When visiting Europe I had a similar experience with "Seitan" [1] based sausages.
I quickly realised that what I like most about sausages isn't really the animal fat / flesh, it's the wheat, barley and or other spices + salt fried in oil that I enjoy. I should also add the texture which was easily reproduced with Seitan.
Also I found Seitan cheese burgers to be really, really good.
I quickly realised that what I like most about sausages isn't really the animal fat / flesh, it's the wheat, barley and or other spices + salt fried in oil that I enjoy. I should also add the texture which was easily reproduced with Seitan.
Also I found Seitan cheese burgers to be really, really good.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_gluten_(food)