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As a vegan Hindu it makes me sick thinking about making a food have the taste and texture of a dead animal. But I do understand the desire to keep eating what is familiar

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The other day I decided to try a beyond burger for a change. I had to throw it away because I could not eat it, because eating something even close to meat was unappetizing.

ahhh comeee onnn i'm about to make one of these for dinner since blue apron veggie plan has em. I was hoping it'd be good

i believe the implication here is they are too good for a non-meat-eater

lol thanks. I read that totally backwards, and after having that burger tonight i concur with the commenter. They're pretty damn good, I'd happily eat another

This was said as a current meat eater, but if I keep down this recent ethical veganism youtube rabbit hole i might not be that much longer

I’m confirming that I could not eat a beyond burger because the burger was too close to the taste of real meat and my tastes have drifted.

Can I ask, what tastes better to you a beyond burger of a beef burger?

Beef, but they're pretty similar. Maybe someone could fool me with one if I didn't know

I think it's hard for me to say exactly without a side by side comparison, partially because this one had different toppings than my normal burgers do, but it seems fairly comparable in flavor and I would buy these again. I've also had an impossible burger a few years back at a nicer restaurant and that was good too.

I think both are to the point that if I didn't know what I was eating and didn't deeply try to analyze and compare, I could eat one without any idea that it's not meat.

I'm now somewhat interested the next time I see my family to see if I can pull off a ruse of making burgers for dinner from these and see if anyone even notices, particularly my brother who would say there's no way you could trick him XD

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