I don’t know where you do your shopping, Frazz, but they had loads in Lidl. They should be available in most places because they’re currently in season (I think.)
I've noticed a couple of trailers for tv programmes that are intended to put us off eating meat.
What's that all about then? Is there a national livestock shortage that we've not been told about?
There's also some new fangled meat substitute I keep reading about called "seitan" - pronounced like Satan for obvious comic effect, no doubt - that is made from the gluten that's been taken out of the wheat that coeliacs and people with intolerances can't eat. Again, WTF!
Don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to.
On a whim, because I keep hearing it mentioned, I bought a jackfruit ready meal in Tesco a couple of weeks ago. The seasoning needed adjusting, like everything else these days and it would have been nice with some garlic bread. Its a bit hard describe, but the texture was okay, a bit mushroomy like.
I would buy it again to make my own meals occasionally, comes in a tin
Lol! At least it is a natural food, I was surprised I liked it.
A huge improvement on tofu, bean curd etc. I shall surprise my veggie friends next time we get together with a gourmet dish of jackfruit. If I want to stay friends with the others it will be meat or fish based.
We didn't get the pizzas that our opponents in last night's quiz match usually provide. Instead we had a choice of vegetarian or normal sandwiches and sausage rolls. Having read about Jackfruit on this thread, I decided to try the Jackfuit sausage rolls, and to be fair, they were actually quite nice.
I have been vegetarian since 1996 and vegan since 2017 because of my animal rights beliefs. When I originally went vegetarian, I worked at an animal sanctuary and couldn't justify working for animals and eating them. But I see it thus: I don't eat animal product. This is my decision, my choice, my business. You guys do. Such is your decision, your choice, your business.
'That Government is best which governs least' - Henry David Thoreau. Tomas, ta tú mo ghrá, mo chroí, mo agam agus mo rogha, a chara. Go deo.
I agree, @lewis, but it's not only vegans that tend to be dogmatic about their beliefs. Nowadays we all seem to have got the idea that only the things we believe in are right, and everything that anyone else believes in must therefore automatically be wrong.
I'm certainly guilty of it from time to time, anyway...