just tried a "beyond burger" - inedible trash

Keep us informed on future meals.

gobble gobble wrote:

Keep us informed on future meals.

will do friend

I had the Burger King Impossible Whopper and it was all right.

* wrote:

I had the Burger King Impossible Whopper and it was all right.

Anything tastes like a whopper if you cover it in enough ketchup and mayonnaise.

I wouldn’t say it’s inedible, but it’s not great. I guess if you are a strict vegan it’s the closest thing you can get to a tasty burger. I’ll stick with the real thing.

I'm with you OP. I grilled some last summer and I kept burping up the nasty flavor for hours afterwards.

Now I have tried an impossible whopper and it was pretty good.

hombre3000 wrote:

what's with all these reviews saying it tastes just like meat, it's delicious, etc?

the first bite overwhelms you with a processed oil taste, likely from the coconut oil and all the processed chemicals. as I kept eating it the processed oil taste diminished a little bit but 1 hour after my meal I can still taste that waxy, synthetic oil in my mouth. disgusting.

beyond burger-tards. explain yourselves.

LOL. Dude, I got the worst stomach ache after I ate one of those. I was one and done. Never again!!!

Why eat vegetables pressed into a form that attempts to mimic a beef burger ? Why a beef burger substitute ?

Eat vegetables without pretending they are a different type of food !

Haha. I've had the beyond burgers and links and they are atrocious. I guess you could pass them off as meat to a vegetarian but any meat eater will know the difference. Also terrible for you, way worse than the real thing.

They’re good IMO, but I am a vegan and haven’t eaten animal flesh in years. We cook them up occasionally (3-4 times a year) and I have found that they’re better on the grill than skillet. Had one on Easter with standard fix-ins plus jalapeños and it was really good.

From what I remember about the taste of a cow flesh burger though, products like a beyond or impossible burger should be close enough to animal flesh taste to serve as “transition” foods for people who are cutting meat down or out of their diet. Carnivores and those who go in with a closed mind will find these meat substitutes unsuitable, but the bulk of meat eaters that I’ve talked to about these products think they’re good.

I cut out the meat completely in 2017 when I could no longer deny the land environmental damage caused by animal agriculture. Only later did I develop the compassion for the billions of slaughtered animals I have today. I burger that tastes a little different is asking nothing of us and can make a difference if it leads the masses to stop consuming such an unsustainable amount of animal flesh.

Primo Numero Uno wrote:

Haha. I've had the beyond burgers and links and they are atrocious. I guess you could pass them off as meat to a vegetarian but any meat eater will know the difference. Also terrible for you, way worse than the real thing.

The point isn’t to trick anyone. The point is to serve as a transition food off meat.

Also, what part of it is worse for you? Substitutes dont have antibiotic injected into them, dont pose salmonella / e.Coli etc risk, and have no saturated fat...what gives?

Full of toxic oils, and arguably worse chemicals than the Covid vaccines. No thanks.

I'll continue chowing on the pasture-raised cow.

Nothing beats the delicious smell of grilled animal flesh on a warm summer evening as I exert my human dominium over the land and beats without any woke guilt.

Doesn't Beyond roll anti-GMO BS into their marketing?

I think Impossible Foods embraces genetic engineering. If I'm eating artificial meat they'd better be tinkering with as many genes as possible to make it taste like the real thing.

burger moran wrote:

Primo Numero Uno wrote:

Haha. I've had the beyond burgers and links and they are atrocious. I guess you could pass them off as meat to a vegetarian but any meat eater will know the difference. Also terrible for you, way worse than the real thing.

The point isn’t to trick anyone. The point is to serve as a transition food off meat.

Also, what part of it is worse for you? Substitutes dont have antibiotic injected into them, dont pose salmonella / e.Coli etc risk, and have no saturated fat...what gives?

!) cows are not bought to slaughter if treated with antibiotics until quarantined and healthy first. 2) vegetables and fruit are far higher risk in salmonella and e coli. 3) saturated fat is healthy and the most heat-stable fat. 4) Fake meats are reliant on GMO Monsanto-backed glyphosphate poisons to bring market profits while poisoning millions, not to mention fetal cow tissue to make fake blood broth.

Go back to your fake meat/fake reality eating processed chemical garbage too get "healthy". The biggest fake-out of all.

1) cool story, but the fact that the antibiotic levels in meat are constantly found to be through unsafe. If you look around a bit, there are countless examples of similar findings to the article below.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5745477/

Hopefully NIH isn’t fake news by your standards but if it is, then there are countless other sources with same findings from different studies.

2. Animal poop is what causes those. Only time fruits and veg would ever be at risk is when farmers are upcycling waste water to water crops. Hence why washing produce properly is all you need to do to protect against these viruses vs meat, which requires you to literally cook the crap out of it. Yum

3. I actually meant cholesterol, but spaced and typed saturated fat. A few plants actually have a lot of this and it IS used in the beyond burger, so you should like that. Cholesterol doesn’t have many proponents but interested to see you make a case for why high cholesterol is a good thing.

4. Beyond meat is non-gmo. Nice try. At least we agree that glyphosate is poison.

Again, I said I eat “fake meat” 3-4 times a year. The other 99% of the time I’m eating whole unprocessed plant foods. And until I really read the literature, I was downing brisket and ribs on the regular. I didn’t want to stop eating those things, but the reality of the benefits of making small dietary changes couldn’t be ignored once I had learned the truth behind all of the animal based food I had been eating for so long. Please don’t turn this into some Left Right culture war argument. We all have to eat and are all stuck on the same planet

1) "This research finding is reporting for the first time to the best of our knowledge the presence of antibiotic residues in raw meat samples (especially pork meat) sold at Mafikeng shops and butcheries." Hey thanks! Next time I am in Mafikeng, SOUTH AFRICA, I'll be aware there might some long-term risk, lol.

Meanwhile, in the U.S., the use of antibiotics are heavily restricted:

2) Human poop is the most dangerous with regard to strains of bacteria causing human disease, and exposure is from the poor sanitation conditions of plant agriculture using migrant workers, as well as the use of manure in organic fertilizers.

Beef accounts for 8% of food borne illness and 10% of deaths, which of course is preventable by proper handling and cooking.

Produce on the other hand is often eaten raw and unless you are soaking overnight in bleach or peroxide solution, you are at much greater risk. Food recalls for packaged greens are extremely common, much more so than animal products.

3) Serum Cholesterol is the poorest indicator of disease risk, despite decades of efforts by Pharma to demonize it (triglycerides resulting from high carbohydrate consumption are much more predictive). The bun your are eating is more contributory to CHD risk than the patty contained within.

4) Impossible Burger is GMO and all fake meats are processed CRAP, loaded with oxalates and other toxins.

5) Veganism is the most destructive diet patterns for the environment, animals and human health, absolutely unsustainable and a fad that emerged with social media in the early 2000's. Plant ag produces twice the emissions of animal ag, as well as the massive use of petroleum, pesticides and synthetic fertilizers. If you truly care about all of the above, consume regeneratively-raised beef which has a net negative carbon footprint.

And "eating organic" is useless for preventing pesticide exposure, as 99.99% of pesticides are naturally occurring in plants:

OP here - this morning was the gassiest morning of my life.

I've farted at least 50 times.

NEVER AGAIN

I've tried a few beyond meet burgers. They really try to capture the greasy/savory aspect that most people love in burgers, but it's just not good IMO. If someone can make a meat substitute that's actually as good as meat then I'm all for it but beyond meat just ain't it. Seems like it's just a fad that has already started to blow over