Rant number 165
Today, my wife made a rather lovely tea for me. It was toad in the hole (which is a personal favourite,) with vegetarian meat balls & sausage in (my wife is vegetarian.)
Now, vegetarian cuisine is a complicated business really - its really kind of an up hill struggle.
You see, eating vegetables on their own day after day, week after week, month after month & year after year gets dull, which is where the emulation factor comes in.
Vegetarian sausages, vegetarian steaks and even vegetarian bacon exist - for the vegetarian who wants a bit of variety. It's come along way since the days of the nut cutlet.
The thing is though, that sausages are generally made out of sausage meat - pork, beef, entrails - all that stuff. Meatballs usually contain meat too!
So making a vegetarian version is really bloody difficult - which is the only conceivable reason I can fathom, that they would keep fiddling with them all the time.
My mum is vegetarian too, and so I've been brought up with this stuff. Every time I get used to a flavour - or begin to like something in these lines though, some bright spark changes the recipe: almost inevitably for the bad.
No-one bothers to change the flavour of real sausages every week do they? No they bloody don't.
I cannot understand in the slightest why they can't just leave well enough alone. Its bloody exasperating!
If they really wan't to change the recipes, couldn't they include a survey with the product - to see if people actually want to change the recipes. Its bloody ridiculous! Couldn't they just leave it well enough alone.
Rant over.
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