The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Just out of interest , how would you make a homemade vegan sausage roll?
So who's tried a Greggs vegan sausage roll/steak bake?
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mr steev
magic thought wizard
You could go down the sosmix route (a couple of quid a packet would make just under half a kilo of filling) Or you could use left over veg, breadcrumbs, herbs and a few nuts and make your own
Miss-Shelf
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I bet the toilets still stink, urinals leak and useless Dyson hand dryers taunt you at the end.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
Most of the supermarket chains in Portugal I found to have a variety of veggie hot dog sausages for sale in glass jars, choice of tofu or soya options with various flavours (with the exception of Lidl, run by sausage loving Germans obvs.). Surprised me as it seemed a better selection than UK supermarkets have. Continent supermarket where we were (about 30km south of Porto in a non touristy area) had quite a lot of vegan/veggie things in the freezer including ice creams. Less sure about eating out, I usually end up with a cheese toastie. One local ‘healthy’ cafe did veggie/vegan burgers but I never ended up trying one. There’s always pizza too.
8ball
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8ball
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Careful, now - you’ll have the vegan working-class hero club weighing any second.
Edit: I expect there has been appeciable development costs, costs setting up plant, as well as processes to avoid any preventable cock-ups which would be a PR disaster for them, and there will be a limit to which they will have been willing to subsidise the vegan product from other lines.
Tl:dr in urban-speek: Blame capitalism.
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RD2003
Got a really fucking shitty attitude
I remember being in Austria in the mid-1980s when ex-girlfriend and me were the only Brits in the hotel apart from a couple from the north-east, who we were seated with on the first night in a place near Salzburg. When the staff discovered that the woman in this couple was a vegetarian, they bemusedly served her the meal the rest of us were having except for the meat. At one point, the chef and several of the kitchen staff stuck their heads around the door to have a look at the eccentric English woman.
Russians, in my experience, seemed to think that anybody requesting vegetarian food must be doing so because they have an illness. Probably a mental one, I suspected some of them were thinking.
On that note, I do understand that some people won't eat meat because the meat industry is barbaric, but as for the health question, is there any evidence that processed vegetarian or vegan food is any better for you than processed meat products? Seems doubtful to me.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
sosmix kind of tastes like herby sawdust though. A lot of vegan pies, pastie type stuff is just too dry and bland tasting. Maybe cos it also tries to be "healthy" as well as vegan - but you need the fat to make stuff taste better and for texture. A sausage roll is supposed to be a processed wodge of fatty salty stodge - plenty of protein that goes down easy - you're not going to get that from a carrot. That's what greggs have got right.
RD2003
Got a really fucking shitty attitude
Sosmix is great poured into homemade soups as a thickener. But only if you're living on your own in a bedsit.
Wookey
Muppet is not a slur
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
I remember the slops bin at dinnertime at primary school. I suspect they don't do that any more due to things like foot and mouth and what have you.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
A raw carrot is much nicer than a sausage roll any day.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
yeah - course it is. "i'll grab a quick carrot for me lunch/on the way home from the pub" said absolutely nobody ever.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
I eat a pound of raw carrots for dinner sometimes. Cheap and very healthy.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
and very low in protein.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Yes, but you don't have to eat loads of protein at every meal.
I wish you would stop following me about.
I thought you were pleased to see me - then I realised it was just a carrot in your pocketYes, but you don't have to eat loads of protein at every meal.
I wish you would stop following me about.
Raheem
Well-Known Member
I'm sure there are some really good arguments for sausage rolls, but my gut feeling is that the nutritional value angle might not be the best one.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
although not ideal - i think a diet of just sausage rolls would keep you alive longer than one of just carrots.
joustmaster
offcumdun
I had one in the summer. I meant to post a thread about it.
It was pretty good. Obviously no where near the godlyness of a proper one. But surprisingly good.
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8ball
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An actual favourable review from you! Will def have to give it a try.
How does the "egg" bit work?
8ball
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I'm slightly unsure of this - I'd hazard that it would be a race between anaemia and scurvy.
Any volunteers for a trial?
joustmaster
offcumdun
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farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
On the plus side for carrots, you'd turn orange if you ate large quantities of them. For sausage rolls, you'd probably die of a heart attack before long - so the carrot side of the trial would outlive the grease tube side.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
I think your metabolism would bias towards burning fat quite efficiently for energy, and if already healthy it would take a long time for heart concerns to surface.
You'd likely smell bad, though.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Apparently this young man ate nothing but sausage rolls, chips, sausages and salmon paste sandwiches for 15 years. I suppose the benefits of youth insulated him from the worst effects, but how he managed to avoid scurvy is an oddity unless he took supplements.
Fussy teen ate nothing but sausage rolls for 15 years | Metro News
I think trying that diet in middle age would be asking for trouble, especially for men.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
carrots have got fuck all calories - which you need to live. a diet of just carrots would see you slowly starve to death. a diet of just sausage rolls would keep you alive.
the high risk of heart attack/obesity would come after several years if you eat too many and did little physical exercise - cos youd be consuming more calories then you are actually using.
a diet of just carrots would not provide you with enough calories period - you would be very ill within a few months.
the high risk of heart attack/obesity would come after several years if you eat too many and did little physical exercise - cos youd be consuming more calories then you are actually using.
a diet of just carrots would not provide you with enough calories period - you would be very ill within a few months.
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