• avoid_the_noid [any, mirror/your pronouns]
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    2 months ago

    I bet they still have impossible burgers, nobody ever orders those. I had one when they first introduced them and it was ice cold, like they took the patty straight out the freezer and put it on a bun lmao

    Like alright yeah I get it

    Kinda wild in this hellscape that there aren't any dedicated vegetarian fast food restaurants. I feel like they gotta know that these would make money, yeah? Vegetarian food is easy as shit to make and you could upcharge the shit out of it.

    • godlessworm [comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      allah forgive me for coming off like im defending a corporation but the most american thing about me is how often i go to burger king for impossible whoppers and i've never had a bad one. those mfs are good. granted i haven't had real meat in years and years so maybe i'm not the best judge of a good burger

      • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]
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        2 months ago

        have you tried the Beyond Meat branded products? I don't think they have them at BK and I've only had impossible stuff like once or twice but IMO the beyond shit really nails beef flavor

      • StillNoLeftLeft [none/use name, she/her]
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        2 months ago

        Burger King veggie burger and nuggets are the best tasting options in my country too. I don't much eat this stuff, but if I want an easy burger, it's the plant based Whopper for sure.

    • Owl [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, vegetarian restaurants are always like:

      • Salad

      • Smoothie

      • Overpriced meat substitute in small proportions

      When what I actually want is roast root vegetables (fine to leave on a hotplate for hours), roast brussels sprouts or broccoli (takes 7 minutes in an air fryer), grilled corn, maybe a slab of seitan.

      • MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 months ago

        What do I need to do to get a nice Bean Whopper? Give me a bean burger, throw some fresh greens and ketchup on there, red onion...

      • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]
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        2 months ago

        the college I work at is open to the public if you wanna walk in and pay for my food, too bad I don't wanna dox myself and tell y'all where

    • Lussy [he/him, des/pair]
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      2 months ago

      Vegetarian food is easy as shit to make

      This thinking is why dog shit tasting vegetarian food is rampant, and why the meat eaters get free reign to make fun of it. Vegetarian food isn’t easy. A tasty burger is easier to make than a good okra dish. Shit, making grilled potatoes is harder than making steak

      • avoid_the_noid [any, mirror/your pronouns]
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        2 months ago

        Vegetarian food isn’t easy.

        Can't tell if you're joking but vegetarian food absolutely is easy to make. We're not talking about some intricate eggplant or okra dish. Just a simple beans and rice with some fixings. It doesn't have to be complicated. There's a small franchise called Whole Bowl that is based out of Portland with about a dozen locations throughout the US. It has bowls of various sizes with a base of black beans and brown rice and it's simple to make and their most expensive bowl with everything on it is like $9.

        You could argue "just make it at home if it's that simple" and yeah that's a good point, but when you're out and about and hungry, it's convenient, filling, cheap, and doesn't leave you feeling like shit. Not sure why saying vegetarian food is easy elicited that kinda response tho but alright bean

      • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]
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        2 months ago

        Vegetarian (vegan) food actually is really easy to make, you just apply the same principles you do cooking literally anything else but you just skip all the animal products. Like you just have to add weird shit like mushroom powder or yeast for cheesy or umami flavors

        The reason the other cooks at my job make dogshit vegan food is 1) they're just simply not as good as I am at cooking and constantly ignore the things I say that they could do better and 2) they phone it in on top of that because "nobody's gonna eat it" because they've never heard what a fucking self fulfilled prophecy is

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      I was rolling it over in my head one time and I came to the conclusion that any type of food that was healthy or otherwise targeted to people conscious of the food they eat would struggle. If you care about your diet, you care about the quality of ingredients and that's a pain in the ass compared to the shit they put in food in the typical fast food chain. Then the people you serve are still going to complain.

      So you end up in a situation where nobody is paying your prices to source good ingredients, you're targeting a small niche of the people around you, and you don't get to just open a franchise + turn your brain off. It seems like you'd have to ask for support more than you could profit off of the venture by way of making a product people want.

    • hector@lemmy.today
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      2 months ago

      Veggie burgers could be a big hit too, because they could mass produce them to be cheap, made out of soy and lentil and whatever else. You could actually get a full meal for 5 dollars again with them still making a profit, selling you fried potato and veggie burger, potato is dirt cheap too.

      The veggie burger could be better than whatever it is they sell now, I don't know what fast food burger is, but I'm pretty sure it's not "hamburger," as I know it. Some type of loafed beef perhaps, made into a slurry, skin and bones and organs and hair, then cast into loaves with a binding agent and "natural flavors," (which means unnatura.)

      • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]
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        2 months ago

        i'm pretty sure they don't grind hair into meat patties because then there would be noticeable hair in the meat patties

        keratin is tough, that's why your hair sits in the shower drain for years until you clean it out

        • hector@lemmy.today
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          2 months ago

          Ha ha, maybe not, I bet they've a way to liquify it though, maybe an acid they then neutralize, maybe a solvent they draw off after. And or throwing the entire cow into a liquifier, to get it into microscopic sized chunks, maybe whatever chemical treatments, then a binder and put it into patties.

          Even without the hair though, they are definitely using a lot of stuff that is not meat, and if there was plant material in there it seems someone would've tested it and told us.

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    What is a king without his burgers, but a fool with no burgerspain

    • huf [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      his kingdom is fallen, he must now go into the waste places and become the burger ranger

      • ClimateStalin [they/them, he/him]
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        2 months ago

        They’re 100% gonna be running at a loss for the day though, fast food places run on relatively thin margins and the cost of wages will outpace revenue if they’re not able to sell their primary item

        • microfiche [he/him]
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          2 months ago

          That BK is possibly a franchise too. Even thinner margins.

  • batsforpeace [any, any]
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    2 months ago

    phoenix-think 'wot if no borger in borgerland?'

    I guess this is what the right wingers mean when they say western civilization has collapsed