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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DOW chemical had them years ago
The saving grace is that this costs more than meat otherwise this too would be added as commercial grade filler in “meat” products.
I flirted with vegetarianism a while ago. I don't mind a meatless day every once in a while. I might give it a whirl.
I’ve eaten rabbit many times.
Parents used to raise them.
It used to be available in our local grocery store’s frozen section.
I guess PETA got to them, cause it’s no longer there................
Not here!........
I’ll swap one of my In-n-Out burgers up here for a Rubios...
Still don’t get it why nobody in this state can figure out a fish taco.
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