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  • BehindBlueI's

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    Tho OP has an interesting question, one I have also had and looked into some. As usual I do not see one clear cut answer, but rather a combination of answers seem to be the answer. I couldn’t care less what others eat.

    The three answers I found believable are profit, vegan market to fill, and global control.

    The one that interested me most was global control. After years of demonizing meat consumption in their meetings of the elites, they now have an option to push on the corporate food industry. It struck me as odd that virtually all the fast food simultaneously offered this. No competitor seemed to be out front, it just happened overnight and the commercials were everywhere. That is not normal. Normal is competitor A offers a better mousetrap and competitor B steps up to beat that.

    Burger King launched it chain-wide about 2.5 years ago...and are partners with the company that produces it.

    What other fast food companies are offering the impossible burger? How, exactly, do you arrive at they are all suddenly doing it?

    Fast food has experimented with veggie versions before. Do you remember McD's trying it in the 90s/00's with black beans? I do.
     

    BehindBlueI's

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    I stand corrected. I suppose the companies are counting on plant based products coming down in price as popularity increases. I tried one of the Impossible Burgers from Burger King. It was ok, but if memory serves me correctly, it wasn't any "healthier" than the beef variety.

    I've never tried one. IIRC, the calories are roughly the same but cholesterol is lower and saturated fat was about the same. Sodium was maybe higher?
     

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    I'm kinda glad I don't know any of you in the real world. I can't imagine I'd enjoy lunch with anyone who wants to argue over the "honesty" of a ****ing cheeseburger, plant based or otherwise.

    Woman: "Hey, babe, you want a BJ?"
    INGO: "Actually, there is no blowing involved."

    :):
     

    Lpherr

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    I'm kinda glad I don't know any of you in the real world. I can't imagine I'd enjoy lunch with anyone who wants to argue over the "honesty" of a ****ing cheeseburger, plant based or otherwise.

    Woman: "Hey, babe, you want a BJ?"
    INGO: "Actually, there is no blowing involved."

    :):
    Then one of you aren't doing something right.
     

    J Galt

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    Yes, obviously deceptive marketing. Nobody would expect it's actually a plant based food based on that marketing.

    Yes, tribalism. Balkanization if you prefer. Nobody is making you eat it and linking it to trans/identity politics just shows that to be the case. Worried about what other people eat and then assigning them some value based on that is ridiculous no matter which way it's aimed, just another way to divide people.


    You take isolated examples and globalize all of the fake beef as non-deceptive. You ignore the examples that do not highlight the fact that it is made of "plants". That is excellent cherry picking.

    There was an analogy made with the trans examples, there is not a link between the two. It is a subtle, but important, distinction.

    Tribalization. Balkanization. Hatfields v. McCoys. The point is that none of the OP was designed for that. Nothing of the sort has been done by anyone else. I think your virtue signal is coming across loud and clear.
     

    J Galt

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    I'm kinda glad I don't know any of you in the real world. I can't imagine I'd enjoy lunch with anyone who wants to argue over the "honesty" of a ****ing cheeseburger, plant based or otherwise.

    Woman: "Hey, babe, you want a BJ?"
    INGO: "Actually, there is no blowing involved."

    :):


    You take isolated posts by multiple people and generalize that to be someone's defining characteristic and how they always are. Yes, that makes complete sense.

    Maybe this is just an exchange of ideas and thoughts. I know that sounds ludicrous for a forum post.
     

    edporch

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    Eat what you like, I just don't want to be preached to by anybody about the "evils" of my eating REAL beef.
    I also have no plans to ever eat "Impossible Burgers".

    Besides, in doing a quick search of the "Impossible Burger" I don't see how it's so greatly "healthy" compared to just eating REAL hamburger.
     
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    Eat what you like, I just don't want to be preached to by anybody about the "evils" of my eating REAL beef.
    I also have no plans to ever eat "Impossible Burgers".

    Besides, in doing a quick search of the "Impossible Burger" I don't see how it's so greatly "healthy" compared to just eating REAL hamburger.
    This conveniently leaves out the global pressure on meat. Does anyone believe $40 a pound prime steak is an accident since Bidet was elected?
     

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    Eat what you like, I just don't want to be preached to by anybody about the "evils" of my eating REAL beef.
    I also have no plans to ever eat "Impossible Burgers".

    Besides, in doing a quick search of the "Impossible Burger" I don't see how it's so greatly "healthy" compared to just eating REAL hamburger.
    In most cases, the manufactured foods that are supposed to be healthy, are worse than the food they are meant to replace, and have many adverse affects on the body.
    Eating natural food is the way it's meant to be. It may not be the healthiest, but it's the best option.
     

    J Galt

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    Eat what you like, I just don't want to be preached to by anybody about the "evils" of my eating REAL beef.
    I also have no plans to ever eat "Impossible Burgers".

    Besides, in doing a quick search of the "Impossible Burger" I don't see how it's so greatly "healthy" compared to just eating REAL hamburger.


    I get the feeling there won't be a definitive article on why it's "healthy", mostly because everyone is using the word without defining it. "Healthy" is a word that is commonly accepted as being desirable but no clear parameters.

    It's a lot like saying something is a "good" gun for someone. Maybe, it depends on the person and the intended use.

    • None of this is intended as any negative comment against you. I don't want anyone to jump to the conclusion that this post is "tribalizing" everyone. :D
     
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    Ingomike

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    Sometimes folks here just think too small. Back sometime ago I posted a video titled monopoly that detailed out how TPTB game the financial markets to get the results they desire. The profits are not just at the counter of the fast food restaurant. Fast food announces meatless burger and all the right financial investors pump up the company that coupled with the deliberate sabotage of the meat market will create profits.

    But you just keep telling yourself it is still 1970…
     

    eldirector

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    Wife and I had a related conversation just this morning. Well, without all the drama.

    Life is too short to eat crap. Rather than eat fake/lite/diet whatever, just eat a smaller portion of the real thing. She was needing something for a recipe, and was annoyed all she could find was "lite".

    Dietary restrictions I totally understand. Have friends with real gluten allergies, and lactose does a number on me.

    Now, if you actually LIKE this stuff, knock yourself out. Imma stick to actual beef, with gluten in the buns, and run it thru the garden.
     

    edporch

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    This conveniently leaves out the global pressure on meat. Does anyone believe $40 a pound prime steak is an accident since Bidet was elected?
    I'm aware that the hard left wants to bring down the beef industry to the point that average people can't afford to buy beef products.
    Though they want to keep it alive JUST enough so that the elite still have access to beef products.

    Even if they succeed in doing this, I won't be eating fake hamburgers or fake steaks.

    THIS is why the people of this country need to wake up, and stop these hard left kooks at the ballot box before they completely take over and make our country a big one party state with a socialist economy that totally owns and runs the means of production from Washington, DC.
     

    Timjoebillybob

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    I've never tried one. IIRC, the calories are roughly the same but cholesterol is lower and saturated fat was about the same. Sodium was maybe higher?
    Never tried one at a restaurant. I mentioned up thread that someone gave me 15lbs of commercially packaged impossible burger. This was before it was available retail, or at the fast food stores. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't meat. Meat adjacent. But after some checking I think I had V 1.0 and they are currently selling V 2.0 so I don't know what it's like now.
     

    BehindBlueI's

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    You take isolated examples and globalize all of the fake beef as non-deceptive. You ignore the examples that do not highlight the fact that it is made of "plants". That is excellent cherry picking.

    There was an analogy made with the trans examples, there is not a link between the two. It is a subtle, but important, distinction.

    Tribalization. Balkanization. Hatfields v. McCoys. The point is that none of the OP was designed for that. Nothing of the sort has been done by anyone else. I think your virtue signal is coming across loud and clear.

    Ok. Which one claims to be real meat?

    The marketing that's it's *not meat* is the primary selling point.

    Well, your OP contains "eating disorder of vegetarianism" ? Anyone who chooses not to eat animals is mentally ill? Even those who do so for religious reasons? Then you link it to trans athlete controversy? You know what you're doing and deny, deny, counter-accuse doesn't change that.
     
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    BehindBlueI's

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    And nobody is making you wear a mask, maybe even posted by you yourself.

    They keep repeating this control stuff and folks keep dismissing it as something else…

    I can count on zero fingers how many meat alternatives the mere existence of this product has forced me to eat.

    How is a more expensive alternative to hamburger undercutting hamburger?
     
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