[Food] The Plant based burger

[FatSuperman]

Pretty sure meat-eating has been the norm in just about every culture everywhere since about forever. Lab-grown algae? Not so much

Female genital mutilation is the norm in some cultures as well. Doesn’t mean we can’t question it.

 

[sydney]

Wasn’t the veggie burger just mushrooms? Which as far as I know are generally farmed?

i don't think mushrooms fart as much as cows.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Female genital mutilation is the norm in some cultures as well. Doesn’t mean we can’t question it.

Random giant leap of logic right there

 

[FatSuperman]

Honestly I was being slightly facetious, but from what I’ve read the latest “generation” of meat-free burgers have a lot more to them. You’ll find plenty of articles talking about the care and attention that’s gone into them, which can be quite impressive, until you realise it’s to imitate something that already exists plentifully.

It also fits into a particular narrative that’s sprung up around meat, which is very similar to the narrative that sprung up around tobacco, and as of a couple of years ago about alcohol, and seems to me designed to do nothing more than keep us fit for work for longer with a lower cost to our healthcare systems.

Personally I’m not quite ready to live a completely joyless existence, and while there are good intentions behind all this, I resent the way these notions are seeded in our media outlets, and then endlessly picked up and regurgitated.

Any prickliness detected on my part is not really about meat-free burgers, it’s about the way we’re all endlessly being psy-op’d, and even being psy-op’d with good intentions doesn’t (to my mind) make me like it.

What all this anti-meat nonsense actually tells you, is that somebody else is eating all the beef. I doubt very much that consumption has dropped in the homes of any of our political class.

Edit: I appreciate that this response may be WAY over the top considering your original question.

I don’t think meat-free alternatives are about shaming meat eaters. They aren’t for me anyway. I don’t care about anyone else’s diet, that is entirely their business.

But I did used to absolutely love a burger, and when plant based alternatives started to pop up it meant I could have dirty burgers again. The fact they are mostly absolute crap in taste, texture and price by comparison to real meat, well, that’s just an annoyance. And yea, I think they are over processed in the main and likely worse for your than beef.

I hope they figure out how to make lab grown protein for low cost. That will eventually put the nail in the coffin for the meat industry.

Would you eat lab grown beef? Chemically identical to real beef, but grown in clean lab conditions, to the exact spec required?

 

[BN9 BHA]

As has already historically mentioned by one or two of the more pompous posters on here ( Not @Herr Tubthumper ) my palate isn’t upto much but I came across this particular plant based burger patty in Cote and loved it so much trod uncharted territory into Waitrose to buy some, I really enjoyed it
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I don’t eat meat but tried a Moving Mountains burger in a pub as I didn’t fancy the other veggie/ vegan option, I would recommend this burger to anyone. Quite pleased I’ve found it on the menu of a few other pubs.

 

[HHGull]

I don’t eat meat but tried a Moving Mountains burger in a pub as I didn’t fancy the other veggie/ vegan option, I would recommend this burger to anyone. Quite pleased I’ve found it on the menu of a few other pubs.

Indeed. And the hotdog is decent too.

 

[FatSuperman]

Random giant leap of logic right there

Yeah I was being overly facetious for sure. Trying to drive home the point that just because something has recently been the norm, means nothing.

You must know that meat eating was not that common for most people, and indeed in many places it still is not.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Indeed. And the hotdog is decent too.

I will look out for the hotdog, I’ve only had the burger.

 

[Crispy Ambulance]

I eat veggie and vegan food. Not usually keen on burgers made to be 'meaty' but understand why they do them.

Dont like mushrooms though. Cant palate whole ones, will suffer (if i have to) finely chopped up ones. The vegan broccoli, cauli and cheese pie yesterday turned out to be......spinach, mushroom and cheese! Ive suffered it twice before (Brentford and spurs) so declined to take it back and get something else, and eat what i could. Now 3 out of 3!!

Please understand how I am suffering your your (okay and my) happiness

I absolutely love mushrooms but that’s probably cos I’m a real funghi!

 

[A1X]

i don't think mushrooms fart as much as cows.

Also not grown in labs

 

[Hovegull]

It was £8? (Well that’s what they advertised and charged me anyway)

 

[Bakero]

I absolutely love mushrooms but that’s probably cos I’m a real funghi!

I thought our fans were calling one the Palace defenders a mushroom yesterday but turns the chant was "You're just a shit Ake."

 

[HHGull]

It was £8? (Well that’s what they advertised and charged me anyway)

Haha - ok. Maybe just. £15 in 1901!

 

[studio150]

Pretty sure meat-eating has been the norm in just about every culture everywhere since about forever. Lab-grown algae? Not so much

Just wait for lab grown meat

 

[Johnny Robinson]

Pretty sure meat-eating has been the norm in just about every culture everywhere since about forever. Lab-grown algae? Not so much

Assuming that we’re not including seafood in this, it’s not eaten in many places including parts of Japan that have the longest life expectancy in the world.

 

[BLOCK F]

Each to their own, that is all.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Assuming that we’re not including seafood in this, it’s not eaten in many places including parts of Japan that have the longest life expectancy in the world.

Depends if you include seafood as plant-based or not

* edit* it really isn't

 

[Eeyore]

I don't eat meat based burgers. Mainly cos I love the veggie ones. Mushroom burgers are my favourite.

 

[Easy 10]

I went to get a KitKat before the game. They only had VEGAN KitKats. I actually thought they were joking - they weren't. There it was, resplendent in its green wrapper.

What have we become.

 

[HHGull]

I went to get a KitKat before the game. They only had VEGAN KitKats. I actually thought they were joking - they weren't. There it was, resplendent in its green wrapper.

What have we become.

Did you take the plunge?