(08-08-2022 01:47 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  

(08-08-2022 01:42 PM)oruvoice Wrote:  Plant based "meats" are LOADED with chemicals and a boatload of salt.

To say that eating this type of product is healthier for you, is completely ignorant.

Depends on plant based foods, I guess. Impossible/beyond meats are, as you say, loaded with salts and processed pea protein, so it also has nitrites in it.

Soy based patties arent disguised as meat and have less crappy junk in them. Seitan, Tempeh, and Soy patties are quite a bit healthier than beyond/impossible/real

If i don't want meat i prefer black bean burgers to the soy based products.

Soy protein concentrates/isolates take some of the greatest chemical reactions to make in our food supply chain. I will eat pork sausage (preferably nitrate free) everytime over soy protein concentrate based products.

The real thing here is that if you want a healthy meal, don't go to cracker barrel.

(08-09-2022 09:25 AM)ballantyneapp Wrote:  

(08-08-2022 01:47 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  

(08-08-2022 01:42 PM)oruvoice Wrote:  Plant based "meats" are LOADED with chemicals and a boatload of salt.

To say that eating this type of product is healthier for you, is completely ignorant.

Depends on plant based foods, I guess. Impossible/beyond meats are, as you say, loaded with salts and processed pea protein, so it also has nitrites in it.

Soy based patties arent disguised as meat and have less crappy junk in them. Seitan, Tempeh, and Soy patties are quite a bit healthier than beyond/impossible/real

If i don't want meat i prefer black bean burgers to the soy based products.

Soy protein concentrates/isolates take some of the greatest chemical reactions to make in our food supply chain. I will eat pork sausage (preferably nitrate free) everytime over soy protein concentrate based products.

The real thing here is that if you want a healthy meal, don't go to cracker barrel.

Black bean burgers are 100 times better than any soy or pea protean meat knockoff. Better nutrition and taste, IMO.


Remember ol Dirty Murphs? (Murpys on King St). They had a mushroom/blackbean burger that was the tits.

(08-09-2022 09:36 AM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  

(08-09-2022 09:25 AM)ballantyneapp Wrote:  

(08-08-2022 01:47 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  

(08-08-2022 01:42 PM)oruvoice Wrote:  Plant based "meats" are LOADED with chemicals and a boatload of salt.

To say that eating this type of product is healthier for you, is completely ignorant.

Depends on plant based foods, I guess. Impossible/beyond meats are, as you say, loaded with salts and processed pea protein, so it also has nitrites in it.

Soy based patties arent disguised as meat and have less crappy junk in them. Seitan, Tempeh, and Soy patties are quite a bit healthier than beyond/impossible/real

If i don't want meat i prefer black bean burgers to the soy based products.

Soy protein concentrates/isolates take some of the greatest chemical reactions to make in our food supply chain. I will eat pork sausage (preferably nitrate free) everytime over soy protein concentrate based products.

The real thing here is that if you want a healthy meal, don't go to cracker barrel.

Black bean burgers are 100 times better than any soy or pea protean meat knockoff. Better nutrition and taste, IMO.


Remember ol Dirty Murphs? (Murpys on King St). They had a mushroom/blackbean burger that was the tits.

Thanks for the memory. I skipped a few classes whilst drinking pitchers of whatever was the daily special. Only ate inside once, after a game. Have no memory of what i ordered.

(08-09-2022 09:25 AM)ballantyneapp Wrote:  

(08-08-2022 01:47 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  

(08-08-2022 01:42 PM)oruvoice Wrote:  Plant based "meats" are LOADED with chemicals and a boatload of salt.

To say that eating this type of product is healthier for you, is completely ignorant.

Depends on plant based foods, I guess. Impossible/beyond meats are, as you say, loaded with salts and processed pea protein, so it also has nitrites in it.

Soy based patties arent disguised as meat and have less crappy junk in them. Seitan, Tempeh, and Soy patties are quite a bit healthier than beyond/impossible/real

If i don't want meat i prefer black bean burgers to the soy based products.

Soy protein concentrates/isolates take some of the greatest chemical reactions to make in our food supply chain. I will eat pork sausage (preferably nitrate free) everytime over soy protein concentrate based products.

The real thing here is that if you want a healthy meal, don't go to cracker barrel.

I say if you really want a healthy meal, eat natural foods, even if that doesn't include meat-based protein.

Yosef: I get what you're saying. People turn to a more vegetarian lifestyle due to health reasons. I think TIGERCITY is just being a braggart trying to claim moral superiority over us meat-eaters based on a couple things (climate change, killing animals, etc.). That's what we have a problem with. He's no better than anybody else. I'm certain you got that from the majority of posts made in the thread.

(08-06-2022 07:22 PM)ODUsmitty Wrote:  

(08-06-2022 04:54 PM)bullet Wrote:  Cracker Barrel also said this addition marks the first time it included a plant-based protein on their menu “at a time when more than ever, consumers are seeking plant-based options that are better for them.”

The bold is probably what ticked people off. That is a go woke go broke statement.

Very odd timing for Cracker Barrel to do this with Burger King announcing the scrapping of its meatless burgers.

I just saw this...I won't ever eat that chemically-infused artificial garbage....100% beef is so much healthier for you than all those toxic chemicals in alleged "plant-based meats" ...more like Frankenmeats. Bleeech! Gimme a Whopper w/ 100% beef patty, LOMTP&Mayo. No, I don't want two of the same buns. Idiots.

edit: here's what I found:

Quote:Fake Meat Industry Hit with Devastating News as McDonald's Decides to Drop 'Beyond' Burgers'

Apparently people are not lovin’ it.

Fast-food giant McDonald’s is pulling the McPlant burger off its menu after the plant-based product from manufacturer Beyond Meat left a bad taste in customers’ mouths, according to The Washington Times.

McDonald’s rolled out its take on a plant-based burger to 600 locations on a trial basis in February, following an eight-restaurant trial that began in November of 2021, according to CNBC.

The product is being broadly discontinued in the U.S., according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. analyst Ken Goldman, who spoke with employees at 25 McDonald’s locations, financial news site The Fly reported.

“Not surprisingly, the reason sometimes being cited is that the product did not sell well enough,” Goldman told investors in a research note titled “McPlant Seems McDone in the U.S. for Now.”

McDonald’s and Beyond Meat, a Los Angeles-based producer of plant-based meat substitutes founded in 2009, announced a three-year partnership in early 2021.

“The McPlant includes a plant-based patty co-developed with Beyond Meat that’s exclusive to McDonald’s and made from plant-based ingredients like peas, rice and potatoes,” McDonald’s said in a press release at the time. “The patty is served on a sesame seed bun with tomato, lettuce, pickles, onions, mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard and a slice of American cheese. It has the iconic taste of a McDonald’s burger because it is one.”

The apparent failure of the McPlant to excite the tastebuds of American consumers seemingly confirms rumblings from earlier this year that the test run was not going well.

“Franchisee sentiment on the sales performance was underwhelming,” Peter Saleh, an analyst at financial services firm BTIG, told QSR Magazine in March. “Their assessment was that they don’t see enough evidence to support a national rollout in the near future.”

At the time, McDonald’s was only selling 20 McPlants per day, well short of the goal of selling 40 to 60 of the sandwiches.

In the aftermath of McDonald’s ending its testing of the McPlant, shares of Beyond Meat fell 6 percent, according to a CNBC report.

It’s but the latest morsel of bad news for the faux meat company.

“Beyond’s stock has fallen 53 percent this year, dragging its market value down to $2.06 billion,” the CNBC report noted. “Wall Street has become skeptical over the company’s long-term growth opportunities as grocery sales lag. Moreover, buzzy partnerships with restaurant giants like Pizza Hut owner Yum Brands and McDonald’s haven’t progressed to many permanent nationwide menu offerings yet.”

The future of the meat substitute industry as a whole remains to be determined.

Fake meat sux.

(08-09-2022 10:17 AM)GoodOwl Wrote:  

(08-06-2022 07:22 PM)ODUsmitty Wrote:  

(08-06-2022 04:54 PM)bullet Wrote:  Cracker Barrel also said this addition marks the first time it included a plant-based protein on their menu “at a time when more than ever, consumers are seeking plant-based options that are better for them.”

The bold is probably what ticked people off. That is a go woke go broke statement.

Very odd timing for Cracker Barrel to do this with Burger King announcing the scrapping of its meatless burgers.

I just saw this...I won't ever eat that chemically-infused artificial garbage....100% beef is so much healthier for you than all those toxic chemicals in alleged "plant-based meats" ...more like Frankenmeats. Bleeech! Gimme a Whopper w/ 100% beef patty, LOMTP&Mayo. No, I don't want two of the same buns. Idiots.

edit: here's what I found:

Quote:Fake Meat Industry Hit with Devastating News as McDonald's Decides to Drop 'Beyond' Burgers'

Apparently people are not lovin’ it.

Fast-food giant McDonald’s is pulling the McPlant burger off its menu after the plant-based product from manufacturer Beyond Meat left a bad taste in customers’ mouths, according to The Washington Times.

McDonald’s rolled out its take on a plant-based burger to 600 locations on a trial basis in February, following an eight-restaurant trial that began in November of 2021, according to CNBC.

The product is being broadly discontinued in the U.S., according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. analyst Ken Goldman, who spoke with employees at 25 McDonald’s locations, financial news site The Fly reported.

“Not surprisingly, the reason sometimes being cited is that the product did not sell well enough,” Goldman told investors in a research note titled “McPlant Seems McDone in the U.S. for Now.”

McDonald’s and Beyond Meat, a Los Angeles-based producer of plant-based meat substitutes founded in 2009, announced a three-year partnership in early 2021.

“The McPlant includes a plant-based patty co-developed with Beyond Meat that’s exclusive to McDonald’s and made from plant-based ingredients like peas, rice and potatoes,” McDonald’s said in a press release at the time. “The patty is served on a sesame seed bun with tomato, lettuce, pickles, onions, mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard and a slice of American cheese. It has the iconic taste of a McDonald’s burger because it is one.”

The apparent failure of the McPlant to excite the tastebuds of American consumers seemingly confirms rumblings from earlier this year that the test run was not going well.

“Franchisee sentiment on the sales performance was underwhelming,” Peter Saleh, an analyst at financial services firm BTIG, told QSR Magazine in March. “Their assessment was that they don’t see enough evidence to support a national rollout in the near future.”

At the time, McDonald’s was only selling 20 McPlants per day, well short of the goal of selling 40 to 60 of the sandwiches.

In the aftermath of McDonald’s ending its testing of the McPlant, shares of Beyond Meat fell 6 percent, according to a CNBC report.

It’s but the latest morsel of bad news for the faux meat company.

“Beyond’s stock has fallen 53 percent this year, dragging its market value down to $2.06 billion,” the CNBC report noted. “Wall Street has become skeptical over the company’s long-term growth opportunities as grocery sales lag. Moreover, buzzy partnerships with restaurant giants like Pizza Hut owner Yum Brands and McDonald’s haven’t progressed to many permanent nationwide menu offerings yet.”

The future of the meat substitute industry as a whole remains to be determined.

Fake meat sux.

*shrugs* I thought Burger King's Impossible Whopper was okay. Nothing to write home about. Of course, I only had it the one time. Give me real meat any day of the week.

(08-06-2022 02:32 PM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  Personally, I don't care as long I'm able to still eat real, bonafide meat. At the same time, it defeats the purpose of it being plant-based. It's like a vegan wanting to have something that tastes like chicken or beef but not have it use anything that comes from either a chicken or a cow for flavor. Not only that, but trying to please the wacko vegans while ignoring your consumer base is a recipe for disaster.

Oh, and more more thing: Plant-based stuff can be healthy, but do you know what else is plant-based? Heroin. You must be promoting drug use! (See how it's fun to jump to conclusions, leftists?)

It's all about being in control. Vegans are leftist by nature. They want to control what everyone else eats.

As much as it's pushed on the public, this "meatless meat" trend just can't seem to get any legs ...




... because it never had any.

Honky's don't like fake meat. Cracker Barrel must not know its demographics well.