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As long as quorn and similar products continue to taste bland and have little texture, it's going to be an incredibly hard sell to convince people to switch over from meat, otherwise quorn would already be the top seller. And that's coming from someone who was a vegetarian for 10 years

Even the sausage in the picture looks dry

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Personally I like nearly all the (many) Quorn products I've eaten, and continue to eat on occasion, as a flexitarian. Esp the large (Best of British) sausages, the "chicken" pieces and to an extent the "mincemeat".

Can they improve? Yes, sure. But when cooked in good sauces / dishes they constantly impress for day-to-day meals.

I'm not even a vegetarian and I love Quorn. Its very different from the thing its "replacing", but its nice in its own right

Pork is one of the most taste-neutral foods you can get. It's all in the spice imo. Sausages can be quite dry as well. So apart from texture, many meat-alternatives aren't so off :) I've rarely seen anything that promises to replace beef, though.

Here I thought pork was in fact the least taste-neutral. Pork is one of the few meats that tastes delicious without any kind of seasoning at all. To go further I use pork fat to season othee foods.

Ok so that's probably subjective to some extent. The fat part is definitely relevant. When making vegan Mett from rice waffles (original that is spiced raw pork), I usually add a fair amount of oil to somehow get that satisfactory feeling that arises when eating fatty meat. It somehow works, but not as much as I wish. Grated dried tomatoes give some of the umami taste. But the fat is kind of special...

I don't really agree, pork products can taste great alone. cured ham is a great example of that. For sausages, the only dry sausages I've tasted are "hot dog" sausages that are an emulsion of meat (which is usually a bad sign).

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