Posted on 08/27/2019 6:54:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It was one thing when Impossible Burgers started popping up at places like Burger King and White Castle. To me, all of their burgers are impossible because I won't set foot in those places. But now the fake-meat vegan freaks are messing with a piece of genuine Americana. Now they're using Colonel Sanders to push their synthetic slop.
Yum Brands Inc said on Monday it will be testing Beyond Meat Inc’s plant-based chicken nuggets and boneless wings at an Atlanta KFC restaurant, the latest fast-food chain trying new options to attract vegan diners...
Plant-based meat alternatives have seen booming interest from consumers and restaurants, supporting startups like Beyond Meat and its competitor Impossible Foods...
KFC, known for its fried chicken, will be serving the six or 12-piece combo plant-based nugget meals for $6.49 and $8.49 and boneless wings for $6 and $12.
So it won't taste as good, but at least it'll be more expensive. And it'll give you a sense of unearned superiority, just like every other "green" boondoggle.
I'm with the incomparable Joe Bob Briggs on this one. If vegans don't want to eat meat, then why do they want to eat stuff that kinda looks like, and sorta tastes like, meat? As Joe Bob puts it: "I've decided to chew leaves the rest of my life, but I want all the leaves to look like hot dogs."
There's plenty of stuff you can eat that isn't meat and doesn't look like meat and doesn't taste like meat. Just eat that instead. Why gross out the rest of us with these lab-grown pseudo-meats and Franken-furters?
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If it costs them less they’ll try to sell it
I am beginning to realize that there are two types of vegans/vegetarians:
1. The ones that go about their business eating a variety of plants, nuts and berries. I know several. Some of these are the most fun for me to host because they appreciate a well-made dish and it’s more challenging because I can’t rely on butter, eggs and roasting a fish/piece of meat.
2. The ones who need to be morally superior about SOMETHING and food is their instrument of superiority.
In my social media circles yesterday the only ones who like this development are moms with a teenage girl who has chosen to stop eating meat. When they are out and about there aren’t many fast food choices for that kid. Of course they could be like my mom who required a picking eating sibling to carry a peanut butter sandwich at all times in case there wasn’t anything he could eat.
HA...we have a “vegan” in the family...she’s about 5’ 6” and weighs about 250
I was visiting my son and his wife and kids a week ago, and they got three “impossible burger” Whoppers and fries from Burger King and brought them home for us adults to try. Kids got (real) chicken nuggets. My daughter-in-law is a long term vegetarian (not so much for health reasons as moral ones - she wants to minimize her involvement in animals suffering.
Anyway, to say I was impressed by the “Impossible Burger” was an understatement. It tasted exactly like a “real” burger. In fact it was so good I concluded it could not be fake meat. It had the flavor right, but also the texture and slight resistance to chewing you get with real meat. I looked at the half-eaten sandwich and it was darker near the edges but still a little pink in the middle, just like real meat would be.
I had read somewhere that some Burger Kings have a policy where they will substitute a real Whopper if they run out of the “impossible” ones. I think that is what happened to us, but I didn’t say anything to the DIL. She loved the sandwich.
How long before there are plant liberation freaks? instead of “meat is murder” it’ll be “vegetables = violence” and they demand we eat crickets and slugs.
They are living things too. My suggestion is that they just kill themselves, now that will help.
This is a non issue until/unless they stop making Original Recipe, or alter the mashed potatoes with gravy...or cole slaw or biscuits.
How is it possible to care if they ALSO sell stupid sh!t.
No it never ends. If they really started killing themselves it would be our fault regardless.
Yeah, but at least they'd be dead.
“But standing on a pedestal proclaiming you don’t eat meat, while looking for something that very specifically tastes like meat? LOLOLOLOL! That’s a “Whatever” moment.”
Yep, And the whole concept about not eating meat is based on a morally repulsive idea in their minds. But they want to taste what it is like to be immoral by their own cultist standards? I don’t think so, the very idea is sacrilege to these extremists. This is all a scam to convert meat eaters, to turn natural predators into prey. There is a biological reason why our eyes are in the front of our heads and not on the sides.
“I had read somewhere that some Burger Kings have a policy where they will substitute a real Whopper if they run out of the “impossible” ones. I think that is what happened to us, but I didn’t say anything to the DIL. She loved the sandwich.”
And here lies the problem, this can just as well be done in reverse. Would they do this? If what you say is indeed true, then by their own admission they would. Trust is a huge issue with this concept.
Okay, if this food is vegan or vegetarian, why don’t they just make it look like regular food rather than make it look like something made from flesh?
Now one can eat a vegan hamburger that looks just like a hamburger. But it’s not a hamburger so why make it look like a hamburger?
This is stupid. Another thing I don’t like about these processed (and I mean heavily processed vegan products) is that they contain a lot of garlic powder, a lot of onion powder, a lot of other things to make it resemble the meat product that they are substituting. S o you get a lot of these processed spices that are very strong to make it taste like something akin to meat. A quick check of the sodium content and usually these products are very high in sodium. But since now that vegans or vegetarians are eating a faux meat product I guess they consider high amounts of sodium okay, even though it really is not.
Another reason to stop going to fast food places.
Because they want to replace the beef without you knowing it.
Oh no doubt but those who didn’t would lay a guilt trip on us for sure. Fortunately some of us have thick skins.
We are very remote and going to town for supplies every couple weeks turns into an absolute scramble for time. We just can’t afford the extra time to screw around for an hour/hour and a half in a restaurant. So the last couple trips we go to the deli in our grocery store before we do our shopping there rather than get fast food. Two birds with one stone, just as fast, and you KNOW what you are getting.
Yep, it’s a Trojan horse. “We gave you a friendly gift, ignore trust and logic and embrace it!”.
who the hell is buying this synthetic crap? the buns and breading themselves are bad enough nutritionally, but now the patty is made out of the same garbage as the buns, only with even more additives and chemicals as well?
whatever happened to pure, organic, natural, and unprocessed?
“Okay, if this food is vegan or vegetarian, why don’t they just make it look like regular food rather than make it look like something made from flesh?
Now one can eat a vegan hamburger that looks just like a hamburger. But it’s not a hamburger so why make it look like a hamburger?”
Same questions I have been asking. Look and “taste” like a hamburger, the vegan market is already covered well so why this? They want to sell us “knock offs” instead of the “real thing”. Easiest way? Make the knock offs indistinguishable from the genuine product.
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