Forgive me Father, for I have sinned...

[Bill dog]

Did laugh at the leek and potato soup or an occasional banana !
I don’t think you’re in any danger of turning mad veggie/vegan on us any time soon !!!

 

[farmerm]

I was bought a coffee in a coffee shop recently. Thought it tasted distinctly weird but as they were busy, drank it. Commented on strange and slightly unpleasant taste of coconut when I took my empty back. Barista said she must have used coconut milk by mistake, did apologise and offer me a free coffee. I certainly will never be ordering a coconut milk coffee , yuk. Give me real milk every time.

Coconut milk has a place in some curries but in coffee

 

[Ruston3w]

Thanks for doing your bit to manage the inevitable soya mountain, if everyone on TFF ate a few veggie meals it would easily take care of my crop.....thinking about it everyone who viewed this thread probably could do so.
Being sensible though, if the soya doesn't work for us I may have to think about having cattle grazing back into our arable rotation, a) we get half a year with little rain here, why we gave up 35 yrs ago, B) where will the animals go if all the farmers who are thinking of re-introducing cattle to their farm do so? Please eat more soya , if you don't mind i'll stick to my neighbour's Dextas though.

 

[R J]

I know quorn is a fungus (fusarium I think) but does any one know the substrate it is grown on ? and what would be its energy consumption to produce it ?

 

[snarling bee]

I know quorn is a fungus (fusarium I think) but does any one know the substrate it is grown on ? and what would be its energy consumption to produce it ?

I've been wondering this. Artificial food, algae, crickets, etc all need energy to produce, as well as infrastructure, labour etc. None of it will just grow without inputs. Its just a case of how efficient they all are.
I have a mate who used to grow a tonne of broccoli every week for a locust farm. Had to be insecticide free for obvious reasons. I wonder what the FCR of a locust is?

 

[snarling bee]

Forgive me Father, for I have sinned...

I thought the OP was going to admit to buying a plough!!, or a diesel car, or shot a pigeon.

 

[MiJ]

I know quorn is a fungus (fusarium I think) but does any one know the substrate it is grown on ? and what would be its energy consumption to produce it ?

Ask ICI chemical industries.
Amuses me that some folks like eating a plant pathogen.
Sadly the local butcher has started selling vegan products, but he has to make a living, I suppose.

 

[delilah]

Please eat more soya , if you don't mind i'll stick to my neighbour's Dextas though.

A bit tough to chew I would have thought, watch the exhaust doesn't get stuck in your throat.
Dexter though, yes lovely.

 

[Tarw Coch]

I noticed a Quorn advert on TV the other day their latest sneaky trick is to call their pale coloured processed fungus shite "chicken free slices" seeing as they aren't allowed to call it vegan chicken anymore.
I've tried a vegan sausage. Sister in law who is a (bullpoo/hypocrite) vegetarian (she eats bloody fish FFS) bet me that I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between one and a real sausage because "they taste exactly the same"
Well it must have been a bloody long time since she had a real one because it didn't taste the same as a sausage it didn't taste like a sausage at all it was just sort of a salty processed taste and a weird texture. Not horrible but weird. You could probably get used to it to be honest but why? Gave what was left of it to their cat who sniffed it and walked away. The birds in the garden hadn't eaten it by the next afternoon either which I thought said a lot about it because they ate everything else. No wonder wife's brother looks so ill if he is expected to eat that every day.
Vegan and vegetarian food can be quite good (not that I eat much of it, leek and potato soup or something maybe or an occasional banana ) the best curry I've ever had was a veg one. It was in a Sikh temple (I can't spell the proper name ) we went to with school when I was about 14. I wouldn't have chosen it but it was so good I asked for seconds... Then all the women came out of the kitchen to meet me and were all hugging me and speaking to me in a language I couldn't understand they were so glad I enjoyed it and wasn't just an ungrateful shite like most kids on school trips
So why do they have to try so hard to make it look like meat FFS. It's like they are in denial about the whole thing.

Regarding your sister in laws taste the difference between sausages, there’s a vast difference in the taste/quality of sausages containing meat , some being down right awful.
I’d also ad that the quality/taste of sausages has declined markedly over my lifetime, poor quality sausages now being commonplace.

 

[Paddington]

We do our own sausages which are just for our own use, however we sometimes ask our butcher to produce some sausages if we have an excess of pork from the abattoir. We sell these sausages and people love them, but to us they are just OK, nothing special, depends to what you are used to. Buying a sausage bap from a burger van is not usually a culinary experience.