I Tested Meat vs VEGAN Meat Products

[@EdChapman23]

I've never really tried any vegan foods before, so I decided to put them to the test against their MEAT equivalents - what do you reckon?

[@liambrown5085]

You might have convinced me to try a vegan sausage roll mate 🤣

[@aaronhopwood3205]

I reckon your braver than i am meat all the way

[@bydandtom9109]

brother, surely you have to do this again? I LOVE chewing on some meat, but I also curious to know what you think of both vegan and meat products as they are supposed to be eaten, ofc disclude the rolls, kit kat etc

[@twilight4114]

I went vegan for a year (between 2022-2023) and lost 3 stone in weight. Still can't decide if it was because the food was healthier or i was just less included to eat it coz it didn't taste as nice! The alternatives are massively better than they were 20 years ago (I should say meat alternatives, I was vegetarian when I was younger for 2 years, its never stuck for long I miss tasty food too much) but essentially they don't taste great as you're finding out. I never understood for the most part why they wanted to market meat alternatives to people who don't want to eat animals (for the most part lol). The worst offenders imo are fake bacon, chicken, and minced beef (quorn). Replicating texture always seems to be a difficulty. The fake sliced sandwich meats are pretty dire too. Cheese has to be made with coconut milk usually and to me that leaves an awful after taste (id recommend the nutty cheese or smoked ones if you want to try a vegan cheese). Then the milk? Where do you even start. Almond, oat, soya, coconut? they all seem to taste like sugar to me. (After a year fully vegan though, everything else tasted incredibly sweet). Great video and look forward to seeing if you try any more from the range 😂

[@listey]

You should have tried to colloborate with "That Batshit Crazy Vegan" (or whatever her name is) for this.

[@TwenT8CakesL8r]

The fact they didn't call it a "Quornish" pasty seems like a missed opportunity to me

[@MargaretUK]

😅😅

[@athomasbond]

👏👏👏👏

[@sunshineravens]

Some people are just idiots.

[@FunkyKarting]

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[@MissVanillaLime]

I believe the term Cornish pasty is trademarked or something like that

[@ChilleUK]

considering the richmond sausages are 42% meat, if it continues going down they will be vegan sausages anyway.

[@TheCoopsvids]

All this sausage talk so gaaaaaaay 😂

[@davidhipperson448]

Richmond sausages being meat? The only tine I found a Richmond sausage with actual meat it had a fly on it

[@Erik-LehnsherrX]

🤣🤣👏

[@davidhipperson448]

@SlothShower only Richmond aren't that meaty

[@samv967]

I bet it came down to price 😂

[@mentalmickey1459]

The difference in colour on the sausage rolls might be due to brushing the meat one with egg or milk before baking.

[@99fruitbat94]

It's exactly that . Can't use milk on the vegan one as milk isn't vegan . Hence it's ghostly appearance . I was actually surprised how good the vegan one tasted , tried it out of curiosity . Tried not to look at the filling , it's weirdly pink 😂 This comment also allowed me to use the word ' hence ' 😂

[@elizabethcarroll7987]

I can confirm they do go brown if cooked at home (you can buy them in Iceland!) I think Greg’s just criminally undercook them in store :’)

[@mentalmickey1459]

@@elizabethcarroll7987 fair point, that's another factor, I suppose they'd be more cautious to cook the pork well also

[@mentalmickey1459]

I like to vegan ones also and prefer them, they taste good, maybe a little too porky for my liking but I'm just more relaxed not eating meat overall, HENCE i go for the vege ones haha

[@jacktweddell3317]

It’s like watching Alan partridge review vegan food. Excellent

[@Jam8298cam]

The hand gestures are magnificent

[@McTAnGuS]

Now I'm a proper Scotsman and I love meat (oo err) but i swear the veggie square sausage from Simon howie is better than the meat version.

[@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe]

Inventor of the Kit-Kat. The original four-finger version of the bar was developed after a worker at Rowntree's York factory put a suggestion in the recommendation box for "a chocolate bar that a man could take to work in his pack up. As they were from Yorkshire, I'm guessing their name was Mr or Mrs Upperdownth'lettlethwaite.

[@3enLiamMichael]

“Quite frankly that’s a disgrace” 🤣

[@no-nr6de]

I think its important to remember these vegan foods arent meant to taste exactly like something but more be a nice enough and close enough replacement that you can be vegan and not miss out at a bbq or have a cheat day and have a kit kat etc. So allot of them seen to do their job here 😊

[@skinlesswalnut6259]

BOT

[@hearingthesmells2500]

The David Dickinson of food products… lol😂

[@mells3167]

I have been vegan for 6 years now and I thought that the vegan Kit Kat tasted the same, like I remember that’s how Kit Kats used to taste. It’s so weird how taste buds work😂

[@MrLoonzy]

The vegan bacon looked like a kid made it out of coloured plasticine. They use beetroot juice in the vegan burgers for the blood type effect.

[@waynepilgrim9476]

"It's only foooood" Checks ingredients - Nup, not food 😂

[@InfiniteVision40]

A gofundme to get Ed an Air fryer 😂

[@jonogrimmer6013]

I can imagine Ed in 5 years time being on Master Chef as a food critic! Your descriptions are genius :)

[@ste_8]

Appreciating the very Pilkington like usage of the phrase "Foodage" in this vid lol

[@JustBens]

“Whether it’s a potato or a nut it’s a foodage”

[@ste_8]

@@JustBens Play a record🤦‍♂️

[@waynebrown7439]

Northerners thinking a ginsters is a cornish pasty….No cornishman would touch them good video ( apart from the pasty part 😂)

[@neilboughton2794]

Or us Plymouthians!

[@BallisticBurns]

As a Yorkshireman, I have had numerous fantastic farm shop and butchers pastys. Ginsters shouldn't be touched with a 10ft barge pole unless stopped at a service station late at night with no other option.

[@waynebrown7439]

@@BallisticBurns the other option is go hungry that would be acceptable 😂

[@neilboughton2794]

@@BallisticBurns I think I'd rather go hungry at said service station

[@eclipse_eternal8178]

I recently had the vegan sausage roll from Greggs and I was genuinely questioning if i was given the meat one by mistake. It tasted really similar to the meat one, I did actually get the vegan one though.

[@rosethecat2930]

Vegan chocolate is actually really helpful for lactose intolerant people

[@aberjack92]

Vegan sausage rolls are actually banging

[@Car_ToonUK]

Greggs vegan sausage rolls are top notch

[@angiemac334]

And the real ones are even better 🤤

[@theJRJ1904]

I’m just glad Jordan Numpty is getting the recognition he deserves for investing the kitkat…a true unsung hero

[@gyost8147]

Fun video. The substitutes are usually more expensive and more processed using more resources

[@mikedeletes8184]

That trump caught me off guard 😂

[@boredmoonface]

Always interesting to watch meat eaters try vegan foods. Would be fun to see you try and eat vegan for 1 week! The reason the vegan sausage roll is pale is because they use egg wash to make the pastry go golden although I do think greggs under cooks them as they can go browner than that. Vegans don’t eat/drink dairy milk because the reason cows produce milk is the same reason humans and all mammals produce milk, to breast feed their babies. Dairy cows give birth produce breast milk and their babies are taken away so humans can milk them and consume their breast milk instead. The dairy industry explained in a 5 minute video kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5SxaIZ9fNR2hKssi=RXp9wbu30futvpyI

[@CrackerBarrellKid55]

Another banger from Alan Partbrent

[@kevinh96]

I've tried a few meat alternatives and found some are OK, although I wouldn't say I've found any to be superior. One of the things I do find is that often the vegan alternative is much more highly seasoned, probably as the meat substitute (soya, pea protein or whatever) is generally much more bland tasting than real meat so more salt and other seasonings are added to give it some taste.

[@gdparry2727]

Had a quorn burger once... had the texture of that woodchip stuff they lay down on playgrounds after heavy rain

[@OwNsilem]

You need an air fryer Ed! Life changer! Maybe make an air fryer video reviewing food cooked in the AF compared to Raw!!

[@rossdaviesWEB]

I love your content, but… you are alan partridge 😂 and tbh I think that’s why I love the videos so much, congrats on the growth buddy!!!

[@lindasmith6072]

Awesome vid as usual ed. Got great comedic timing. Im not a vegan but they dont have milk because the cow has gotta be kept pregnant constantly to produce the milk which is obviously not great for said cow.

[@bensims7315]

Cows are not “constantly” pregnant 😂 do some research before you chat shit online, 1 baby a year and sometimes they don’t have one each year, cows are treated better than humans and live in luxury, they aren’t maternal and forget they even had a baby the second fresh food is given to them, stop spreading misinformation it’s just pathetic at this point

[@davidjones2028]

That's miigan

[@Sam-fm7gw]

@@bensims7315 ''cows are treated better than humans and live in luxury'' you go live outside lad with your nipples hooked up to a machine

[@lindasmith6072]

@@bensims7315 haha well obviously not constantly. One baby each year is quite a lot though right? How long are they pregnant? I'm not even vegan just trying to explain why some vegans might be against it.

[@NZKiwi87]

@@lindasmith6072thank you for your comment and ignore the obvious troll 😊

[@kaz_brittain]

Your a proper yorkshire lad!!! Love your dry humour!!!!

[@ragingsilver]

I find the vegan burgers are like the burgers we had at school dinners. They're really not that bad. The impossible burger is pretty good as well.

[@ajspringer]

"It needs a trip to Spain for a week" 😂

[@MikeSlater226]

The way you describe food is just pure class my friend 🤣 so underrated bro keep it up 🔥

[@platele]

5:40 the reason richmond sausages are 'crap' is cus they're only 40% meat. real sausages are all natural casing and more like 90% ground pork filling, grab a few from a local butcher and your mind will be blown, i promise you

[@_ravnarok]

Your inner Jeremy Clarkson came out at 13:40 haha

[@GeorgeEllis-w3h]

Goat JC

[@philpegrum6032]

Yessss!

[@craiggrant8600]

I prefer the greggs vegan roll to the sausage roll!

[@neilgrundy]

Same, and I'm no vegan.

[@louisemckelvey]

Same and I'm not vegan. They have more flavour.

[@Macallion]

As someone who worked for a bakery brand owned by (and later rebranded as) Greggs as a kid - the meat products are browner because they have an egg/milk wash. Those things aren't vegan, so the vegan products aren't as brown. I've had both sausage rolls and I find the vegan one more filling, so it saves you a bit of money, I suppose. Also, I don't know why nobody has labelled vegan beef products fake steak yet. Greggs could have a fake steak bake. The stuff they layer the wafers with in Kitkats, I've heard, is made up of other, broken Kitkats, so that's probably why the vegan chocolate has affected the wafers too.

[@elizabethcarroll7987]

I would love you to do a blind taste test with other vegan products~~! Show the world all the amazing stuff we have now a days!

[@TJThomas116]

Really enjoyed the video! It would have been nice to also know the price difference, but you described all the flavours in such detail which was great

[@bennetthasty7886]

Dude you need an air fryer for your pasties ❤

[@yorkie_pudd]

I'm not a vegan, but I'm pleasantly surprised by the quality of some vegan food. Doner Summer near the Corn Exchange in Leeds sells some amazing food and it's all vegan. It's my go to place to eat in Leeds, you should give it a try

[@KarlaJeannieDoddy]

i actually love the way you describe things

[@jeremiahallyn4603]

I have never seen that product from Quorn. I normally enjoy a lot of their food, especially their fake chicken nuggets and patties. Those pastries did not look good at all. Nice video as always, Ed 😀🙌

[@MagnetG]

Fun fact. The filling between the wafers of a kit kat, is in fact more kit kat.

[@wuzbomb]

The Gregs sausage roll is decent. I prefer it's filling. The pastry isn't great, combining standard pastry with vegan filling would work.

[@HA05GER]

Forget the KitKat its all about the time out.

[@garyblack2858]

Very funny and original video, Ed. One of my favorites to date!

[@cresent605]

Heifer whines could be human cries

[@henrykravitz468]

Love the hand gestures. "Having a sausage a night" 🤣🤣 I hope to see you on a show being a food critic at some point. Loving your content ♥

[@LeeSutton-z4d]

i do like cows but i also like eating them. you sounded like jeremy clarkson, that had me in stitches

[@kieranmccreadie7118]

Great video again, definitely deserves more subs keep going 🙂

[@F3zza]

No knife and fork for the sausage rolls? Living on the edge Ed.

[@djh8547]

Never call a Ginsters a Cornish Pasty.

[@JonCannings]

I find your knife and fork technique interesting. It appears to be the - slice with knife and drag with fork

[@cj-valentine]

This isn't meat is garbage. Beyond Burgers are much better.

[@alxbss]

It would have been really interesting to see you try vegan chicken, i think it’s the closest replication there is at the moment

[@SteRiskE]

Not allowed to call them Cornish Pasties anymore unless it's actually Cornish, Cornish people don't like it so it's minced beef and potato now

[@emmab009]

I’m scared to watch this….. could be the end of Ed and I! 🤣

[@audreymcleod4076]

The vegan bacon looks like the rock you get in seaside towns, it's like the pretend egg and bacon on a plate but it's rock.

[@ScottJBR]

"they're always called Damian" lol!!!

[@gemmaaaxx]

Where did your Mum find that highland cow diffuser? 😍😄🐮 and also thanks for another great video Ed 🙂🍔🌭🥓🍫 xx

[@NZKiwi87]

Excellent pep talk at the start there! 👍

[@katielouise210]

oh god...... as a vegan do i want to watch this............well, i'll do it for the ed content!

[@GazzaP28]

Trust me. I'm cornish. Ginsters are NOT Cornish pastys. Noone in cornwall eats them. They are an embarrassment to a pasty

[@LukeMayers-k6j]

I’ve lost count how many times I’ve watched this man eat a Greggs sausage roll 😂

[@sooevers9411]

Great vid Ed. Not surprised by your findings. Went to a party a few years ago. Some vegan stuff served. Thought I would give it a go. And the only thing i remember were that the "chicken nuggets" tasted like the box that they came in. Never bothered again.

[@man_v_fat4844]

I got a Costa “Too good too go” bag and I opened it up to find 6 vegan bacon baps, tried one and tasted like soggy frazzles on bread. Couldn’t even trick the kids either by telling them it was real bacon 😂😂 great video Ed and I agree on the Greggs vegan sausage rolls

[@StarGazerEntertainment]

Loved this! Laugh out load funny with the Donald Trump impression XD

[@ash36230]

Gregg's vegan sausage rolls are genuinely banging. I've had other vegan "meat." Not awful, but haven't quite got mouthfeel or taste there yet. Tastes over seasoned or stuff like that Richmond sausages also taste cheap. Get proper ones from butchers and you'll notice just how much better they are. Hell I've had supermarket brand cumberlands and that be way better than richmonds.

[@znom3455]

your humor makes me cackle - cheers from the US

[@ryanbigby7493]

What a guy... Love your content it's worth a giggle!

[@Mittens...]

the vegan sausage roll only looks pale because it hasn't been brushed with eggs

[@funny7]

i would not consider richmonds as sausages. more like fat sticks

[@Spanregal]

Great vid yet again! Thanks Ed!👍looking forward to another amazing video🙂

[@Bessie66]

Vegan hotdogs and ice cream are the best

[@sjc5978]

You did the Sausage Roll dirty by letting Gregg's represent it.

[@lorddarlo6194]

Tbf I love normal meat. I have had some Vegan stuff it don't taste bad. My problem with some of it is there isn't any Juice like you get with Meat. So it can be dry

[@PiixiieThiing]

Few things that are better vegan, Mayo Whipped cream And in my honest opinion, burgers Moving mountain burgers are mint Most of the other stuff is pretty naff Although i had a vegan cathedral cheese that was damn tasty

[@adamdruett9107]

Really should have done this as a blind test.

[@Downesy80]

That Brazil jersey is sweet! Top vid ed!👍🏻👍🏻

[@MinistryOfCommonSense]

Clumpy in the gob 😂😂😂😂

[@AlamedanBreezyRep]

Your like a Mix of Karl.Pilkington and Ricky Gervais and some David Brent

[@JSH911]

And Alan Partridge 😂

[@haroldbetterson1877]

Nice tash maverick

[@karaleeification]

as a cornish maid, I can safely say a Ginsters pasty isn't a cornish pasty!!

[@DKG-85]

I've been vegan six years and I came into this thinking it was just gonna be another "vegan food bad" video but your opinions seemed unbiased. I haven't eaten a animal based sausage roll for 10 years but I can remember liking it more than the vegan one but everything else I honestly believe the vegan version smashes the animal based ones. But I think a lot of that may come from knowing the horrors of animal agriculture and I'd rather not be part of that. The only thing I don't bother with is vegan pizza, not because they taste bad but because they are always really stingy with the cheese unless you get the pizza hut one.

[@IainDoes3Dprints-Gaming]

Can't believe you microwaved pastry... use an air fryer, or get one - doesn't take much longer to cook

[@njp2k914]

I much prefer the Vegan Greggs roll. It’s tastes better and the texture is better imo!

[@allanalmeidapa]

Cheers from Brazil ❤. My first vegan Food was a Linda Mccartney Burger, it was great, tastes good and nice aspect. Honestly, without knowing, no problem at all. That should be the goal for those vegan menu. Keep up the good work.

[@ShelfsideOllie]

Richmonds sausages are basically pork free anyway 😂

[@warrendoyle3553]

Big sausage at night is probably called DAVE.. :)

[@jamessteel9016]

Thanks Ed for trying some vegan stuff so we don’t have to 👏 I can handle veggie food, but there’s something wrong with vegan food.

[@icecranberry2148]

I don't understand why they even bother making vegan food look like their meat version. Like if you become vegan, surely you don't want to eat artificial bacon or things like that. (I tried vegan salami once, tasted ok but overpriced for what it is)

[@Eliddinn]

i'm not vegetarian but i do enjoy linda mccartney sausages

[@hdfk1102]

A Ginsters is not a pasty.

[@melaniejones7335]

I started watching this thinking “Don’t try bacon, don’t try bacon… oh you did, poor man!” I’m vegan and I’ve NEVER found decent bacon

[@jon422002]

When are we getting "Ed Champman Greggs sausage Roll Compilation" Ed loves a greggs sausage roll!!

[@paulgray3231]

For a second there, I thought you'd been hacked by Ronaldinho. But I was wrong.