Why do vegetarians eat food that looks like meat?

Spot the veggie sausage

Checked off the first item on my bucket list today, the first truly ever vegetarian product ever to enter my mouth.

Linda McCarthy was the world most boring vegetarian who saw a gap in the market for veggie food to mimic real meat products. Why shape a load of crap into a sausage shape and market it has a substitute it for the real stuff full of dead animals.

Would this sausage (which I will be eat momentary) look has appetising if it was made into a square shape, like in the film Fahrenheit 451. I doubt it.

I just don't understand why vegetarian food is in the shape of burgers, bacon, sausages and pretty much every food they don't eat. But, if they don't want to eat that food, why not just eat vegetables that look like vegetables.

On asking a vegetarian the simply reply was “Why not”

Oh well time to taste the sausage. I baked the said sausage in the oven separate from its meaty cousin. They looked ok and cooked like has for the eating I was surprised, it tasted really nice and if I was given one at a friends say, I wouldn’t turn my nose up. However, I still enjoyed my meaty pork sausages more.