@ New shoot and @ Auntie
I guess I must be the last one on the bus! If you are vegan, you'd think the last thing you'd want to be seen eating is vegan sausage! Is that like a methadone for meat-eaters?
I have to admit that I do eat some products pretending to be meat. I have "alpha-gal syndrome" (simplified explanation: allergic reaction to mammal meats, induced by a particular type of tick bite). I can't eat beef, pork, lamb, etc., haven't since 1998. But there's a company called Impossible Meat that makes a burger type product that tastes close to what I remember about eating a beef hamburger. One of our fast food chains (Burger King) even offers an Impossible Burger! Thankfully, I can (and do) still eat poultry and seafood. I also eat a lot of turkey processed into turkey burger, turkey ham and sausage, etc.
@Growster. Yes, Shoney's is still around! We had one in Athens, but no longer, I'm afraid. Spreading development swallowed it up.
I've always shaken my head at people that think human consumption of meat is not humane. Quick and relatively humane slaughter of an animal in a well-run abattoir is much more humane than death in the wild by a predator, in many cases. In the USA, one woman, Temple Grandson, has made more humane slaughter houses her life's work... Look her up, her story is interesting, was even the subject of a movie!