Posted on 08/01/2019 12:08:10 PM PDT by Red Badger
New York (CNN Business)Burger King will start selling its meatless Whopper across the United States on August 8, the biggest rollout for Impossible's plant-based product. The burger chain has been selling the Impossible Whopper, featuring a meatless patty made by Impossible Foods, in a few markets in the United States since April. It first tested the product in St. Louis before announcing in May that it would offer the Impossible Whopper nationally this year. Interest in plant-based protein has surged as many people try to reduce their meat intake for health or environmental reasons. US retail sales of plant-based foods have grown 11% in the past year, according to a July report from trade group Plant Based Foods Association and the Good Food Institute, a nonprofit that supports plant-based businesses. The Impossible Whopper has been performing well, Chris Finazzo, Burger King's president for the Americas, told CNN Business.
"It's driven new guests into the restaurant," he said, noting that most of those customers either haven't been to a Burger King in a long time or haven't visited one at all. "We're really excited to be able to attract that customer."
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STEM-friendly!
I stopped patronizing Burger King five years ago, when it came out with the Homo Whopper or whatever they called it.
24 years in corrections, know it well. And it’s a management tool, not punishment. Coupla’ days of that and they’re straightening up and flying right.
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They are also located up north-but all of those package-deal meat supply places are expensive-I’m fortunate enough to live in BFE where meat and produce is local, but there might be a small town with a locker plant/butcher shop near you...
I’ve been eating “real” organic produce all my life-and I wouldn’t buy a veggie at a big chain grocery organic or otherwise unless I was starving-most of their organic stuff is from Cali and Mexico anyway, so who knows where it really comes from-most of us out here grow as much of our own stuff as we can, and barter or sell the overage-and the veggies in the local grocery store are nearly all Texas grown and not bombarded with pesticides, GMOs etc.
I like Michael Pollan's food rules: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
(And by "food" he means real food, not processed crap from factories.)
So, is Whataburger going to install new grills for this so the patties and buns aren’t contaminated with meat juices from the regular grills? New spatulas, too.
Burger King.............
Or soylent brown. Last time I went to Whataburger, the burger flipper had the spatula down the backside of his pants scratching his butt.
If they so all that to avoid offending the vegans by contaminating the soy with the evil meat, it is going to involve even more trouble than preparing Kosher or Halal food-veganism is a new religion...
It wasn’t at a Burger King...
All the same. Burger King has that super creepy King with the big plastic freaky head. The butt scratcher is probably working there now. No thanks to them all.
Fudruckers and Red Robin are missing from your list.
That was extremely thoughtful of him to not use his hands.
Hmm... August 8. I’ll have to make a note to go to Kincaid’s that evening.
And get a real burger.
:)
“Just don’t fiddle with the White Castle midnight special!”
When I drive through central NJ, I always check to see if there is a White Castle on the route.
Not a fast food place, but I really like Shoney’s Big Boy burgers. Red Robin isn’t bad either.
Even tho I eat meat, it’s the “heme” thing that freaks me out.
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