Aw, but it's only available in St. Louis MO right now. Even though it's made in Oakland CA.
Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods
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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.
No. That's an extrapolation protein blocking calcium absorption. But unless you eat fake American dairy products like yogurt or "American cheese", there tends to be protein in that cheese.
Incidentally, oxalic acid found in spinach also blocks calcium. Also beans and such have similar effect.
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#413The 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…
You forget that in America, we'll just bail the farmers out and start shoveling subsidized overproduced meat everywhere we can.
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#414The 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 you really like cheeseburgers that much how about just eating fewer? :)
Does it have to be an all or nothing experience?
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#415White Castle has had Impossible Burgers available for about a year now. Just interesting to see the trend emerging from what I would consider the "bottom-most" market segment. I suppose they had the most to gain from drawing in a meat-averse audience. Whatever your feelings on this particular product, it seems that the perhaps-inevitable decline of the traditional meat industry is going to take place on many fronts (…
> Just interesting to see the trend emerging from what I would consider the "bottom-most" market segment.
Competition and innovation can be found wherever margins are thin.
Re: Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods
#416The 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…
Would you eat cloned-from-cells meat?
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Do Jews not eat beef? I thought it was mainly pork?
The prohibition is against meat and dairy simultaneously. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_and_meat_in_Jewish_law
And finding kosher beef. If you want a kosher burger, you usually need to buy the beef yourself and make your own burger.
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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
How could I better ask the question? I'm genuinely confused since they poster talks about not eating "meat" but eats fish, which culturally for me (Buddhist and Hindu) are non-veg
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Veg ns often fail to understand how important texture is to meat eaters when it comes to replicating a meat product so that it will appeal to meat eaters. Additionally, a lot of veg ns are also extremely health conscious, and so they tend to avoid a lot of unnecessary fat in their diet. A lot of chefs will say "fat is flavor," which is true, but what's also true is that fat conveys flavor. It sticks to surfaces in pl…
(off topic) Is there any reason you seem to have replaced the a in vegan with an asterisk? It happened twice so I am guessing it was not a typo? I am just curious? Is it like x86 or something?
* is the wild card character so veg*n "matches" both "vegan" and "vegetarian." It's a short-hand way to say "vegetarian and/or vegan."
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#420Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I've also heard the argument that it comes from an animal welfare perspective:
It seems a little ghoulish to eat a calf with its mother's milk.