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Comment by brohoolio | Hacker News Reader

I've tried it. It's good.

At $16 a pound I'd much rather get some high quality meat or fish. If it comes down in price to something reasonable I might add it to our rotation.

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16USD per pound, which is 44AUD or 35USD per KG, thankyou Wolfram, is high, but considering the environmental and ethical advantages it's almost miraculous. That's just about dead on 5x what I pay for chicken breast now, so it's not at all crazy to imagine splurging on this once in a while for a meal with a vegan friend, and that the price will come down to a mass-market, regular purchase level in the not-so-distant future.

Much like how a Tesla Model 3 isn't as cheap as a Corolla, but still not completely out of the question for alot of people like a Model S is.

Even if it settles at double the price of meat I could see myself buying it regularly. Given how unethically meat is produced now, I don't mind accepting some price increase.

I guess I'm used to my friends picking out more affordable options. I might spend extra occasionally because my wife is a vegetarian but I can't see any of my friends selecting it at this price, even at $8 a pound.

Until it reaches parity with ground beef, I don't expect to see it outside the Whole Foods-range of grocery stores

What kind of high-quality fish are you getting for $16/lb? In the Bay Area at least, high-quality salmon is about twice that.

I'm in the Midwest. Hamburger meat is like $2 a pound. Fancy salmon / tuna $10-$15 a pound.

I'd take farmed salmon at $10/lb over mock hamburger.

Agreed. Seriously it should be magnitudes cheaper than real meat (since it is plants and presumably not as nutritious), not more expensive.

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