Urban75 Home About Offline BrixtonBuzz Contact

Do angry vegans turn you against going vegan?

A mate at work told us he went home and asked his wife ‘what’s for tea’?
‘Chilli’ she told him, he saw an empty Quorn mince bag in the pedal bin.
‘I’m not eating that shit’ said matey,
‘You’ve been eating that shit for eighteen months’ said his Mrs.

Clearly no taste buds. I cook both and can the difference, texture is so different.
 
Nah. Weeing in saucepans is perfectly acceptable like having a slash in the sink or the shower. Everyone does it. You wouldn’t dump in one though. That’d just be rude.
It's OK to shit in a pan if you're a vegan though, everyone knows their shit doesn't smell ;)
 
I'm not a big fan of fake meat, but this did make me wonder what I'd think if I thought I'd been eating Quorn mince for 18 months, and then discovered I had been given meat mince. Safe to say, I'd be pretty fucking incandescent - mostly because of the breach of trust.

So I think your mate would be entitled to be pissed off (if he was). If a partner did that to me, I think I'd be seriously wondering about the state of the relationship.

History: one of my mum's tricks was to secrete meat-based material into meals, ask me if I'd enjoyed it, and then triumphantly inform me it'd been made with ham stock/whatever. So I'm likely to be oversensitive to that kind of thing...and I am still heartily suspicious of any soup that is on offer :hmm:

This way round, I wouldn't be bothered if I hadn't noticed.
Though I would notice. I find you can go up to around 50% Quorn mince in a chilli before anyone is likely to detect any difference.
 
This way round, I wouldn't be bothered if I hadn't noticed.
Though I would notice. I find you can go up to around 50% Quorn mince in a chilli before anyone is likely to detect any difference.
I don't much care for Quorn anyway, so it's a bit of a moot issue from my point of view :D

When I make chilli, I don't use any meat substitute, and people quite often come back for more :cool:
 
I don't much care for Quorn anyway, so it's a bit of a moot issue from my point of view :D
When I make chilli, I don't use any meat substitute, and people quite often come back for more :cool:

I use puy lentils when not using meat at all, it's *kind of* a meat substitute in terms of its role in the dish.
 
Some products are vegan, some have egg in.
Since we're talking about chilli - I think you're right about the mince.

I heard an interview recently saying they are trying to move the entire range over, but without changing the texture of the products to much which makes sense seeing as vegan food is a growing market.
 
Or the flavour. You just won't get the meaty flavour with quorn IMO.

It's not the flavour; cow mince has no flavour, or at least no remotely pleasant flavour. I remember cooking it in my pre-vegan days and just thinking how disgusting it smelled cooking on the stove. It was only after adding all the herbs, spices and vegetables to mask the smell that it started to smell okay. The problem with quorn - if you want the cow mince taste - is the texture. Linda Mccartney Vegemince was a lot better, sadly it's off the market now, but tesco does a pretty good one too.
 
It's not the flavour; cow mince has no flavour, or at least no remotely pleasant flavour. I remember cooking it in my pre-vegan days and just thinking how disgusting it smelled cooking on the stove. It was only after adding all the herbs, spices and vegetables to mask the smell that it started to smell okay. The problem with quorn - if you want the cow mince taste - is the texture. Linda Mccartney Vegemince was a lot better, sadly it's off the market now, but tesco does a pretty good one too.

Obviously each to your own but just as an example burgers are pretty dam popular and good ones are made with just this and a touch or salt and maybe pepper.
 
It's not the flavour; cow mince has no flavour, or at least no remotely pleasant flavour. I remember cooking it in my pre-vegan days and just thinking how disgusting it smelled cooking on the stove. It was only after adding all the herbs, spices and vegetables to mask the smell that it started to smell okay. The problem with quorn - if you want the cow mince taste - is the texture. Linda Mccartney Vegemince was a lot better, sadly it's off the market now, but tesco does a pretty good one too.
Meat has a great flavour, but it does need hearty seasoning. Beef mince with no salt is pretty bad.
 
I don't understand quorn mince. If anything, quorn is like chicken, and no one uses chicken mince.
 
I can't noticeably taste the difference between quorn chilli and beef chilli but then I can't taste much difference between beef mince and lamb mince once everything else has been lobbed in so assume my taste buds are fucked. Went to a veggie couples barbecue a couple of years ago and had burgers he'd made from quorn mince and they didn't taste right. Or nice.
 
Back
Top Bottom