Gregg's vegan steak slice

[ATM]

I just tried one of these. Tastes a bit like gravy with onions I'd say which is fine. While I was waiting for them to come out of the oven 3 people came in and all asked for a vegan sausage roll. So I asked the guy behind the counter if they sell a lot of the vegan sausage rolls and he said they sell a few yes. I asked if they sell more than standard meat and he said definitely not. They sell more standard sausage rolls than absolutely everything else in the store.

[Pothole]

ATM said:

I just tried one of these. Tastes a bit like gravy with onions I'd say which is fine. While I was waiting for them to come out of the oven 3 people came in and all asked for a vegan sausage roll. So I asked the guy behind the counter if they sell a lot of the vegan sausage rolls and he said they sell a few yes. I asked if they sell more than standard meat and he said definitely not. They sell more standard sausage rolls than absolutely everything else in the store.

The sausage roll has been there bestseller for years AFAIK.

[robsa]

I’m not a veggie and I prefer the vegan sausage roll. Look forward to trying the steak slice

[RobbieTheTruth]

I don't really like the Greggs Vegan Sausage Roll. Big fan of Sayers and Pound Bakery standard Veggie Sausage Roll.

[Douglas Quaid]

Every time I go in I have a steak bake or cheese and onion pasty. Never thought of having the sausage roll. Will try next time.

[FWIW]

Douglas Quaid said:

Every time I go in I have a steak bake or cheese and onion pasty. Never thought of having the sausage roll. Will try next time.

They’re quite dirty, in a good way.

[colin_p]

I read somewhere last week that the burger king veggie burger was packed full of female hormones.

Is that a thing with veggie meat replicas, are they likely to make you sprout and grow a cracking pair of tits?

I wouldn't be able to stop groping them.

[Hoofy]

colin_p said:

I read somewhere last week that the burger king veggie burger was packed full of female hormones.

Is that a thing with veggie meat replicas, are they likely to make you sprout and grow a cracking pair of tits?

I wouldn't be able to stop groping them.

Might be because they use soya beans which contains oestrogen which can encourage the growth of breast tissue. I suspect, with no scientific evidence to back me up, that the tits you grow will look st.

Edit: Yes, they're soya burgers. Don't eat too much soya if you're a bloke.

Edit 2: Looks like I'm wrong. https://www.todaysdietitian.com/newarchives/040114...

Edited by Hoofy on Tuesday 7th January 10:56

[ATM]

FWIW said:

Douglas Quaid said:

Every time I go in I have a steak bake or cheese and onion pasty. Never thought of having the sausage roll. Will try next time.

They’re quite dirty, in a good way.

Yeah the standard sausage rolls are almost dripping in grease. They're that dirty. They give them to you in those little paper bags and it doesn't take long for the bag to look damp with grease.

The vegan ones are a little less greasy but still moist. At least you know they cant be mostly pork fat being vegan.

Standard sausage rolls are 327 cals according to their website and 20% fat.

https://www.greggs.co.uk/bakes/sausage-roll

Edited by ATM on Monday 6th January 05:20

[Hoofy]

ATM said:

Yeah the standard sausage rolls are almost dripping in grease. They're that dirty. They give them to you in those little paper bags and it doesn't take long for the bag to look damp with grease.

The vegan ones are a little less greasy but still moist. At least you know they cant be mostly pork fat being vegan.

Standard sausage rolls are 327 cals according to their website and 20% fat.

https://www.greggs.co.uk/bakes/sausage-roll

Edited by ATM on Monday 6th January 05:20

On the bright side, the way they bleed out fat onto your hands, maybe it's less than 20% fat.

[ZedLeg]

Surprisingly for a Greggs product, I thought the steak bake could’ve done with a bit more salt.

Was more like a mince and onion pie than a meat steak bake. It was alright though.

[ATM]

ZedLeg said:

Surprisingly for a Greggs product, I thought the steak bake could’ve done with a bit more salt.

Was more like a mince and onion pie than a meat steak bake. It was alright though.

The Vegan one?

[ZedLeg]

Aye

[Melman Giraffe]

out of interest how are they making the pastry with no fat/dairy?

[ZedLeg]

It’ll use vegetable fat.

Most mass produced pastry won’t have dairy in it these days. Unless it specifies that it’s made with butter.

It’s more likely to be an egg or milk wash that causes it to not be vegan than anything in the actual pastry.

[Rawwr]

Melman Giraffe said:

out of interest how are they making the pastry with no fat/dairy?

It's just plasticine and flour.

[ATM]

I was chattin to someone in Italy about ... maybe 20 years ago ... about how they make Ice Cream. They dont use Milk because of the cost so instead they use a big machine which takes water and fat and whatever other ingredients for flavour and smashes them altogether to make something like milk based ice cream. I have it in my mind that they use animal fat but I cant be sure now.

[Mobile Chicane]

Vegan pastry is made with palm oil, as no other vegetable fat has the properties of lamination required.

Try explaining to vegans that every time they eat a Gregg's Fake Steak Bake, a baby orangutan dies.

[Hoofy]

Mobile Chicane said:

Vegan pastry is made with palm oil, as no other vegetable fat has the properties of lamination required.

Try explaining to vegans that every time they eat a Gregg's Fake Steak Bake, a baby orangutan dies.

Didn't know that! (Re palm oil, not the palm oil v orangutan thing.)

[FWIW]

Mobile Chicane said:

Try explaining to vegans that every time they eat a Gregg's Fake Steak Bake, a baby orangutan dies.

Funny. Not funny.