used to be everywhere
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they sell them at grocery stores. they still are everywhere just not at restaurants.
The initial hype involved the idea that they were so good they would draw interest from demographics outside the vegetarians who buy veggie burgers. After the initial phase of market curiosity, it was confirmed there was no additional demographic. It's just the veggie burger crowd that has remained unchanged for decades.
vegans refused to buy fast food impossible/beyond burger products because it's not enough that the entire patty be made of chemicals not of animal origin, no, you can't use the same grill to cook animal products either.
>>22252525That was marketing, no one was actually buying them. You are never going to succeed selling fake meat.
>>22252546there was some hype, but it quickly dried up when people realized it was just as unhealthy as regular meat and cost way more
I love veggie burgers but if I'm buying a veggie burger I expect to pay substantially less than a beef burger
>>22252525The restaurant I work at still sells them. Not a ton, maybe 4-5 a day on average.
>>22252525I avoid going to restaurants that serve them (not too many anymore thankfully) because they absolutely reek while cooking and I can smell it even far from the kitchen.
It's not even for vegans. That's why they put it next to the real meat. They wanted you to eat the bugs and live in the pods.Vegans have their own little fake meat ghettoes in stores. Not right next to the real meat.
>>22252525The seared bite killed a few people so they had to shut down.
>>22252576The Impossible Whopper even came with mayo by default (eggs) and the buns were toasted with clarified butter. On the same grill they cook regular beef patties.It was never about vegans.Or even vegetarians.It was aimed at retards and women, and it missed
>>22252576>They wanted you to eat the bugs and live in the pods.Yeah at the time it seemed like it was solely supposed to demoralize people. Not just in a vague, "fuck you meat eater" way, but the idea that the loss of meat is inevitable, that everything that feels really and valuable is going to be replaced and you're powerless to stop it.I agree with this >>22252582 that it was never about vegans, who just eat stuff not made of meat instead of trying to imitate a burger. But if that's true then it doesn't have any reason to exist because meat-eaters wouldn't have any reason to ever consume it. Which comes back to my first point that it was like a product that was solely released to demoralize people.
>>22252525they're still there, i eat one like 3-4 times/month and they're always available at restaurants
Most fast food places didn't want to get a special griddle just for the vegans.
>>22252525It was impossible. Duh
>>22252525Wouldn't a nice roll with mushrooms, peppers, and onions taste better if you don't want to eat meat? There's no reason to emulate goyslop burgers.
Plantslop patties are constantly on sale in my local shops. Usually because they're about to spoil.No one wants it. Not even the holier-than-thou vegans and leftists.>>22252702This. I don't mind plant-based patties, but I'm going to make them myself.
>>22252542From their point of view they wouldn't buy vegan food from KFC because the money they give them still goes towards the slaughter of chickens
>>22252525Why does everything have to be AI slop? God, I hate you AI jeets.
>>22252582Its an attempt for soylent green. Where youre eating human remains if it ain't got a bone I'm not buying.
>>22252525They don't really taste that great. It tastes sort of meaty at first but after a while you get off flavors from the yeast and vitamins/minerals added to it. It's also not cheap. I actually like veggie burgers when they aren't trying to imitate meat so much.
>Investment capitalists like the concept "Everyone loves Burgers, why not a Burger for Vegans!" >People playing with millions and billions of dollars put money into "Burger but vegan" concept>Nobody asks "if they wanted a burger, they'd just stop being vegan" instead imagining the vegan going "Praise Jah, now I too can enjoy a burger with my friends and family instead of being left out because my vegan ideology" It's literally rich idiots taking bad dad jokes about vegans and investing hundreds of millions into it to advertise, feature and eventually fail at selling burgers to people who'd have just eaten a burger if they wanted to, but since the 90s there have been bad dad comedians going "Vegans are weird and crazy... you know me I like Burgers. How do vegans go on without cheeseburgers, like maybe Moby would suck less if he ate a burger" A tale as old as Reaganomics.
>>22252581lost
>>22252525They're still everywhere, you just got used to seeing them and the culture war moved on to telling you to be blood pressure popping enraged about something else so you're never reminded of them.
>>22252525It was just another Wall Street pump-and-dump scam.> advertising blitz to tell everyone how great this garbage is> partnerships with restaurants and grocery stores to push this crap> do an IPO and sucker in all the fools who think people are going to eat the shit> cash out all Wall Street's shares, leave the trash paper in the hands of retail fools> stop bothering to force it into the public consciousness and let everything crashwa-laThey do this with goddamn near every food stock. I've seen it happen a dozen times at least.
>>22252811It's not just food. Average daytraders are typical follow the leader fools who can be convinced that anything is the next big thing. It's why Lower Manhattan and the subway are coated in AI Buzzword heavy Ads that treat words like "Agentic" like they're normal words everyone uses.
>>22252525impossible to sell.>>22252716and they couldn't look down their nose far enough to see, hence why it was named impossible.
>>22252525this image unironically did irreparable damage to the fake meat trend.
>>22252821>AI is a bubble!Been hearing this since 2023 and since then every single mid-sized or larger company has been demanding more compute.
>>22252906Yeah, and a lot of these companies are also-rans that will go the way of AskJeeves or BrewDog a few of them will consolidate and become part of the world. But it's good to remember that most people see REO Speedwagon as a shitty rock band and not a car company. The Craft Beer bubble burst, but that doesn't mean I can't get an IPA at any bar or grocery store in America. Vegan substitutes and AI aren't gonna disappear, but their value and volume is gonna significantly reduce.
Normies don't want it because it's garbage, vegfags, avid garbage eaters, don't want it, because it's sold in meat spaces or whatever
>>22252547Regular meat isn't unhealthy. Stop spreading lies.
>>22252832Guy on the right really should have wore some color contacts that day he looks like such a soulless void
>>22252957maybe not good meat but the shit you're getting from fast food isn't good meat
>peas sourced from Red China infamous domestically and abroad for nonexistent food safety and quality assurance>>22252811Side-hustle to Larry Fink type funny money, because birth control and MKULTRA media equivalents aren't enough for the Baal Gates of the world.
>>22252542I wish we were at war so that I could get a job as a veg(etari)an torturer.
>>22253013looks even more retarded
>>22252777Waste of digits. No veganism is significantly less popular than its peak in the mid 2010s. It's still sold but it's share of the shelf is miniscule now. Reasons being: vegans especially vegan men are perceived as weak and malnourished, it is verified chemical slop and the current food trend is being anti synthetic, and it's expensive in the middle of an affordability crisis.
>>22252525It failed. It costs x10 more money to lab synthesize "meat" than it would be to just chop up a cow. I think Ted Ed or Sci-Show on youtube covered the specifics. Go look it up.
>>22252525People tried it out of curiosity and then moved on to the next trend. Might have had some staying power if it was significantly cheaper than real meat.
>>22253122lmao
>>22252528Odd too, COVID proved that when everything was empty this nasty shit was still well stocked.
>>22252525people remembered black bean burgers taste better and arent mystery lab frankenfood
>>22253122Now he looks like he's some augmented person from a dystopian movie
Got a hankering for burgers because of this thread so I made a Beyond + portobella burger. Used a balsamic mustardy marinade for the 'shrooms
>>22252525>impossibleThey lost the technology and knowledge to make it. It’s… impossible today
>>22252811>>22252821this is just capitalism now, because growth and regular sustainable profits barely exist now. everything is speculation nowhttps://jacobin.com/2025/06/speculation-in-the-age-of-no-growth
>>22254881Pro-tip, don't post paywalled articles.
>>22252559How many of those 4-5 are white women.
>>22252542they sound like fuckin muslims or something
>>22252525it was a fad. people tried it went "meh" and back to eating real food.
>>22252525Had a couple from White Castle - actually very tasty. Was like eating something made principally of fully oversaturated cardboard whose juices contained heroic amounts of MSG.Had the one from Burger King also. Tasted great, very much like you'd expect a whopper to, but it just had a very odd texture. If you're not wanting to eat meat for whatever dumb reason, it could be fine if you're craving a burger.
>>22252525>>22252528The impossible burger was created so vegans/vegetarians could say "see here's a perfect substitute for meat, why don't YOU eat it"; they never wanted it in the first place.
>>22254881>jacobin.com>>22254884>paywalledtopkek, the most leftist fucking communist website in existence is paywalled.
>>22255469>leftism is when no moneyIt is kinda retarded of them, though. You should only have a paywall when your views are the majority. Also you're extremely retarded and sheltered if you think Jacobin of all things is remotely the most communist website. >>22255236On the contrary, I think the purpose is to make money.
I thought I liked it but had some recently and it's just not good. Some vegetarian stuff is alright like veganaise, I actually like it more than mayo. But for meat there's just nothing like the real deal.
>>22255469>topkek, the most leftist fucking communist website in existence is paywalled.Oh nice, mutt ideologic rant, fuck off.
>>22252525Bubble burst
>>22252525Beyond Meat CEO's mugshot btw, how has this not been posted earlier?It's bad PR plus no one wanted to eat it once they found out how unhealthy it is at that price and all for a shittier tasting product
>>22252832no, fake meat intrinsically did "irreparable damage" to itself by being called "fake meat," you stupid faggot redditor.
I prefer pic related to all these fake meats.The only demographic for overpriced fake meat chemical slop are vegans with malnutrition who's bodies are screaming for proper protein and micronutrients.Real vegans are also very rare. They ALL CHEAT. I live in a big uni town so im met plenty "vegans". They all sneak cheese and chocolate and will find lame excuses for doing so. Real vegans look like Steve jobs in his final days.
>>22252525The fad ended when people realized they were paying premium meat prices for shitty vegan products made out of cheap ingredients such as gmo soy and corn.The only people still eating that garbage are vegans, and that is simply because they are retarded.
>>22252525In my neck of the woods their known as Beyond burgers and the hype has died down but they're still there.
>>22252550I miss the Burger King veggie burger. I'm not even vegetarian, I just like veggie burgers. So once it was discontinued and the Impossibly Salty Whopper was added, I wasn't terribly pleased.
>>22252664>meat-eaters wouldn't have any reason to ever consume it.Cholesterol, maybe?
>>22255674I honestly can't tell the difference between standard mayonnaise and vegannaise but I tend to buy tangy mayos like McCormick and Duke's. No vegan mayo brand has that tinge of tang, only homemade ones can.
>>22252525People stopped buying it when the tiktok trend moved on to the next thing.After that, people who kept eating it got viciously mocked and bullied until they stopped too.I remenber when a friend group of mine went to beat up this vegan kid, not only did they slap the burguer out of his hands but went as far as to step on it and then pummel the kid into the floor and kick him until he ate it out of the ground like a dog.That was the last time anyone at school ate one of those, at least in public.
>>22257835Yeah the lack of good veggie burgers sucks. Subway has veggie patties but they're awful. Think I might look up a recipe and do my own veggie burgers this weekend. I bet a half veggie half sausage burger would be good. Or veggie meatballs.Paying the same price as meat for veggie patties fundamentally annoys me though. It's like when places charge the same price for boneless wings and real wings. I'd probably buy frozen veggie burgers if they werent 7 fucking dollars a pound.
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>>22257847Sounds fake and gay
>>22257867What is fake or gay about it? Have you never seen bullying in school?
>>22257856>I might look up a recipe and do my own veggie burgersI'm that Anon. I just make bakwan tahu but burger-sized. Depending on where you live, finding Totole or mushroom seasoning might be difficult but other than that, there's no ingredient uncommon in most supermarkets. Want a recipe?>veggie meatballsDo you mean meat with a fucktonne of veg? Cuz if so, I do that, too, except meatloaf form rather than meatball. Same word in my native language for both, just with different suffixes, one for really big (meatloaf) one for small (meatballs). I use dehydrated vegetables in it because they re-absorb the excess fat as it renders out of the mince, keeping the meatloaf moist.>I'd probably buy frozen veggie burgers if they werent 7 fucking dollars a pound.Same, especially since ground beef is perennially $2.99/lb in my area. Once one supermarket takes it off sale, another will add it. Two weeks ago, ShopRite. Last week, Met. This week, Safeway/Acme. Next week, it'll probably be Food Lion/Giant or back on sale at ShopRite. It's always on sale somewhere.>>22257948The fact that it never happened and that you can't be vegan because of all the mancocks you're constantly choking on. You swallowed three more in the time it took me to write this post yet your voracious cocklust remains unsatisfied. That's pretty fucking gay.
>>22258078>The fact that it never happened and that you can't be vegan because of all the mancocks you're constantly choking on.I think you are grossly confused.At no point did I claim to be vegan.And surely you witnessed bullying at some point in your school life, unless you are homeschooled.Why are you this mad?
>>22257736>Real vegans look like Steve jobs in his final days.kek
>>22252525People started catching on to Jewish plans to make goyim eat altslop like plant "meats" and ze bugs and every time someone posted about these things on social media, the comments were incredibly red pilled. They backed off because noticing was too high.
>>22258907But meatcucks are fine eating bugs. You offer a normgroid a reese's piece and he'll happily suck down the beetle shell carcasses they use to make them.
>>22252525BK still sells them, but it'd be impossible for me to order one intentionally.
>>22252811>>22252525This but also they were hoping to find a way to make them for cheaper once they had the demand for mass production, but it didn't happen, they never found a way to make them cheaper, and without the VC money to burn on partnerships, fake meat more expensive than real meat was never going to become to the norm.
>>22254790that looks like the shit i took this morning
>>22252525Still Is Libtard
>>22258106ywnbaw
>>22259626Ywnbam
>>22252525COVID happened and everyone became highly distrusting of anything that smells like social engineering.
>>22252525It's at Burger King.
>>22252525They thought they could meme non-vegetarians into this and it turns out they would rather have a real burger if its avaliable instead. And most vegetarians rejected it because it was still made around all the beef burgers
>>22255236I would eat tons of impossible burgers if they were reasonably priced. But they aren't. They're more expensive than beef.
>>22258078Yeah I'd love a recipe and honestly I have no problem ordering dry goods off the internet. Especially seasonings and spices.
>>22257847You and your friends sound like a pack of cunts.
>>22252756Bingus
>>22252525Do vegans have a problem with eating animals who died of accidents or freshly died old animals? That's all natural right?
>>22255172at least they aren't digging a whole in their yard to bury their dishes because their daughters goyim friend had a bowl of cereal in a bowl that's used for meat
>>22261589The general consensus among vegans is that eating roadkill is fine but that this is a pointless academic question.
In college, we did meatless Mondays. Man a taco made from black bean patties was pretty darn good.
>>22252542Vegans are such fags, I swear
>>22252542vegan here. Kill and eat every animal, I don't care. Just don't torture them like the kosher fags
>>22262061Torture makes it taste better.
>>22262061Oj vey, you can ban goyin from eating meat, but don't you dare to speak about Kosher slaughtering.
>>22262068you should film yourself cooking in it too, for laughs AND taste
>>22262061Hunting is fine but eating factory farmed meat is evil even if it's """killed humanely""". t. level 3 vegan
>>22262089I hung chickens for a couple years. It's awesome to kill them.
>>22252542I'm not like this as a vegan but some vegans I know are. I dont support fast food because fast food is garbage and the amount of waste fast food causes is something I wish to not support
>>22252539and then the CEO made comments about the meat alternatives market being "too woke", proving without a doubt that he's a retard who had zero idea of who he was marketing to
>>22261560>You and your friends sound like a pack of cunts.And you have the reading comprehension of a toddler.I did not join them in the beating, I just said my friend group did.All I did was watch as they beat his ass, same as all the kids in school.Still, I do not deny that it was effective at changing his behaviour and that of the rest of school.
>>22254790Had another hankering so I made another burger. Mushroom quinoa this time. I didn't like it very much but the patty was mostly an excuse for the mustard, onion, and spinach.
>>22263949thats a food looking burg
I would switch to this vegan slop if it's cheaper than meat. But this shit is so expensive I just don't see the point. If it's made of vegetables why does it cost so much?
I tried eggplant and pepper sausages this week, the worst thing besides the price was they fell apart way too easily.
>>22264115Not vegetarian, but you should try Alheira.
>>22263648He was too sane, so they forsook him
>>22263661As he said, you and your friends sound like a pack of cunts
>>22252539Veggie burgers are good too. They just don't taste like burgers which is fine
>>22264123Will eating alheira make me Jewish?
post some good veggie patties recipes
>>22255236I'll happily eat a black bean or a chickpea burger, but i will never touch imitation "meat" with a ten foot pole.
>>22264816So, you think I am a cunt because I did not get involved?Why would I? The kid was not my friend, I had no reason to.
>>22265219The fact youre proud of it presumably decades later and arguing this hard to be in the right kindof proves the point you still are desu
>>22265257>The fact youre proud of itNow you are just putting words in my mouth, I never said I was proud of it, I merely described the incident as it was related to this thread.
>>22264829No, kek. And it's quite good.
>>22262068Quite the opposite. Unhealthy and unhappy animals taste worse and their meat has inferior nutrition, plus it has other problems. All those studies about red meat are looking at factory farmed, miserable cows bred for generations for industrial meat production. No wonder eating them will fuck you up. But eating some animal from your pasture, or an animal you hunted and killed is very good for you.
>>22252546This. If you want a vegetarian burger, options like breaded portobello mushroom/halloumi exist. Even had a good vegan burger once where the burger was made out of chickpea patty. That aside though, fake meat is so gay, if you're gonna be vegan learn the many great vegetarian recipes that exist from around the world
>>22257727>no, fake meat intrinsically did "irreparable damage" to itself by being called "fake meat," you stupid faggot redditor.
Publix had these on sale $4.50/lb. We're eating good, beyond bros
>>222655233 dollars a pound and I'd consider it but I simply will pay the same price or greater for vegetable mush than I will pay for meat. frozen beef patties are about 4.50 a pound. utter nonsense.
