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Re:Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat by homero on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @02:03PM (#11947899)
There's a good fungus based chicken nugget, do you know this one?
Re:Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat by ergothus on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @02:11PM (#11947985)
I'm assuming you mean Quorn, which is a mycoprotein (the history of that company is fascinating!). Those are the nuggets I mentioned that are quite similar to "real".
Re:Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat by Keats on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @06:49PM (#11950090)
I (omnivore) actually find Quorn chicken nuggets better than the real chicken ones you get in supermarket somehow.
Re:Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat by homero on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @04:12AM (#11952253)
Yeah they're delicious. All the other pea products are disgusting.
Re:Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat by Crazywater on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @02:06PM (#11947925)
Quorn? It's pretty close to chicken. But then again, chicken is also relatively easy to emulate since it doesn't have a lot of flavor or texture.
Re:Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat by walrus01 on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @03:04PM (#11948464)
Grocery store chicken in North America has no flavor or texture because of the speed it's "grown" in factory farms. Almost to the point where a fried chicken breast is like a mass of dense meat-like wonderbread. I'm no organic foods/free range/whatever zealot, but if you eat a chicken raised on a small farm in Pakistan or Indonesia it probably took 3x as long to grow to full size, ate a much more varied diet and also has SIGNIFICANTLY more flavor in the meat. Every time I travel outside North America to somewhere in the developing world I'm struck by how much the chicken actually tastes like chicken, whereas in the US you need to specifically search out the "special" expensive chicken to get something that tastes like chicken. See also:

https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf

Re:Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat by MustardTiger on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @10:08PM (#11951092)
>but if you eat a chicken raised on a small farm in Pakistan or Indonesia it probably took 3x as long to grow to full size, ate a much more varied diet and also has SIGNIFICANTLY more flavor in the meat.

They have small farms and dual purpose chicken breeds in the US too. You don't even need the small farm, you can raise them yourself quite easily and cheaply.

Re:Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat by nickpsecurity on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @03:43PM (#11948833)
That hilarious link reminded me of SCIgen:

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/