They taste fine, but the imitation snap and crumble are too much for my squeamish eating.
The Impossible Foods sausage comes packaged similarly to its other products. Each package contains four sausage “dogs” that are too thick for a standard hot dog bun but thin enough they can all fit into a pan if you have one that’s big enough in diameter. The actual sausage itself looks like any other meat alternative: a bland, beige tube with a meat-like concoction stuffed into it—to be fair, animal-based sausage looks this way, too.
The Impossible Foods sausage links look like those water wigglers when raw. It’s not the most appetizing appearance, and it’s clear this is fake meat attempting to disguise itself as the real thing. It looks much more authentic once it’s browned in the pan. As we were cooking the spicy sausage for lunch, my husband and I noticed a bit of bubbling up from the imitation casing, similar to how a real pork sausage would cook.
My husband also felt the sausage didn’t taste far off from real meat—until you got to the inside. Sausage links typically feature meat compacted into a tube-like shape. When it cooks, it expands a bit, but the Impossible Foods spicy sausage doesn’t have the same effect.You can see a sliver of the casing on the Impossible Foods sausage link. It’s best cut with a sharp knife.I realized what he meant as I cut through my sausage with a serrated knife, and bits of it came crumbling apart.
I still prefer some of Impossible Foods’ other products to this particular one, namely the Whopper, as it’s in patty form, and the Wild Nuggies, which pretend to be chicken. But how I feel is also a testament to how well Impossible Foods has managed to recreate the reality of eating meat without actually involving any animals.