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

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

New York (CNN Business)Burger King will start selling its meatless Whopper across the United States on August 8, the biggest rollout for Impossible's plant-based product.

The burger chain has been selling the Impossible Whopper, featuring a meatless patty made by Impossible Foods, in a few markets in the United States since April. It first tested the product in St. Louis before announcing in May that it would offer the Impossible Whopper nationally this year.
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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.
 
Ask them for one of each kind, but to not identify them. Blind taste test.
 
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Interest in plant-based protein has surged as many people try to reduce their meat intake for health or environmental reasons. US retail sales of plant-based foods have grown 11% in the past year, according to a July report from trade group Plant Based Foods Association and the Good Food Institute, a nonprofit that supports plant-based businesses.

The Impossible Whopper has been performing well, Chris Finazzo, Burger King's president for the Americas, told CNN Business.

A "taste test" promotion encourages customers to try both the original and Impossible Whopper, so they can compare the two products themselves. The deal will be available from August 8 through September 1 through DoorDash and the Burger King app.
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Cougarbear said:
Sometimes I like veggie burgers. Costco sell some good ones.
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I'm certainly not anti-veggie but I like my food to be what it is made out to be. Turkey bacon, for example, isn't bacon and should never be marketed as such.

I think this all stems back to one day I was at the RedHook brewery and ordered a portabella burger for lunch figuring that I'd get a burger with a portabella on it. When they brought it to me and it was a mushroom on a bun I didn't complain. I knew I didn't bother to read the menu close enough. It was all my fault but I still got bamboozled. Just because I bamboozled myself doesn't mean that there was any less fakery going on!
 
i'm excited about this one. i get BK veggie burgers often, as it can be a challenge to get vegetarian drive thorough road food, and i'm on the road a lot. their veggie burger is pretty good (i think it's made by Morning Star.) if the Impossible Burger is even better than that, that would be awesome.
 
Lutherf said:
I'm certainly not anti-veggie but I like my food to be what it is made out to be. Turkey bacon, for example, isn't bacon and should never be marketed as such.

I think this all stems back to one day I was at the RedHook brewery and ordered a portabella burger for lunch figuring that I'd get a burger with a portabella on it. When they brought it to me and it was a mushroom on a bun I didn't complain. I knew I didn't bother to read the menu close enough. It was all my fault but I still got bamboozled. Just because I bamboozled myself doesn't mean that there was any less fakery going on!
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Good thing it wasn’t a shiitake burger!
 
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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They're pretty good, at least the ones in the Canadian chain, A&W are and it's all from Beyond Meat. They're not a healthier choice though, and the advertising so far has been careful to avoid the claim that they are. They're not even lower calories.
Which isn't reasons not to order them. Lots of people are putting their money where their mouth is in terms of production concerns. Makes little sense to feed high-value protiens to cattle and get a lower-value product back.
But, I too am a confirmed carnivore.
 
Helix said:
i'm excited about this one. i get BK veggie burgers often, as it can be a challenge to get vegetarian drive thorough road food, and i'm on the road a lot. their veggie burger is pretty good (i think it's made by Morning Star.) if the Impossible Burger is even better than that, that would be awesome.
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BK has veggie burgers? I don't eat there often, but I have never heard of this.
 
roughdraft274 said:
BK has veggie burgers? I don't eat there often, but I have never heard of this.
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They're just MorningStar garden veggie burgers, but at least there's an option. No veggie burger option at McDs.
 
ecofarm said:
That's the regular burgers. You know that. You know feces is in them.
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You’re not a man unless you have eaten a little shiitake!
 
Grand Mal said:
They're pretty good, at least the ones in the Canadian chain, A&W are and it's all from Beyond Meat. They're not a healthier choice though, and the advertising so far has been careful to avoid the claim that they are. They're not even lower calories.
Which isn't reasons not to order them. Lots of people are putting their money where their mouth is in terms of production concerns. Makes little sense to feed high-value protiens to cattle and get a lower-value product back.
But, I too am a confirmed carnivore.
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You still have A&W in Canada? I used to love those joints.
 
Grand Mal said:
They're pretty good, at least the ones in the Canadian chain, A&W are and it's all from Beyond Meat. They're not a healthier choice though, and the advertising so far has been careful to avoid the claim that they are. They're not even lower calories.
Which isn't reasons not to order them. Lots of people are putting their money where their mouth is in terms of production concerns. Makes little sense to feed high-value protiens to cattle and get a lower-value product back.
But, I too am a confirmed carnivore.
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The original Whopper clocks in at 660 calories (more than half of them coming from fat), 40 grams of fat, and 28 grams of protein. The Impossible Whopper comes in at 630 calories (again, half from fat), 34 grams of fat, and 25 grams of protein.

The Impossible Whopper does have significantly lower cholesterol — 10 milligrams compared to 90 milligrams — but has more sodium at 1,240 milligrams compared to 980 milligrams.
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Is Burger King'''s '''Impossible''' Whopper Healthy?


Is ecological health an issue?
 
Lutherf said:
You still have A&W in Canada? I used to love those joints.
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I went to California in the early 1970s. San Jose area. The A&W joints hands decent tacos! :thumbs:
 
Lutherf said:
I'm certainly not anti-veggie but I like my food to be what it is made out to be. Turkey bacon, for example, isn't bacon and should never be marketed as such.

I think this all stems back to one day I was at the RedHook brewery and ordered a portabella burger for lunch figuring that I'd get a burger with a portabella on it. When they brought it to me and it was a mushroom on a bun I didn't complain. I knew I didn't bother to read the menu close enough. It was all my fault but I still got bamboozled. Just because I bamboozled myself doesn't mean that there was any less fakery going on!
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Ah, my wife makes the best portabella stuffed mushrooms!!! The best!!!
 
Rexedgar said:
I went to California in the early 1970s. San Jose area. The A&W joints hands decent tacos! :thumbs:
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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.
 
Lutherf said:
You still have A&W in Canada? I used to love those joints.
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Yeah. Still pretty good root beer, too. I couldn't tell oe fast-food burger from another, though.
I just Googled them and they're from California originally. I always thought they were just in Canada. Must have them mixed up with White Spot.
 
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