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Turkey twizzler. There's a whole Janie Oliver backstory...
He gets more flack than he deserves. He tried to change school dinners yes, but the government at the same time were severely cutting back the budget for school dinners in general. Once the quality fell through, they used Jamie as a scapegoat for the whole thing
Say no more. I already know it's inedible.
Hold on Uncle Rodger... He tried to get them banned, therefore logic dictates that they're actually pretty good!
If I remember right he tried and successfully got them removed from school dinners. They tasted so good.
They are back now, but a shadow of their former glory.
Yeah, that's right. Tbh I've not tried one in years. Something's are better left in the nostalgic past. Crispy pancakes being a prime example.
Wait, no, don't tell me they've ruined Crispy Pancakes?!
Maybe just a child -> adult palette change but I tried 'em during lockdown and wasn't impressed
From Turkey or is it at least made of actual Turkey?
Low quality turkey (animal) meat, mashed up and mixed with rusk, water, other low quality "meats" (offal, ears, pig trotters, bumholes etc) and an array of flavourings and sweeteners and reconstituted into a helical shape and coated with breadcrumbs and oven baked.
Basically the same as any other easily affordable breaded, reconstituted meat product, except it's in a helix instead of a sausage or burger pattie shape.
I've never had one, but they're probably delicious.
For true, British tastebuds. Yummy.
I liked them as a kid, your comment on suger is correct though, they were strangly sweet.
Lab analysis inconclusive. But either way they're great.