[Closed] Quorn Pepper 'Steak'

er,... do they still make them using eggs from caged hens? sorry, but they always used to, thats why I stopped eating the stuff myself. 😕

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Vegetables are lovely. If you have to be a vegetablist, eat vegetables.

Otherwise, be a human being, you know, Homo Sapiens, and be an omnivore. Eat a healthy diet, including yummy REAL meat.

do they still make them using eggs from caged hens?

says 'free range egg white' in the ingredients?

myoprotein is a vegetable ain't it? fungus is a vegetable of sorts isn't it? I'm no veggie though, I enjoy tasty tasty meat 😀

Ah, good they must have changed it! Hope I didn't cause you to rumage in the bin for the packaging! 😀

nope, 'twas sitting on the bench still (I'm a messy bugger 😀 )

I feel no guilt then! 😆

CaptainFlashheart - Member

Vegetables are lovely. If you have to be a vegetablist, eat vegetables.

Otherwise, be a human being, you know, Homo Sapiens, and be an omnivore. Eat a healthy diet, including yummy REAL meat.

[i]Or[/i], don't feel like you need to comment on other people's diet. Every time a thread mentioning vegetarianism appears it happens. I would never dream of telling a meat eater not to eat meat, so why do so many here need to make their petty point?

Mainly because so many vegetarians feel the need to go on at those of us with a proper diet!

Someone on here put it rather well the other day (I forget who, so I apologise.)

I paraphrase;

"When we cook for vegetarians, we give them a vegetarian meal. When we eat at theirs? "

Humans are omnivorous, that is an evolutionary fact. Being vegetarian is a faddish, attention seeking load of tosh. Being properly vegan? Now that I respect. I disagree with it, but respect it as a choice.

ah, but flashy... omnivores generally prepare, cook and eat vegetables as part of their own diet anyway.
veg*ans don't do the same with meat, so to be fair, although i understand the (albeit flawed!) logic behind your paraphrasing, it's not quite the same thing is it?

Being vegetarian is a faddish, attention seeking load of tosh.

You have just proved my point.

If we aren't meant to eat animals why the hell are they made of meat?

xherbivorex, that is indeed a good point, I will agree!

However, they could simply wear gloves.

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I will happily cook and prepare meat, my family eat enough of it. I have never pushed the fact that I am

faddish

CaptainFlashhart is a faddish, attention seeking load of tosh.

Corrected your quote mate, HTH.

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😆 Very good indeed!

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well done.
never ever seen that before...

omnivores generally prepare, cook and eat vegetables as part of their own diet anyway.

well i'm sure i'm far from being the only veg*an who has actually had that happen to them before... no, i wasn't happy about it but i just dealt with it because i'm not a dick.

Psychle - your thread has convinced me to try one! 🙂 mind you theres not much I wouldn't eat.

So you wouldn't be happy about having a meal at a friend's if they didn't make extra effort to accommodate your diet? In which case CFH's point stands.

FWIW I agree it is pretty inconsiderate to serve you such a meal (and despite being an omnivore I've nothing against eating veggie meals - went a month eating mostly veggie once just to see, though I wouldn't eat a Quorn burger).

They tend to prepare them to go with meat

Bollocks. What about meals where the meat is only a small part of the whole meal, like a McDonalds' hamburger? 🙂

Psychle - your thread has convinced me to try one!

Excellent, that'll have my guerilla marketing cheque coming in from Quorn next month then 😉

Bollocks. What about meals where the meat is only a small part of the whole meal, like a McDonalds' hamburger?

My stepson had a quarterpounder with cheese with 50% more meat than usual! There was a fly in his bun! 🙁

aracer - Member

So you wouldn't be happy about having a meal at a friend's if they didn't make extra effort to accommodate your diet? In which case CFH's point stands.

well no i wouldn't, but i certainly wouldn't make a fuss about it if it happened. which, speaking purely from my own point of view, it wouldn't as most of my close friends are vegetarians or vegans themselves and the ones who are omnivores don't eat a great deal of meat themselves, being quite happy to eat vegetarian dishes regularly anyway.

but back on topic, quorn is pretty scary stuff. even if it didn't contain egg, i'd avoid it.

quorn is pretty scary stuff

scary? how so?

God there are some childish attitudes out there. Also why do people seem to feel it is some sort of right to eat meat as part of every single meal.

[i]myoprotein is a vegetable ain't it? fungus is a vegetable of sorts isn't it[/i]
no, it's not.

Quorn rocks however.

well... it's a plant material anyway 😀

though, having a quick google it seems this is unclear as well! So let's just say it's not animal based eh? 😆

[i]scary? how so? [/i]

Well, it's basically athelete's foot in a nice box. If you want to lightly fry that and stick it on your plate, don't let me stop you 🙂

[i]well... it's a plant material anyway [/i]
no, it's a fungus. That's not a plant...

Athletes foot you say? So it is a meat product.

Actually, I'm amazed that there are enough athletes happy to donate their feet for consumption by the masses

I was told it was just a teenage fad I was going through. 14 years later it seems more appropriate than ever for me to be a vegan.

Simples.

Funny thing I have noticed a lot recently

A few omnivores seem to jump onto threads about vegan/veggie food and state the case for eating meat. Or ask questions about why people do it, and then accuse people who answer them of aggressively trying to convert them.

It seems like they always feel the need to convince everyone their omnivorous lifestyle choice is the right, and only, one.

This was a thread about some processed veggiefoods stuff started by a meat eating person who thought it was tasty. Not about the ethics of a plant base diet.

So why did it have to turn into a witch-hunt against those with different views. I don't understand why people have such a problem with others who feel that veganism is the right path for them to follow.

My understanding is that quorn is some slime found in a field, that is grown in a lab.

A long way from the physical resemblance to a mushroom. But as I think mushrooms are one of the tastiest things on earth, I wouldnt write quorn off due to it being inferior to something that good.

however, bear in mind, that a lot of people are actually allergic to quorn, or at least,something in the finished articles, and there has been pressure put on the manfacturers to disclose the full contents and information about it. They deny an issue, but a quick google suggests otherwise.

I just dont understand, why any discussion about food, rapidly decends into childish farce from grossly over defensive meat eaters, who behave as if a steak was on a part with finding "the one ring".

I dont eat meat myself, as a kid I was fussy, and didnt like offal like kidneys or liver, or other cheap cuts. Cheap burgers and sausages were awful in the 70's, as a student I would rarely afford decent meat, and after a while, gave up and really never went back. Back bacon was expensive,and middle and streaky were too fatty for me to find palatable.

I dont have anything other than the general ill ease when thinking about abbatoirs, slaughterhouses, the huge processing factories, but it all seems so unnessary to eat, frankly, so much meat.

I mean, picking up a packet of haribo, I look at the ingerdients and think ktf? why is there pork gelatine in kids sweets? They may appear to be yummy, but if we all gave in to what pleased us, Id drive at 100mph everywhere becasue its fun!

When you first turn veggie, esp when I did in the 80, I literally had a St PAul on the road to Damascus thing, that after an hour in a huge new superstore built on theoutskirts of Reading, having virtually nothing in my basket, I realised I was going to have to have a rethink about my lifestyle. There were meat products in everyhting, almost everyhting.... I realised even then that we wouldnt have decended to "meat at every meal", which is probably why Iwas a touch overweight anyway.

I went veggie, and actually feel much better for it. I lost weight, which brought other benefits.

Feel free to eat meat, its a free world. But there are important reasons why becoming a veggie is no bad thing. All the childish responses of "yum yum its so good" only relate to quality products we get in the west here. Besides, you would say that, youve had 30-40 years of expensive marketing to get used to it being "yum" and its what your used to from an early age. Some from less rich diets would find it impossibly cloying. In much the same way sushi would turn my stomach, but Mr Japanese person clearly loves it.

Eat what you like, but do so responsibly. Why the meat argument makes people as defensive as x box vs ps3 fanboy arguments (or Orange 5 owners!) amazes me. Its like no one else is allowed an opinion.

Btw, I ride an Orange.

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I suspect it's more to do with taking the mickey out of fussy eaters rather than anything else.

dog steak? fried cat? worm burgers anyone?
bloody fussy eaters

Yep, I would eat all of those.

Carpaccio as well!

Well I've had dog before but never cat or worms. If offered there's a good chance that I'd try them though.

As for Quorn "steak", the thing that annoys me about some vegetarian food is when it, as in this case,pretends to be meat. All this does is to reinforce the notion that you need meat with a meal. Veggie food is great, it doesn't need to pretend that it's meat.

the thing that annoys me about some vegetarian food

seriously, it's hardly worth getting annoyed about though, is it?
i eat fake 'meat' products from time to time. just cos they taste good to me, you know.
mostly, i make meals from scratch using fresh veggies, fruit, pulses and grains though. it's all good.

quorn mince makes a better spag bol than regular mince imho.

Annoyed is probably overstating it I'll admit.

quorn mince makes a better spag bol than regular mince imho.

I don't mind eating a spag bol with veggie mince from time to time but to say it's better than a meat version...

I'm a little iffy about Quorn. I eat quorn at Wetherspoons, on the occasional Saturday breakfast treat, but otherwise I try to resist their lure. It's nice to have convenience food every now and then but it has the same effect as most heavily processed food product; a nasty aftertaste, oily, salty and cloying.

Cauldron foods are available in my local Somerfields and they're pleasant enough, but SO expensive. I've taken to making veggie sausages from tofu bulked out with mushrooms and breadcrumbs, and flavoured with herbs, a little red wine, if I've got some in, tomato paste, etc. The resulting goo fries well and is rather yummy, particularly in a sani with ketchup, or as balls put into a tomato sauce for pasta. I've been meaning to wrap a lump of it in pastry and bake it and see how that works, but haven't got round to that. It'll even grill if it's made dry enough then brushed with oil. I haven't made it look pretty yet, but I'll think of something. A pack of Tofu, even the hippy organic stuff from Somerset that they sell in Holland and Barrett, is cheaper than five 'sausages' and half a pack is all my concoction requires to feed the two of us.

Somebody told me Linda Mcartney snags have got better recently but they used to be so unpleasant I haven't tried them for years.