scifisam
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Sound like characters in a Sci-fiMind you, quorn is sort of space-age-apparently developed to feed the starving cheaply in times of war by the government.
Fine by me!
Quorn Roast
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Fine by me!
cyberfairy
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I can see the traumatised blood covered survivors in the post-apocolyptic rubble desperately searching for 2.99 to buy a sunblush tomato and gruyere quorn escalope
Reminds me of last years Glastonbury.
cyberfairy
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I will investigate and report back
four for price of three at Sainsburys-my partner purchased two
I hope that 'special offer' will not become the norm.
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
Just been to Sainsburys and couldn't find a quorn roast in the frozen or chilled sections. 
I like qurkey!
The Holland and Barrett porkless pies are disgusting. Their veggie sausage rolls and scotch eggs are alright though - and often reduced, it appears no-one else buys them.
cyberfairy
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Just been to Sainsburys and couldn't find a quorn roast in the frozen or chilled sections.
I like qurkey!
The Holland and Barrett porkless pies are disgusting. Their veggie sausage rolls and scotch eggs are alright though - and often reduced, it appears no-one else buys them.
I have noticed this in holland and barrett too-re reductions. The pastry is as thick, lifeless and heavy as the contents of an abandoned suitcase thrown from a fast moving car.
Unusual about sainsburys though-was it a metro? I live in the North and can still get quorn
moonsi til
worked it out now!
As I mentioned before I prefer the Realeat veggie roast that has a sage n onion stuffing going through so it's less dry than the quorn roast...I think i normally buy it from Waitrose and Sainsburys as well as health food shops.
One of my fave meat free things are Tivolli hotdogs...cracking with fried onions, ketchup and mustard. Good for serving at parties as they take minutes to prepare.
One of my fave meat free things are Tivolli hotdogs...cracking with fried onions, ketchup and mustard. Good for serving at parties as they take minutes to prepare.
Tivoli seem to make the hotdogs for Tesco and Asda too (probably Sainsbury)
Quorn goes down well in our house, kids just won't eat veggie food sometimes if it doesn't resemble junk food. The roast is good value comparted to much of the quorn range.
I prefer Tesco mince though, much chewier and cheaper than quorn.
I'm keen to find these quorn pork pies and scotch eggs, no Waitrose near us though.
Quorn goes down well in our house, kids just won't eat veggie food sometimes if it doesn't resemble junk food. The roast is good value comparted to much of the quorn range.
I prefer Tesco mince though, much chewier and cheaper than quorn.
I'm keen to find these quorn pork pies and scotch eggs, no Waitrose near us though.
cyberfairy
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They are in Sainsburys as well-love the Tivoli hotdogs-I microwave them and eat them when peckish rather than resorting to cheese as they are less fatty
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
No, it was a proper big sainsburys.I have noticed this in holland and barrett too-re reductions. The pastry is as thick, lifeless and heavy as the contents of an abandoned suitcase thrown from a fast moving car.
Unusual about sainsburys though-was it a metro? I live in the North and can still get quorn
I have to pay tribute to Taifun tofu weiners, which Waitrose sells. they are absolutely delicious. Quite expensive (about £2.70 for 4) but they are twice the size of other sausages/frankfurters.
Cribynkle
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Cribynkle
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I have noticed this in holland and barrett too-re reductions. The pastry is as thick, lifeless and heavy as the contents of an abandoned suitcase thrown from a fast moving car.
Unusual about sainsburys though-was it a metro? I live in the North and can still get quorn
Someone once told me that H&B do veggie fish fingers....is it so?
Call me peurile but weiner still makes me laugh.
I had veggie fishcakes from there years ago so quite possibly.
cyberfairy
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I had veggie fishfingers from Budgens-they were dead pricey and tasted like those cheap soggy real fish ones.
Jesus, people go to all that trouble to make a simulation of nasty 99p fishfingers and fecking frankfurters?
I don't get this meat replacement thing. Quorn is pretty nasty - there's no way on earth it can effectively simulate a roast. You get a lump of featureless, rubbery smeg made out of a fungus and it's meant to replace a top quality joint of animal? It's a veggie option made of lose and distinct second best. It's virtually teasing yourself with something bound to be inferior.
There are so many amazing veggie options to cook that this stuff just seems surplus. I'm all for convenience once in a while, but swapping shitty meat products for imitation meat products, all from big corporations, just seems perverse to me.
I don't get this meat replacement thing. Quorn is pretty nasty - there's no way on earth it can effectively simulate a roast. You get a lump of featureless, rubbery smeg made out of a fungus and it's meant to replace a top quality joint of animal? It's a veggie option made of lose and distinct second best. It's virtually teasing yourself with something bound to be inferior.
There are so many amazing veggie options to cook that this stuff just seems surplus. I'm all for convenience once in a while, but swapping shitty meat products for imitation meat products, all from big corporations, just seems perverse to me.
onthebrightside
thinking too much
They are great as are the rest of the Taifun range. The cocktail sausages come in handy and much of it is ready to eat and as a result goes nicely with salad.
They're made by Redwood's as are the the Thai style faux fishcakes. Fishless fingers, mushy peas and chippy chips. Mmmmm. The cakes are great with some chili sauce.
onthebrightside
thinking too much
And therein lies the answer. I dooubt anyone eats these foods regularly. Personally it's once a week when I'm in a hurry and it beats popping to McD's.
Eh? You've had a people on this thread talking about using Quorn a lot, some even 3-4 times a week, one even to the extent of brainwashing her cat into eating the stuff near exclusively. That poor feline, her hunting instincts curbed in favour of preferring to source fungus protein from the frozen/chilled foods section of Tescos.
Feckless, lazy cooks lie on both sides of the veggie/omnivore fence.
Feckless, lazy cooks lie on both sides of the veggie/omnivore fence.
Ach, for much the same reason why I wouldn't buy 3-4 prepared industrialo food products (fishfingers, pizzas, filled pancakes and the like) I suppose. Prefer to know what I'm eating to a large extent, eating as 'naturally' as possible.
And in a world filled with such a variety of vegetables, pulses and grains, it seems almost neglectful to eat a doubtful fungus produced in giant vats in an industrial estate somewhere near Hemel Hempstead.* Especially a weird fungus shaped to look, feel and taste like the most inoffensive and least likeable of battery produced meats. If anything Quorn's most like a factory farmed chicken breast, the anodyne variety used in McNuggets and friends. Each to his own, and everyone values convenience, but 3-4 times a week seems pretty high to me.
*Ok, so it may not be Hemel Hempstead, but you get the idea.
And in a world filled with such a variety of vegetables, pulses and grains, it seems almost neglectful to eat a doubtful fungus produced in giant vats in an industrial estate somewhere near Hemel Hempstead.* Especially a weird fungus shaped to look, feel and taste like the most inoffensive and least likeable of battery produced meats. If anything Quorn's most like a factory farmed chicken breast, the anodyne variety used in McNuggets and friends. Each to his own, and everyone values convenience, but 3-4 times a week seems pretty high to me.
*Ok, so it may not be Hemel Hempstead, but you get the idea.
You know you can get it in all different kinds of ways? I use it a lot in stir frys, marinade the fillets etc. Always eat a load of veggies with it and me and my gf worked out the other day that we eat pulses with every single meal. Quorn might not have loads of taste in and of itself but it soaks up sauces, marinades and whatnot so well that you get flavour from them.
Don't get me wrong, it's not horrific - I've cooked and eaten the stuff, but it's a little weird tbh. But surely it's just as good to have a stir fries or meals without the funny meat substitute - a veggie stir fry with thai basil's one of the finest foodstuffs known to man - or even with something like beancurd. Millions of oriental folk use beancurd, in such a huge variety of forms, that they must be onto something.
FWIW, there are so many producers and types of tofu that I keep meaning to use it more myself. Far better that variety than homogenous Quorn from the same faceless corp every other day surely?
FWIW, there are so many producers and types of tofu that I keep meaning to use it more myself. Far better that variety than homogenous Quorn from the same faceless corp every other day surely?
FUCK oriental people, man.
Just joshing, I just really don't like beancurd very much is all and I got tofu'd out living in Japan, just can't think about the stuff without feeling ill for another 3 years or so. Also, I like to assume that because Quorn makes food for vegetarians - and, in another assumption, all vegetarian people are good, ethical, caring and kindly people - it must be a very, very ethical company indeed. They probably spend all the money on building wells in Africa or taking disabled kids to Disneyland or something. They're bound to; think about it!
Just joshing, I just really don't like beancurd very much is all and I got tofu'd out living in Japan, just can't think about the stuff without feeling ill for another 3 years or so. Also, I like to assume that because Quorn makes food for vegetarians - and, in another assumption, all vegetarian people are good, ethical, caring and kindly people - it must be a very, very ethical company indeed. They probably spend all the money on building wells in Africa or taking disabled kids to Disneyland or something. They're bound to; think about it!
To be fair, a lot of beancurd is manky to me. But the occasional use can be fantastic - you've got to know what you;re doing and the Japanese preference for weird food texture ain't always shared by us Western types.
Wasn't Quorn owned by those good tempered philanthropists AstraZeneca btw. I'm sure they sold to a caring group of well mannered hippies living the dream. And not Premier Foods, one of the UK's largest food conglomerates, oh no.
Wasn't Quorn owned by those good tempered philanthropists AstraZeneca btw. I'm sure they sold to a caring group of well mannered hippies living the dream. And not Premier Foods, one of the UK's largest food conglomerates, oh no.
Cribynkle
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TY onthebrightside
had a look at their website - much to try!
scifisam
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We use pulses and so on too. Pulses one day, quorn the next, soya another day, etc. - a bit of variety. I also really like quorn itself. Vegetables alone won't provide enough protein and fats.
It's weird just how much some people hate quorn and act superior over those who eat it. What's the big deal?
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