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Our city had taste tested them for a while. Not very good

Everything meat now days is all hotdog meat.

I bought some brawts the other day. I've bought that brand many times before.

But now they have the texture of Vienna sausages.
Pure mush.

So nasty I couldn't eat.

My cat wouldnt eat it either.

And I put outside for the feral animals and 2 racoons refused to eat it. Finally a possum stopped and ate a few chunks (I put it on my porch and can see from my couch if they stop by).

I honestly was surprised that the racoons passed. They will usually eat any leftovers I put out.

But that should tell us something.

It's not human food. Not even close.
Only a scavenger animal ate it.

(Also I find it's best to just give the local animals the food cause otherwise they just rip open my trash to get to it. )

Look man.....if you're going to feed and attract the local wildlife ecosystem to your house, the least you can do is set up a series of webcams all over your property.

If Disney is going to stop making new material, and only make live action remakes, then you may as well record live action animals, and do voiceovers!

Disney never made a movie about the outcasts of the animal neighborhood! You can make a movie about possums, and raccoons fueding for territory, and in the end they find some respect for each other as advasaries.

C'mon. Do it! I'd watch that.

What I think a lot of beyond meat lacks is strands surrounded by salt, iron, and fatty acids for optimal taste and texture. Their ground sausage is bomb, because its all the good stuff blended up, but the chicken nuggs? Not so much.

I generally like beyond products (they’re pretty much the only soy-free commercial vegan protein option), but that just looks…bad.

What did you expect? It says "beyond fried" right there, as in "so far past fried that it's condensed into rubber". (I'm sorry, Beyond; I love you, and you're perfect.)

Release the animal neighborhood movie!

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*heavily processed plant pulp

So many nightly visitors.

I've got 4 raccoons that come by. 1 with a messed up tail. One with a big fluffy tail. And a pair that are always together. One of those is super shy the other super bold.

1 black cat (rare visitor)
1 orange tabby (daily visitor)
2 medium gray tabby cats but one has brownish red tummy
(1 is daily visitor, other is rare visitor) The rare one has actually came inside a few times. My cat was friendly with her.
1 light gray tabby with a bell (multiple times a day visitor).
2 gray squirrels sometimes bury things in the front porch flower beds. They come up on the porch sometimes. Never eat anything I leave out (,fruit or vegetables).

There is a female possum that comes multiple times through the evening. I'm pretty sure it's the same one but I thought that about the racoons until I paid more attention.

If it's multiple possums, they all appear to be females. The hanging pouch is visible from the backside.

I'll have to get a camera set up.

Also I thought originally it was like 2 cats. Maybe they told all their friends. I had to make a limit with myself on how much food I put out cause I'm not rich.

5 scoops of cheap cat food. Plus any leftovers that are safe for them. (Leftover pasta ).

Plus my dad says racoons love marshmallows. This appears to be true so I put some out.

I have water bowls out too. And two food bowls separated so one animal can't guard one against the other animals.

Here are a few pictures I've taken. I'll have to get some of everyone.

https://imgur.com/a/tSsZSh2

Here is a short video

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUmwFKGjanv/

I’d be surprised if this isn’t photoshopped

Beyond is sub par to impossible, however, get it. Impossible nuggets are so close to actual chicken nuggets in flavour and texture that my vegetarian wife won’t eat them. They may as well be chicken so if you don’t eat meat they can be a bit too close.

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Are you triggered?

That doesn’t identify a brand, making it less effective communication.

I had a smoked salmon substitute like that. The textural resemblance was unsettling

huh. that's a worthwhile recommendation to me. i don't eat chicken for reasons, but every once in a while i crave KFC. usually i just go to a german restaurant and order (or go home and make) some pork schnitzel and that does it for me, but i will have to try these impossible nuggets.

I agree. If it looks like that on the inside, why show the cross section?

Colonel looks a little tubby in the cheeks there. Has 2026 Colonel lost the weight, I wonder?

Quorn are bigger and better I think.

Huh? This would be stupidly much better; I live near a KFC and the cockroaches outside, the dead animal smell and just the grease in the surrounding area is atrocious. I wish they’d knock that shit down and sell real food rather than the mechanically separated, likely tortured animal carcasses they dump on the public. How morally bankrupt or tuned out do you have to be to eat in these places?

Quorn has always been pretty nasty in my experience.

I like eat me at, they're a bit too close for my liking too. Idk if you can get it anywhere else though. Haven't tried making nuggets out of it yet

I was frustrated when they were discontinued because they were actually quite good. There's not many other options for me beyond mac n cheese and green beans so I rarely go back now.

They taste like that too. Never go to KFC as a vegetarian. Maybe it's not the same as pictured, but vegetarian nuggets at KFC are horrendous

Wild how different fast food chains are in different countries. Never had that smell or have seen cockroaches anywhere near a German KFC. Though I'd discourrage anyone from trying Hamburg Central Station KFC

I found the flavor too be very close but the texture to not quite be right. A little off-putting. I'm hoping they continue to improve because I think they could get there.

What the hell are you buying?

Not just fried erasers, but breaded fried erasers.
You're welcome.

Not all Quorn products are vegan though, which is dumb.

You don't have to do all them to me anymore, I'm already on board!

Well yeah. The breading soaks up grease which is needed to help it slide down. Otherwise the eraser would get stuck.

Though I’d discourrage anyone from trying Hamburg Central Station KFC

i mean really, just bog standard grocery store vegan nuggets made from wheat protein or whatever are perfectly fine. Not identical to chicken nuggets by any means, but with some fries and dip i certainly don't care about the difference and i very much appreciate the massive amount of fibre they contain.

and why would it look like that? Making it an attractive shape is not difficult and that's the whole point of fast food joints!
If this is even remotely real i'll eat my tiny comedy fondant hat that i always wear.

Vegan here. I've had soy chicken nuggets and they're actually really good. Soy is closest to chicken from the get-go so its the easiest thing for it to replicate, in my opinion.

So I have no idea what happened here, this looks foul. Wtf

You mean this looks fowl?

... I'll see myself out

As a curious non-vegan who tried to cook soy meat at home: do you have any tips and tricks to make it actually resemble chicken?

From what I tried, I could not reach anything resembling meat. Yet, I'd love to give it a spin.

I'm not vegetarian, but I like Quorn nuggets more than chicken nuggets.

Everything at KFC in the US is horrendous. They stopped being good 30 years ago. I've only had good KFC outside the US.

Loved it when Panda Express had their Beyond Original Orange Chicken. Hadn't had that food for years before they brought in a vegan protein option.

Need more vegan protein options everywhere!

What!? TIL. Fuck man

It's not soy ? What is it then?

Also what's wrong with soy? I'm assuming there's some health restriction I'm not aware here.

Do you remember what brand it was?

You guys were all propagandized, these were pretty good.

This isn't about how good they actually are, but how good they look.

Bizarrely, it was the store brand from Rewe, if you’re in Germany

claps slowly as you exit the room

I'll admit I don't know how to best make it resemble anything ^^ When I went vegan I came to realize that most of the flavour of meat is in the seasoning, but I never cared if the tofu or whatever actually resembled the meat it was seasoned like.

Now you may ask how to season it properly, and I'd love to tell you, but I'm such a new cook that I can't. Names of spices elude me, which is part of the reason I need strict recipes to remember how to do shit. I enjoy cooking, I just can't remember any of it lmao

Tldr: I'd love to help you, but you happened to ask the most useless person for that advice hahaha I'm sorry

It's fine lol, most of the time I use something like the mysterious "chicken spices" or something :D

But what you did tell me confirms some of my own insights. Thank you!

I'd still put it in my mouth