I haven't tried it. It is really that good? Haven't been to a BK in a while. Didn't even know about this? It is a whooper? What is the name of it??
BK Impossible Whopper....
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I think "Whooper" is something else.
Bear in mind that I'm not crazy fond of BK Whoppers in the first place. They're serviceable. With that caveat, the "Impossible Whopper" pretty much tastes just like one, with the exception of being a little on the dry side. If you like Whoppers, you will probably like that, too. It's not healthier for you, but it is better for the planet.
And that's a whole ball game in itself. My late father was an avid gardener who got it from his mother, and they had all sorts of tricks that people today would call "organic." For example, don't put pesticides on your garden plants to eliminate the bugs... use Martha White self-rising flour instead. The bugs will eat it and burst.
Tim Hortons announced the other day that their Beyond Meat offerings, which launched with much fanfare at the beginning of summer, will be discontinued in their restaurants outside of Ontario and BC.
And all the dinosaurs died to help make the petrochemical fertilizers. Byproducts and all that are inevitable.
More importantly, one needn't bullets when there's plenty of venison attracting flies on the side of the road. If the car didn't drive off, there'd be a lot of beer and cheap liquor too. And maybe my ex puking but by now that liver is probably fried like the Morning Star Chik'n patty I cooked up tonight (yum!)...
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I am a vegetarian for health reasons and Beyond Burgers and Impossible Burgers are pretty damn good.
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If you’re eating at BK, you’re not following a strict vegan diet.
I ate one and I couldn't tell the difference at all.
Of course 90% of the taste of a Whopper is the seasonings and toppings and such.
I would like to try a less adulterated version of the product sometime, so I can just taste the "meat".
I am curious about the Beyond Meat product as well, but I like how the Impossible Meat has that "heme" stuff, so I have a feeling that I am going to prefer it to the non-heme Beyond product.
Of course 90% of the taste of a Whopper is the seasonings and toppings and such.
I would like to try a less adulterated version of the product sometime, so I can just taste the "meat".
I am curious about the Beyond Meat product as well, but I like how the Impossible Meat has that "heme" stuff, so I have a feeling that I am going to prefer it to the non-heme Beyond product.
Oh, and I red somewhere that since they are always tweeking the Impossible burger (like it used to be made with wheat gluten, but isn't now)...they are planning to add a plant derived fat to the mix, so that should make it "juicier" and have more of a burger mouth feel.
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Without the add-ons (yes, I did this), the patty tastes pretty good, but without anything boosting it, you can tell it's not beef. It still tastes good, but there is a difference in taste and texture.
Yeah, I broke off a piece of the patty first, and was really shocked. I almost took it back because I thought they gave me the real thing! But that flame-grilling and the seasoning they use might have helped fool me, so when it comes out in stores, I want to cook a patty myself with just maybe a bit of salt to see how it tastes.
But so far I am very impressed.
I am an omnivore, and I like meat and veg, and I often eat thing like tofu and seitan and such - but I like them because they don't try to pretend to be meat. In the past fake meats have tasted...obviously fake. So I figure I'll just eat real meat, if I want that flavor. But now with the new Impossible and Beyond fake meat...I honestly can't tell the difference. And if it helps the planet and means killing less animals, I'm all for it.
Now bring on the lab-grown tissue culture meat!
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I'm somewhat excited to see what they come up with next. I eat meat, but I don't want to eat meat. I was vegetarian, apparently futzed up a few things, and I had to start eating it again. My goal is to spend the rest of the year planning everything out, and trying again. Options like the Impossible burger will make it easier, since sometimes we have to eat fast food, and I'm usually stuck with a side salad and french fries. BK and White Castle give me real options in those cases, and anything that makes it easier for me to stick to a veggie diet is great.
Yeah, I am the same way. I eat meat. And I actually *enjoy* meat. I crave it. But I also love animals, and I could never kill one myself (yes, I am a hypocrite) and I hate the mistreatment of them. So this is causing a lot of conflicting feelings in me. A lot of cognitive dissonance.
So if I could still eat meat but not hurt animals, I would sign right up! I am all gung-ho for tissue culture meat.
I read a lot of scifi, and in some of John Varley's short stories they have meat plants...genetically engineered plants that can grow various types of meat (and eggs...eggplants grow real eggs)...and in a couple of Stephen Baxter stores, there are "cow trees", and they have blood for sap but also make milk, and they grow meat and cheese in bulbs you can pick off without hurting the tree. And the bark can be peeled off to become leather (it grows back.) So maybe that's in our future someday, when people get over their squeamishness over GMO foods...
