Impossible nuggets are pretty wild

I had them air fried before, and if you really inspect them and think about it you can tell they aren't chicken (from the texture but the taste is identical IMO). But I had them fried in a deep fryer this weekend and they were indistinguishable from real chicken nuggets. I am flexitarian so it's not like I haven't eaten a chicken nugget in years, they are legit. Definitely recommend trying them if you are trying to cut your meat consumption or even if you are just curious.

They make animal shaped and spicy versions too

ozoned,
@ozoned@beehaw.org avatar

Actually just bought a bunch of different impossible meats. The chicken nuggets are GREAT. Absolutely buying more of those, I don’t care if they’re a buck more for a bit less. They’re so good.

The steak tips, wife couldn’t eat them. She doesn’t like fatty meat and they REALLY had the consistency of fatty steak tips. I’d eat them, but meh.

Had an impossible burger the other day at a restaurant and it was REALLY good as well. I had one waaaaaaaaaaay back when they started at one of the fast food places and it was just like chalky. This was REALLY good. Probably going to have that when I want a burger and they have that as an option.

I am NOT a vegan or vegetarian or any of that. I just think if I can do this little thing to get away from meat, maybe it’ll help. The fact it tastes quite good is a win.

eggshappedegg,

Personally I feel that plant based food is hurting itself by trying to imitate meat.

Instead of trying to make minced meat out of vegetable, just Calle DIY minced vigetables. Or chickpea nuggets. Or oatjuice. This way you don’t have to compare them to meat, milk or any other product. Just value it for what it is

Kindajustlikewhat,

I would love to eat meat replacements on a more regular basis, but impossible and beyond burgers are more expensive than actual meat where I live. So I just don’t buy them. If the technology /economies of scale actually manage to make them cheaper than meat, I’d replace 80% of my meat consumption.

luckless,
@luckless@beehaw.org avatar

In Canada prices have been dropping drastically recently. Lately there are sales for the beyond meat ground beef for ~6.50 CAD. I’m sure it’s only a matter of time until its comparable everywhere.

chinpokomon,

I grabbed some the last time I saw them in the store. Still waiting for them to come back.

Idrunkenlysignedup,

Not to sound like an asshole, but tf is a flexitarian? I personally mostly eat veggies but meat isn’t off the table, I think of myself as an omnivore. Am I missing something?

Also, Beyond is my favorite veggie-meat - it’s close enough but not quite spot on. Impossible doesn’t taste quite right to me but I can’t put my finger on why.

BarrelAgedBoredom,

Flexitarian is apparently someone who has a primarily vegetarian/plant based diet but will still occasionally eat meat. This is a new term for me too and it’s apparently what I am. I’ve been describing myself as a “part time vegetarian” lol.

Also impossible burgers are superior to beyond and I will die on this hill. Beyond is better at everything else though. Their ground breakfast sausage is 🤌 perfection

frogfruit,

This term has been around for decades and still, very few people know what it means. As someone who eats 0 animal products 90+% of the time, it’s just easier to say “mostly vegan.”

Some people will nitpick and say that I mean plant based instead of vegan but the general public knows what vegan means and do not think of plant based as synonymous with “vegan in diet only” so I’ll continue to use what doesn’t require a ton of explanation.

Idrunkenlysignedup,

it’s just easier to say “mostly vegan.”

I dated a girl who really didn’t care for meat or cheese and was 98% vegan. Her mom was/is a militant vegan, so growing up she just never developed a taste for meat or dairy. She had no problem eating it, but it was far from her go to - the best steak in the world would have been ‘meh’ to her cause it’s wasn’t her jam.

I get what you’re saying tho. If I understand right, a flexitarian is a vegetarian/vegan by preferred diet but not unwaveringly.

frogfruit, (edited )

Yes, a flexitarian is a part-time veg but still sometimes eats animal products. A vegan does not consume or use any animal products for ethical reasons. If you consume a vegan diet but still buy animal products to wear, clean with, etc, then you consume a plant-based diet but are not technically vegan.

The problem with saying plant-based is that it implies “based on plants” with no rigid definition. Some people think it means “vegetarian but not vegan” or just “mostly plants.” I have even seen products that contain animal products that I am allergic to marketed as “plant-based,” so it’s just not a good term for me.

Idrunkenlysignedup,

FWIW I think impossible is closer in texture but further in taste. I’m pretty open to meat alternatives but something about Impossible just doesn’t taste quite right to me (not bad, just off somehow).

But that’s just me, I can’t hate on what others prefer since neither are actually bad imho

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.one avatar

Impossible burgers are the flip side… they don’t taste like beef, but man, the texture is spot on and good enough to fool my tongue.

Beyond has a weird, kind of nutty, aftertaste I don’t care for, not so with Impossible.

argentcorvid,
@argentcorvid@midwest.social avatar

Idk I had an Impossible Whopper at BK when they first started doing them, and I couldn’t yell the difference.

breakfastburrito,

I can’t really taste the difference between beef and impossible burger IF the burger is a cm or so thick. If you tried to make a restaurant burger (2-3cm thick, rare/med rare) I think the difference would be pretty noticeable. It’s good in ground beef recipes, too (like pasta sauce or stuffed squash). I’m so happy this alternative is available. Big fan! It’s not that much more than beef I think? I dunno it all seems pretty cheap compared to fish/coffee/beer/wine.

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.one avatar

The only real drawback is the sodium content:

everydayhealth.com/…/are-beyond-burgers-impossibl…

breakfastburrito,

One persons drawback is another persons “salt of life” haha. Yea they aren’t healthy, that’s for sure. Tasty though!

reverendsteveii,

when I tried the impossible whopper I got a regular one too and couldn’t tell the difference. it really is legit.

favrion,

youtu.be/CTJj6Gjw7YU 👀

favrion,

Says that plant-based food is a scam but do with it what you will.

BarrelAgedBoredom,

Is there ever a point made beyond “it has chemicals!!!”? I watched like 5 minutes of it. his editing style is atrocious and overdramatic to the extreme

favrion,

🤷‍♂️

agegamon,

Costco in my area (Portland) occasionally has these, and I always grab 3-4 bags when they’re available. They’re as near as makes no difference to a “real” chicken nugget to me, and that’s saying a-fucking-lot from a meat lover! These get 10/10 for me, onward goes vegan supersession!

pwacata,

Yeah! Those nuggets are my go to quick protein snack. And cholesterol free, to boot.

BRB, gonna make some nuggets now…

Aesthesiaphilia,

I have a pack of these in my freezer and I was thinking of air-frying them, chopping them up, and adding them to a mu shu gai pan or rice stir fry. Think that would work well?

pwacata,

Not OP, but IME the breading tends to fall off when they’re chopped and moved around a bunch, but if you mix sliced air fried ones in at the very end that’d probably turn out pretty well.

TowardsTheFuture,

Should work fine. They also sell patties, I’ve used those to cut to strips for salads or ramen before and it works well.

Personally I like Gardein’s chicken strips that come with teriyaki sauce for stir fry because the sauce is good and those aren’t breaded.

middlemuddle,

I haven’t tried Impossible, but I always have Quorn nuggets in my freezer. If I really think about it, I can tell they’re not chicken since they’re only marginally trying to be. But it’s a nugget, I’m not expecting a sous vide delicacy. Quorn definitely fills any nugget craving I might have.

I’ll check out Impossible, though, out of curiosity.

sat012e,

Man, I used to love Quorn nuggets. Why did you get me thinking about Quorn nuggets again?

middlemuddle,

Quorn

Because they’re delicious and you need to eat them.

frogfruit,

Do they make vegan ones now or do they all still have eggs?

middlemuddle,

It seems they have both vegan and vegetarian. But my internet searching is kind of suggesting that the vegan variety are only available in the UK, which would explain why I’ve never seen them before.

frogfruit,

Ah, that’s good to know. It seems their vegan products have “vegan” printed on the front label, so I’ll have to keep an eye out in case they decide to carry them in the US.

lvl13charlatan,

They are really quite good. I like Nuggs too. I figure if we’re going to eat junk food it may as well not come from factory farmed chickens.

BaroqueInMind,
@BaroqueInMind@kbin.social avatar

I'm interested in trying these. Can anyone recommend the best brand?

blazera,
@blazera@kbin.social avatar

impossible is a brand. they also do really good imitation burgers

TowardsTheFuture,

To add. Impossible is the brand they are talking about in this post. I agree they’re probably the best brand for basically anything they sell. They have burgers (patty and block form), chicken nuggets and patties in both normal and spicy, and breakfast sausage in log or patty form(also spicy/normal). (They also have some microwave meals but those are exactly what you’d expect from microwave meals… so probably don’t.)

Simulate is another brand that sells Simulate Nuggs (also have a spicy version). If for some reason you can’t find impossible but can find these, they’re a very close 2nd.

Beyond is another brand known to make decent stuff. Theirs is fine, definitely edible, but personally find theirs to be worse than the other two brands listed.

Gardein makes a ton of frozen meat substitutes. They’re all overall fine. Not AMAZING, but easy to use in everyday cooking for stuff like stir fries, tacos, etc. maybe slightly under beyond, but I tend to prefer them outside of what I buy Impossible brand stuff for.

treadful,
@treadful@lemmy.zip avatar

I am flexitarian so it’s not like I haven’t eaten a chicken nugget in year…

What?

Ertebolle,

Flexitarian is basically the Michael Pollan diet. "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

Basically, you can still eat meat, you just have to feel bad about it.

pizza_rolls,
@pizza_rolls@kbin.social avatar

Not eating meat/animal products the majority of the time

I would like to go full on vegan but I have sensory issues with food so it's a long work in progress while I find enough vegan options I like

treadful,
@treadful@lemmy.zip avatar

I’m still confused what that has to do with eating a chicken nugget in a year.

LiesSlander,

They’re saying they aren’t vegetarian, so know what real chicken nuggets taste like. OP worried that people might assume they are vegetarian, and therefore might not have a good idea of what chicken nuggets taste like. That sentence is meant to avoid people assuming that.

That’s my best guess anyway.

WndyLady,

The implication is that a vegetarian may have little or no basis for comparison, but OP can speak with some authority.

treadful,
@treadful@lemmy.zip avatar

They could’ve said they’ve eaten a nugget. But instead they implied that being a flexitarian equates to having eaten said nuggets or that it’s so common that anyone who eats meat at all would have eaten a nugget.

It’s a weird implication.

shrugs

Zorque,

That is a really weird thing to take umbrage with.

treadful,
@treadful@lemmy.zip avatar

No umbrage. Was just confused. Zero umbrage though. Umbrage.

TowardsTheFuture,

I mean… yeah most people who eat meat have definitely had a chicken nugget in America at least. Assuming they’re from the US.

treadful,
@treadful@lemmy.zip avatar

If you eat fast food often, I guess? Maybe I’m being a food snob.

TowardsTheFuture,

I mean idk I haven’t eaten meat in ages but yeah they’re cheap and easy, and kids love them.

treadful,
@treadful@lemmy.zip avatar

So far, our sample size of 3 leans against it.

snooggums,
@snooggums@kbin.social avatar

What a stupid, pointless label.

pizza_rolls,
@pizza_rolls@kbin.social avatar

Much like every other time people complain about "labels", it's a quick way to describe things without going into detail.

snooggums,
@snooggums@kbin.social avatar

A label for an arbitrary ratio of eating plant to meat products doesn't convey anything. It does add the need for people to ask what the label means though, which is the opposite of a quick way to describe, especially since the ratio had nothing to do with the topic at hand. Just mentioning that you are comparing them to regular nuggets was enough.

Labels like vegan, vegetarian, and the one where you only eat seafood have meaning. A vegan who hasn't eaten a nugget for years provides some context on their take about taste and texture not being a recent comparison.

pizza_rolls,
@pizza_rolls@kbin.social avatar

I'm not sure why everyone feels the need to ask when we are on the internet.... where Google exists...

I don't know every word either but I look it up instead of complaining about it existing

TowardsTheFuture,

Eh, context clues don’t make it too hard to guess. Google if you wanna make sure you’re not looking stupid. And then tada. No need to upset over.

Aesthesiaphilia,

The issue with "labels" is when, every time you use a label, you end up having to explain what it means anyway. "Flexitarian" might be a good label amongst groups of people who commonly discuss vegetarian/vegan/other diets and understand the vocabulary, but it's confusing to a broader audience. Much like any jargon.

If it's a broadly understood label, it makes sense. If it's a relatively niche one, it's counterproductive.

Zorque,

Broad use doesn't just happen, though. It comes over time. Broadly used labels often start as niche ones.

And a simple google search would likely explain it, it even has its own wikipedia page.

Aesthesiaphilia,

True, and that's an excellent point. It's all about adoption.

Gaywallet,
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This adds nothing to the discussion, this is also a reminder to be nice on our instance

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