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Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods
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Re: Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods
#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm curious, what would you consider an appropriate food? I personally look for high fat/protein when picking my food, and the there isn't much reason to believe salt is bad for you.
My diet is specifically about reducing inflammation. Low sugar, low salt, mostly plant based. There is much reason to believe salt is bad for you.
How do you know if you have "inflammation" or not?
Re: Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods
#183Re: Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods
#184The Impossible Burger is the best veggie burger I've ever had. I was a vegetarian for 10 years, and have now been a pescatarian for 8 years. It has been 18 years since I have had a proper cheeseburger, and since then I have had many thousands of veggie burgers. Cheeseburgers are probably my favorite food, and I haven't had one in 18 years. If someone told me that the world would end tomorrow, I would go out and eat a…
Why don't you think that fish is meat?
Re: Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods
#185This is great. The more places people can choose not to eat meat, the better. Personally I don’t foresee this demographic trying anything new, but for those who never eat meat or fast food and suddenly find ourselves in a pitstop somewhere, it’s great to know that we’d have something to eat that isn’t baby carrots and hummus.
Re: Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods
#186The Impossible Burger is the best veggie burger I've ever had. I was a vegetarian for 10 years, and have now been a pescatarian for 8 years. It has been 18 years since I have had a proper cheeseburger, and since then I have had many thousands of veggie burgers. Cheeseburgers are probably my favorite food, and I haven't had one in 18 years. If someone told me that the world would end tomorrow, I would go out and eat a…
Why don't you think that fish is meat?
It is, if you define it that way. If my text bothers you because I did not consider fish to be meat, then just replace "meat" with "beef."
Re: Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods
#187The most interesting thing about this particular announcement is that it may normalize plant-derived meat-substitutes among the typical fast-food-burger eating population, and not just the mostly-vegetarian folks (like myself) who will spend $10 on an Impossible Burger at a fancy sports bar.
Within a decade this might just be normalized, and nobody will make much of it.
Re: Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods
#188The Impossible Burger is the best veggie burger I've ever had. I was a vegetarian for 10 years, and have now been a pescatarian for 8 years. It has been 18 years since I have had a proper cheeseburger, and since then I have had many thousands of veggie burgers. Cheeseburgers are probably my favorite food, and I haven't had one in 18 years. If someone told me that the world would end tomorrow, I would go out and eat a…
Why don't you think that fish is meat?
I feel there's a different way to ask this question and potentially get a better answer.
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#189The real change is going to happen when people can't tell a difference in taste and Walmart starts selling synthetic meat at a substantial discount to meat. At that point the consumer won't care just like the consumer doesn't care if their strawberry flavored cereal has real strawberries in it.
Strawberry flavoured cereal and synthetic meats are miles apart - if we're talking lab grown meat that's amazing - it's tender meat that has no ethical issues. If you're talking the impossible burger, that's a burger that again has no ethical issues and a minor compromise in taste. Nutritionally it's basically equivalent to a normal burger. Strawberry flavoured cereal is nothing like a strawberry, and can't possibly…
The HN crowd is not the typical consumer that shops at Walmart. The typical consumer buys things that they can afford and makes compromises on flavor.
The ethical part won't effect demand just like it hasn't effected demand in the past. The price and taste will help consumers afford more meat. And I'm sure that they would agree that is a noble thing.
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#190I am in a pizzeria right now and reading this. Looking at the pizza being prepared and thinking... Can we already have ham-like meat, like those slices they put on pizzas ? Or is it only beef-like meat for now?
The technology is more or less there. But it would require a significant amount of actual product development. The technology is capable of producing pretty much every meat, even new kinds of meat that smell like meat but where evolution did not conveniently evolve an animal to produce it.
For the company the issue is scale, and since the beef market is huge and profitable they are focusing on scale, more then on introducing other products.