So who's tried a Greggs vegan sausage roll/steak bake?

[Badgers]

Aren't most vegans so full of themselves that they can usually just knock off an egg wash on demand?

To be honest it does not come up in conversation often.

 

[friedaweed]

To be honest it does not come up in conversation often.

I'm sure you keep your glaze a secret

 

[DexterTCN]

It is a standard on a pies, pasty or sausage roll

Nope. Most normal restaurants don't even use egg-wash.

 

[8ball]

Try as they might, they haven't managed to get Morgan apoplectic about the soup, yet.

Briefly misunderstood and was trying to visualise Morgan Freeman becoming irate at some soup.

 

[Badgers]

Nope. Most normal restaurants don't even use egg-wash.

Nope

 

[8ball]

Nope

So much nope.

 

[kittyP]

I really want to try one.
I am a monster for anything in flaky pastry
I have massively cut back on how much meat I eat but every now and then I reeeeaaaalllllly want a hot sausage roll. I start off enjoying it and then half way through my brain takes over from my heart and tells me how awful it is, not just for me but for the animals and the planet and I finish it feeling sad
Yes massive over thinker.

Hot vegan sausage roll solves the problem!

 

[Poi E]

Sandwiched, very good.

On a roll

 

[kittyP]

Did anyone work out if these are only available for January or are going to be a staple?

 

[friedaweed]

Can't they call them something that celebrates it's uniqueness? Something that panders to the eaters dietary requirements whilst not reminding them of the food they have rejected?

Why would you use the word sausage for something that has no meat in it?

A sausage is a cylindrical meat product usually made from ground meat, often pork, beef, or veal, along with salt, spices and other flavourings, and breadcrumbs, encased by a skin. Typically, a sausage is formed in a casing traditionally made from intestine, but sometimes from synthetic materials. Sausages that are sold raw are cooked in many ways, including pan-frying, broiling and barbecuing. Some sausages are cooked during processing and the casing may then be removed.

Sausage making is a traditional food preservation technique. Sausages may be preserved by curing, drying (often in association with fermentation or culturing, which can contribute to preservation), smoking, or freezing. Some cured or smoked sausages can be stored without refrigeration. Most fresh sausages must be refrigerated or frozen until they are cooked.

Sausages come in a huge range of national and regional varieties, which differ by their flavouring or spicing ingredients (garlic, peppers, wine, etc.), the meat(s) used in them and their manner of preparation.

Just asking like 'Vegan pastry roll with no egg wash' has such a lush twang to it innit

 

[DexterTCN]

Did anyone work out if these are only available for January or are going to be a staple?

I don't know, does kale have a season?

 

[SpookyFrank]

I don't know, does kale have a season?

To everything there is a season.

Everything except kale.

 

[DexterTCN]

To everything there is a season.

Everything except kale.

It's like a fish threw up half digested sea-weed.

 

[mr steev]

Can't they call them something that celebrates it's uniqueness? Something that panders to the eaters dietary requirements whilst not reminding them of the food they have rejected?

Why would you use the word sausage for something that has no meat in it?

I'm pretty sure that the etymology of the word sausage actually comes from salt/salted. Meat sausages aren't made with salt cured meat nowadays, so the same argument of the word usage could apply to today's bangers. As it is, the word has come to mean the shape, mostly a meat product granted, but not always. (Glamorgan sausages, sausage dog etc)

 

[friedaweed]

I don't know, does kale have a season?

I love kale. This is the best time of year for it off your own plot but you can snap it up year round now if you don't mind having it shipped around the world from places like Afghaniskale and Austrkalia.

Bit of EV olive oil and black pepper...nom.

 

[DexterTCN]

...Bit of EV olive oil and black pepper...nom.

pfft...that works for everything!

 

[friedaweed]

I'm pretty sure that the etymology of the word sausage actually comes from salt/salted. Meat sausages aren't made with salt cured meat nowadays, so the same argument of the word usage could apply to today's bangers. As it is, the word has come to mean the shape, mostly a meat product granted, but not always. (Glamorgan sausages, sausage dog etc)

Meat sausages aren't made with salt cured meat nowadays

I'm sorry mate but if you went round the hipster markets of London spouting such lies these days you'd end up in a banger

the word has come to mean the shape

So by your reckoning they should clearly be called 'willy rolls' without a case

 

[friedaweed]

pfft...that works for everything!

I'm thinking of going to Greggs tomorrow and taking some with me.

 

[8ball]

Just asking like 'Vegan pastry roll with no egg wash' has such a lush twang to it innit

Too non-specific. Given it’s element of Quorn, there must be a better name which might help distinguish it from future vegan products.

“Fungal flip” springs to mind, but it’s not the right shape.
“Mycoprotein macaron” might be one for the future, but still wrong.

Any ideas?

 

[mr steev]

I'm sorry mate but if you went round the hipster markets of London spouting such lies these days you'd end up in a banger

I'm unlikely to, so think I'm pretty safe. But we are talking about Greggs here

So by your reckoning they should clearly be called 'willy rolls' without a case

Not a name I'd think would work but...

 

[Orang Utan]

Don't you? Really?

Aye, seems rather random who has them and who doesn't

 

[DexterTCN]

I'm thinking of going to Greggs tomorrow and taking some with me.

As long as you're not talking kale...we don't want a scene.

If the vegans smell it as you're walking past they'll tear you to bits. They carry olive oil and black pepper too, you know.

 

[Orang Utan]

Has anyone who eats normal traditional Greggs sausage rolls and these ones say if the vegan one is as good, better?

As good as, perhaps better. See my earlier post

 

[mr steev]

Aye, seems rather random who has them and who doesn't

Looks like some of the stores here in Wolverhampton sell them, and some don't

 

[DexterTCN]

Aye, seems rather random who has them and who doesn't

I was just joking...never been to either of them.

It's probably alphabetical.

 

[8ball]

I'm unlikely to, so think I'm pretty safe. But we are talking about Greggs here



Not a name I'd think would work but...

Fungal Phallus.

 

[friedaweed]

Too non-specific. Given it’s element of Quorn, there must be a better name which might help distinguish it from future vegan products.

“Fungal flip” springs to mind, but it’s not the right shape.
“Mycoprotein macaron” might be one for the future, but still wrong.

Any ideas?

Yep right on the money.

The 'Greener Weiner' or the 'Shat-worse Bratwurst' kinda thing.

 

[Calamity1971]

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I love kale

Kale is cabbage for twats.
'Romesh Ranganathan'.

 

[8ball]

Yep right on the money.

The 'Greener Weiner' or the 'Shat-worse Bratwurst' kinda thing.

Meatless Meatus?

 

[friedaweed]

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Kale is cabbage for twats.
'Romesh Ranganathan'.

I grow Kale, My mam grew kale, my grandad grew kale, his dad grew kale, his dad grew cabbage and fought with some cuntish butterfly until he died.