I dont get the whole "Quorn" thing. do you?!
Answers: i am a vegetarian for the simple reason that i dont like eating animals. millions of people are vegetarians for the same reason. So why would you want to eat quorn??? it is just pretending to be meat. i dont get it. i dont like to eat animals, so why would i want to eat something that pretends to be meat??? its the same principle right? help me to understand this please.
It may look like meta, which puts many people off. Although if you gto a real meat sausage and a quorn sausage, you would see the difference..The quorn one would have no grease, or fat and would look a lot more healthier and tastier than the meat one.
Quorn is a lot healthier and has less fat, and doesnt have all the grease and other nasties like blood in it.
Also the main fact is quorn ISNT ANIMAL MEAT, so it may look like it, and you eat it but you know its not been took off an animal ie. cruelty and the reason you dont eat meat.
for some people its the principle, but meat still tastes good, so some people want the taste, but without the actual meat
don't think of as a meat substitute, think of it as just another vegetarian alternative dish. any other vegetable dish, which in actuality is what it is.
Its a fairly cheap way of getting iron into you, that you miss from meat. I suppose the manufacturers have no imagination, so kept it in the same form as average meat. They could change the product to just something called soya alternative i spose. :) it just doesn't sound as good to them. Where i live, that's all you get, and my parents are anti-vegetarian. But i am one, so if i don't eat that , i can't be one.
I eat alot of Quorn as I like the texture, I like that I can follow 'traditional' recipes, substituting meat with Quorn, and I like the fact that by eating/cooking with Quorn I can prepare identical meals for myself and my meat eating hubby, so we can sit down and eat the same thing together.
I think people need to get over this 'fake meat' thing. It is getting a bit tired now.
hey,
i'm a vegitarian and i don't know if others think the same way but my principle for not eating meat is because i do not believe in killing animals. However, i do still like the taste of meat but choose not to eat it. By eating Quorn, i can enjoy "meat" without killing animals.
It's kind of the same as being on a diet but still liking the taste of, say, chocolate, so you eat low fat chocolate, this enabling you to eat the chocolate that you enjoy without the calories.
Hope that answers your question
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It's really helpful if half your family is veggie and the other likes meat. It also makes it easier with non-veggie children.
Its not pretending to be meat ?
It doesn't even taste like meat ?
thats like saying Tofu is fake meat ?
Quron and Tofu are just .... .food
I don't really enjoy either- but this needed clearing up. Its not "fake" meat.
And its a very very very unbelievably different principle to eating meat. That being- since it NOT meat , its exactly the same as any Vegetarian principle. No animals were harmed to make it, The meat industry is not profiting from it and its better for you.
I think that by saying "why would i want to eat something that pretends to be meat??? its the same principle right?" you have seriously insulted a lot of people.
When I first became vegetarian, like a lot of people I had been brought up on meat. I gave up meat because I opposed the mistreatment of the animals. Like most people, I still liked the taste so I tried meat substitutes. 20 years ago Quorn did not exist and meat substitutes were soooo bad, I gave them up pretty sharpish.
I understand someone giving up meat because of the inhumane treatment but struggling to give up a taste they previously enjoyed. Taste and everything to do with food goes deep into our psyche and re-educating ourselves to go without something we are used to, plus learning a whole new way of cooking takes time. Having been a veggie for 20 years and vegan for the last six, I enjoy food so much that I feel no need for meat substitutes. As a transitional way of eating, I can understand it though if it helps someone make the switch.
For some, "meat replacements" make the transition from omni to veggie alot easier. Some like the taste. Most of them don't taste like real meat anyway; it's just a quick way to get protein, and to continue your eating patterns you were used to before you went veg*n (veggie/vegan)
I love Quorn for its own taste, actually. We don't have it in the states. I always buy some (sick, I know:) when I'm in Europe. Quorn doesn't taste like meat, but it can be lovely with hot mustard. We should celebrate it for its own culinary contribution.
I don't eat quorn, but I know why people do.
The real meat was made killing an animal, the pretend meat had no cruelty behind it.
Have you actually ever tried it?? it's super tasty! It doesn't take like chicken. At least the way I remember chicken tasting (it's been MANY years). I would have a problem with someone trying replicate a "bloody steak" but not products like quorn sells. Like I said, they are tasty!
It tastes good, it's much better for you than real meat, it has lots of protein for people who don't eat meat, and most importantly, animals aren't tortured for it