Man I’m really torn. I avoid red meat for purposes of polyp-avoidance and discipline. If it’s not that much healthier than beef then there’s not much discipline in eating a non-meat cheeseburger that tastes just like a meat cheeseburger.
But goddamn do I miss cheeseburgers. Now they need to make an impossible-bacon worth a shit. Turkey bacon is an abomination.
Is there more glyphosate than in any other vegetable products? Are the levels high enough to be of concern?
If meat is unhealthy and vegetables are full of poison, should we all just starve?
And what exactly is the problem with GMO soy?
My daughter and her fiancé are vegetarians and gave both fake meats five stars.
I’m an ominivore. If they cost less than real beef I’d be happy to try them, but at current prices they offer nothing I’m looking for.
Moms Across America is a National Coalition of Unstoppable Moms. You’d better listen… or else!!
Wait till Father’s Across America gets home!
They were started by Zen Honeycutt. She has an entry at the Encyclopedia of American Loons.
Some prime bits:
I can think of one good reason to listen to her. I have a really dark sense of humor, though.
Dunkin Donut’s has been testing their egg McMuffin equivalent with Beyond meet at some locations. I thought it was as good as the real-meat version and had a good mouth-feel.
I expect to see cultured meat at some point, at least as ground meat. Steaks and such might be more difficult.
I hear tell grass-fed Impossible burgers are the best
This is making me want to try one.
I’m not a vegetarian by a long shot, but I am looking forward to the day when there are indistinguishable animal substitutes (steak will probably not be in my lifetime but who knows).
I’d try one, but not at the current high price. (Yes, I consider $5.00 or more for a burger expensive–I’m a McD’s Dollar Menu type.) Maybe I can wait for the Improbable Burger or Unlikely Burger.
(BTW, if you are a vegetarian, the BK version is still the Unbuyable Burger.
Daughter and I just had our first Impossible Whoppers… damn. Good stuff. I hope the price comes down a bit, but they were great!
Hopefully the Burger King deal will allow them to scale up enough that they can lower the wholesale price to reach parity with beef. And given the reasons this company was founded, I can’t imagine that isn’t their plan.
Right now they can’t replicate unminced meat, right, meaning that mass acceptance will drive down the cost of ground meat, too. Assuming that Impossible Foods can keep up with the race downward, there will a point where real and impossible kind of balance each other out. Unless they can eliminate unground meat from the competition, the meat industry will have to do something with all of those leftover bits and pieces from the best cuts. Lowering prices seems obvious.
I enjoy meat and my health has improved greatly with increased meat consumption. I tried the Impossible Whopper because I was curious. First BK was “out of all Whoppers due to broken broiler.” Stopped on the road and found the meal for $8.09. Not bad. I may have liked it more without the BK char cooking method but not sure. Whoppers are very thin and the way they are prepared makes it difficult to really taste the “meat,” IMHO. So it’s not that impressive to me to get away with the “you can’t tell the difference” thing. However, I removed some from a sandwich and broke off a chunk to eat on its own. Examining the inside and the texture it did resemble beef to me.
Had my first Impossible burger today at a local restaurant (Carson’s, for anyone who knows their way around Ann Arbor). Not bad, better than any other veggie burger I’ve tried - though I doubt anyone could ever confuse it with real meat. The patty seemed more like a meatball, i.e. it tasted like meat mixed with bread crumbs and spices, especially salt.
Actually, yeah, and I’m surprised they have it there. It’s a pretty good steakhouse without having to go into town, and has a parking lot.
Sure, but that means it’s only hitting one of two targets in meat eaters: the ones concerned about the environmental impact. But there are also plenty of meat eaters who want to eat more healthily, and would love a healthier burger that tasted like real meat.
Still, the main point, I presume, was just to let iiandyiiii know that one of the goals he stated, of eating healthier, would not be fulfilled by eating an Impossible Burger.
Too bad they have so much sodium. But I guess that’s one reason why they taste so good.
My moral niche: Meat-eater who makes some effort to locally and humanely* source where the meat comes from but doesn’t fall into existential crisis if I go out to a new restaurant.
I’ve had a couple of Impossible burgers. I really like having the option for grab-and-go food choices where I’m not looking for a high quality meal, it could become my go-to choice for fast food over other basic burgers. That said, it is rather bland and undistinctive and functions as a platter for the rest of the goo that gets piled on it. A great burger will carry its flavor and texture past the rest of the toppings and enhance the whole experience. This isn’t great, it’s merely a blank canvas, but that’s better than every other veggie burger I’ve tried.
*Yeah yeah, too many opinions to debate, I’ve grown up on farms…I think livestock animals are for eating, just don’t torture them in intensive high-density pens for their whole life.