How One of Germany’s Biggest Sausage Makers Became an Unlikely Plant-Based Pioneer

https://veganhorizon.substack.com/p/is-this-still-a-meat-company

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queermunist@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 2d (6 replies)

Why are plant-based hot dogs so bad and yet plant-based sausages so good?

balsoft@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Ok, I'm confused. A hot dog is just a sausage in a bun, no?

If you mean that vegan wieners/frankfurters are bad, than that's the opposite of my experience. I enjoy them more than I do other types of vegan sausage (although that may have something to do with growing up in a post-soviet country and thus being constantly exposed to Doctorskaya sausage)

queermunist@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2d

That's a sausage in a bun. I guess this is a language thing?

Doctorskaya sausage looks like it's basically diet bologna? Sausage can be something much smaller, like a bratwurst.

And a bratwurst does not become a hot dog because it's in a bun.

ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2d

Same reason meat based hotdogs are inferior to meat based sausage. Sausage is king.

rapchee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d (1 reply)

there is a wide variety in the scale of enjoyability of vegan hotdogs in my experience, from "wait, is this made of chalk?" to "wait, did i really get the vegan ones?"

queermunist@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 18h

I might just not like hotdogs, now that I think about it.

mactan@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1d

it's endlessly annoying to me how the plant processed foods are zero fat high sugar when the fat really needs to be there to address texture problems