The last year or so has seen a massive increase in the number of companies offering plant based burgers and other plant based meat alternatives.
Impossible Burger and Beyond Burger are two of them.
It’s well reported that meat farming is incredibly bad for the environment, so I welcome the technological advances in this arena.
Seeing as I’m wandering the streets of Central London this evening, and given the spirit of the Extinction Rebellion protests this evening I thought I’d give one a go!
I originally intended to just grab a regular burger, but saw one of the new plant based ones on the menu for the first time. I’ve seen loads of vids of YouTubers in the states trying the Impossible Burger, so was excited to give this ago.
I got the Beyond Burger from Honest Burger in Covent Garden. £11.50 later for that and some chips and I’m really pleasantly surprised!
First bite was super weird, got a tinge of an odd flavour. And the burger also looked reeally red in the cross section. Which I found disconcerting even though I knew it wasn’t meat! Although it might be partly due to the lighting in here.
After that though, texture and taste was great. Was a really solid burger. Decent chips too.
I’ll definitely go out of my way to try more of this type of food in the future. Both to experiment and to try and do my bit for reducing my meat consumption,
What do y’all think about these new meat substitutes? Will you be cutting back on your meat?
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Impossible Burger and Beyond Burger are two of them.
It’s well reported that meat farming is incredibly bad for the environment, so I welcome the technological advances in this arena.
Seeing as I’m wandering the streets of Central London this evening, and given the spirit of the Extinction Rebellion protests this evening I thought I’d give one a go!
I originally intended to just grab a regular burger, but saw one of the new plant based ones on the menu for the first time. I’ve seen loads of vids of YouTubers in the states trying the Impossible Burger, so was excited to give this ago.
I got the Beyond Burger from Honest Burger in Covent Garden. £11.50 later for that and some chips and I’m really pleasantly surprised!
First bite was super weird, got a tinge of an odd flavour. And the burger also looked reeally red in the cross section. Which I found disconcerting even though I knew it wasn’t meat! Although it might be partly due to the lighting in here.
After that though, texture and taste was great. Was a really solid burger. Decent chips too.
I’ll definitely go out of my way to try more of this type of food in the future. Both to experiment and to try and do my bit for reducing my meat consumption,
What do y’all think about these new meat substitutes? Will you be cutting back on your meat?
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