and costs MORE than real meat... suckers
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.
This YouTube sums it up......If meat eaters acted like vegans.....it’s hilarious
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z0O_VYcsIk8
I agree!
It creates a monopoly because the government is picking up the tab.
Screw your kids AND us taxpayers....a 2 fer
All contribute to kidney stones in a big way!
The takeaway from this article is that it sucks to be Luke.
Good, but nothing replaces a salted 80/20 grind, with a flame sear, ketchup, dill pickle, white onion, real tomatoes, & yellow mustard on a nice hunk of toasted French bread. Thanks.....I m hungry now...
soooooooooo whaaaaaaaaat
yup
It’s not a hamburger.
and costs MORE than real meat... suckers
More Frankenfood. Just what the world needs
I’d say that as a rule of thumb it’s a good idea that when visiting SF, do not take your family to any place with the word “cock” in it.
Welp, that seals it. After ye shower, it’s off to the butcher shop [2 blocks] for buns and some freshly ground round, $4.50/lb. Then, it’s cheeseburger time! Haven’t done it for a while, yum! And, they raise the beeves on their family farm.
I had a delicious veggie burger in a vegetarian restaurant. Ground up beans, zucchini, carrots, etc.
What made it delicious was cashews.
I’ve had very good ones too, in restaurants; but haven’t found a really good recipe yet.
I thought we were warned about eating “Highly Processed” foods!
Anyway, this reminded me of a 60 year old science fiction short story about a vegetarian world where a local tin pot dictator wants MEAT so a scientist invents a vegetable that tastes like MEAT!
How did he do it? In the story, he was taking modified vegetables and injecting them with modified animal BLOOD In revenge which caused the people to quickly turn into vegetables.
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CockScums?
Only in Sam FranFrisco.
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“vegetarians craving the taste of meat. That should tell you something right there.”
I was thinking the same thing. Obviously, they are just too sissified to eat real meat.
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