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Posted: 19 November 2019 at 12:27pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

As I have grown older, I have found I have increasing problems with red meat. Severe GI distress. So, sadly, I’ve cut out my consumption. (Not so easy with a Five Guys just down the road.)

As an experiment, the other day I decidedly to see if a Burger King “Impossible Whopper” would sate my burger cravings. It did—but with the same results.

Now, THIS.

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Gundars Berzins
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Posted: 19 November 2019 at 12:34pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

I hope you find a solution to your distress JB.
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Posted: 19 November 2019 at 12:37pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

A vegan co-worker guessed there would be no way they would use a separate grill and didn't even try it.

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Scott Wagahoff
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Posted: 19 November 2019 at 1:09pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

My wife has a very similar problem with red meat and also guessed that Burger King likely used the same grill.  I'm not familiar with the options near you, but if there's a Burger Fi, they have the Beyond Burger there. They do keep separate and I personally like it better anyway.  So much so that we make them at home all the time now.
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Vishwas Aragam
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Posted: 19 November 2019 at 3:42pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply

As a lifelong vegetarian, I figure a restaurant that mostly serves meat
wouldn’t cook vegan/vegetarian options on a separate grill. Same with
fried foods in different vats. I go along with “ignorance is bliss” if it’s
something I want to eat or am limited for options.
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Eric Sofer
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Posted: 19 November 2019 at 6:17pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply

That's tough, Mr. Byrne. Have you tried papaya enzyme, or some other digestive aid? Available at your local health food store.

Or is it just not worth the effort any more?
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Peter Hicks
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Posted: 19 November 2019 at 7:40pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply

I grilled the Beyond Meat burgers at home one night, and found they taste exactly like any other processed frozen burger.   Expensive, but nobody died to make it.
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Posted: 19 November 2019 at 8:47pm | IP Logged | 8 post reply

I've been a vegetarian (I eat dairy) for almost a decade, and I'm glad that the rise in more-than-servicable fake meat ("feat?") has corresponded with that.  I take it as a given that the Impossible Whopper is grilled on a meat grill, and the person who brought the lawsuit should have known that and simply either a) not eat it, or b) eat it and leave it alone.  It's pretty much an unqualifiedly good thing that BK another national chains are doing this - less meat production is less meat production.  Why give them a hard time about it?

The Impossible Burger is definitely not what I'd consider to be a healthy alternative to meat.  It's basically ten pounds of fat and salt in a quarter pound package, which is why it tastes so darn good (although the Beyond Burger is my personal favorite of the fake burgers out there).  It's a godsend if you're like me and have eschewed meat for ethical reasons, but not of any real use if you're trying to cut back on cholesterol and all the other stuff that makes life worth living.
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Trevor Smith
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Posted: 20 November 2019 at 8:30am | IP Logged | 9 post reply

A side note about all these meat alternative products:
the (vegetarian) spouse of an acquaintance recently had
a heart attack. In looking at the the labelling on a
lot of the meat substitute products in their
refrigerator and freezer, he near had another heart
attack when he took a good look at the sodium content.
Now, after having gone vegetarian for his health years
ago, he's talking about slowly re-introducing meat into
his/their diet - for his health. Long winded way of
saying "Check the labels!".
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Dave Kopperman
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Posted: 20 November 2019 at 10:03am | IP Logged | 10 post reply

Yep.  When I first became vegetarian I got egg salad sandwiches every day for lunch since it was the only really palatable vegetarian item on the cafeteria menu.  About a month later I had my annual check up and my cholesterol had spiked like a crazed '49er.  There's not really an owner's manual for the human body, and traversing the change from omnivore to vegetarian has no clear direction to follow (at least not in the U.S.).  

Of course, common sense says "yes, egg salad every day will raise your cholesterol, idiot," but believe it or not, that's hindsight.
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Bryan Eacret
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Posted: 20 November 2019 at 12:12pm | IP Logged | 11 post reply

How is eating egg considered vegan? It comes from an animal. 

My question is not meant to be snarky. I'm just curious. 

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Eric Lund
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Posted: 20 November 2019 at 12:17pm | IP Logged | 12 post reply

No death involved
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