"Keep the change."
Posted on 10/23/2016 9:30:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It looks like a burger, smells like a burger and even bleeds like one.
So, where’s the beef?
There’s no animal protein in the Impossible Burger, which made its debut on the San Francisco dining scene Thursday.
The idea is to mimic meat so closely that you might not realize it isn’t a traditional hamburger patty. The Impossible Burger is available at two S.F. restaurants — Cockscomb and Jardiniere. Some local vegetarians went to both on Thursday.
Luke Ianni hasn’t eaten meat for twenty years, so the taste threw him.
“It was so good that I was kinda grossed out, it was amazingly good,” he said.
Like so many things high-tech, the product comes from a Silicon Valley company, Impossible Foods. It took five years and $190 million to get it right. The not-so-secret ingredient is a molecule called heme, which is a component of hemoglobin, the red pigment in blood.
“It’s a plant hemoglobin, developed by Pat Brown, that really kind of mimics a lot of the things you’d find in myoglobin in meat,” explained chef Traci De Jardins, who owns Jardiniere.
We tried it and found that the Impossible Burger is remarkably similar in taste, texture — and messiness — to a “real” hamburger.
The faux-meat meal costs between $16 and $20, depending on where you get it and Jardiniere sold out in the first 30 minutes on Thursday.
You know what else tastes like meat? Meat.
I was thinking the same thing ;-)
This item seems disgusting, compared with real meat.
“Chemicals, it’s what’s for dinner”
Reminds me of folgers crystals....
We replaced this vegan’s veggie patty with real meat, let’s see what happens....
Well, yes.
I thought they did this with soybean burgers several years ago.....
Next step is trying to force everybody to switch to these new meatless substitutes for the environment and the poor animals who are off eating each other anyway.
A real veggie-burger can be very good. But I don’t want to eat anything this ‘played-around-with’.
I probably don’t want to pay for it, either.
Those I like.
“Where’s the beef?!”
vegetarians craving the taste of meat. That should tell you something right there.
“Of course, it’s a meat shop.”
“Certainly uncontaminated by the presence of any meat.”
That they need to create a frankenfood imposter should tell them that they are missing the obvious.
They can pay $16-20 and get a bunch of disgusting ingredients, or pay $3-5 and get the real thing.
97% of humans are omnivores...the other 3% are liars.
See. Even vegans when given a choice admit they love meat. They love it so much they try to make non meat taste like meat.
Am i happy animals have to die so I can eat meat? I would very much rather they did not have to. Am i grateful I do not have to kill animals in order to eat meat dishes? I thank,God dvery day I don’t have to. I do like buying meat from farms that take good care of their animals.
But I am goinv to eat meat. Those animals will, just like,everything else that has ever lived, will come back again. Their lives mean something, God doesnt create life so it can have a crappy life and die and thats it. That is not how God works. Nothing God made was made to die, man screwed that up. Before the screwup everything was alive and there was no death and it was very good.
We get it all back. Things get RESTORED. RENEWED. AND THIS TIME NOTHING CAN EVER DIE AGAIN. Thank God.
It’d be hilarious if these restaurants were serving normal beef to these hippie homos and just telling them it’s not real. Honestly, if I had a restaurant I’d do that to just about anyone with some fake “allergy” to gluten or nuts.
Agree...Soylent Green
"Keep the change."
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