@StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works
Post #1819129
2026-04-30 20:14 UTC
Replies (8)
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@TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 2026-04-30 20:16
Totally. I’m hoping they can get it real close and less expense. Then start the swap out
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@SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2026-04-30 20:20
The greatly increased sodium content is a concern for my household, though.
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@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2026-04-30 20:28
Like so much else, it seems to be a useful innovation predicated on a certain degree of professionalized cultivation and expert engineering. I predict I’m going to enjoy the loss-leading rollout and hate the post-market-saturation enshittification.
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@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2026-04-30 20:36
Impossible, at least to me, is functionally indistinguishable from a ground beef patty. Back when I was vegetarian and before I was vegan, I went to Burger King on lunch to try the Impossible Whopper. I wasn’t fond of Burger King, but I was mostly curious enough to see what an Impossible Burger tasted like having had Beyond at home once (where Beyond is pretty easily distinguished from ground beef by its flavor). Walked in, walked out, took a bite in my car. Straight-up almost went back in and asked for a new one before realizing it wouldn’t do any ethical good and that I didn’t have the time. This was even after seeing that it was in the Impossible-branded wrapper. I decided to go there another time to “try the real one”, and it was the same. I was dumbfounded; it was straight-up just a Whopper – having admittedly not haven a BK burger in a few years at that point.
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@cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-30 21:04
Same. I tried a Burger King when they had a deal where you could get the regular Whopper and the Beyond (or whatever brand it was, of plant-based meat) Whopper for the price of one, so I figured, taste test. The regular Whopper is your typical trashy fast food burger that is on the better side of decent, without being good. The mayonnaise and ketchup are a bit strong, but between the lettuce, tomato, onion, and pickles, it’s a well balanced sandwich. I’d like the burger to be thicker, but this is what’s keeping it from being a good burger. So then the Beyond one. It tastes burnt, like the most important flavour to emulate was the “char-broiled” feature. Beyond the burnt flavour, it just tastes… bland. They could have seasoned it better, maybe. I want to believe in plant-based. Not because I want to be a vegan. But because IDGAF about whether it’s animal-based or plant-based. I don’t think most people should. I have a unique condition (bariatric surgery) where I actually need animal protein. So vegan stuff can’t be my main thing, but I can have some of it. But for people who don’t actually need animal protein? I wanna see that stuff succeed so much.
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@Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2026-04-30 21:54
I don’t really see the point in them though. Why would I buy plant meat to make a not chicken wrap when I could just make a mixed bean wrap.
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@Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-01 16:54
When burger king launched their plant based whopper, it was legitimately better tasting than their normal beef whopper.
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@TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 2026-05-01 20:09
Yep 1) tell me it’s not meat clearly 2) make it taste pretty good If you do the above 2 things and its 29% cheaper than mince, you best believe I’ll be eyeing up the plant stuff