The Impossible Whopper

[JamesMiehoff]

I Used to love BK. I enjoyed the Whopper and they had another that was trying to be a quarterpounder but is now extinct.

And then in the mid '90s they decided to reduce costs and added something to the burger meat. Something that my stomach simply cannot tolerate. I burp it up literally for 2 days.

So I switched to their chicken sandwiches. Until the food poisoning episode. Then I switched to their salads. Eat 2 times and then hit the food poisoning lottery again.

I would like to try the impossible burger, but I can't make myself go in the door.

By the way, the lines on the burger are painted on. According to a friend who was a manager at BK, they come from the factory like that. They toss them on the grill in the back and put them in warming pots on the assembly islands. The ones that go through the "flame broiler" are tossed. They are there just to give off the smell.

James

 

[SamScribble]

I love a good burger. But I've never found a store-bought one that was half as good as a good homemade. Mind you, the last time I went searching was probably 40 years ago.

 

[colddiesel]

I have never sampled either BK or KFC but we have a thing here called Hungry Jacks which is similar to Maccas or BK. Frequent travel in Asia has made me a bit of an addict to Asian fast food.

For aficionados of food poisoning India has the super bugs to take on the World - though Morocco is a close second.

 

[Hypoxia]

Kitchen Sink Burger: A sink is where you stand so that, as you stuff your lips with fleshy joy (plus tomato), juice dripping from your elbows has a target.

Fastfooderies have good reason not to provide the best. Besides economics. But a Kitchen-Sink-Burger chain with plenty of tubs -- or nude clientele and outdoor showers -- could that beat the Kaintucky Kernal?

Our best was at a mom-n-pop grill in a tiny rural town next to the cattle range that supplied their beef via a local butcher. Our next best (that I recall) are at the redneck / biker burgeria down the road from us. A street wagon in Durango, Mexico did damn well too.

Meanwhile, I see the Impossible future. Impossible will be Mandatory. Plants will be gene-tweaked to produce beefy-porky-birdy-moosey-doggy-human-textured and -flavored proteins with no critter-bits but bacteria. A few food animals will survive in zoos... until brain enhancements let them talk and swear at us. Carnivores will still want to eat us. Stay out of the bear cage.

 

[AloneTooLong]

Impossible Burger sounds terrible. Whataburger all the way!

 

[Hypoxia]

Impossible Burger sounds terrible. Whataburger all the way!

Search says, "No locations found within 100 miles." The nearest is maybe 800 miles away. Mr Beefy's is just down the road. Slurp slurp.

 

[jehoram]

I have never sampled either BK or KFC but we have a thing here called Hungry Jacks which is similar to Maccas or BK. )

I think that Hungry Jacks is the same chain as Jack in the Box in the US.

As a Californian, I'm partial to In'n'Out for fast food burgers. Inexpensive and their fries are good, too. I mean, you can see them peel and slice the spuds right there in the store.

 

[Hypoxia]

As a Californian, I'm partial to In'n'Out for fast food burgers. Inexpensive and their fries are good, too. I mean, you can see them peel and slice the spuds right there in the store.

The nearest In-n-Outs are a couple hours away. Some are in our regular orbits -- but 1) we're not in a roadfood hurry then and 2) better offerings are nearby. Like Broderick's Roadhouse (est. 1893, now in Folsom). We often split a big fat Johnny Cash burger with fried egg aboard, fine meaty Bahn-Mi fries on the side, a tall dark ale each to wash'em down. Yum.

I fondly recall fast-fooderies in urban California with near-meatless burgers from 1970 onward: Munchies. Modest mostly-soy burgers cost a dime each with refillable sodas a quarter. Get stuffed for a buck!

I foresee a New World Order where eateries sponsor autonomous taxis dispensing so-called-food. For your commute, do you flag a Wendy's-Lyft, Roundtable-Uber, Subway-Tesla (boring!), Sonic-Zify, In-N-Out-InGogo, or what? Will Beamers blow you breakfast burritos? Expect booze, too.

The food revolution has barely begun. Do NASA pill-only diets loom? Will Jack's or McD's first develop a wearable burger IV pump? Stick a chosen 'food' tube in its DRM-limited corporate armband for instant nourishment.

Further development: personalized tissue-growth tank for cloning your own flesh to devour. It's not self-cannibalism -- more like booger-eating. Or clone part(s) of your lover(s). You-Burgers and Me-Burgers, coming soon.

 

[eroticstoryspinner]

Would it be possible for posters to photograph their impossible whoppers and possibly post their whopper photos here? Impossible whopper stories would be welcome as well.

You are asking a lot of Photoshop.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

Okay, who has tried the Impossible Whopper? What did you think?

Personally, I tried it and couldn't tell the difference. Really.

I've had The Impossible Whopper a couple of times. Like you, I couldn't tell the difference, either. Glad you pointed out it that it's still junk food.

Since it has no health real health benefits, I suppose the other reason to consider it would be to lessen the impact of big beef on our environment. I'm a bit suspect of that part, too. For example, the production of electric cars (especially lithium-ion batteries) pretty much removes any benefit the car provides from not burning fossil fuels.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

I'll always prefer a local place to franchise food. Our local burger/tex mex place has a delicious double cheeseburger with the works, fries and a drink for a little over $6.
Or you can get the Clogger which is a quarter lb burger dipped in their onion ring batter(they make their own onion rings that are the best I've ever had) and deep fried, served with nacho cheese and chili on it. I always get an order of onion rings and top mine with an onion ring too.

About ten years ago on a trip to Memphis we had to try Dyers, it was so good!
http://www.dyersonbeale.com/

When I road trip we always find a local place. It's just always better.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I've had The Impossible Whopper a couple of times. Like you, I couldn't tell the difference, either. Glad you pointed out it that it's still junk food.

Since it has no health real health benefits, I suppose the other reason to consider it would be to lessen the impact of big beef on our environment. I'm a bit suspect of that part, too. For example, the production of electric cars (especially lithium-ion batteries) pretty much removes any benefit the car provides from not burning fossil fuels.

Ah, ah, ah, that's pretty close to being political in nature.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

Ah, ah, ah, that's pretty close to being political in nature.

LOL! I can assure you it wasn't meant that way. Without a clear health benefit, I'm unsure of the point. It's my understanding that The Impossible Whopper isn't considered vegan because it's cooked on the same equipment used for beef. If it's not vegan, and there isn't a clear health benefit, then what's the point? Just to be different? Capitalize on the latest fad/buzzword? Perhaps. To gain the extra press? IDK

 

[Hypoxia]

Without a clear health benefit, I'm unsure of the point. It's my understanding that The Impossible Whopper isn't considered vegan because it's cooked on the same equipment used for beef. If it's not vegan, and there isn't a clear health benefit, then what's the point? Just to be different? Capitalize on the latest fad/buzzword? Perhaps. To gain the extra press? IDK

Health is irrelevant here except that Whoppers (sans cheese) aren't such killers as anything superfat. They still cost less than avocado toast, or so I'm told. Would a burger of your own cloned flesh be healthier and tastier?

I already mentioned how This Is Just The Start. Agribiz execs think ersatz will destroy the beef business. Biotech wizzes will surely whop-up more pseudo-meats. Eat elephant steak without hurting Dumbo! But they really should work on seafood replacements before the seas are scraped clean. Impossible Surf-n-Turf will be here anytime now.

Until then it's fads, buzzwords, marketing, the usual. Wait for the Star Wars tie-in.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

I've had The Impossible Whopper a couple of times. Like you, I couldn't tell the difference, either. Glad you pointed out it that it's still junk food.

Since it has no health real health benefits, I suppose the other reason to consider it would be to lessen the impact of big beef on our environment. I'm a bit suspect of that part, too. For example, the production of electric cars (especially lithium-ion batteries) pretty much removes any benefit the car provides from not burning fossil fuels.

I was curious so I looked up the why. And this is what I found.
“Health-wise I don’t think it makes much of a difference,” Sharon Zarabi RD, director of the Bariatric Program at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, told Healthline.

“I wouldn’t define it as healthier, I would define it more as ethical,” she said.

The original Whopper clocks in at 660 calories (more than half of them coming from fat), 40 grams of fat, and 28 grams of protein. The Impossible Whopper comes in at 630 calories (again, half from fat), 34 grams of fat, and 25 grams of protein.

The Impossible Whopper does have significantly lower cholesterol — 10 milligrams compared to 90 milligrams — but has more sodium at 1,240 milligrams compared to 980 milligrams.

I swiped that from here if anyone wants to read the whole article.
https://www.healthline.com/health-n...sible-whopper-healthy#Is-fast-food-changing?-

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I was curious so I looked up the why. And this is what I found.
“Health-wise I don’t think it makes much of a difference,” Sharon Zarabi RD, director of the Bariatric Program at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, told Healthline.

“I wouldn’t define it as healthier, I would define it more as ethical,” she said.

The original Whopper clocks in at 660 calories (more than half of them coming from fat), 40 grams of fat, and 28 grams of protein. The Impossible Whopper comes in at 630 calories (again, half from fat), 34 grams of fat, and 25 grams of protein.

The Impossible Whopper does have significantly lower cholesterol — 10 milligrams compared to 90 milligrams — but has more sodium at 1,240 milligrams compared to 980 milligrams.

I swiped that from here if anyone wants to read the whole article.
https://www.healthline.com/health-n...sible-whopper-healthy#Is-fast-food-changing?-

I mentioned all that in my original post. Unless your on a sodium low diet, it's a toss up which would be better for you. Of course if your a vegan... it's also a toss up which would be better for you.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

I mentioned all that in my original post. Unless your on a sodium low diet, it's a toss up which would be better for you. Of course if your a vegan... it's also a toss up which would be better for you.

Damn, I guess this shows how shitty my memory really is!

 

[Blind_Justice]

America's end won't be thanks to a thermonuclear exchange, bio-engineered plague or civil war. Capitalism and processed foods will do you in, mark my words. One of the reasons the big transatlantic trade treaty is never gonna work. We Europeans have standards. Regulations. Some utterly infuriating ones, to be sure, but at least we don't have to deal with Pink Slime in our burger patties. Or sugar-coated fries. (I mean, come the fuck on, who does that to poor, defenseless potato carvings?)

Not that it matters in the end. McDonalds over here is terrible. The last time I ate there, my fries were cold and soggy, my burger was dry and cold and my soft drink was warmer than the food, all melted ice with a hint of coke flavor. I'm surprised they are still in business. Maybe lack of competition keeps them afloat over here, no fucking clue. I've been less disgusted eating cow tongue in Bavaria, seriously.

 

[NotWise]

Not that it matters in the end. McDonalds over here is terrible. The last time I ate there, my fries were cold and soggy, my burger was dry and cold and my soft drink was warmer than the food, all melted ice with a hint of coke flavor. I'm surprised they are still in business. Maybe lack of competition keeps them afloat over here, no fucking clue. I've been less disgusted eating cow tongue in Bavaria, seriously.

I haven't eaten at McDonald's since summer 1976, when I had a milk shake. The last time I had a burger or fries from McD's was 1971.

Burgers are good, but I only eat a few a year, and I make most of those myself. For the last few years, the ones I didn't make came from Wendy's or Five Guys.

 

[Hypoxia]

Beware the Republican-Reptilioid plot to colonize Earth with toothy, hungry ET aliens! They've a two-part program:

1) Global warming to transform the hydrosphere to suit ETs.
2) McFood to fatten the human population as food animals.

Late-stage capitalism compounds this plot. Watch where corporations lead. Ask, "Who or what benefits?" If you're more delectable to aliens, well...

Impossible Foods may be a counter-attack. So will cloning human flesh for consumption. But will those moves deter the Reptilioids? Would they rather eat Chinese? (Not skinny North Koreans, probably.)

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Beware the Republican-Reptilioid plot to colonize Earth with toothy, hungry ET aliens! They've a two-part program:

1) Global warming to transform the hydrosphere to suit ETs.
2) McFood to fatten the human population as food animals.

Late-stage capitalism compounds this plot. Watch where corporations lead. Ask, "Who or what benefits?" If you're more delectable to aliens, well...

Impossible Foods may be a counter-attack. So will cloning human flesh for consumption. But will those moves deter the Reptilioids? Would they rather eat Chinese? (Not skinny North Koreans, probably.)

There was a Twilight Zone episode about aliens coming to earth and giving man a technology that would cure all his diseases and help to grow more and better crops... things like that. The main alien carried a big book around with him and it wasn't until the end that we translated the title.

"How to Prepare Man" it was a cook book.

 

[Hypoxia]

There was a Twilight Zone episode about aliens coming to earth and giving man a technology that would cure all his diseases and help to grow more and better crops... things like that. The main alien carried a big book around with him and it wasn't until the end that we translated the title.

"How to Prepare Man" it was a cook book.

Even before then, Ferdinand Feghoot escaped shipwreck on a planet where a slender humanoid master race raised a herd species of witless humanoids with quite enlarged buttocks, prized as delicasies. Ferdinand recounted his time on the remote planet. He felt quite homesick at first but was given a sense of belonging when he saw a tome that occupied every alien kitchen: The Fanny Farmer's Cook Book.

 

[MahoganyAngel]

I tried Burger King's Impossible Burger back in May/June and I haven't returned to it. I am not big on the texture. It does have the texture of something that's plant based so the patty did not really stand out. I do not like mayonnaise so I substitute that for their zesty dipping sauce and everything just seemed to turn into a sloppy/mushy mess. The taste of the patty did not have that famous Burger King's flame broiled/grilled taste so that's where the patty definitely fell short for me.

The Impossible Whopper did not light up my world, but for people that turned vegan/vegetarian or for those wanting an alternative choice while visiting the fast food chain I am sure it will suffice.

Just to make sure it wasn't a fluke from one burger place, I will visit another location just to get an additional experience.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I tried Burger King's Impossible Burger back in May/June and I haven't returned to it. I am not big on the texture. It does have the texture of something that's plant based so the patty did not really stand out. I do not like mayonnaise so I substitute that for their zesty dipping sauce and everything just seemed to turn into a sloppy/mushy mess. The taste of the patty did not have that famous Burger King's flame broiled/grilled taste so that's where the patty definitely fell short for me.

The Impossible Whopper did not light up my world, but for people that turned vegan/vegetarian or for those wanting an alternative choice while visiting the fast food chain I am sure it will suffice.

Just to make sure it wasn't a fluke from one burger place, I will visit another location just to get an additional experience.

I didn't get that at all, it tasted and felt the same as a beef whopper, maybe even a little thicker the the patty they put on the regular whopper.

Burger King doesn't have a secret sauce.

 

[jaF0]

"How to Prepare Man" it was a cook book.

The title was 'To Serve Man'.