Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 03, 2019

Inconceivable!!

Well be sure you get a Vegan grill. You wouldn’t want to mess up your good grill with fake meat.

Ewww. No thanks!

Health food, no doubt. It all seems to be made from reconstituted coconut matting and builder’s rubble.

I heard on the news today that it has been determined that beef is healthy and should be eaten. I was visiting Canada at the time where I saw a lot of vegan and gluten free restaurants, lots of health food. Even the hamburger joint I went to offers to put your meat on lettuce instead of a bun!

The next week, Janice brings home Soylent Green.

Kind of like Velveeta.They never said it was cheese.

If it wasn’t alive at some point, what’s the point?

Grounds for divorce!

Highly interesting that, as the fake meat craze accelerates, a study was released three days ago claiming that red meat and processed meat are not bad for us, after all.

A rose by any other name ,,,,,,,

plus a fake rose is still a fake rose!

While I believe it should be illegal to label vegetable based food as meat, I did want to try that Burger King Impossible sandwich the other day – heard some good reviews. Almost $7.00, just for the sandwich! Now I don’t expect to see a 19 cent burger again (I’m old enough to remember that price), but $7.00??

A new study, it’s true, says red meat is OK for your health…

or at least, not bad enough to avoid.

Which is good, cos I eat it.

 

HOWEVER…. it’s still bad for the planet… cattle take too much room, drink too much water and eat too many plants for a sustainable future…

when people are starving, it’s selfish to eat beef…

plus cattle release way too much methane, which contributes to the climate crisis.

 

So I’ve tried… I eat way less beef than I used to… and tons of chicken.

It’s fine. I don’t notice. Then again… if I really crave beef, I eat it.

I’ve tried being a vegetarian… sorry… no.

And last week, due to an incredibly cheap one day promotion, I tried one of the two top contenders in the fake meat department… a Beyond Burger.

 

In taste tests, people seem amazed… it’s juicy; it tastes like a hamburger…. I can’t tell the difference.

Sorry… again… no.

Maybe had it been a kid’s plate, I dunno.

But it was a big patty on a big bun… with tomato and lettuce and real cheese… all the stuff that people say makes it taste like any real burger.

NO.

 

To me, it tasted vegetarian.

Halfway through, and all evening, it felt like an indigestible lump in my stomach.

I couldn’t finish it, and I don’t want another one.

Your mileage may vary… I kinda hope so, in fact.

 

I understood later, when I Googled the ingredients…

It’s certainly neither unprocessed nor natural:

Water, Pea Protein Isolate, Expeller-Pressed Canola Oil, Refined Coconut Oil, Contains 2% or less of the following: Cellulose from Bamboo, Methylcellulose, Potato Starch, Natural Flavor, Maltodextrin, Yeast Extract, Salt, Sunflower Oil, Vegetable Glycerin, Dried Yeast, Gum Arabic, Citrus Extract (to protect quality), Ascorbic Acid (to maintain color), Beet Juice Extract (for color), Acetic Acid, Succinic Acid, Modified Food Starch, Annatto (for color).

I see Arlo is ‘planting’ his feet at the idea.

Soylent Green is made out of People……..

I’ll let those you have your non-farting non-animal meat. I’ll stick to the real thing cholesterol and all.

Gotta feeln’ gonna’ be a Grill Fire! “Sorry love, the wind made it flame up.”

I’ve been a vegetarian for most of my life, and the new “mystery meat” makes me uneasy. I’ve seen it in the stores, and it does look real – but how can I be sure somebody doesn’t “slip me a micky”? Other than the fact that beef would be “returned to sender” pretty quickly? And none of us want that.

“Fake meat”? No thanks. If I wanted a hot salad, I’d put one in the microwave.

About a month ago, I bought a pack of Beyond Burgers. The directions said to thaw and cook in a fry pan for three minutes per side. After the first three minutes, the stench became overpowering. I took it off the heat and threw it in the trash. Opened all my apartment windows and blasted the A/C. Took most of the day to get the stink out. I’ll stick with real meat from now on.

I’ve had the “Impossible Whopper”. It’s impossible it tastes like a burger.

What happened to marshmallow? Inquiring tabloids want to know..

Someday in the future all these fake products will be determined to cause some incurable disease.

It has come out that the only “health” advantage to the vegan burgers is that it is not made from a cow…to get it to taste like hamburger it is saturated in saturated fat….

So, instead of “mystery meat” we now have “mystery synthetics”?

Some meat is okay, but you have to look at what it takes in land as well as the carbon footprint it has on the world. What is worse is the factory farms. The animals are suffering as well as the family farms because of these sickening companies.

“Synthetic = Something made of artificial material, not natural items, can be described as synthetic.”

So, they are not synthetic. They are plant-based and plants are natural. Many of them (not all, I concede) are quite delicious. Also, they have the added benefit of not being made from enslaved, tortured, suffering sentient creatures.

Probably Possum.

A local burger joint called Harvey’s has beyond meat burgers. I ordered one and when they set to lay on the condi’s I said “none thank you”. The employee just looked at me and wanted to say something but held back. My friend who owns the franchise came over and said “you really don’t want to do that”. it tasted like Alpo. And yes, many years ago on a bet I ate a teaspoon of Alpo.

(HURCHK!)

Impossible Burger®! OMD! Can’t tell the difference. I bet Burger King® can screw it up, but Red Robin has it and a local golf course restaurant near me.

You have to try it.

Hardee’s® tried a lettuce wrapped burger a few years ago. I loved them! I didn’t come there to eat the BUN after all. Apparently not enough folks were receptive. I haven’t seen them since.

If it’s not meat you can’t call it a burger.

Talk about factory food!

I had my first mystery meat sandwich in ‘63 in the Air Force. In mid 80s I had box lunches for some civilians on an artillery range, same stuff! Food Service said “its top secret Sir, if I tell you I have to kill you” Obviously he doesn’t have to eat it.

I’ve had Beyond Meat burgers and they are very good! Probably could have fooled me if I’d been told they were real meat. The only problem is they cost more than real beef at the moment. There are efforts underway to make you believe red meat is good for you and that plant based “meat” is bad for you. Gosh, I wonder who could be behind those lies??

WHERE’S the Beef? …..or Salmon

I have tried veggie/synthetic patties they’re ok. I grind my own meats and cook medium rare 145f they are delicious no comparison. you need a reputable butcher.

I eat Boca Burgers sometimes and I love them. They don’t taste like a hamburger, but I don’t like the fat and gristle in many hamburgers.

Anyone who ever eats Twinkies or donuts or potato chips should not comment about veggie burgers being “fake food”.

Keep your phony imitations, if it ain’t MEAT I won’t EAT!

Last month news of a 14 yr old only ate Pringles, white bread and pork in the last 7 yrs….lost eye sight…doctors gave him vitamin supplements but it’s too late

I just heard yesterday someone had researched these new meatless burgers and to make them palatable they were using the saturated fat / coconut oil. The same stuff everyone was trying to ban just a short time ago.

Just remember that the meat substitute in things like the “impossible whopper” is 100% GMO – it s a genetically modified mushroom that’s been reworked to maximize a variant of hemoglobin to build up the slightly metallic meat flavor

He did.

I tried the impossible Whopper. The taste wasn’t bad, but I could tell it wasn’t real meat. Next time it will be 2 for $6.00 mustard Whoppers for me, although that’s only once or twice a year.

“Woof. Woof”

The impossible burger is tasty. As good as the real thing… but they had to slaughter too many helpless soys.

(Actually, I tend to enjoy soy too.)

Glad to see Janis is using an environmentally correct shopping bag.

Soylent Green, anyone?

I heard that there’s a recipe that can make meat taste just exactly like tofu.

I know sheep can be raised on kelp (algae), have been for centuries.

I imagine cattle can too. This is just in response to the idea that rainforests have to be cleared to raise the plants to feed the cattle.

So it was…

Health food isn’t healthy. The rule is simple: If God designed the food you can eat it, if not it’s going to kill you slowly.

To keep from needing to take a statin I ate vegan during the week for lunch. I would make myself a soy burger – quicker than a beef burger and no mess in the toaster oven. Then husband quit his job and we go every day to Wendys for lunch – junior burger plain for me. My cholesterol is up and every visit now I have to refuse to take a statin.

Then again, the soy in the soy burgers (and soy cheese) may be the reason my thyroid started into the low territory.

Jeez, there have been plant-based burgers in mainstream grocery stores for over a decade now…they aren’t some new, radical thing! (Boca Burgers, Morningstar, plus so many new brands in the last 3 or 4 years!) And aren’t these guys supposed to be adventurous, counter-cultural ex-hippies?

YUCK!