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Re:Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Indus... by itsoktocry on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @06:37AM (#33786285)
>it's a tradeoff I'm excited to make 1-2 a month to get the flavor of a burger

You're not getting the flavour of a burger, no matter how hard you try to fool yourself (or make yourself sick). That's why these companies are flailing.

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Re:Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Indus... by ethanbond on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @08:09AM (#33787127)
“Your mouth is wrong but I am here to tell you what you’re tasting” is quite the argument…
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Re:Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Indus... by yamazakiwi on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @12:24PM (#33790410)
There are qualities in a fake burgers that emulate parts of a burger someone might enjoy without having an exact replica. In the same way Turkey Bacon is acceptable to some and not others.

I think the purists are trying to hold a parity argument but the substitute enjoyers are cool with experimentation and want something similar even if it's not 1:1.

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