what's the point of quorn?

[KnackeredBike]

One question, though; why do they call it quorn fillets? Filleting is taking the bones out, and there are none in quorn. So do they have to put bones in first, and then take them out?

Yes, for technical reasons they kill a chicken, discard the meat, put the Quorn around the chicken bones, discard the chicken bones, and then package them as "fillets".

This is why the packs say "may contain bones" and it is much more expensive than actual chicken fillets.

 

[Motobecane]

Here is the thread I just started over on our sister site. I'm called morning glory over there and anyone is welcome to join in.

 

[Globalti]

I did once hear about some veggies who had a soya turkey with plastic bones but that may have been pub talk.

 

[MontyVeda]

...I'm a vegetarian probably around 90% of the time & occasionally vegan.

...

I've got plenty of friends who claim to be 'mostly' vegetarian. They used to be fully vegetarian but these days they eat the occasional bit of chicken or pig... but for some reason, the seem to continue to take great pride in supposedly not being a meat eater, when they bloomin well are. If you eat meat only 10% of the time, then you're not a vegetarian. And you're no more an 'occasional' vegan than i am... so it's time you stopped deluding yourself

 

[ianrauk]

I've got plenty of friends who claim to be 'mostly' vegetarian. They used to be fully vegetarian but these days they eat the occasional bit of chicken or pig... but for some reason, the seem to continue to take great pride in supposedly not being a meat eater, when they bloomin well are. If you eat meat only 10% of the time, then you're not a vegetarian. And you're no more an 'occasional' vegan than i am... so it's time you stopped deluding yourself

We have the same with a chap in the office. Claims he is vegetarian but eats meat and fish once in a while. WTF? If you eat animal, then you are not a vegetarian. Simples.

 

[craigwend]

Just had a nice quorn curry ...

 

[MontyVeda]

We have the same with a chap in the office. Claims he is vegetarian but eats meat and fish once in a while. WTF? If you eat animal, then you are not a vegetarian. Simples.

One friend often says "I don't eat meat." I respond with, "Yeah, chicken's not proper meat.. it's just an egg that's matured a bit."

I once did a residential workshop at Borwick Hall and everyone who ticked 'vegetarian' on the menu option were served chicken because the cook genuinely thought that vegetarians only avoided red meat

 

[Drago]

Just had a nice quorn curry ...

Two words not normally found adjacent to each other on a page!

 

[marknotgeorge]

Vegetarianism is part of the true path to spiritual enlightenment in that the love of all living things and their right to exist equally to us.

The flip-side of this right is the responsibility to accept that one might be farmed and eaten by a more sentient and dextrous species. It's not my fault we haven't discovered it yet.

Since the first complex organic molecule self-replicated in the primordial soup all those millions of years ago, life of all forms has had equal time to evolve.

 

[AndyRM]

One friend often says "I don't eat meat." I respond with, "Yeah, chicken's not proper meat.. it's just an egg that's matured a bit."

I once did a residential workshop at Borwick Hall and everyone who ticked 'vegetarian' on the menu option were served chicken because the cook genuinely thought that vegetarians only avoided red meat

That doesn't entirely surprise me as there seems to be a lot of ignorance about dietary requirements in the food industry, which is a bit worrying. On more than one occasion SophRM has been served food which contained non-vegan ingredients. In one place the chef was adamant that pesto was vegan, and got quite annoyed when he brought out the jar (of his own volition, I couldn't really be bothered with the argument) only to be proved wrong...

 

[jefmcg]

In one place the chef was adamant that pesto was vegan, and got quite annoyed when he brought out the jar

Some who gets pesto from a jar is not a chef.

 

[User482]

Some who gets pesto from a jar is not a chef.

What do you keep it in, then?

 

[Noru]

I've got plenty of friends who claim to be 'mostly' vegetarian. They used to be fully vegetarian but these days they eat the occasional bit of chicken or pig... but for some reason, the seem to continue to take great pride in supposedly not being a meat eater, when they bloomin well are. If you eat meat only 10% of the time, then you're not a vegetarian. And you're no more an 'occasional' vegan than i am... so it's time you stopped deluding yourself

I know I'm not a vegetarian. I never claim to be a one nor do I put it on any dietary requirement forms.

I was purely using it to explain that I don't eat much meat in my diet and that seemed to be the simplest way to give an overview of my diet and to explain why I regularly eat quorn as it was relevant to the thread.

Perhaps you need to get off your high horse rather than trying to call me out.

If you'd read & quoted my full paragraph not a tiny part of it you'd of noticed I started it by saying "I'm not a veggie..."

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I know I'm not a vegetarian. I never claim to be a one nor do I put it on any dietary requirement forms.

I was purely using it to explain that I don't eat much meat in my diet and that seemed to be the simplest way to give an overview of my diet and to explain why I regularly eat quorn as it was relevant to the thread.

Perhaps you need to get off your high horse rather than trying to call me out.

 

[Noru]

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Yep, it got me to bite. Haven't had my handbag out for a while, maybe MontyVeda has a future as a Daily Mail reporter with micro quotes & spin like that.