Rubbish

So it turns out I'm a rubbish meat-eater. I did mean to have a go at sausages today. Sausages are in the final category of meats I'm planning on having a crack at - stuff that I used to eat but am pretty much ambivalent about. (To recap, corned beef was in the category "stuff I loved", pork scratchings are in "stuff I really don't fancy" and scallops are in "stuff I've never had".) I used to like a sossie sandwich when I ate meat, but I don't miss them particularly. And that's not because I've been scoffing veggie sausages instead, because most of them are rubbish. (Cauldron veggie sausages are quite nice tbh, but only from a tasty-sausage-shaped-food point of view - I'm pretty sure they taste very little like the real thing).

So I was in the supermarket looking at sausages to buy and I spent a fair while looking at them, and longer still trying to decide whether to buy really good quality ones or cheapo bog-standard supermarket ones. I felt I should go for the good quality ones to see them at their best, but I grew up with cheapo bog-standard ones, so that might be a better test. Anyhoo after about ten minutes of indecision these are what I left with:

Hopeless. I just didn't fancy the meaty ones particularly. And that's one of the things that made it relatively easy to become veggie in the first place - I didn't like that much of it especially. So here, with free reign to scoff meat I've ended up with cheese and leek sausages.

This ambivalent category might be tricky. The "stuff I loved" is easy, the "stuff I haven't had" is intriguing, and even the "stuff I really don't fancy" is at least a challenge - this is just something I don't particularly care either way about. Perhaps I should have started with bacon, which was my original plan. I've already mentioned that I don't particularly miss bacon, but back when I last had it the internet hadn't happened. The internet now seems to think that bacon is the best thing ever. So for bacon I'm at least curious as to why I don't miss it.

I will give the meaty sausages a go though - hopefully tomorrow. My plan now is to try both the quality ones and the cheap ones in a taste comparison kind of way. I gues I could also get a selection of veggie ones to try at the same time and compare the lot, but I think I fancy a quorn sausage even less than a pork one, so that might not happen.

Edit: The cheese and leek sausages were also rubbish. The fact that they weren't called Glamorgan sausages should have made me check the ingredients. They've got lots of chick peas and potatoes in them, and that's largely what they taste of. I've had things that weren't meant to be cheesy that tasted cheesier than these, and whilst I could get a hint of leek it was borderline homeopathic. You'd expect these to be called potato and chickpea sausages, and come in a pack with a warning on the back that they'd been made in a factory that uses cheese and leek.