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The Fast Food Thread - Would You Like Posts With That?
Adrock:
--- Quote from: Stratos on August 03, 2019, 02:34:37 PM ---I have no intention of touching that "impossible" dreck. Burgers are made of meat and anything else is sacrilege.
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That’s fair. I’m not completely off red meat and high cholesterol foods. If I’m really craving a juicy real-meat cheeseburger or steak, I’ll order one.
Unfortunately, the reality I have to live with is keeping red meat consumption to two or three times a month. For those with dietary restrictions, the Impossible Burger is a great alternative.
BeautifulShy:
--- Quote from: BlackNMild2k1 on August 02, 2019, 11:56:42 PM ---Impossible Whopper is going NATIONWIDE next week
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/01/business/impossible-whopper-national/index.html
(FYI, you can only currently get Impossible burger meat from Burger King, as they bought out the entire supply chain for the near... and possibly foreseeable, future)
Who is gonna buy an Impossible Whopper, and then next to it a Regular Whopper and do the side by side taste test?
Who is gonna be our guinea pig?
edit: hint.... it might be me. I'm curious, and carnivorous, and therefore don't believe all the opinions out there about how you can't taste the difference.... you get 1 chance to make me a believer.
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I haven't had the impossible Whopper but I have had the Beyond Burger from Carl's Jr and it is pretty decent. I am a half vegetarian so I eat pretty much everything except for red meat but I do eat red meat sometimes when I have to.
I would be a guinia pig when the impossible Whopper comes to Phoenix.
oohhboy:
There was a bit of a huff when a national pizza joint here mislead customers with Beyond Beef Burger. The wording was far too easy to assume it was meat not a meat substitute and given what it is made of it could have killed someone. They then doubled down with an excuse that sneaking in the product was for the good of the planet which pretty much an open admission. Very not cool hijacking a good cause to cover for your PR stunt and damages the very cause you claim to uphold. I never ordered it because **** them for several other reasons but reports from others were poor.
I am curious in the Impossible burger as I hear their stuff is much better.
ejamer:
I'm deeply suspicious of meat-replacement burgers. Not so much about taste, which is probably good enough to not care about. It's the overall quality and whether there is any improvement in nutrition by eating them that has me wondering. Last I heard they were super high in salt, and maybe preservatives too... although if eating fast food I supposed that probably wouldn't really shift the scale?
It just feels like all the marketing and hype have drowned out any discussion about whether these are really a good and beneficial idea, or just a hot fad. Not that such things regularly happen in the food healthy industry... *coughcough*
And for a more useful addition, made my (usually) annual excursion to eat at Arby's recently. They have no restaurant in town, so I need to drive a couple of hours* but it's always totally worth it. There is something awesome about simple roast beef sandwiches with those curly fries that I'll always enjoy. Simplicity has it's charms - or maybe I'm just too simple to want more.
*Note that I'm not driving that far just for Arby's... but when travelling through a nearby city I often make a point to grab a double roast beef during the trip.
oohhboy:
It's not so much the health benefits which I expect to be very marginal without changing your diet elsewhere also. Meat takes a lot of resources to make and cause a lot of pollution including greenhouse gases. Farmers are pretty invisible to the public when it comes to pollution. It's not helped that farmers tend to be a very irresponsible bunch when it comes to waste and water rights food or no food.
Cutting back a little meat wouldn't be the worse idea.