AIBU or does this look like a real sausage?

[thunderandsunshine01]

I’m vegetarian and have just had a veggie breakfast delivered. Does this look real? It has a skin/film around it like a real sausage!

YABU - it’s vegetarian eat it
YANBU - don’t chance it, looks real

Can't see anything

Eat it.

Sorry pic didn’t get attach

Could be either. What does it smell like?

I really fancy a fry up now.

Double check with the restaurant/cafe staff.

I can’t see the picture but I know why you worry.
I’ve had many sausages that I’ve been dubious about.
In my experience though you can tell a real one. The fat is obvious.

Is it from somewhere you trust? Are there other vegi items like vegi bacon?

Impossible to tell but veggie sausages also have film/skin around them to help them keep their shape.

I find it out that you are vegetarian but using a place which delivers in horrible polystyrene boxes though.

Offer it to a cat - if it's veggie, the cat won't be interested.

Looks horrible what ever it is lol

The way it is crisp around the edge is the worry isn’t it.
That said I have one like that in my local vegan cafe. If I didn’t know for sure I would check.
Ask them what brand of sausage they use.

The shape of it - pinched ends- reminds me of a quorn sausage

@Pelleas

Offer it to a cat - if it's veggie, the cat won't be interested.

My cat loves a vegi sausage, she also will run across the room for hummus.

Can you ask someone else with you to taste it?

This is the first time I’ve ordered from this little local place, I wouldn’t normally order a fry up like this but the kitchen is being gutted! It is the crispness that’s a worry I guess although I know some look so real now. My 8 yr old DD who eats meat reckons veggie

You can generally tell. It’s the fat, no matter how good a vegi sausage is the fat isn’t ever the same.

It could be veggie! I’ve had veggie sausages like that. The Richmonds/Denny’s also look REALLY realistic.

That really looks like a quorn sausage to me

How firm is it? Meat sausages tend to be fattier and mushier. Cant think of a veggie sausage I've had that has a skin though

Looking at it I believe it's a veggie sausage, it looks the same as ones my MIL serves up I just don't know the brand unfortunately.

Pelleas My old dog loved veggie "ham" and would pester my veggie friend for some every time she cam round for lunch!

www.veggienuggets.co.uk/the-great-big-sausage-taste-test/

It could easily be veggie. Look at the cooked photo on this.

Looks veggie to me

And delicious 😋

I’ve just had some Richmond meat free sausages that had a skin on. They look far too much like cheap pork sausages for me to buy again- I’ll stick to the Cauldron ones.
Yours look like they’ve been deep fried

Offer it to a cat - if it's veggie, the cat won't be interested.
for some reason this has really made me chuckle.

I find it out that you are vegetarian but using a place which delivers in horrible polystyrene boxes though.

I doubt the OP was planning to eat the packaging, but even if she didn't I'm pretty sure polystyrene is not made from meat.