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Impossible burger no longer selling to public. Available only at Burger King.
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I finally had one in the Bay Area last week. I'm not a huge Whopper fan to begin with (I think they're fine) but it was super impressive on a 'simulation of meat' level. I've had plenty of vegan substitute meals, and even though I love seitan wings with some good sauce, this is a whole other level.
The thing just tasted exactly like a whopper. Weird and cool.
The thing just tasted exactly like a whopper. Weird and cool.
Burger King's setup for this feels really unfriendly to vegans, at least Del Taco offers a vegan option for every Beyond item. The whopper needs to be made plain and with no bun for vegans, which is literally just the patty in a little salad dish with some lettuce thrown in.
btw they just signed a deal with a major food producer to make Impossible Burgers which will double the amount made daily and four times as many by the end of the year. Also just got FDA approval to sell them in grocery stores.
Hopefully increased scale will soon reduce prices. I'd love to jump on board but not at a premium price.
Hopefully increased scale will soon reduce prices. I'd love to jump on board but not at a premium price.
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I've been buying Beyond Burgers in stores for months. Two patties for $5 isn't atrocious compared to other pre-pattied burger prices.
Are vege patties going to be cheaper than actual meat someday? I'd thought the cost of raising a cow would be higher but I imagine we're paying for all the R&D?
Tried a Beyond Beef burger a few weeks ago and I was surprised at how good it was, the texture and flavor was pretty close to beef, but the smell was a little off. Really looking forward to trying Impossible 2.0 since the consensus seems to be that it's even better.
You'd be surprised how highly subsidised meat production is.
the meat lobbyists will probably get congress to change the name of the impossible burger to something like the impossible patty. just like in arkansas.
Whatever, they could call it Fart Mud and make the label a picture of vomit and I'd still buy it.
i think it impacted distribution for a short time, white castle def has the impossible slider back. i had two yesterday lol
They didn't buy exclusivity. It was a supply issue rather than a contractual one.
This and the Beyond Burger are legitimately very good. I still eat beef burgers sometimes, but the majority of my burger eating is now Beyond or Impossible. I've even seen burrito places using Beyond meat seasoned as a carne asada for their burrito filling, which was pretty good.
Their buns are vegan already. You can order without cheese.
There's a link I posted on the last page. Available nationwide next week.
Eventually, but vegan cheese is still a hurdle.
I mean... there's already lots of vegan ice cream and cheese. Non dairy ice cream is really good and I reckon most people wouldn't even realize it.
I think people want the taste and texture of cheese and the melting behavior, maybe the stringiness of mozz, and this isn't trivial to accomplish.
Yeah between Daiya and Follow Your Heart... it's been getting better
For what it's worth, by default, the Whopper is not served with cheese. Obviously that doesn't help individuals who want a cheese alternative on their Impossible Whopper but because of that I wonder how important BK views having vegan cheese available
This is a watershed moment for vegan meat substitutes. This kinda product was normally found in healthy grocers and fancy or trendy restaurants. Now it's in every Burger King. Imagine how many people are going to finally try this out and see how accessible meatless eating can be. It's great.
I had an impossible once at my company's cafeteria. It wasn't bad at all, at little disconcerting when I first ate it, and it had a slightly funky taste but it was edible. I ruined it with bacon and cheese (lol) but that wasn't the point either for me. I tried a beyond and immediately threw it out after one bite.
This. If they can scale up, not only will they remain dominant in the market, but they will spawn a whole industry to follow them.
Vegan cheese is great I have it exclusively and have for years
Well that's fucking lame, hope it gets sorted out eventually.
For me they tasted the same and the texture was the same, but the Beyond burger had a weird peanut-y aftertaste, the Impossible one didn't.
For me they tasted the same and the texture was the same, but the Beyond burger had a weird peanut-y aftertaste, the Impossible one didn't.
Some brands can taste ok, but they don't really taste like regular dairy cheese. There's a company out there that's producing whey proteins using the same types of genetically modified yeasts that Impossible uses to make their heme, so 'real' non-animal cheese is probably closer than we think.
I think the news warrants a new thread.
I'm really looking forward to finally trying it after liking the White Castle ones so much. I hope that it retains its unique flavor and doesn't sacrifice its flavor in the quest to be more meat-like.
Huh I'll have to try that out. There has been a lot of development in vegan cheeses over that last 15 years, particularly recently. I tend to treat it as a fun novelty at this point, but I'd love to have the "Impossible Burger" of vegan cheese. Though, I had a vegan grilled cheese last night that wasn't half bad so we're getting there.
Given that 'flexitarian' population worldwide is in hundreds of millions(and that's a direct target market for these products), widespread adoption is only a question of availability at this point.
The other thing is that these products will outperform cost of production for meat in the long run, so that's where it could start driving adoption with dedicated meat-eaters as well, simply for budgetary reasons.
This isn't accurate(old, so maybe outdated?). They still have impossible at Qdoba. I was just there yesterday and it was available.
I've heard Tyson is working on getting into this game. Beyond meat has the most to lose as impossible is a higher quality more niche product but still. Shows there's a lot of room for more players still.
Had an Impossible cheeseburger a couple of weeks ago at Gott's Roadside and it was delicious. Tasted like a real cheeseburger with no aftertaste that I could discern.
I had asked them about the shortage prior and they only told me that they used to get them in patties but now get it in like a tube so they have to cut and portion into patties. Gott's serves 2.0 but did originally carry 1.0.
I had asked them about the shortage prior and they only told me that they used to get them in patties but now get it in like a tube so they have to cut and portion into patties. Gott's serves 2.0 but did originally carry 1.0.
Ugh, when is this company going to go public?
I already regret not buying Beyond stock when it started (its like triple what it was when I first heard you could buy stock) and I found them to taste pretty much like ylur typical bean burger, not bad, just not a burger.
I already regret not buying Beyond stock when it started (its like triple what it was when I first heard you could buy stock) and I found them to taste pretty much like ylur typical bean burger, not bad, just not a burger.