To hate the new Cauldron sausages

I had Goodlife Mighty non Meaty sausages at a cafe in the summer. Not trying to be fake meat and really delicious

I cannot stand this move to making vegetarian food vegan. I was veggie pre DC. I do eat meat and fish occasionally and I feed DC local organic meat. Our meat consumption is actually increasing some weeks, because my few go to veggie convenience goods are being replaced with gross vegan recipes.

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.

Now I know why I can’t get them out of the packet! Pure mush! Still tasted ok though I thought.

Try being coeliac , lots of restaurants have clumped the vegan menu into the free from menu so there is even less choice for coeliacs than ever before unless you wish to be a vegan coeliac - which we don’t .

Went veggie over 40 years ago, can't bare veggie sausages. They look and taste like meat. I used to like "Glamorgan sausages, which were just made from leek and potato, Sainsbury's did their own,you can't get them anymore.

We've just had some in our regular Sunday night veggie toad in the hole. They were rank! I used to love them.

@biddyboo oh god I thought I was going and had bought the wrong ones, I even said to DP these are usually nice but I think I’ve bought different ones.

New ones are horrid!!!!

The This Isn’t range is brilliant. Their bacon and their chicken pieces are really good.

Side note, has anyone tasted the fake prawn sandwich that they sell in Aldi? It’s … terrifyingly realistically textured. Possibly the only thing that has truly skeeved me out.

We do veggie jan every year, helps reduce our overall meat consumption and often ends up introducing some new decent veggie meals into our usual repertoire. Anyway, we've just had toad in the hole tonight with the 'This Isn't Pork Sausages'. Hadn't had them before and I was quite impressed with them.
Got them as we've tried their chicken pieces before and DS likes them so much he occasionally has them in his pack up sandwiches outside of veggie Jan.

Yeah, I’m the only herbivore in the house and the omnivores all like them here too.

That’s why I like them! I’m a vegetarian for moral reasons, I fully recognise that some animals taste yummy, and pigs are possibly the most delicious of all the animals. I think it’s because they are more oily.

I was so excited to try these as they were my favourite as a veggie (now vegan), but they were so bad! It's the texture more than anything, feels sort of squeaky in your mouth! Not a lot of taste either, so disappointing.

I hate the Richmond ones (vegan) and I'm gutted about the Cauldron ones as my veggie kids loved them a lot and it was an easy dinner. I eat more roast veg/curry etc and the odd vegan burger if I'm lazy.

Forcing veganism on you. 😬

I don't like them. They are too meaty!🤣

Thank you for the warning OP
so has Linda Mc changed as well?

I used to be vegetarian but I swear everything going vegan is connected to me finding my way back to meat!

Agree - we've literally just eaten them. They were pretty good! Or at least, they tasted like cheap sausages, which lots of us secretly like. DD literally just said 'how come [DS the vegetarian] had those sausages?' because she htought they were real.

The best thing is that they don't have any shit in them at all. If you're not yet freaking out at the fact that veggie/vegan stuff seems to have huge amounts of thickeners/stabilisers/gums/preservatives, almost all of which kill off the gut bacteria that they now know basically keeps us alive, then you need to listen to Tim Spector...

Vegan food isn't necessarily worse - I prefer the Hellmann's Vegan Mayo to their normal stuff. But sounds like Cauldron have shot themselves in the foot! I stopped eating them a few years ago, found the sausages too fatty, but definitely won't buy any now. I really don't like this trend of fake meat though. If I eat out I don't want fake meat, I want a decent meal. It tastes artificial and can't be good for you being so processed. I guess they're not only catering to the vegan diet but also to meat eaters trying to eat more vegan meals, maybe that's a bigger market? Hard to find decent meals out these days. Though to be fair it was never really easy.

Oh no - properly devastated about this, I've loved these for years and wondered why I haven't been able to find them recently. They're also the only ones non-veggie dh will deign to eat. Stupid vegans ruining everything.

Completely agree. My DS is veggie and fussy, and he loved them - can't stand the new kind. I am a veggie because I don't like meat so I don't like fake meat either, but even I liked the old Cauldron sausages. And YES why have we lost all the nice veggie options in shops and restaurants to processed shit and fake cheese? I don't want to eat that!

I wish so many vegetarian sausages didn’t contain wheat.

I used to like the M&S bangers, but my branch hasn’t had them since before Christmas. Ocado does, so they can’t be discontinued unless Ocado is using up their old frozen stock.

And Wicken Fen! Where are they? Tasty real food!

Yes they are sad and foul. I used to like goodlife veggie sausages but they are gone. Totally agree - anything vegan /'plantbased' in the ready food line seems utterly rank. Loathe and distrust quorn too.