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Although in some parts of the world you’re allowed to eat chicken even though they are warm-blooded đŸ„

Now, the real question that is on everybody’s mind is if you created a genetically modified cold-blooded sea cow, if could you eat the cow.
 
And yet the uncooked impossible burger “meat” is $8 a pound at the supermarket

 
I don’t get the fuss. I’ve eaten veggie burgers for years. They’ve been around for years.

Oh wait, it is a marketing campaign. Sort of like the old “where’s the beef” Wendy’s commercial.
 
Eat more fish
vegetables
fruits
nuts
whole grains
plenty of olive oil on your salads
eat red meat maybe a few times a month
you’ll be healthier and live longer.
 
sallybutler said:
I don’t get the fuss. I’ve eaten veggie burgers for years. They’ve been around for years.
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“The fuss” is about a new type of vegetarian burger that tastes and feels much more like meat than what used to be available. It’s also a whole lot less natural, as it turns out. It’s only been in America for a short while, and in Denmark it’s all new!
 
Pitcairn17 said:
I find this illogical and unconvincing. If meat were just forbidden on Fridays because it was a luxury, then most people in an agricultural working class society as Europe was when the fast was implemented wouldn’t be eating meat regularly anyway, so forbidding it on a certain day would neither be penitential for most, nor would it impact the majority of the faithful.
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To be a luxury doesn’t mean that few people have it often, it just means that it’s the best stuff. It was the perfect penitential food item: luxurious and commonly eaten but not a huge percentage of most people’s meals in a pre-industrial society.

Back when I was living on collard greens and black-eyed peas, those bits of pork belly and chitlins that were always floating around in there certainly counted as luxury items.
 
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TheMortenBay said:
a new type of vegetarian burger that tastes and feels much more like meat
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I had one and gagged. To me it felt like the culinary version of the Uncanny Valley effect in AI theory: robots that look too much like humans just end up being real creepy.

Likewise, tasting and feeling the texture of meat when you know it’s plant matter just made me feel very off.

But I’m perfectly fine with tofu and other East Asian meat substitutes because, for the most part, they’re about as “meat-like” as my Bible (but still tasty in their own right).
 
I’m also a bit surprised that the actual content of the “burger” isn’t under more scrutiny since the whole point of the vegan burger is a reaction to the ‘undesirable’ meat content of a real burger.

The veggie burger is completely devoid of any nutrition whatsoever. At least a beef burger has iron in it. It makes me wonder what exactly is in this veggie burger anyway, besides sodium.
 
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I tend to agree with this. Yes, it isn’t meat, so you could technically eat it on Friday, but that seems to be following the letter and not the spirit of the law.
 
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There used to be a US chain with a grilled black bean veggie burger, that was very good and I often ate it.

Yes, vegetarian meat substitutes are fitting for the times you abstain from meat, because they are not meat of a warm blooded animals
 
Vegetarianism - yuk! Veganism even worse!

Nothing I like better than a big juicy steak. I will always be a meat eater.
 
The impossible burger is actually quite good. I’d say about 85% convincing.
 
In the USA it’s been out for a while. It’s called the “Impossible Whopper” here. (“Rebel Burger” would make everybody associate it with the Confederate South and yell Racism.)

I already ate one on a meatless Friday so I’d say it’s fine. It’s a soy burger basically.
It tastes okay. Plant-based food that tastes like meat isn’t any big news if one has eaten things like Asian seitan.
If you do not eat soy on a regular basis, the digestive tract upset you may suffer from eating this thing will also add a slight extra bit of penance for you.
I have returned to my usual Friday staples such as tuna salad sandwiches, McDonald’s Filet-o-Fish, and cheese and veggie pizza.
 
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SPBlitz said:
I tend to agree with this. Yes, it isn’t meat, so you could technically eat it on Friday, but that seems to be following the letter and not the spirit of the law.
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Yup. Thus, “Lobster sends you to Heaven, but a hot dog sends you to Hell,” as I once heard. Given Western affluence, fish is hardly penitential anymore. Perhaps Friday abstinence should be tightened to exclude certain technically legal foods.
 
That’s the thing with labels like “vegan”. It has become a marketing technique to capture a niche audience. Gone are the days of the label having to do with health consciousness and everything to do with marketing.
 
Pitcairn17 said:
Perhaps Friday abstinence should be tightened to exclude certain technically legal foods.
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Given that probably at least 75 percent of Catholics in USA already ignore the practice of Friday abstinence outside of Lent anyway, I doubt that the exclusion of lobster or whatever would make much of a dent. I also doubt that the average Catholic is going, “Oh, it’s Friday, let’s go blow money on expensive fish” unless they live someplace like Maine where lobster is everywhere because fishermen catch them all day for a living (and it isn’t considered a luxury food there, for that reason).

Average Catholic who wants to abstain is more likely to order the giant size veggie pizza from Dominos. It’s cheap, it’s available, and it feeds one family or maybe one large hungry person.
 
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1ke said:
There is NO Church requirement that our meatless meal “cost less than” a meal with meat.
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You are correct but it’s important to understand context and why we do things. It helps to maintain a good spirit instead of people who circumvent rules to skirt consequences.
 
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