02/2023 07:09

Cauldron and Quorn are both owned by the same company, Marlow Foods. Reportedly Marlow Foods want to increase production of Quorn to meet global demand, so could it be possible that they want Cauldron to go bust? Is this disasterous recipe change part of an epic sausage conspiracy?

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Quorn is the worst. I learnt the hard way that I’m going intolerant to it. Apparently it’s a huge allergen to many people.
Doctors couldn’t work out what was causing me such stomach pain and there was talk at one point of removing my gall bladder!