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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

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Post by TOGoS »

henrikschroder wrote: post #370
danans wrote: post #187

The 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.

No, the implications are even bigger than that, because the normalization and adoption will drive costs down. And when meat-substitute burgers are cheaper than meat burgers, and taste as good, they will become the default, and that is going to make a huge dent in the animal industry, which is all sorts of awesome, because the animal industry is all sorts of terrible. Right now, I'm seeing Beyond and Impossible substi…

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Re: Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods

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Post by hanniabu »

dang wrote: post #329
spraak wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why don't you think that fish is meat?

" Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. " " Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Why was this posted? I don't think there's anything wrong with this question.

Re: Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods

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Post by LifeofPi314 »

bitesociety wrote: post #58

I'm an angel investor in both plant based meat and clean meat and I'm actually more optimistic for plant based meat becoming better than animal meat in the short term. The rate of innovation has been really impressive and momentum is picking up steam.. once prices get under animal meat huge amounts of people will switch

What is the addressable market, and possible valuation you believe that Impossible would achieve? and when?

Re: Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods

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Post by hanniabu »

treve wrote: post #188
spraak wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don't think there's anything wrong with this question. What's a better way to ask?

Re: Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods

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Post by veryworried »

Wistar wrote: post #383
vanattab wrote: post #377

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do Jews not eat beef? I thought it was mainly pork?

They do not eat beef and dairy together. At least she does not. It doesn't matter if the dairy is kosher or not, the two are not mixed.

This religious rule comes from a well known scientific observation: meat blocks calcium absorption.

Re: Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods

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Post by jtmcmc »

joshgachnang wrote: post #146
udkl wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, are you really complaining about nutrition at a fast food restaurant ?

Sometimes, you need something fast, cheap, and easy, so it's nice to have some fast food items in mind that have reasonable calories and macros. A great example is when I'm driving long distance, I'll swing by CFA if possible.

of course then you have the ethical implications of chick-fil-a

Re: Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods

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Post by plemer »

nightski wrote: post #328
flowardnut wrote: post #254

I've had an impossible burger, and cooked very well it almost made me pull my waiter aside and verify I wasn't eating meat. Also ate meat for decades, so I also am very familiar with it.

Weird, I tried it and wanted to like it simply because it was higher in fat and lower carb than your traditional veggie burger - but it was very obvious I was eating fake meat. It was ok, I'd eat it again. But I would not replace real beef with it any time soon. But I am keto. So I am not eating it with a bun and tons of sugary sauces to cover up the meat flavor. You can really tell the quality of a burger (meat or n…

Similar experience: I wanted to like it, but found that, at best, it tasted like meat I wouldn't eat again.

Nevertheless, for the sake of the environment and industrially farmed animals, it's good to see meat substitutes progressing into the mainstream.

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Post by Simon_says »

scott_s wrote: post #174

The 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…

If it's been 18 years since you had a burger, I'm not sure you're the expert on what's closest to meat.

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Post by Wistar »

scott_s wrote: post #174

The 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…

Addon: This youtube video posted by Burger King of "expletive-filled double-takes from actual diners informed that the Whoppers they just ate were made of plants..."

https://youtu.be/N9FED3jkNTo

... was linked from this Politico piece: "Inside the Race to Build the Burger of the Future."

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/04/01/meat-poli...

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Post by adrianmonk »

spraak wrote: post #184
scott_s wrote: post #174

The 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?

You're getting downvoted, but I don't think everyone realizes this can be a genuine point of confusion.

"Meat", like many words, has multiple senses. One of them is the flesh of any animal. Another is the flesh of a mammal, which would exclude fish (and probably poultry).

The second definition isn't used as often, but you will find it many dictionaries, and some people do use the word in that way and treat meat / poultry / fish as disjoint sets. For example, the classic book "Joy of Cooking" has chapters titled "Shellfish", "Fish", "Poultry and Wildfowl", "Meat" (pork, beef, lamb), and "Game". (Actually, I guess "Joy of Cooking" is being even more specific and taking "meat" to mean domesticated mammal flesh, because there are some mammals in the "Game" chapter.)

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