Maple Flavored Veggie Sausage Patties Review

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Maple Flavored Veggie Sausage Patties

From Morningstar Farms

Reviewed by Mr Breakfast on 7/27/2009

First, the real good news... if you prepare these Maple Flavored Veggie Sausage Patties by frying them (I use just a dusting of cooking spray), your kitchen fills up with an amazing breakfast fragrance. If you close your eyes, you can easily imagine you're in a diner in the midwest... sausages and pancakes are frying on the industrial griddle... a nice old couple at the counter drizzles maple syrup over waffles... a waitress named Shirley or Flo refills your coffee... she has great legs for her age. Yes, this is a product that smells wonderful.

Now for the not-so-great, yet not-too-disappointing news... the flavor, while decent, doesn't capture the magic of the aroma. If your familiar with the original version of these veggie sausages, you know the deal. The texture and taste is reminiscent of real sausage, but they're not going to fool anyone. They don't taste like meat, but they do manage to satisfy the section of your brain that craves sausage, namely the primary gustatory region of the cerebellum (or forebrain) via the the hypoglossal and trigeminal nerves.

Morningstar Farms sausages have a lot of fans and I'm one of them. Being a breakfast expert, I eat more than my fair share of real pork products. So, it's nice to have a quality non-meat alternative. I remember being impressed with the flavor of the original patties when I first tried them. Now days, I probably crave vegetarian sausages almost as often as the real thing.

So to sum up.... Morningstar veggie sausages are good. New Maple Flavored Morningstar Veggie Sausages are good* (but with an asterisk).

* The maple flavor comes across in the mouth as simply sweetness. It's a nice change-of-pace to have that sweetness when the sausage is combined with other breakfast foods, ie. when it's part of a breakfast sandwich. But when eaten alone, the sweetness becomes a little overbearing and it's mildly irritating that the maple flavor described on the box isn't coming across in your mouth.

Instead of this product, I recommend drizzling a little pure maple syrup over original Morningstar veggie sausage patties.

Nutritional considerations: Each single patty serving has 80 calories, 3 grams of total fat (0.5 grams saturated and 0 grams Trans), 0mg cholesterol, 5 grams total carbs, less than 1 gram dietary fiber, 2 grams sugars and 10 grams protein.

The price we paid: $3.99