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    21 hours ago

    Well, I actually like the way the beyond burger patties taste. Maybe now they’ll actually have a shot when they don’t cost more than the actual meat.

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        3 hours ago

        I mean, a burger made mostly out of beans and flavoring, with bacon and cheese, that does at least have less meat in it than the same with a full chuck patty.

        And probably most people that have cooked with fatty meat before can tell you that if you fry up some meat in a pan first, and then cook various other foods in the same pan, small amounts of that oil/grease cooked into various other kinds of food can enhance their flavor.

        And its almost certainly much better to use basically bean burger… than using ground up newspaper or flour or breadcrumbs as extra mass for the burger… that was not uncommon during the Great Depression.

        Call it the ‘hybrid’ between a standard burger and a fully vegan one, sorta like the hybrid as the intermediary between ICE and EV cars.

        It is not gonna be easy to fully snap transition the burger consumption capital of the planet into not using any meat… baby steps, baby steps.

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      19 hours ago

      I mean, I think I tried one once, thought it was ok, definitely didn’t hate it… but yeah, yep. Going to be an interesting shock to the American diet.

      I’ve been saying unironically need to figure out how to do the bug pizzas from CyberPunk 77 for a while now… because … meat just is going to get more and more expensive…

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        11 hours ago

        I’ll stop short of eating ze bugs, haha. Despite how min-maxed grubs are nutritionally, I’m too squeamish for that.

        It feels like it’s been the last decade or so that alternative products like the plant patty and things like hard seltzers have been formulated to taste significantly less awful than they used to. Or my tastebuds are changing, both can be true to some degree.

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          3 hours ago

          The way I see it, a bunch of crickets or ants or something, ground up into a paste and then sifted to get the crunchier parts of the carapace out…

          How is that really different from the pink slime chicken nuggets?

          Other than it probably requires less chemical treatment?

          Just press those into the shape of a pepperoni slice, figure out how to cook em.