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As someone who currently eats meat but trying to reduce consumption for environmental reasons, I 100% want a vegan burger that tastes like the real deal

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Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Do you try veggie burgers every now and then to see where it’s at, at least?

Because some of them really are good. Or decent at least. Some are less than delicious, but eh.

Definitely they’re improving all the time.

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- 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I do actually, the beyond burger era has been pretty good for upping the game but they’re not quite they’re yet IMO
  
  I’m completely with you that they’re improving though, I think the smash burger style is gonna get there soon
  
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  - Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yeah, definitely improved a ton in the previous decade or so. They’re not quite “there” if you want a burger for like a nice, thick, greasy medium patty in the middle. Like if you want to focus on the meat at all, then yeah, they’re not there.
    
    But… if you just want like a fastfood type of burger with more toppings than patty, like a Whopper or something, then I’d say they pretty much are there.
    
    I don’t remember if it’s exactly the beyond meat that burger king uses, but they have a nice vegan patty. One time they had Whoppers on offer, 3€ a piece, vegan and beef. Max 5 per person. I ordered 3 vegan and 2 beef I think. We ate them with my brother, and couldn’t tell which was which. Turns out we probably had only them vegan burgers, but eh, didn’t seem to matter that much.
    
    So for replacing one of those thin, well done mcd/burger king generic patties? I think they’re there. For replacing a patty made out of fresh meat and done to a proper medium? Yeah, they’re not there.
    
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