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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.

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  1. Ah, so White Castle isn't "national" by WoodstockJeff · · Score: 3, Informative

    White Castle has been serving the Impossible Burger "meat" for months.

    1. Re:Ah, so White Castle isn't "national" by turp182 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Correct, there are 599 White Castles in about 15 states.

      https://www.menuism.com/restau...

      There are about 13,000 Burger Kings.

      https://www.google.com/search?...

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  2. Burgers don't bleed by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  3. Re:Unless it was guillotined... by HornWumpus · · Score: 4, Informative

    Prions survive cooking. Good thing everything else in your post is also wrong.

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