Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat

Re:Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat by VLM on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @04:17PM (#11949077)

With all due respect we can agree on your factual observations, yet while you're pessimistic about replacing a top quality perfectly grilled London Broil steak, I'm feeling optimistic about replacing a mcdonalds hamburger, which also is immediately recognizable as almost inedible.

How about that stick of beef jerky I carry when I go out hiking ... replacing something that artificial with something plant based doesn't sound overly challenging and maybe it would have better shelf life? Or the mystery meat in canned store bought soups?

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Re:Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat by Turing_Machine on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @10:34PM (#11951185)

"a mcdonalds hamburger, which also is immediately recognizable as almost inedible."

People don't buy 6 million units per day when something is "almost inedible".

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Re:Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat by VLM on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @09:07AM (#11953551)

Insert standard argument about zillions of flies can't all be wrong WRT poo.

Also the argument doesn't depend on a specific "meat" or seller or sales figures. How about mystery meat products at the food store like "olive loaf bologna" not even sure what kind of animal that comes from...

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Re:Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat by Turing_Machine on Friday June 24, 2016 @10:57AM (#11970241)

That "standard argument" doesn't apply here.

The OP claimed that McDonalds burgers were "inedible". Observably, millions of people do eat them, therefore the OP is wrong.

That says nothing about the quality of the burgers, or whether eating them is a good idea, or anything else. It merely demonstrates that people do, in fact, find them edible.

"How about mystery meat products at the food store like "olive loaf bologna""

What about it? People obviously buy it and presumably eat it, or it wouldn't be in the store.

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Re:Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat by imtringued on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @08:00AM (#11953160)

I think that highlights how subjective the word "inedible" is.

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Re:Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat by djrogers on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @09:20PM (#11950937)

> How about that stick of beef jerky I carry when I go out hiking ... replacing something that artificial

Artificial? Where the heck are you buying your jerky? Jerky is one of the least artificial mass produced foods you can find - a big hunk of solid beef, dried, and flavored with some salt and salt-relatives. If at anything else it's not jerky.

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