Favourite veggie sausage?

[Maggot]

Here we go. I tried the Richmond ones this week which are quite new. They are tasty and definitely up there if you want something that resembles meat, they have a skin which crisps up. I still prefer Tofurkey (stupid name, great products) Italian style sausages.

Another favourite is the Taifun Tofu Wiener, which I didn't include in the poll as it's not so widely sold and not strictly a sausage.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

I only like these specific sausages

All the rest have been tasteless and/or dry

 

[Sprocket.]

The Heck ones are quite nice. Though we also like Richmond.

 

[platinumsage]

Quorn because they're the only ones I've tried that aren't overly seasoned so can be used in a wider variety of dishes.

I never knew Richmond did veggie ones, but going by their pork ones I'd be reluctant to trust them.

 

[editor]

Quorn because they're the only ones I've tried that aren't overly seasoned so can be used in a wider variety of dishes.

I never knew Richmond did veggie ones, but going by their pork ones I'd be reluctant to trust them.

You'd be missing out. Their vegan sausages are really tasty.

And to answer the OP: I'd have to go for two choices: Quorn and Richmond. I think the Linda McCartney ones are awful.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Here we go. I tried the Richmond ones this week which are quite new. They are tasty and definitely up there if you want something that resembles meat, they have a skin which crisps up. I still prefer Tofurkey (stupid name, great products) Italian style sausages.

Another favourite is the Taifun Tofu Wiener, which I didn't include in the poll as it's not so widely sold and not strictly a sausage.

I can’t even entertain the idea of eating anything made by Richmond, given what they did to their meat sausages, and their veggie ones look exactly the same. Taifun Wieners dead good. Used to like Tivall’s veggie frankfurters (and burgers) till we discovered they were Israeli, so we had to stop buying them.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Don't like Quorn, think Linda's are ok and heck. Don't generally buy them actually. Didn't really eat meat sausages anyway. I get them when they are on offer. I like the lidi meat free mince, and burgers, I don't think I have seen sausages yet though.
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It's ok, especially in sausage rolls, but it doesn't blow my mind.

 

[Maggot]

The Heck ones are quite nice. Though we also like Richmond.

I haven't tried Heck, mainly because someone ( pinkmonkey IIRC) said they were awful.

 

[gaijingirl]

I really like the Cauldron ones - I have a preference for tofu in general. I'm a bit funny about Quorn due to a friend being highly allergic (to the point where he was hospitalised after eating a quorn spag bol). I find the Linda McCartney range not very pleasant at all - there's something about it - very greasy but not flavourful.

I quite like the Fry's range too.

There are some other little ones I tried recently from the Co Op that I quite liked - there seem to be more and more coming out. Friends say that the Richmond ones are very good indeed.

 

[Badgers]

I haven't tried Heck, mainly because someone ( pinkmonkey IIRC) said they were awful.

I have not and never will buy anything Heck make



Don't eat veggie sausages often but Cauldon were the last decent ones I had.

 

[a_chap]

Am I in some sort of parallel universe where everyone's list their minds?

The Richmond veggie sausages are fecking awful

 

[marshall]

I only like these specific sausages

All the rest have been tasteless and/or dry

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Same, although my youngest introduced me to Shroomdogs which aren't bad either.

 

[Mogden]

I love the Richmond ones. For a hot dog experience I rate the Taifun tofu weiners. They're a bit pricey but bloody tasty.

I accidentally got the imitation meat sausage Heck ones the other week in an online order. Didn't think much of them. The Heck veggie ones, the beetroot & horseradish ones and that, are minging and I speak as someone who can count the edible things I won't eat on two hands.

 

[platinumsage]

Is the old-school Sosmix still around? Those were the best but were so salty it was ridiculous.

 

[pinkmonkey]

I haven't tried Heck, mainly because someone ( pinkmonkey IIRC) said they were awful.

The green slime ones, like something that comes out of a snails bum.

 

[mr steev]

Cauldron. Chorizo shroomdogs are good too. But I'd use them in a dish rather than with a breakfast. I've never understood the popularity of Linda mac's. They are right down the bottom of the list as far as I'm concerned

 

[mr steev]

The green slime ones, like something that comes out of a snails bum.

I find the green ones too vegetable. The red fusion ones are nice

 

[Little Piranha]

Tesco Lincolnshire style are the best imo, which is pretty astonishing as almost everything Tesco's own brand do is terrible.

For vegan I'd probably say Linda McCartney red onion and rosemary, don't really like the other flavours though. I tried the Beyond Sausage after being super impressed by the burger but at 2 for £5 they really weren't worth it.

 

[gaijingirl]

oh I've just remembered now the ones I quite liked were called Little Willies - very small - ready in 3 mins in a frying pan. They were alright!

 

[moose]

Little Willies are great. We have Heck Vegfurters sometimes, which are the only ones that look remotely palatable from the range, and aren't too meaty.
I like Wicken Fen, but you don't see them very often, and I've just bought a kilo of Sosmix, so let the good times roll.

I couldn't eat anything made by Richmond * shudder *

 

[moose]

Is the old-school Sosmix still around? Those were the best but were so salty it was ridiculous.

Yes! but only in 1kg or 5kg bags of powder.

 

[Maggot]

Is the old-school Sosmix still around? Those were the best but were so salty it was ridiculous.

Yes! but only in 1kg or 5kg bags of powder.

You can get a Suma sosmix in 350g bags. Haven't seen it in the shops, get mine online from Ethical Superstore.

 

[Ms Ordinary]

Vegetarian & Vegan Black Pudding

Had this for breakfast today, held it's own against fried egg & baked beans - and I say that as a non-vegetarian who eats real black pudding.

Although possibly a bit more like an stiff beanburger than a sausage.

 

[dessiato]

Did Linda McCartney ever get over having meat in some of their vegetarian products?

 

[Clair De Lune]

I'm loving these fat tofu ones they sell in coop right now as a bit of a change in flavour and texture

 

[Raheem]

The Richmond ones are great and, like all veggie food at my local supermarket, no-one buys them and there are regularly yellow-stickered piles of them.

 

[Maggot]

Did Linda McCartney ever get over having meat in some of their vegetarian products?

I don't remember that. Got a link?

 

[Raheem]

I don't remember that. Got a link?

Think it was pre-internet. Which sort of answers the question.

 

[JimW]

Back in China there's a whole new world of bean based sausage I'm mostly on these at the minute:

 

[zora]

I go through phases with veggie sausages.
When I first had Cauldron's after previously only having had German health food shop ones, I thought they were amazing but became less enthusiastic over time. Quorn were the next revelation, then Linda McCartney - I found them delicious when I first had them, for some reason only 5 or so years ago. Richmond I found a little bit disappointing after glowing reports here and from other friends. Otherwise haven't really tried many of the newer brands.