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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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ScarlettSunset · 29/01/2023 22:19

peaceandpotato · 29/01/2023 21:39

It's great news for vegans I guess.

I imagine most vegans would prefer nice food though

ReneBumsWombats · 29/01/2023 22:18

ErrolTheDragon · 29/01/2023 21:38

I'm really glad now that DH binned the pack we had.Grin

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Yeah, you missed nothing.

I didn't realise they'd changed the recipe. I thought I'd just overcooked them, which was weird because my technique hadn't changed. I tried frying them, which I don't like doing, but they were still dry, shrivelled, limp...just now they were oily as well.

I stopped buying them a while ago. It's good to know I wasn't going mad.

fiorentina · 29/01/2023 22:05

They are revolting. Bad of them to pretend it’s a slight change in recipe when they are a drastic change and are now a slimy, awful product. So many negative reviews. Did they do no customer research?!

peaceandpotato · 29/01/2023 21:39

It's great news for vegans I guess.

ErrolTheDragon · 29/01/2023 21:38

ReneBumsWombats · 29/01/2023 20:44

Last time I had them, I put them on the plate and they were honestly the most disappointing thing I've ever seen. They were small, limp, dry, shrivelled...if I wanted that kind of depression, I'd date a MRA.

I'm really glad now that DH binned the pack we had.Grin

hels71 · 29/01/2023 21:34

I'm so glad it's not just me. They were the only veggie sausages both DH and I liked. Struggling to find a replacement!

beanfeast · 29/01/2023 21:31

I'm a vegan, but agree with you.
Going out previously for meals was hit and miss, but vegan food was starting to get interesting and there were always veggie options.Now though,everywhere serves Beyond burgers which I have no interest in. They also stick vegan and gluten free together.
It's just lazy.
I agree that sosmix was amazing, but can't get it easily anymore sadly.

Plitvice · 29/01/2023 21:31

I was actually told that I would have to pay £3 extra to swap out vegan mozzarella on a pizza for regular mozzarella which was on every other pizza on the menu!

SeahorseBlue · 29/01/2023 21:28

I agree that vegetarian items are disappearing in favour of vegan. I've noticed it in restaurants too, no nice vegetarian options, only vegan stuff like vegan burgers with no cheese or coleslaw. It's really annoying!

Plitvice · 29/01/2023 21:26

Quorn Best of British work out quite expensive if you eat them regularly. The cheaper Quorn ones have dodgy ingredients. There is almost too much choice out there now and most is unhealthy, over processed vegan stuff. I'd love a recipe for homemade sausages which can be frozen.

Titsywoo · 29/01/2023 21:23

29052022J · 29/01/2023 19:24

Cauldron stopped doing a lentil pate in 2005 and my mum and I still talk about it. Living in hope of finding it back on the shelves one day 😂

I miss the Cauldron mushrooms burgers from a similar era. All their newer burgers are shite. Those were lush (I'm not a veggie just prefer a good veggie burger and sausage to the meat versions). Luckily for sausages I do like the Quorn Best of British ones.

Moorlander · 29/01/2023 21:14

I too love the Richmond ones precisely because they are like the cheap meat ones! However my new favourite is the This is Not Pork, really oily and delicious, mmm. Shame about the Cauldron though, they were lovely too. I'm grateful that I have been reminded of Glamorgan sausages, haven't made them for ages and they are so delicious.

TeamHerbivore · 29/01/2023 21:12

Cross post about pringles.

TeamHerbivore · 29/01/2023 21:11

EmmaEmerald · 29/01/2023 20:58

do you have any examples please? Must be a nightmare for people with allergies.

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I know that bournville buttons changed to have milk in them a year or so ago. And pringles apparently.

EmmaEmerald · 29/01/2023 21:07

BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn · 29/01/2023 21:04

The one I discovered this week was Pringles. All except the plain now have whey powder.

I have dairy allergy, so am not pleased by the change.

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Yes, a friend has two DC with dairy allergy. We were chatting about food changes yesterday but I'd no clue about milk powder being added to stuff so will forewarn her if it's a thing.

BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn · 29/01/2023 21:04

EmmaEmerald · 29/01/2023 20:58

do you have any examples please? Must be a nightmare for people with allergies.

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The one I discovered this week was Pringles. All except the plain now have whey powder.

I have dairy allergy, so am not pleased by the change.

DemBonesDemBones · 29/01/2023 21:01

Every time a veggie food becomes vegan it's ruined. Quorn ham is the worst now. Slimy grimness.

CatAssTrophic · 29/01/2023 21:00

That is shit, they were the only ones I could eat. I found that most of the others were full of weird tasting gunge. Cauldron changed something a while back which put me off them anyway, I think it was a spice and I reduced the amount I bought.

Beyond Sausage is also foul. The Richmond ones, I think, have a less healthy ingredient list, sugar or carbs (?) which I have to avoid, and they smell horrible when cooking. If they make me heave then, i have no hope of eating them.

I miss The Beet Goes On sausages, not seen those for a long time. They were the best of all, and the burgers from the same company.

I don't understand why all the vegetarian food has to be vegan, and contain so much horrible stuff. Vegan food is always disguised with so many added flavours and crud that it takes the skin off my mouth. Especially the fake shredded meat stuff. Horrible muck.

EmmaEmerald · 29/01/2023 20:58

BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn · 29/01/2023 20:56

The odd thing about the sudden move to veganise everything is that at the same time there's also a flood of companies adding milk to products that didn't previously contain it.

do you have any examples please? Must be a nightmare for people with allergies.

BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn · 29/01/2023 20:56

The odd thing about the sudden move to veganise everything is that at the same time there's also a flood of companies adding milk to products that didn't previously contain it.

Snugglemonkey · 29/01/2023 20:53

29052022J · 29/01/2023 19:24

Cauldron stopped doing a lentil pate in 2005 and my mum and I still talk about it. Living in hope of finding it back on the shelves one day 😂

I remember this! Used to be one of my fave lunches.

BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn · 29/01/2023 20:51

Terrible new recipe. Won't be getting those again.

We had some Plant Kitchen caramelised onion ones this week that were pretty good

dustyfans · 29/01/2023 20:51

Absolutely fucking disgusting they are. Devvo.

Crikeyalmighty · 29/01/2023 20:47

@Floralnomad I feel your pain. !! You are quite correct.

Snugglemonkey · 29/01/2023 20:47

Blinkingheckythump · 29/01/2023 16:35

Because veggies can eat vegan food, so by making them vegan they broaden their target audience and thus can sell more of their product (assuming veggies actually like the food still of course)

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Do they though? I know lots of people turning away from things they happily ate for years. Such a shame.