To hate the new Cauldron sausages

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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?

Used to get Cauldron, but now buy the Richmond meat free, the frozen ones loose in a bag are much nicer than the packaged chilled sausages for some reason.

Dann! I had one recently and thought it had been stored incorrectly of something because it just wasn’t right. I hadn’t realised it was a new recipe.

The Richmond ones are OK, but I don't love them. They seem quite oily and I don't like the aftertaste. They've also got quite a bit less protein than the (old) Cauldron ones. The Cauldon ones were the best. Why did they change them so drastically 😭

The Richmond vegan ones seem to be well liked by lots of people and get great reviews. I’m a vegan but don’t really eat the fake meat stuff, but my kids like them, even the meat eating one. They haven’t tried the Cauldren ones.

I’ve just gone over to the Heck meatfree ones, they were on offer so thought I’d give them a go. Highly recommended!

It’s the oily ones I liked. The only meat I missed after becoming veggie was Richmond pork sausages, so I think the fact that they are made by an actual meat company and are more unhealthy actually makes me like them more. Although I suppose it’s a bit anti-veggie if me to give money to a real sausage company, haha.

The new Cauldron ones are fucking grim. Their twitter feed is full of similarly pissed off people.

I reckon it’s nothing to do with vegan rubbish but rather they’ve removed the eggs because the cost of eggs is skyrocketing and the availability is tricky at the moment.

I still miss the Tesco frozen Lincolnshire sausages. As a life long vegetarian, I really hate the crap vegan trend at the moment, which removes decent vegetarian options and replaces them with over processed fake shite.

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)

By that argument every restaurant would only have vegetarian options as meat eaters can just eat the veggie options, no?

I don’t like the Richmond ones - I never liked Richmond meat ones when I ate meat to be fair.

I used to hate the quorn ones but I had some on a veggie breakfast at a hotel recently and thought they were ok - don’t know if the recipe has changed or I was just really really hungry that morning?!

I don’t like fake meat in general and absolutely agree about the lack of decent bean burger type options. The (old style) sausages were just helpful to have an easy freezer option or something I could have alongside roast dinner type trimmings when DH and DD had meat.

I know a few meat eaters who would happily eat the old cauldron sausages, but no way would they eat the new version.

Vegans, I bet they tested them on vegans. The trend now is to test and question the demographic they are championing not those who the are running rough shod over.

I agree, inedible.

Is that why they've turned shit? I knew they had but I didn't know they'd gone from veggie to vegan.

Yeah, they're awful now.

Probably to appeal to the growing numbers of vegans.

My friend likes the Heck ones and the ‘This is not pork’ ones.

I agree!! We were so disappointed with them recently. They used to be the best. My vegan friends don’t like them either!

Try the Miami Burger sausages. Amazingly good.

I've been reading their facebook page. I don't think anyone likes them!

I've got some of the old ones in the freezer but I guess I'm now looking for Richmond or I'll have to dust off the Glamorgan sausages recipe but that's no good if you just want a quick meal.

Yeah im not a big eater of fake meat products either, but sometimes I just fancy a sausage sandwich, and the cauldron ones were by far the best. I think the Richmond ones put me off because they taste a bit like a cheap real meat sausage, whereas the cauldron ones just tasted like a really decent veggie option.

Agree about the Richmond. I don't like them because they taste too much like real Richmond

Yep, they've ruined the best veggie sausage on the market by making it vegan. The texture of the new recipe Cauldron sausages is all squishy and the taste not so good as it used to be. I've stopped buying them.

Have they changed Linda McCartney Rosemary sausages too? Sob.

I've not tried the cauldron sausages and won't bother now.

I also don't understand all the fake meat stuff. I guess it's cheaper than proper veg though.

Richmond skins go hard and chewy in the airfryer (or chewy and slimy if undercooked). They definitely tasted too porky for my liking (I gave them a year).

Wiki estimates that the UK is 10% vegetarian and 2% vegan. I am sick of retailers and restaurants making everything vegan as a catch-all. I really dislike a lot of vegan products. As a vegetarian I think we have been thrown under the bus for the sake of a tiny proportion of people.

Totally agree - I've been vegetarian for 35 years and Cauldron Lincolnshire sausages were great and a staple in our household. I can't understand why anyone would have signed off on the new vegan ones as they are just awful.

Would be really interesting to see the impact on Cauldron sales - they will drop off a cliff! We used to buy about 6 packs of Cauldron sausages a month (family of 6), but never again unless they reinstate the old recipe.

Vegetarian food is being destroyed by the move to vegan products (and no, Richmond vegetarian sausages are not nice - they are too similar to the meat version).

Bought some this week. YANBU, horrible.

I've had them probably once a week since I was a teenager and a Saturday morning cauldron sausage sandwich was my happy place 😔😔😠