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Burger King is Testing a Vegetarian Whopper Made With Impossible Burger (cnbc.com)
Burger King is testing a vegetarian version of its Whopper that uses an Impossible Burger for its patties, becoming the first national fast-food chain to sell the plant-based burger. From a report: The Restaurant Brands International subsidiary is offering the Impossible Whopper at 59 St. Louis locations. The chain already sells veggie patties made by Kellogg's vegetarian brand, Morningstar Farms. To announce the launch, Burger King released a video on April Fools' Day that shows unsuspecting Whopper fans eating the version with the Impossible Burger and then exclaiming that they can't taste the difference. Silicon Valley-based Impossible Foods genetically engineers heme, a protein that makes the vegetarian-friendly burger taste like meat. The ingredient is also responsible for giving the patty red juices that make it look like it's bleeding, just like a piece of beef.
White Castle has been serving the Impossible Burger "meat" for months.
I'm still not sure if I would like the Impossible Burger as much as a real hamburger.
But like it more than a Burger King or McDonalds burger? Suddenly I find it a lot more believable.
Between that and the much better naming "Impossible Burger"s sounds much cooler than "Veggieburger" I could see this gaining some traction simply because of better quality.
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Why start it in St. Louis of all places? As someone who has lived in practically every state, I can think of dozens of better starting markets than STL for this type of thing.
Vegetarian-friendly?
Cow-friendly.
In other news Wendy's is relaunching it's "Where's the beef?" campaign.
A&W did it first with their Beyond Meat.
Do White Castle burgers qualify as "meat" though? It's pretty borderline. "Gray flavor microdiscs" I believe they're referred to in the nomenclature. I'd try an impossible burger over White Castle "meat" any day.
Another question, does BK spray their 10 million dollar proprietary pheromone chemical bath all over the impossible burger also, just like their burgers, fries, salads and everything else?
Fucking disgusting. Fast food eaters are chemically addicted morons, IDGAF what the convenient excuse is.
Carl's Jr. has had one on sale for months https://www.carlsjr.com/beyond...
1) I think you have the wrong thread, as this obviously does not belong here, and 2) Objectively and factually speaking, there was multiple investigations. Named witnesses of the accuser said it didn't happen, and no evidence that it had happened was actually found, therefore it comes down to he-said, she-said, and it's wrong to go after anyone with just. Also, at least two other accusers were found to be complete frauds.
Maybe my area was a test region, but BK has had the impossible burger here for awhile. Wife and I are vegetarian, both tried it, and it's... ok. The Burgerville anasazi bean burger tastes better, in my opinion. Unfortunately, that item is no longer available at Burgerville.
Again in my opinion, the impossible burger tries too hard to be meat, and has an artificial "grilled" taste that lingers in the mouth like old grease. I'll eat it if I'm on a trip, in a hurry, hungry, and there's a BK drive-thru close by. But I'm not sure I'd seek it out.
In other news, Del Taco is testing Beyond Burger crumbles as a meatless alternative in the LA area. They're supposed to go national later this year. We're planning to try it when it comes to Oregon, but only as a curiosity. They already have items a lacto-ovo can eat.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
The ingredient is also responsible for giving the patty red juices that make it look like it's bleeding, just like a piece of beef.
You can eat steak rare, but you should never eat ground beef rare: It's not at all safe, when you grind meat, exterior parts of meat covered in bacteria get pushed to the inside and cooking rare doesn't kill them off. If anyone sold bleeding hamburgers that were real meat- I would worry.
Please, feel free to eat your steaks rare as that's enough to kill off the bacteria on the surface... just don't eat burgers rare.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Carl's Jr./Hardee's has been heavily advertising their meatless "Beyond" burger or several very annoying weeks. Beyond Meats announced the Carl's Jr. deal in January. White Castle (much smaller) has been serving Impossible burgers for some time. Seems like this a Burger King ballyhooing what is really just "me too".
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If you don't want to eat meat, why not just eat vegetables instead of highly processed vegetable protein made to look and taste like meat through additives?
Does anyone really think that Taco Bell is serving actual hamburger meat? It's more or less akin to a cat food pate with taco-like flavouring. They take about 10-12 base ingredients and make the entire menu. Ever notice that almost everything tastes identical? The only burgers worth eating are Five Guys, Wendy's (gone downhill IME), Fuddrucker's, and one's you can make at home with Black Angus you buy yourself.
Anymore, about the only pizza I like is Little Caeser's thin crust pepperoni. Fast food has really taken a nose dive over the years. No one does a decent fish sandwich anymore, which is arguably my favourite sandwich.
Is Made From PEOPLE! They tell you it's from the sea, but it's a lie. A Trumpian lie. It's made from people!
I've had an Impossible Burger. I'm not a vegetarian and I don't have a problem with eating meat. Just thought I'd give it a whirl. Turns out it was really good. When they say you can't tell the difference between the Impossible Burger and real ground beef, they aren't lying.
LOL!!! In my experience, non-meat that claims to be meat is always an abomination! Mind you, i _like_ the taste of tofu, it's just that anybody that tells you they've made tofu taste like meat is LYING!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Bill got caught lying 12-25 times repeatedly stating "Blood plasma is sterile" and then later that "The Chinese Govt does not directly censor Chinese citizens" and other absolute bullshit head-in-ass retard-level lies. You're not trustworthy.
You are not a source of information that anyone should or even could trust, knowing your dishonest history. Sorry. That's what accountability means when you get caught lying repeatedly, over and over, even after directly corrected.
You're a liar, Bill.
If you are vegan, taking burgers out of your diet shouldn't be a huge deal. If it is a huge deal, then you're not really vegan.
These "meats" were never engineered to service the population of vegans. These "meats" were engineered to replace the current "meat" to MAKE non-vegans enjoy their vegan diet whether they like it or not. If we are celebrating this kind of shit, then we might as well off ourselves right now and save ourselves the trouble in the future.
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Our reign has gone on long enough. Indeed. Summon the meteors.
I wouldn't be surprised if they find out the heme is extracted from blood, not actually produced in a lab using plant materials.
Yeah sure let's all eat even more artificial highly processed garbage that in this particular case isn't even going to have high-quality amino-complete proteins, but instead is deficient. Great idea. The cognitive deficit Vegans eventually suffer from must have gotten the Burger King execs.
I appreciate the info but even that article is inconclusive if this is really a problem:
This new research was well-done and compelling, but it's too early to decide that this molecule, TMAO, causes atherosclerosis in humans or that this is responsible for some of the associations of meat intake and risk.
It's hard to say what the risk level is, I think between the fact that I do not eat red meat all the time, and the fact that I am careful to get a significant amount of exercise every week should more than counterbalance any issues more rare beef might cause.
I would say anecdotally there seem to be a lot of older people who eat rare beef and have no heart issues, that it's much more complex than just "don't eat rare meat".
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Prions survive cooking. Good thing everything else in your post is also wrong.
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I tried an impossible burger at a place called the "Thirsty Lion."
To me, it was awful and I couldn't even finish it.
I hope they improve in the future.
If they don't call this the Impossible Whopper, then they're idiots.
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If you go vegetarian, forget burgers... A proper burger is made of beef. If you have a hunkerin' fer beef, eat beaf; if not, eat your veggies. The lamest, socially permissive food is a veggie burger (Oh, the conflicted carnivore.)
Fuck that. Real meat or get the fuck out.
Heme is not a protein, is it a coordination complex. It can be part of a protein called a hemoprotein or hemeprotein.
A&W in Canada has been selling a "beyond meet" burger since last year. It's not exactly like beef, but I think that it's a welcome difference from it's veggie patty. I'm fine with eating either one.
Sometimes boldness is in fashion. Sometimes only the brave will be bold.
They are the only? one selling Grade A meat. lots of onions are used too. The other places might use McDonalds unfit for consumption meat that they got new FDA rules to allow cheaper meat that is cooked extra to prevent diseases... e coli.
I believe I read it in Fast Food Nation. I won't eat that shit ever again. It might be safe but it literally has some cow shit in it.
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The TDS is strong in this one. Mueller didn't deliver the verdict you wanted either? Must all be part of the conspiracy.
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This was created by a Vegan to get people to eat less beef. It's sort of like Christians who don't approve of pre-martial sex, but somehow discovered the "loophole" of anal.
Personally I think it's very very weird that these vegans are trying to re-create the taste of beef without it actually being beef. They're sort of in a weird denial about humans liking the taste of meat, but they just can't resist.
So it is established that it has no beef. This does not by itself make it healthy to eat. What chemistry is involved in mimicking a real hamburger? Not knowing the details is enough to keep me away. If they want to create a great tasting alternative to a hamburger, I would rather they call it "a great tasting alternative to a hamburger" or "Been Burger" or something that tells you what it is.
>"Foods genetically engineers heme, a protein that makes the vegetarian-friendly burger taste like meat. The ingredient is also responsible for giving the patty red juices that make it look like it's bleeding, just like a piece of beef."
That is not necessarily "vegetarian-friendly". Quite frankly, if you served that to me, and I could even eat it, I would probably throw up. Many vegetarians (and semi-vegetarians) are that way because they don't like meat- the taste or smell.
The new Wendy's campaign will be called "What is beef?" and show young folks enjoying the juicy faux meat burgers.
I don't care what happens to the Earth. I've got probably 50 years left tops and no children so I'm refuse to even worry about it. Not my problem.
I do like hamburgers though. However, I also realize that cows are living creatures and every time I eat a hamburger that means somewhere a cow lived what was most likely a pretty shitty life for it. Also, it probably died pretty horribly. Give me the option of a cow-less hamburger and I'll order it seven days a week. Health/Mother Earth be damned.
I don't care what kendoll said that one time.
It's the whole kendoll history that makes one think what a stupid faggot this person is.
I defend people here sometimes .
Not kendoll
Super Kendall= head up the ass
Poison Ivy burger are an Italian food, it's not vegan due the eggs used. Was a food for poor people, but it's nice as a side dish. Similar recipes are with rape leaves, spinaches, borage and so on.
It's also a nice recycling method of recycle weeds instead to throw away or burn them.
I miss McDonald's McLean Deluxe. It was not at all vegetarian. But the McLean used seaweed extract as a filler to offset some of the meat while keeping the burger juicy and with presumably less fat. McLean Deluxe was a "pretty good" burger, as compared to the rest of McDonald's menu. It's a shame they discontinued it.
Just gross