The Impossible Whopper is coming to every Burger King in America next week

Lutherf said:

You still have A&W in Canada? I used to love those joints.

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Quite popular in Alberta

They do not have the drive in any more though

Lord Tammerlain said:

Quite popular in Alberta

They do not have the drive in any more though

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The drive thru @ Dunkin‘ Donuts should be outlawed! Waddle your fat ass in there and get your donuts!

Lutherf said:

The Impossible Whopper is coming to every Burger King in America next week - CNN



While I'm really not much of a fast food fan This is one I'll have to try. Nobody will ever confuse me for being a vegetarian but this is going to require a side by side.

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Awesome. I love the impossible burger, and I haven't eaten beef or pork in 35 or so years.

There is a bar by my house that does an amazing impossible wineburger, add some avocado, swiss cheese and it is heaven. I've given tastes of the impossible burger to my red meat eating friends and they all love it, its that good.

ecofarm said:

Is Burger King'''s '''Impossible''' Whopper Healthy?


Is ecological health an issue?

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A great article about this yesterday. This Is the Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry | Outside Online

Part of the appeal of the new burgers is their smaller environmental footprint. Beef is the most wasteful food on the planet. Cows are not optimized to make meat; they’re optimized to be cows. It takes 36,000 calories of feed to produce 1,000 calories of beef. In the process, it uses more than 430 gallons of water and 1,500 square feet of land, and it generates nearly ten kilograms of greenhouse-gas emissions. In comparison, an Impossible Burger uses 87 percent less water, 96 percent less land, and produces 89 percent fewer greenhouse-gas emissions. Beyond Meat’s footprint is similarly svelte.

Yes, a good argument can be made that small-farm, grass-fed beef production (in places that can grow abundant grass) has a very different ethical and environmental landscape, but unfortunately, that’s just not a significant factor. America gets 97 percent of its beef from feedlots. And feedlots are irredeemable.

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Rexedgar said:

The drive thru @ Dunkin‘ Donuts should be outlawed! Waddle your fat ass in there and get your donuts!

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To be clear

The drive in (not sure of what term should be used)

Was, you drive into a parking spot, park the car a waitress comes out and takes the order, goes back into the place, then comes out with your order on a tray that is hung from a side window. You finish eating in the car, they take the tray and you leave the parking lot. There was one by my elementary school, I think it was demolished in the around 87 or 88

beefheart said:

A great article about this yesterday. This Is the Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry | Outside Online

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In simplest terms, we speak of trophic levels (steps up in the food chain). With a trophic shift, we expect a 10 to 1 conversion. 10 kg of plant protein to produce 1 kg of animal protein (note, protein not total weight). Water is worse. We need to consider not only the water consumed by the animal, but the 10x per kg of plant protein produced in feed and the water required to produce that. Thus, water is a 100 to 1 ratio. For every 1 kg of water to produce 1 kg of plant protein, we need 100 kg of water to produce 1 kg of animal protein. Aquifers are being consumed at an unsustainable rate.

Land use and degradation is another issue. Animal cruelty is an issue. Antibiotic use is an issue...

There's a lot more than personal health that goes into most people's desire to consume less meat.

beefheart said:

Awesome. I love the impossible burger, and I haven't eaten beef or pork in 35 or so years.

There is a bar by my house that does an amazing impossible wineburger, add some avocado, swiss cheese and it is heaven. I've given tastes of the impossible burger to my red meat eating friends and they all love it, its that good.

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I hear it is not really better for you but taste is subjective. If you like the taste and dont mind the chemicals then eat it. I will skip it for now

beefheart said:

Awesome. I love the impossible burger, and I haven't eaten beef or pork in 35 or so years.

There is a bar by my house that does an amazing impossible wineburger, add some avocado, swiss cheese and it is heaven. I've given tastes of the impossible burger to my red meat eating friends and they all love it, its that good.

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I'll give it a shot.

I'll be pissed off if it turns me into a pinko, commie, tree hugging liberal but I've got a buddy with orders to stuff me with 3# of bacon if it looks like that's happening. It's supposed to be a sure fire antidote.

Lutherf said:

I'll give it a shot.

I'll be pissed off if it turns me into a pinko, commie, tree hugging liberal but I've got a buddy with orders to stuff me with 3# of bacon if it looks like that's happening. It's supposed to be a sure fire antidote.

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Hey, I didn't eat beef or pork when I was a brain dead conservative....LOL.

I don't know how Burger King's will taste, but there are several restaurants that have the IB, if you go to your website, you can see who serves it in your area.

Also they just got the OK to sell it in grocery stores. Beyond Meat is in the stores, but I don't like it as much as the IB.

vegas giants said:

I hear it is not really better for you but taste is subjective. If you like the taste and dont mind the chemicals then eat it. I will skip it for now

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Yeah, but you are eating beef that is loaded with anti-biotics and run the risk of e-coli, etc.

I'll take soy protein any day!

beefheart said:

Yeah, but you are eating beef that is loaded with anti-biotics and run the risk of e-coli, etc.

I'll take soy protein any day!

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I'll say it's a toss up between the two. I try to avoid whoppers and get the chicken sandwich

Lutherf said:

Tacos at A&W?

Y'know, having grown up in upstate NY around that time I don't recall ever seeing a taco and damned sure not at an A&W. If someone in NY was speaking Spanish back then it's because they were Puerto Rican.

Hmm...this is giving me an idea for a mofongo taco.

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First place I ate a tacos, only it wasn't called a taco, was on the Onondaga reservation in 1959. No one spoke Spanish, many spoke French. We were on our way for a hunting trip in northeastern NY with one of my Dad's war buds, an Onondaga man. For breakfast we had Zea, a pan crisped thin cornbread stuffed with smoked whitefish, raw veggies, and blackberries, some kind of bitter tea. Zea every morning with a different stuffing. Eventually, venison liver and beans. I was 10 years old, didn't learn they were called tacos until 10 years later.

During my teen years I recall meeting migrant Mexican farmworkers when we were invited to hunt farm lands throughout northern NY. Hard working people. We stayed at a ski resort on the Vermont border, near Plattsburgh, where we were birding during late summer. All the grounds workers were Mexicans, living there year round with their families. Very hospitable people. No tacos, but big on polenta type dishes, almost pies filled with beef, pork, poultry, fish, very spicy, and huge plates of vegetables, fresh hearty maize cervasas, even for the kids. A lot of fruit and corn deserts, very ornate, with honey on everything.

beefheart said:

Yeah, but you are eating beef that is loaded with anti-biotics and run the risk of e-coli, etc.

I'll take soy protein any day!

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Soy is the worst plant source. It's a top 3 monoculture and top 3 gmo.